Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign

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

[religious freak]

Well, I've heard several web folks bitch about where their bailout was... and here it is!

Where's the Money Going?

[virtigex]

Will we be able to see where the money is going to redesign this web site? Will this amount of money be sufficient to ensure that it doesn't get hacked for, say, 24 hours, or do we have to pay extra for that?

First Item on list...

[Anonymous Coward]

$500 million: compiling a report on how much we are spending to report on what we spend...

Re:cash4cronies

[MindStalker]

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

[frovingslosh]

Well, they can certainly say "come and see where you tax money is being wasted", one needs look no farther than the website.

Already exists

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[ColdWetDog]

Just so I know how to direct my rage properly: am I supposed to be mad that the government is going to launch a site to add sunshine to the recovery bill grant process, or that they couldn't make it appear online for free?

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

[Anonymous Coward]

They may be crazy, but not crazy enough to take dollars on the mothership.

We could save them about 17.9 million

[xednieht]

row_id , capital_account, account_name, date_paid, amount_paid, scum_sucking_leech_getting_my_tax_dollars, address

That's about all taxpayers really need. The other 17.9 million is pretty expensive lipstick for that pig.

Re:The Definition of "Design"

[basementman]

$18 million to overhaul the whole thing is still a ripoff. Unless they are burning money to power their webserver it's incredibly overpriced.

Re:cash4cronies

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course corporations can vote. They give the politicians money and the politicians vote for the corporations. See how easy that is? If corporations weren't allowed to give money to the politicians how would the politicians know what corporation to vote for??? In fact, if corporations weren't allowed to give money to politicians that would be anti-American. You're not anti-American are you???

Re:cash4cronies

[Anonymous Coward]

As an American and fellow patriot, I'm willing to do it for $5 million.

Re:cash4cronies

[city]

god damn it, dont give them any ideas!

I mean...

I, for one, welcome our new suffrage yielding corporate overlords.

Re:cash4cronies

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[sydbarrett74]

You don't buy politicians, you subscribe to them.

PaaS = Politicians as a Service.