www.recovery.gov - removated with $18mill in tax money, tracks the money from the stimulus fund. After reading a story from abcnews about the money going to congressional districts in several states that do not exist I read up on our dear state:
>$14million has been distributed to 7 congressional districts that is supposed to have "saved or created" 98 jobs. The bad news is those districts don't exist.
Looking at the site yesterday showed 7 districts that don' exist. They've since updated the page to "unassigned congressional district".
http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/TextView.a...20by%20DistrictThat's bad... but here's a better one - on this page:
http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/StateSummaries/Pages/statesummary.aspx?StateCode=TXabout halfway down the page we've spent >$734million to "save or create" 1.4 jobs in a zipcode in Austin where the median income in ~$32k/year.
1.4
That's less than one and a half.
Why would they even put that stuff up?
I guess they could lie like they did in another area on there where Fayetteville National Cemetery in Arkansas used $1,047 in stimulus cash to purchase a single lawn mower. The agency reported to Recovery.gov that its lawn mower purchase saved or created 50 jobs.
huh?
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