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User ID: 650245 United States 04/10/2009 11:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LOL! Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went [ link to www.washingtonexaminer.com] On February 14, with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress shoveled $787 billion of stimulus money out the door. Now they're using Google to find out where it went. During the stimulus debate, the bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards. But audits and reports are months, if not years, away. Oversight will be after the fact; right now, with the money actually beginning to flow, members of Congress have little or no idea where it is going. What, for example, is the Department of Housing and Urban Development doing with the $1.5 billion Congress approved for a new program called the Homeless Prevention Fund? Lawmakers don't know. That's where local news reports, dug up on the Internet, come in. When a city or county official learns that he will receive a pile of federal money, he usually tells the nearby newspaper or TV station. "Local news has been by far the best source of information so far," one GOP aide told me. "If you want to know how a local government is going to spend the money, Google around, Lexis-Nexis a bit." Such searches led the Cantor-Thune group to the Binghamton, New York Press & News-Bulletin for a glimpse into how HUD is spending that $1.5 billion in the Homeless Prevention Fund. In early March, the paper reported that the small town of Union, New York would receive $578,661 from the Fund, even though "Union did not request the money and does not currently have homeless programs in place in the town to administer such funds." ---------------- I'm shocked, shocked! Last Edited by Dread Pirate Roberts on 04/10/2009 11:06 AM"From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 641467 Australia 04/10/2009 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LOL! Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went What a bunch of hopeless dickwads. |
Dread Pirate Roberts
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User ID: 650245 United States 04/10/2009 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LOL! Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went What a bunch of hopeless dickwads.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 641467 "From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 |
Bob Saget
User ID: 578679 United Kingdom 04/10/2009 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LOL! Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went :googcrash: The chariots of God are tens of thousands, and thousands of thousands. |
Dread Pirate Roberts
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User ID: 650245 United States 04/10/2009 11:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: LOL! Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went :googcrash:
Quoting: Bob SagetBob, you are a hoot. "From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Matthew 4:17 |