[ShadowAce]

[DManA]

it's a damned impressive tool.

And Cringely is a damned easily impressed fool.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Useless tech. All you need to know is the overreach of the government, that it has totally slipped its leash, that we are looking at trillion dollar deficits from here to eternity and the demise of the US. Who gives a damn about the details when the big picture is so dire. It’s more pocket lint fluff to amuse the little minds.

[Incorrigible]

Data.gov is the other primary data site for the administration.  Though it mostly skews toward justifying more government spending.

If you want to get to the real source data (in difficult formats however), try the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 

[stainlessbanner]

Pretty graphics, useless data.
The dashboard concept has been around for two decades. Cringley is impressed? Really?

For TARP money tracking use http://www.stimuluswatch.org/ instead of http://recovery.gov.

[KC_Conspirator]

I find this tool neat too. Especially since they started making some basic spending information available in a dashboard web tool.

[ikka]

I applaud this, because now it will be much easier to convince the sheep that we have runaway spending.

[bgill]

If I Had A Million Ducats - Brobdingnagians

If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you a keep (I would buy you a keep)
If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you furniture for your keep (Like a Louis the XIV or an armoire)
If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you a big coach (with all the pretty with fringe on the top)
If I had a million ducats I’d buy your love.

If I had a million ducats (We wouldn’t have to hunt for our game)
If I had a million ducats (We’d hunt for sport cuz it’s not the same)
If I had a million ducats (We’d have peasants grow food all around the keep)
And we’d have a big garden. (A maze garden)
With high protein-enriched food (like lentils)
And bambi and thumper playing in it.

If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you a fur cloak (But not a woolen cloak. That’s cruel)
If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you an exotic pet (Like a dragon or a leviathan)
If I had a million ducats (if I had a million ducats)
I’d buy a saint’s remains (And all those crazy lucky saint’s bones)
If I had a million ducats I’d buy your love.

If I had a million ducats (We wouldn’t have to walk to the faire)
If I had a million ducats (We’d hire a knight carry us there)
If I had a million ducats (We wouldn’t have to get our feet all dirty)
We wouldn’t have to walk in the filth.
(We’d have people throw cloaks on the ground like for Sir Walter Raleigh)
Or even better, peasants (on all fours)

If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you a bed (But not bed of nails. That’s cruel)
If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you some art (a Michaelangelo or Donatello)
If I had a million ducats (If I had a million ducats)
I’d buy you a monkey (haven’t you always wanted a monkey?)

If I had a million ducats, If I had a million ducats
If I had a million ducats, If I had a million ducats
We’d be kings.