Where’s mine ?
It never cease to amaze, does it? The incompetence and corruption is staggering.
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.
No. Wait. I refuse to do government work.
*Theoretically* I'd do it for half that, if the client was a private sector prospect.
I look forward to seeing what $18 million buys the government — I know what I could do with a fraction of that.
The $18MM site redesign is the tip of the iceberg of the level of corruption, fraud and waste of tax payer $$$'s. Chump change!
How on earth does the redesign of the Porkulus I website cost $18 million?? LMAO...They can start with tracking and accounting for the wasted $18 mil to redesign a frickin website. The corruption, fraud and outright theft of taxpayer's dollars is just revolting. PIGS!
Oh boy. This is good ad material.
...the Obama Administration awarded a 5 year $18 million contract to Smartronix, a Maryland-based IT firm with connections to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, for the redesign of Recovery.gov. Launched in February to track the expenditures of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009... the administration has failed to deliver on two pledges central to the Obama campaign's rhetoric: fiscal responsibility and unrivaled transparency... FedSpending.org, launched in October 2006 with a meager three-year $334,272 grant from the Sunlight Foundation, is a voluminous online database of all federal grants and contracts. And, unlike Recovery.gov, the website monitors the entire federal budget, and does so at a fraction of the projected cost of Recovery.gov. Of course, the revelation that the private sector outperforms the federal government is not new. Recovery.org, a project of Onvia, monitors the flow of recovery funds from the federal government to private businesses in real-time, unlike its overpriced government counterpart which reports spending 100 days after-the-fact, thereby enabling wasteful or fraudulent spending.
What an elitist pig.
I agree with what Newt said. They think if they appoint a czar/make a web page the task is done. Obama needs impeached for many reasons but ONE is that he is not qualified.