Obama To Launch Website For Tracking Tax Expenditures

internationalflights tips news that Barack Obama, in his first weekly address as President, has mentioned plans to set up a website for tracking "how and where we spend taxpayer dollars." Details about the website, Recovery.gov, are available within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF). The website "shall provide data on relevant economic, financial, grant, and contract information in user-friendly visual presentations to enhance public awareness of the use funds made available in this Act," and will also "provide a means for the public to give feedback on the performance of contracts awarded for purposes of carrying out this Act." The site itself currently contains a placeholder until the passage of the Act.

Will it be a Web2.0 site?

[VampireByte]

Can we post comments, click on a little thumbs up/down button, have logins where we set up a profile and can choose what picture displays next to our comments (anime schoolgirl, picture of our cat, Karl Marx, Milton Friedman, etc.), connect to our friends (OMG can you believe they won't be funding our ipod museum WTF!!!), blog about what we think about how our money was spent on researching the impact improving a bridge will have on the local sewer rat population...

Re:Defeat U.S. Imperialism!

[WindowlessView]

Heh. Where do you nutcases come from, anyway?

Fox News: Will manufacture enemies for food and viewers.

Please no government transparency!

[thetoadwarrior]

The government should tell us nothing otherwise the terrorists might get a hold of something valuable and use it to plot an attack against a flag lapel pin factory or something else that will compromise our patriotism and freedom!

Re:But he is still our ruler

[Sponge Bath]

PORK PORK PORK!

The Swedish Chef Goes to Washington.
From what I see on C-SPAN, Congress often resembles an episode of The Muppet Show.

Re:But he is still our ruler

[Anonymous Coward]

Just remember Hal, it's 'down the block' not 'across the street'!

Yours in Christ,
Rippy the Razor

Re:Or smart politics

[The Master Control P]

Speaking up too loudly about FISA right now would burn political capital he needs for more immediate plans (sadly).

I can almost imagine a conversation like this in the Bush whitehouse...

Bush: "But what about the next president? Can't he come after us for this?"
Rove: "Not if he's too busy trying to stop the next Great Depression!"
[Lightbulb illuminates]
Wolfie: "I'll go tell Madoff's daughter to start banging the SEC's chief regulator."
Cheney: "I'll start having my congressional lackeys introduce deregulation bills to gut enforcement."
Paulson: "I'll instruct the Fed chief to start handing out free money."
All chant: "One Ring to rule them all, and in Darkness bind them..."