Thread: Stimulus Spending Not Traceable

From Roger Hedgecocks's Daily Report

By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
c.May5, 2009

Details of Stimulus Spending Not Traceable

WASHINGTON — Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track "every dime" of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won't have details on contracts and grants until October and may not be complete until next spring — halfway through the program, administration officials said.

Recovery.gov now lists programs being funded by the stimulus money, but provides no details on who received the grants and contracts. Agencies won't report that data until Oct. 10, according to Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which manages the website.

Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, a Republican serving on the House Science and Technology subcommittee, criticized the administration's decision to require reporting of only the first two recipients of stimulus spending. Broun said that means if the money goes to a state and then a city, the identities of the city's contractors will be unavailable.

Well, private employers laid off another 491,000 people in April, but at least the illegals working in construction will be safe.

As with all federal contracts, information about stimulus contracts is available on the Federal Procurement Data System's website, but that data is not available on recovery.gov.

This government doesn't want the American people to know despite Austin Goolsbey's and "Sheriff" Biden's assertions of openness and transparency, that the bailouts and stimuli in fact are going to unions, illegal aliens and other left wing special interests; all who returned the schmucks to congress and put one into the Oval Office.