The $18 Million dollar website – recovery.gov

Good reading on the Washington Examiner titled “More strangeness on $18 million Recovery.gov redesign contract” about more “strangeness” with the insane $18 million dollar recovery.gov website contracts

This ordeal isn’t surprising, since it seems that most promises of transparency and accountability from the Obama administration have turned out to be  pretty much meaningless. So I have serious doubts that the recovery.org website will ever be worth much to the average citizen. This whole thing is beginning to stink of political paybacks and corruption. All for a site that was part of promises long since fundamentally abandoned by the current administration and our wonderful idiots up in Congress.

Even if you think $18 million is reasonable and are then foolish enough to believe that, like any government project, the costs will not go way beyond $18 million, is this site even necessary to begin with. I tend to agree that if the government would just provide the raw data in a usable and standardized form, many on the internet would do this work for them.

Strikes me as just another GM type of deal where the Obama administration is apparently giving political paybacks to it’s cronies. Is this the change you voted for? Didn’t think so. This is just more of the worst parts of the Bush administration, but on overdrive.