Posted on 07/09/2009 10:08:36 AM PDT by FromLori
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site.
The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site.
“Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent,” James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. “Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions.”
The contract calls for spending $9.5 million through January, and as much as $18 million through 2014, according to the GSA press release.
“We are pleased that another major milestone has been achieved," Earl E. Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, says in the press release. “We thank the GSA for its assistance and look forward to working with Smartronix."
UPDATE: The RNC has released a new web ad mocking the Obama administration's decision to allocate additional funds to the redesign of the Recovery.gov Web site.
Mouse ready stimulus?
It just keeps getting better...
This is nuts.
Pray these idiots are out of office in 4 years...or we’re all sunk.
Blogger.com offers free templates.
$18 mil to redo a site, WTF?!?
I know I asked my son he designs websites and he was just in shock.
Hey BG can you put the gore picture spewing crap on the carbon tax post?
http://www.americasright.com/2009/07/perhaps-when-he-finds-way-to-power-his.html
Today’s ironic anecdote:
Supposedly the first “stimulus” project completed nationwide was here in Indianapolis where the general aviation airport in (ritzy) Hamilton County had the runway rebuilt.
So that Rich Republicans can fly their private planes.
LOLOL.
design ping
Sorry man, I’m like the Gov’t, I didn’t create the image or innovate it in any way. I have no graphics talent.
I only posted it.
$18,000,000 for a website.
I’m trying not to give up folks. I’m really trying hard not to think it is too far gone.
Shouldn’t some government GS-9 or so employee be doing this at his own normal salary rate of say...oh, I don’t know...50-60,00 dollars a year? Maybe even two or three of them with a so-called project manager?
$18M wasted on a website to track billions more to be wasted. How very Democrat party this is....
Sounds like somebody’s getting paid off.
I was at an event Sunday where I saw a buddy who is with a good-sized general contractor. They are trying to bid stimulus work that has just been thrown out there with very incomplete document sets (plans and specifications). Infrastructure projects with important details like pipe wall thickness specifications not nailed down, that sort of thing. When they ask for clarification, they get told to “bid it the best you can with what you’ve got”.
I predict huge cost overruns and little value for all the money we’re throwing around.
lol thats a good one too check out this one
http://www.americasright.com/2009/07/perhaps-when-he-finds-way-to-power-his.html
Is this satire?
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