"Stimulus" Reporting Lacks Logic...No Kidding

Friday, November 20, 2009 12:42 PM by Mattie Duppler

Yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the reporting of “stimulus” jobs, which resulted in Earl Devaney, head of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, admitting to everything we’ve already been telling you about the bogus jobs “saved or created” claim. In his testimony, Devaney claimed the board would be looking into using “logic-based” software to prevent the reporting inaccuracies they are currently experiencing from making it on the site in the future. According to Devaney, such software would not process illogical information from local officials, such as those that entered data for non-existent Congressional Districts, or the claims of exorbitant job creation on relatively small grant money.

This should raise some flags. The government spent $18 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned money to overhaul recovery.gov and during that pricey renovation no one thought it would be useful to include software based on logic? If further proof was needed that this administration is more concerned with saying they're creating jobs than actually doing so.

Click here to watch the hearing.

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