abcnews.go.com — In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the website set up by the Obama Administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. But there is no 9th district in Arizona. And that isn't the only district listed on that site that doesn't exist.
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zwolf7Nov 18, 2009
solistus: It looks like the Obama administration is once again not ready for prime time. It is a bad thing to report what is not factual. Just look at the ABC story, this and other sites that have latched on to it. The story states this is a web site put up by the Obama administration. Why would you open yourself to this kind of criticism for false information when you could easily report factual information? Support transparency, even when it's a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face? I don't agree with you, and neither does David Obey, Democrat from Wisconson, who chairs the House appropriations Committee. He wrote, "The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes." Sounds like he feels it's incompetence, and he lays it at the feet of the Obama administration...
vegetablelambNov 18, 2009
You still haven't provided any concrete proof about Nancy Pelosi. While your opinions are interesting, they are not proof. Sanders isn't a duck, he's a red herring.
zacharytelschowNov 18, 2009
"I suppose they could pay an army of fact-checkers to get every bit of the data scrubbed."Or, since this stuff is maintained in a database, they could use those new fangled fancy computers you liberals keep telling us about (which us conservatives obviously don't even know how to turn on, much less use) to maintain the data by writing a few simple lines of code.I'm not sure if you work with databases, but I do. All you'd need is a trigger that says the computer equivalent of: "Every time you insert a new record, if the congressional district doesn't exist or there are jobs created using $0 or there are fractions of jobs listed, spit out the details of this record and have someone call to verify the information."Cake. And since the total number of records screwed up is relatively small, you hire a few interns to do the grunt work for $10/hour to verify hundreds of millions were spent correctly. It's a simple database change, and the labor required to do follow up calls on bad data doesn't need to be overly skilled, so that's cheap also.I like how your first response is that the only solution is more government. You couldn't be more wrong.Find someone else on here saying Obama is the Antichrist. All we're saying is government does precious little right and should therefore do as little as possible.
biotchNov 19, 2009
""Yeah Im cool with that or more..."Wow... so more than 10% of promises violated is just fine in your view. "I never said 10%.... considering he has made 500 promises that could mean a total of 2 or 3%.Like I said main policy changes are more important.... and to me they are more important than the percentage. As it stands right now Im happy with the promises he has kept and the many more that are on the way even considering the ones that have stalled."Federal" experience isn't the same thing executive experience.obviously. That they are different holds no bearing on whether they both are acceptable experience."So I guess if we're not well-known our statements are invalid?"No they just need to be backed up with sources and citations. And yes I did read it and it illustrates how bias MIGHT creep in without one example of an actual pattern of bias. YOU STILL HAVE FAILED TO SHOW ME A SHRED OF EVIDENCE.You said it isnt a trustworthy site and have 0 basis for saying it.I just showed you that he is keeping his promises for the most part and you flat out deny it with nothing to back up your contention."'m not going to cite all of the instances that show TOM's bias because I don't have a week to research."Then you have no basis to conclude it is inaccurate. They list the sources for you to look up if you like. But then you dont have time for THAT do you... you have time to write me back.... look up some blog from some random dude online... but you cant waste the time it takes to check any sources or find any pattern of bias.... THAT would just take too long.What is clearly evident is that you just believe what you do without any evidence. You came to this conclusion and you cant cite where that conclusion even came from. Whats worse is that you cant even admit it.
Closed AccountNov 19, 2009
"This is going to fester and burn until we get a sack full of heads."Someone forgets to use error checking on their database, and you want them executed? Listen to Glen Beck much?
boozedrinkerNov 24, 2009
Atario, it's not hard to be deficit neutral when you're the f**king post office and can raise stamp prices at will. I wouldn't call raising stamp prices every year very helpful to Americans.