The Black Hole of fiscal responsibility

I'll withhold the niceties: anybody that thinks government is a good custodian of your current and future tax dollars is a moron.

Congress needs Google to find out where stimulus money went

On February 14, with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress shoveled $787 billion of stimulus money out the door. Now they're using Google to find out where it went.

During the stimulus debate, the bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards. But audits and reports are months, if not years, away. Oversight will be after the fact; right now, with the money actually beginning to flow, members of Congress have little or no idea where it is going. What, for example, is the Department of Housing and Urban Development doing with the $1.5 billion Congress approved for a new program called the Homeless Prevention Fund? Lawmakers don't know.

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"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session."--Judge Gideon Tucker 1866