Why Washington is Broken

November 20, 2009

In an effort to allow the public to see where money was being spent under the trillion-dollar stimulus bill, the Obama administration created a public website called The Recovery.gov website. Sounds like a good idea, until we learned this week that the website was fabricating spending and claims of jobs created. Here are some of the news stories that reported on this bogus government website:

The following are excerpts of some of those stories:

ABC News
November 16, 2009

“Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 ...