Nobody, that’s who! Remember when President Obama promised that all Porkulus spending would be posted on a website for all Americans to see and track where our money’s being spent? You know, back when the democrats promised such transparency that birds would be flying into government windows!
That was then, and this is now.
Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the spending won’t have details on contracts and grants until October and may not be complete until next spring – halfway through the program, administration officials said.
Recovery.gov now lists programs being funded by the stimulus money, but provides no details on who received the grants and contracts. Agencies won’t report that data until Oct. 10, according to Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which manages the website.
Devaney told a House subcommittee Tuesday that it will be a challenge to have the site ready to present spending data in five months. He said after the hearing that the board doesn’t have enough data storage capacity, for example.
Are they saying they didn’t include a few grand in Porkulus to upgrade their bandwidth? Not only can we the people not keep track of the money, only 3 out of 10 representatives bothered to show up for an oversight hearing.
So just who’s tracking that $787 billion in taxpayer money that President Obama and the Democrat-led Congress are doling out? You are. Or you’re supposed to be, anyway.
“We are, in essence, deputizing the entire American citizenry to help with the oversight of this program,” said Rep. Brad Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s subcommittee on investigations and oversight.
“I’m going to have a million little IGs running around,” the chairman said Tuesday after his testimony before the subcommittee.
And perhaps that’s just as well, given the turnout of the panel tasked with keeping track of thousands of millions of dollars. Just three of the 10 members bothered to show up for the subcommittee’s second meeting, dramatically titled “Follow the Money Part II.”
Okay, maybe I’m not as smart as those folks in DeeCee, but how can he have “a million little IGs running around” when there’s no information available for us to inspect? This is all so confusing.
