Re: Obama's Job Numbers: Fraud?

2009-11-25 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jerry wrote: > Now, how do we start holding them accountable for the bad data (and > eventually for the bogus spending)? > Wow, that's an obvious but fabulous question I hadn't thought of. Wouldn't that be interesting ... holding our elected officials accountable to well defined metrics of perf

Re: Obama's Job Numbers: Fraud?

2009-11-25 Thread Jerry Johnson
That is awesome. That is the beauty of making such programs more "open", and providing the data to the public. It is a lot easier to hide corruption and incompetence behind secrecy than it is in a public forum. Now, how do we start holding them accountable for the bad data (and eventually for t

Obama's Job Numbers: Fraud?

2009-11-25 Thread Gruss Gott
Watchdog.org, a collection of independent journalists covering state and local government, has put together a “Guide to the Stimulus, District by (Phantom) District.” Overall the group found that 440 phantom districts in 50 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. territories received $6.4 b