I'm not blasting the Obama government on this, just government waste in general. Kinda like the 70k? plus in debit cards that disappeared during katrina. You can google zip codes don't exist recovery.gov and hit multiple sites about the problem. Some is probably simple paperwork etc...but if we are honest there are pallets of money literally (remember iraq) that disappear.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Except much of that money shows up in zip codes or counties that don't > > exist. No, not all of it...but a lot. > > Mike, can you quantify this? How much is "much"? You're sorta making it > sound like most of the money shown on the site is bogus. I'm not clear on > your thinking here--are you saying that the map is > intentionally bogus, or that "much" of the money shown on the map isn't > real, or that the web site is poorly managed, or what? > > It's worth noting, by the way, that recovery.gov's map is based on reports > submitted by the recipients of the loans, grants, and contracts, so it's > subject to errors in those reports (as well as to > data entry errors, of course). And, since there's no penalty for failing to > file the required report, there is in all likelihood a lot of money that > isn't on the map at all. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
