Key House Dem Wants Answers on Recovery.gov Errors

How long will this story stay on anyones front page?
I’ll bet Rahm is busy chopping up fish to send out to those Democrats who dare stumble off the reservation..

The stimulus website is working EXACTLY as it should be. This is the first time that the government has agreed to pony up this much information for oversight by the public. And the result? A whole bunch of errors are being identified and demands issued to fix them.
I hope the stimulus website is just the first in a long line of websites that open the government’s books to real criticism, and praise the Obama administration for choosing the tougher path of transparency over the traditional secrecy and opaque accounting tricks. A fire alarm that goes off when a house is burning down isn’t broken – it’s working. The stimulus website is doing exactly it’s job.
Now fix the data and let the American people check it again until they are satisfied.

We all see what is going on out here in the market. problem is about 90% of these law makers are rich and have no clue what plain joe and mary are doing out here. They do not have to worry and can pay a doctor privatly thousands of dollars for a procedure yet they want to stick us with their health care plan for the entire country but them. What jobs?? They should be put in jail for lieing and stealing from us.

jhw539…i love your spin and have to commend you for sticking with your man in spite of such obvious mistakes,half truths,and dithering for someone who is allegedly so smart that his grades havent been released. perhaps if you count all 57 states this report is accurate. i do know sarah palin can count better than joe biden.

Thank you ABC for bringing this to light! I didn’t think you had it in you. What a joke, fake Congressional Districts? I can’t even begin to imagine what they’ll do if they get their hands on the healthcare system.

I thought I was on the ABC page.
It just can’t be. They NEVER say anything bad about BHO or this administration.

11/3/2010 The first day of UN-employment for most of the Democrats!

“immediate fix to ludicrous mistakes”? That’s the governments euphemism for “not being held accountable for lying”

And these crooks want to take over health care representing over a sixth of the economy, no thanks.

Uh, Im sorry ABC, but, Atlanta Journal Constituon beat you to this story about Phantom Recovery weeks ago. Nice try trying to take credit tho. Guess you guys are desperate for those ratings

Maybe this is how the job creation game is played. You first hire some people to create the mistakes. Then you hire some more people to fix them. Does ABC look into what kind of jobs are being created rather than just how many jobs are being created?

HEY! 18 Million for a web site just doesn’t go as far as you would think. Dude! You just don’t understand what it takes to build a top flight web site these days!!! (Sarcasm)

this is the CHANGE you liberals wanted…..

The role of government is laid out in the Constitution and the Preamble of the Constitution: ‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and and our Prosterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’
Isn’t it nice that the purpose of Government is to promote my general Welfare. Now what is the definition of general Welfare?

Now, now, everyone. Obama isn’t MEANING to lie about the jobs created or saved…he’s merely keeping hope alive by upping the numbers a tad. Does it really matter in the long run if those people, jobs, districts, numbers, etc. DON’T EXIST? I mean, ACORN came up with some great phantom names for their voter registration, and we all KNOW what an upstanding group they are!!
God help us until 2012.

@jhw539 – difference is: the fire and the fire alarm aren’t in cahoots with one another.

Tramsparency in number dreamt up by the very same people controlling them is all but useless!

If the districts are fake, “Show me the money”. WHERE DID IT GO???

Hey Obama, “You lie”

On the other hand, if nothing is done there is nothing to answer for.

Joe please let us know of the $18 Million web site number?

The amazing thing is Obama is out of the country every time there is a problem. He runs away from making decisions, passes the buck on any and all controvesial decisions and just keeps reciting how he wasn’t in on them. Amazing.

“Back in the land of reality, people find looking at Medicare – which is entirely managed and run by the government – the best example of how the government does health care.”
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The day-to-day administration of the Medicare program is managed by private companies. CMS provides oversight and control, but it contracts the claims processing and many other functions of Medicare to private companies such as CIGNA, Anthem, etc., or their wholly-owned subsidiaries.

“”"”The stimulus website is doing exactly it’s job.”"”"”
Posted by: jhw539
No it isn’t. If it was doing its’ job, ABC wouldn’t have to point out their fmistakes.
lfrichar | Nov 17, 2009 12:25:20 PM
Don’t you get it? If there was no stimulus website giving out all these details, THE ERRORS WOULD NEVER BE FOUND. The entire point of the website was to allow the public to review the data. The public has – and how. If every US program had this degree of transparency, would you call it a failure every time the public caught a Bridge to Nowhere and demanded it be dealt with?
The website is doing it’s job of reporting data for public review with doctoring or ‘fixing it’ and doing it well; this report is evidence of that.

This will remain in he news until 11/3/2010, the first day of un employment for most Democrats!

“”The website is doing it’s job of reporting data for public review with doctoring or ‘fixing it’ and doing it well; this report is evidence of that.”"”"
Posted by: jhw539
Whatever you want to think. It’s easy to report data that you dream up. That’s what I want to see fixed. There is absolutely no excuse for our government to report districts that do not exist on a website….period. Those inputting the data should have caught it….period. You may believe the site is supposed to work that way, but it is not. My company does not use the news as a proof reader and neither should my government, it just doesn’t and shouldn’t work that way. Let an independent auditor run the site and the collection of information, otherwise, it’s just numbers they give us to try and justify $787 billion and BS.

ABC the All Barack Channel covering this. Uh Oh. Well anyway…Change you can believe in .. Hope you can believe in … transparency in government you can believe in …

Are these Dino Democrats?

Trouble is surely set to increase as the world slips, inch by inch, down the path to global totalitarian state or, New World Order, Millions will be depressed and disillusioned by world events. The war on Terror unprecedented in human history, never before has there been a war
without a winnable goal. The true objective of this phony global war on terrorism appears to be to create a world where War is always with us so there can
be a wholesale removal of our civil liberties and imposition of control of the masses by the power elite rather than a Democratic state that serves the PEOPLE.

“I think it’s an encouraging sign that Obama is doing what he said he would do and that is to make his administration open for criticism when criticism is justly do and when errors (intentional or accidental) are made. We should all look at this is a good sign, not a bad one.”
OK, brainiac, re: intentional; Let’s use a private sector analogy: Say that my company embezzled 100 million dollars, then the SEC caught us in our quarterly reports. I guess we should be praised because we at least showed that we stole right?

What did they expect? Obama and his people are from Chicago, one of or not the most corrupt cities in the country.
I guess after Bush this guy looked real good. The American people have been duped.

Wow…ABC, I am proud of you. Normally you either do not report or bury these types of pieces. If you have more of this type of honest reporting, I may actually turn on your news program. We know how much you love Obama. However, the job of the media is to report on issues such as this, especially in an administration that PROMISED transparency. Thanks to Obey for calling this – thank you for standing up when the herd is busy playing follow the leader.

Send them some Dead Fish, if the Dino’s want answers – Rambo.

Not surprising, really! This is where more government control inevitably leads. Further, under administration pressure the story will be buried by most of the main-stream-media. All hail to Emperor Obama!

Recovery.gov should have vetted the data first before releasing it to the public. They need a dedicated person or persons whose job it is to fact-check all incoming data and publish them on the website as they are validated. Now they look like a bunch of manipulators who just want to make Obama look good.

I am not suprised at all that is Obama’s standard tell any thing but the truth.
Spurge

AbC is getting closer to being banned from Obama interviews…..They might just get a bump in viewership….

The stimulus saved and created jobs as well as provided unemployment revenues for people out of work. The Recovery website came as a result of the transparency of the Obama Administration and should be commended. As for medical care, the insurance companies are an abomination as healthcare providers. Their hidden costs are outrageous. Talk about transparency! And the right wing wants America to depend on them and entrust out health to them exclusively.

“The stimulus website is working EXACTLY as it should be.”
Wow, and here I thought it was done to FIX the economy. It’s really cool how you can say that with a straight face with unemployment at record levels.
“and praise the Obama administration for choosing the tougher path of transparency over the traditional secrecy and opaque accounting tricks.”
LOL! If there had been transparency and oversight to begin with, this would never have happened. But instead, Obama pulls off some political slight of hand by giving the illusion of transparency after the fact, and you applaud him for it.
None of this is any suprise to me in the very least. I said the stimulus wasn’t going to work, I said the bank bailout wouldn’t work, and I said the GM bailout wouldn’t work.
And I’m 3-0 thus far in the season.

Cut their fingers off !!!!!!!!!!

hope the stimulus website is just the first in a long line of websites that open the government’s books to real criticism, and praise the Obama administration for choosing the tougher path of transparency over the traditional secrecy and opaque accounting tricks.
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@jhw539
I totally agree. You would just hope that the implementation would be a bit more competent.
I would also like the pork in Congress to be exposed to a greater degree. The waste and fraud that is involved in government is just so frustrating and depressing.

It looks like the recovery web designer should be looking both ways for a bus coming his way…..

One Question? WHERE”S the Money??????

I believe that Obama is taking us in the right direction. At the same time, I believe that whoever is responsible for this should be fired immediately. We have spent the last eight years with no accountability. Show us some change.

Et tu, Mainstream Media?

Give me all your money before Global Warming Evaporates all the Congressional Districts in the country – Polar Bear/Smokey Bear.

stickman | Nov 17, 2009 1:04:34 PM
You said; … “I think it’s an encouraging sign that Obama is doing what he said he would do and that is to make his administration open for criticism when criticism is justly do and when errors (intentional or accidental) are made.” …
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“stickman”; What you offer, is Logical and Reasonable. Unfortunately, you’re dealing with illogical & unreasonable folks.
Assume if you will, the following;
1. David Obey, D-Wis Chairman House Appropriations Committee is “Up in arms” over the errors, and rightly so. If there was Democratic corroboration, or malfeasance, the matter would probably have been “down-played.”
2. If there WAS NOT an authentic and ligitimate Intent to have “Transparency in this Administration”, there would likely have been an effort made “To Cover It Up!” (We learned that over the last 8 years, didn’t we?)
3. The Majority Party must maintain their integrity and determination to govern responsibly, in the best interest of the people of America. Knowing despite an honest and consistent effort, the Minority Republican’ts party is intent upon maligning, accusing and defaming your efforts. While THEY ALWAYS maintain a Stern NO/and a Partisanship whose AIM IS TO CAUSE The Administration and/America to Fail.

I wonder how many of these fake congressional districts voted for Obama last November?

I didn’t say that I was quoting someone else

I agree jhw539, when has anything of this nature existed in any previous administration?
I guess money has never been accurately accounted for by any government administration until now. Hmmmm….wonder what happend to the billions in CASH that vanish in 2004-2007 in Iraq. Was that ever accounted for on a website?
Republicans, please don’t count on memories being short in 2010.

another example of government run anything. How many times do we keep needing to learn the lesson of government incompetence. The next time somebody talks about government run health care, remember this fantasy about jobs.

They are making up phantom jobs and phantom districts because the stimulus is not working as brilliantly as Joe Biden claimed!
Our country is hurting and the democrats want to make us pay more for health care and run up the national debt.

I don’t care which side of aisle you sit on, BOTH sides are guilty as hell, always have been. They rub elbows every night at the local bar and snicker “we got ‘em again!” Phantom Districts? Where’d the money go? Citibank got money and is now filing chapter 11? Why isn’t the Gov’t foreclosing? The bank would forclose on you and me in the blink of an eye. Health care reform yes, run by gov’t? NO WAY. If the Public section of the health care reform is a tiny part like they claim, fine. But, if it’s bigger, no way, and I’ll fight it as well. If Canada is producing cheaper drugs, why don’t we buy from them? That sure would get the attention of the drug makers here, and a price war would ensue. WE THE PEOPLE would reap the benefits. There’s not enough room on this site for all the mud I want to sling at the Gov’t. But, then again, I voted for them, so….It’s my fault too.

oh sorry I meant HC that won’t be effective till 2013.

jhw539 is right. The site is doing its job.

Obama is a Joke a Media Elected President! If the Media would especially MSNBC and ABC would have spent anytime looking at this gut they would have come to only two possible conclusions. 1. He is to radical to be President to many “Suspect associations” and 2. He just is just way over his head . Believe it or not it takes more than Good Speeches to be President! You actually have to have a clue what you are doing. I hope there is still an America to vote for in 2012. Obama is destroying this country. And as he said ” he is just getting started” That is what we are afraid of.

IF these jobs dont exist and they were given money, where did the money go??

This group comes from the Second City
with the not so ready for prime time cast
of characters.
I keep hoping this all is a bad script
from Saturday Night Live. How much more
damage can this bunch do??? Another report
that the Post Office has lost billions,
fake numbers in jobs created and the Dems
want to get a “jobs” bill going. All of
a sudden the new recommendation for
breast mammograms is after age 50
and then every two years. Here is the
start of our health care rationing.
These rascals can’t be trusted with
anything. I’d like to see them all
in prison with Madoff as this is a
legal ponzi scheme and we are all the
victims. Wake up everyone.

Thanks Mike for pointing this out!, and the discrepancies have been corrected!! ABC is just rehashing old news and trying to get some spin out of it. Where were all these self righteous people when the term “Weapons of Mass Destruction” was thrown around like a football at a T Ball game. Sit down and chill!!

Now where is the money? In democratic coffers for next years election?
This type of theft mandates a grand jury investigation and a special prosecuter

While disappointing, I think this website helps prove that having information available helps us all as a whole and can help make the system better. Just like open source. Having this information available has allowed all of us to realize the mistakes that are being made rather than attempting to cover them up or remain silent about millions/billions disappearing with no accountability.

Where is this change we were told we would get? Looks like the same old lying and cheating to me.

And what exactly where they expecting from our lying, cheating president and congress???? So the downfall of the US has begun with economic collapse, and what a happy president we must have. Vote everyone of the Lying, Cheating >>>insert bad word<<< out of office!

This is what it is about, Nothing has worked liked he promised it would, they have not shown any fiscal responsibility like he said they would, he has not eliminated earmarks and pork like he said they would, he is forcing a reform bill down our throats even after we tell them over and over again we don’t want it. (not to say we don’t need some reform) we do just responsible reform not 1.2 trillion and 2000 pages. Voters especially Independents are abandoning ship and starting to support Republicans again, And I have to think his handling of Ft. Hood and Terrorist trials in New York and failing to make a timely decision on Afghanistan will not help his cause any. Basically The Administration is showing its complete lack of experience and good judgment and the wheels are beginning to fall off the bus! What do you expect when you have an administration full of individuals who hate American Government and Capitalism! But as long as you let them allow you to look Back at the Bush Administration they will continue taking away your country. News Flash not all Republicans are like Bush and to lump us all together is just naive.

Thank you ABC for finally waking up to the truth about this administration. The lies this President has told are unmatched except by Nixon. From his claim to be only marginally associated with Reverend Wright, to his broken promise to publish all non-emergency legislation for 5 days online, to being a bipartisan President seeking ideas from both sides of the aisle, to his promise to not raise taxes on the middle class (cap and trade), for passing the stimulus promising to keep unemployment under 9%, to claim that “saved” jobs is somehow equal to created jobs – or a measure to talk about unemployment etc etc etc. He attacks news organizations like the Gastapo, brings terrorists to New York City, cares more about Muslim extremist’s “rights” than American taxpayers, blames Fort Hood massacre on mental instability. Obama has a clear and scary vendetta against Americans he is threatened by, held office before him, who speak out against his policies and agenda, and an entire class of hard working, tax paying Americans. The press MUST begin to call him on his actions, his words, and his record like they have on past administrations or we are all in for a very very dark future. This article is a long awaited start. Can you imagine if george Bush had these lies on the White House website? It would be on the cover of Time magazine, The New York Times, and every other network all day long.

This is what happens when you get an ACORN for a president!

You’re absolutely right, Don. These
crooks are going to need these congressional districts to help them next year. That, and ACORN’s helping hand.

As an Obama fan it is difficult to watch his administration shadow box its way through issues which as I recall were central to his candidacy. Things like economic stimulus, ending the war, transparency in business dealings, faith in institutions, healthcare, improving the environment….etc. I don’t expect all that to come to pass in one term much less one year. But this kind of administrative KC shuffle talk is way too reminiscent of his pathetic predecessor. The other side doesn’t seem to be bringing anything new to speak of, but at this point they don’t have to really. Rhetorically, big O should pull a page from clintons book. Just because the other side gives one the opportunity to self destruct can’t possibly be a suitable reason to do so.

Next question: How many of the districts that claimed to have voted for the president did not exist?? We have a liberal dishonest government that has no problem with fabrication and direct lies. What is next??

How soon can we get rid of Obama and his administration? Everyone complains, lies are told, this marxist in charge hates this country. What will it take to get rid of him?

Obey’s outrage is reminiscent of the famous quote from Casablanca, paraphrasing: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that corruption is going on in here”

Errors: Government speak for lies, deceptions, and incompetence.

ohbummer.

When will the people of this country wake up? BOTH parties of congress are in this mess up to their eyes,,,,and this mess I’m talking about is the LOBBY ROBBERY that BOTH parties are involved in that gives our tax dollars to corrupt lobby dollar cronies,,,,,We are being ROBBED, this mess will not stop until “We the people” eliminate BOTH parties from Washington.They are nothing but the East coast version of the “Crypts and Bloods”.

Smoke and mirrors….the lying about the jobs is small potatoes considering their other scams like Health Scam and Gorebull warming. Gitmo is becoming empty, let’s send our politicans.