Online Budget Database Planned by White House 304
prostoalex writes "The President of the United States feels Americans should be able 'to Google their tax dollars', and has signed a law that will create an online database to track federal spending. According to the Associated Press, the 'law is aimed preventing wasteful spending by opening the federal budget to greater scrutiny. The information is already available, but the Web site would make it easier for those who aren't experts on the process to see how taxpayer dollars are being spent.'"
How much for the website... (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig .... (Score:5, Funny)
Ted Stevens' Internet (Score:4, Funny)
Tim and Money (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Irony (Score:5, Funny)
Not as long as he keeps pronouncing it "googular"
Re:Oblig .... (Score:5, Funny)
I believe you mean:
Re:Meh. (Score:4, Funny)
That being said, however, i'm sure that the 85% that goes into the military will just be marked 'military', and not
"Dick's new private jet: $15M; Haliburton (just cause): $5B; Bribes (Murdoch & co): $10b; etc.. ; Seeing Dick shoot that guy in the face: priceless;"
But I digress... Of course it's typical political tactics starting this initiative. This way, when the GOP is being tarred and feathered for robbing the good American people blind, the Bushites can say 'But we were the ones who opened up transparency in the buget! Look, we made a blog thing that says so! It runs on the tubes, and is bigger than a truck! It's not our fault, we did everything we could!"
Re:The President believes? (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile, in the White House, the president and a few staffers are having lunch:
W: I can't believe we still haven't killed that guy.
Staffers:
Chief of Staff: Killed who, W?
W: Obama bin Laden. He's killed Americans, and now he wants us to google the budget, I can't believe we haven't been able to git him.
Chief of Staff: SENATOR Obama and OSAMA bin Laden are not the same person.
W: Huh? (eats)
Re:what will suffer (Score:2, Funny)
I like corn, though.
Re:Proof (Score:4, Funny)
I demand a hold be put on Stevens' cost-benefit analysis, as it would be too costly to draw up.
Re:Proof (Score:3, Funny)