Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign 434
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from the rube-goldberg-economic-logic dept.
barbarai notes a report by ABC News's Rick Klein: "For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. "Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent," James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. according to the ABC news blog."
Finally we get our bailout (Score:3, Funny)
Where's the Money Going? (Score:5, Funny)
First Item on list... (Score:4, Funny)
$500 million: compiling a report on how much we are spending to report on what we spend...
Re:cash4cronies (Score:4, Funny)
Your shocked they are giving the contract an existing large military tech contractor? Or are you shocked that an existing large military contractor is giving campaign contributions to the house majority leader?
Personally I'm with the latter, why should they need to continually bribe if their foot is already in the door.
$18 million for a website (Score:5, Funny)
Already exists (Score:5, Funny)
There's already a website that clearly illustrates where the tax dollars towards stimulus are going, in innovative and exciting ways!
I think it's called goatse.cx, or something like that.
Re:Finally we get our bailout (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know about you, but I'm going to be a little pissed off at a web site that cost eighteen million dollars and doesn't have blackjack and hookers (which I'm presuming is the case).
If you're gonna spend money, fine. But spend it on useful things.
Heaven's Gate folks could have done it cheaper (Score:1, Funny)
They may be crazy, but not crazy enough to take dollars on the mothership.
We could save them about 17.9 million (Score:2, Funny)
That's about all taxpayers really need. The other 17.9 million is pretty expensive lipstick for that pig.
Re:The Definition of "Design" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:cash4cronies (Score:1, Funny)
Re:cash4cronies (Score:1, Funny)
As an American and fellow patriot, I'm willing to do it for $5 million.
Re:cash4cronies (Score:2, Funny)
I mean...
I, for one, welcome our new suffrage yielding corporate overlords.
Re:cash4cronies (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah totally. Last time I did a site redesign it was for a friend and I made only about $5000 for 3 weeks of work. It was an online sales system I slapped together with some JSP and a couple of Servlets, so it wasn't just basic HTML. If I had realized I could charge her $18,000,000 for it, I would have cut her a friendly break and only charger $10,000,000 for it. Man was I cheated.
Re:cash4cronies (Score:5, Funny)
You don't buy politicians, you subscribe to them.
PaaS = Politicians as a Service.