Community | January 26, 2009 | 4 comments

Government 2.0, upgrade that's in the beta stage

source: http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/819-Recovery-gov

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Barack Obama, in his first weekly address as President, has mentioned plans to set up a website for tracking "how and where we spend taxpayer dollars."
Details about the website, Recovery.gov, are available within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF). The website "shall provide data on relevant economic, financial, grant, and contract information in user-friendly visual presentations to enhance public awareness of the use funds made available in this Act," and will also "provide a means for the public to give feedback on the performance of contracts awarded for purposes of carrying out this Act."
The site itself currently contains a placeholder until the passage of the Act.
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4 comments // Government 2.0, upgrade that's in the beta stage

  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  

    • Economic figures (which would have warned all of us at least 9 months ago that we were in a recession) we now know were suppressed. Such concealment is a practice which must be stopped.

      "M3" was another economic indicator which was designated data non grata, to the benefit of no one but politicians seeking reelection for policies which no one (but insiders) knew already had tanked the whole economy...

      There's no shortage of ways to improve confidence in government - but atop the best is to include the public in the information flow. Not with sugary propaganda - but FACT. For too long Washington's attitude exceeded the usual patronizing - 'We don't want to worry your tiny little heads!' - to worse - 'If we told you Everything, you'd just freak out and break things!'

      Sure. We're all babies...

      Two World wars and the Great Depression did not send the nation over the edge. When the President went on radio to explain events, and what was needed individually and collectively to survive them - that's what people did. Not because one authority figure commanded it - but because all knew it had to be done.

      Why risk giving everybody access to bad news? Because whatever it might be, it affects people's lives and their family's lives. 'Respectfully' is inclusively. It's the sanest way to for adults to interact.

      Believe it, people are sick to death of being lied to by congenitally dishonest or merely timid men and women.

      If Obama can open up government, not only on economics, but across the board, it's a first huge step toward restoring an invaluable link between voters and elected representatives - TRUST.

      Whoever you like - whoever you support - without trust we are lost. All of us sinking, rowing in circles, each side pulling in opposite directions.

      It's wake up time. There's far too much at stake to revert to partisan interference, habitual blocking and grousing just to undermine a President who simply must succeed.

      If he fails - we fail.

    • 3 years ago
  • pakazak
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    • AveryMoore:

      well said!
      i just want some honesty and integrity from my leaders.
      i want them to be more intelligent and willing to do what is necessary - damn the politics - to make the world a good place for my kids.
      i'll do my bit - community service, neighborhood service - and i expect something in return for being a good citizen: a government that protects me from bankers as well as terrorists

    • 3 years ago
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