White House on Stimulus Job Counting Accuracy: “Who Knows, Man?!”
Patrick McHenry says:
The White House has employed a fairly simple plan for selling the success of the Democrats’ $787 billion spending bill to the public:
1. Create a misnomered website - Recovery.gov
2. Tout website’s unprecedented oversight and transparency in stimulus spending.
3. Make no attempt to verify data posted to Recovery.gov.
4. When called out for gross inaccuracies, “try to fix it” and continue covering up failure of stimulus.
Recovery.gov has become the Wikipedia of reliable government accountability and oversight.
Amplify’d from www.nola.com
He promised unprecedented oversight, and transparency, including the creation of a “new Web site called recovery.gov so that every American can find out how and where their money is being spent.”
According to Ed Pound, director of communications for recovery.gov, the Web site relies on self-reporting by recipients of the stimulus money.
“We’re not certifying the accuracy of the information,” said Pound.
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