Needs debunking

[Richard D]

making the rounds:


Recovery.gov, the Obama administration’s supposedly transparent attempt to let citizens know how every dollar of the $787 billion stimulus package was spent, is turning out to be a lot more comic fiction than fact.

Not only have fake jobs been reported in phantom congressional districts, Steve Allen Adams of NewMexicoWatchdog.org discovered that some of the $27 million of federal money his state received also went to nonexistent zip codes:


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Phantom-zip-codes-also-found-in-Virginia-80795072.html

[babylonsister]

1. I found this...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/74617-recovery-board-stresses-zip-code-stimulus-errors-are-typos

[sandnsea]

2. Transparency exposes errors and fraud

Exactly the way it's supposed to. Are we really so cynical or stupid that we can't figure that out?

[alstephenson]

3. No, but apparently the folks leaving comments to the article are.

I don't think they even read the article before commenting. Typical I guess.

[Bucky]

4. the nonexistent zip codes are typographical errors. The phantom jobs...

are jobs that just haven't come on line now. "Shovel ready" was always a misnomer.

[NecklyTyler]

5. What happened to those credit cards Bush gave away after Hurricane Katrina