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February 17th, 2009 9 Comments

Recovery.gov is live.

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9 Responses to “Open Gov’t”

  1. Jay says:
    February 17, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    WTF is “Protecting the Vulnerable”?? And the numbers for the $288 billion in tax relief doesn’t make any sense. How is spending money on infrastructure projects counted as tax relief?

    Open? Sure.

    Sensible? Not.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    February 17, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    How is spending money on infrastructure projects counted as tax relief?

    Tax credits or tax breaks for infrastructure projects?

    Just a guess.

  3. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    February 17, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Jay Caruso: “WTF is ‘Protecting the Vulnerable’?? And the numbers for the $288 billion in tax relief doesn’t make any sense. How is spending money on infrastructure projects counted as tax relief?”

    I think this is another ‘Per 100,000′ moment.

    Where does it say infrastructure projects are counted as tax relief?

  4. Jay says:
    February 17, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    CS, try reading. Click through and you’ll see what makes up the $288B in “tax relief.”

    And talk about bitter clingers…..get over it already.

  5. joaquin says:
    February 17, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Pure 100% propaganda, but that’s cool. Y’all need to keep pitching this thing cause God knows………..you own it.
    Hey, maybe I missed it, but is there a place to comment?

  6. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    February 17, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    “CS, try reading. Click through and you’ll see what makes up the $288B in ‘tax relief.’”

    Wow. That’s small print. Well, I have bad eyesight, so it’s small print to me.

    “And talk about bitter clingers…..get over it already.”

    It’s not clinging if you never answered the question, Jay.

  7. Jay Tea says:
    February 18, 2009 at 7:47 am

    Thanks for the pointer, Jay. I just got an article for Contentions out of that — how the bar graph and the bubbles are actually fraudulent. Almost half the “tax relief” AIN’T. The real numbers, once you factor in the small print:

    $165 billion for “tax relief”

    $144 billion for “state and local fiscal relief”

    $126 billion for “infrastructure and science”

    $142 billion for “protecting the vulnerable”

    $59 billion for “health care”

    $78 billion for “education and training”

    $65 billion for “energy”

    $8 billion for “other”

    Let me fix your quote, Oliver:

    “Recovery.gov is lie.”

    J.

  8. Quaker in a Basement says:
    February 18, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Thanks for the pointer, Jay. I just got an article for Contentions out of that — how the bar graph and the bubbles are actually fraudulent.

    Oh, were you able to figure out what the footnotes meant?

  9. Jay Tea says:
    February 18, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Yes, Quaker. That nearly half the money under “tax relief” should have been listed under another category. I was very impressed that they were so honest about their dishonesty.

    Oh, and they have some people who can make some very pretty graphs that are terrible at conveying information. But as I said elsewhere, that’s probably a bug, not a feature.

    J.