$18 Million to Redesign Recovery.gov

Redstate ^ | 07/09/09 | James Richardson

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Where’s mine ?

[americanophile]

It never cease to amaze, does it? The incompetence and corruption is staggering.

[ruination]

Back of the bus, buddy.

[Robbin]

I don’t know anything about this contract, or how it was awarded, but I can tell you that Smartronix is the finest, employee supportive company on the planet. No body else is even close. I’ve work for 6 major corporations. We use to laugh and giggle in the ethics training classes because the ethics of those companies was SO BAD. Not here. I’m proud to work for Smartronix! And I will work for them as long as they will let me...

[Pessimist]

It seems that in each and every gvt expenditure, no one actually “does the math”.

Recently I saw that something like $1.5 mil was dedicated to installing a fence on a bridge over an interstate around here (N.E Ohio).

Small potatoes, right? Think aobut that. That bridge is probably no more than a 1000 ft long.

If you do both sides (i.e. 2000 ft) that means the fence costs $750 per foot.

No one thinks anynmore.

[Rebelbase]

“If you do both sides (i.e. 2000 ft) that means the fence costs $750 per foot.”

$500 per foot required for kickbacks and payoffs.

[paulycy]

[SnuffaBolshevik]

I’m proud to work for Smartronix!

I'll bet you are! Especially with that $18 million taxpayer-funded engorged teat to milk for the next 3 years.

Tell Steny "hey".

[cranked]

Nope, definately nothing ethical or morally wrong with receiving $18 million to redo a website.... How the frakin hell do you justify or even remotely spend $18 million on a website anyhow? I can still remember the debacle over $20000 toilet seats and $4000 hammers, etc., but this is just beyond atypical retarded! No doubt, one should be proud......

[Hoodat]

We use to laugh and giggle in the ethics training classes because the ethics of those companies was SO BAD. Not here. I’m proud to work for Smartronix!

What did those ethics training classes have to say about using company funds to buy influence in Washington?

[barryselby]

wouldn’t you think that somewhere in the bloated US govt. someone that we are all ready paying a large sum of money for annual wages, would be trained highly enough to actually be able to re-do a website? I know of several people in the civilian work force , who are fully capable of putting together a website and it sure as h@#l wouldn’t cost 18 million dollars.

[lowbridge]

Tell Steny "hey".

Hey to Goober.

[Falcon4.0]

Man they are troweling it down thick.

[JohnBrowdie]

this is the same guy that spent $750 million to get elected president, and can't seem to even imagine a program that costs less than a trillion dollars. all things considered, we got off cheap on the website.

[Costumed Vigilante]

I'll do it for half that.

No. Wait. I refuse to do government work.

*Theoretically* I'd do it for half that, if the client was a private sector prospect.

A verbis ad verbera

[EGPWS]

The incompetence and corruption is staggering.

[EGPWS]

Where’s mine ?

Yeah, where IS yours?

Obama wants it and he wants it NOW!

[concerned about politics]

No one thinks anynmore.

That's right. I keep hearing the press talk about how much the taxpayers now owe the federal government because of all the spending !!!
WT....??? We don't owe them anything. They're the ones doing the spending. They owe us, and I want to know when we're going to get our trillions back.

[acw011]

“I’m proud to work for Smartronix!”

I really hope you forgot the /sarc tag.

An ethical prop for “your” company, posted on Freep while said company is accepting 40 times of tax payer money what it would cost to do said job with connections to Rat congressman????

Really? We are going to laugh our a$$’s off at your companies impressive fusion of koolaid into your water coolers.