Posted on 09/24/2009 5:22:24 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
On a conference call today, Vice President Biden told 30 of the nation’s governors that if the Recovery Act fails, he’s “dead.”
Biden was providing an update to the governors (and if they couldn’t make it, their Lt. Governor or senior staffer) on the Recovery Act and make sure they were prepared to submit reports next month detailing how stimulus money was spent and how many jobs were created by the funding.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) told the Vice President he couldn’t express how much he and his fellow governors appreciate Biden’s interest.
“Pure self-interest, Jay. If it fails, I’m dead,” Biden quipped.
The conference call invitation was sent to 55 states and territories and if a governor could not join, a Lt. Governor, Chief of Staff or other staff member called in. Louisiana was the only state to not have a participant on the conference call.
On Friday the Obama Administration will launch an updated Recovery.gov website to better coordinate the required data coming in from funding recipients and state and local agencies in October.
About 150,000 recipients of federal stimulus money will be required to file detailed reports on how they have spent the money and how many jobs were created as a result. At the end of October the data will all be available at Recovery.gov, including all changes and corrections made to the reports during the review period.
Today Biden said the reporting is a “massive undertaking” but implored the governors to make sure the data their states are submitting is accurate. He said the updated web site for reporting data is user-friendly, even for someone like himself who is not tech-savvy.
Dead man...dead man a’walkin!
He's the senile old Uncle that comes over for Thanksgiving dinner, gets drunk and pees on the sofa.
I know what you mean. I took a drive into NM today and almost any road project I went by had a stimulus sign. The thing is, some of these projects have been going on for years, well before any stimulus.
And I think another factor is, NM and OK both have Dem Governors. I have no doubt they are probably just putting up signs wherever there is a construction project to make it look like the stimulus is doing so much.
Expect to see a whole lot more of them from next July 4th through election day!
Neidermeyer? Dead.
Marmalarde? Dead
Wormer?
The timing of the release of most of these funds is 2010 so the economy will have a Spike and the Press will have an Orgasm about how the Genius Obama and the Democrats policies are working and they should be reelected
It’s already failed. Biden is already brain-dead. So I suppose he’s correct for a change...
Well, given the evidence, I’m waiting for Joe to start staggering around, moaning “BRAINS!!!!”
Because, frankly, it means he’s been a walking dead man for months already. . . . (grin)
Here in my town (Salisbury, NC) they are replacing the perfectly good grass at the National Cemetery with sod. The project will not create any permanent jobs. I looked on the stimulus watch website and didn’t see the project listed. I’m going to call the local newspaper and see if they know anything about it.
Alpharetta, GA
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