A Stimulus Cyber Fight

By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 11, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Jul 20, 2009

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  • Posted By: StarTrekFan @ 07/14/2009 10:29:00 AM

    $18 million to redo a website.... W.T.H. I develop web based applicattions for my living, There is no way a web site is going to cost $18 million. This is either corruption on the part of people managing the site or the contractors are taking the stupid officials for a ride.

    • Posted By: K.I.S.S. METHOD @ 07/18/2009 8:56:31 AM

      LOL! You just discovered one of the hidey holes for Black Ops money! Sshh! Don't tell anyone where this grease money is hiding or the American Public might want a full audit on government spending! Ooops to late; someone already introduced a bill calling for that! Funny though, it's so big it got stuck in committee! Imagine that....

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/13/2009 2:21:10 PM

    You are a little slow on the draw Isikoff. I noted Hoyers grand larceny of our money with SMARTRONIX on these boards days ago.Billions more of this out and out waste and fraud on the back of Americans have been gathered and detailed here.

    www.opensecrets.org The Center for Responsive Politics.

  • Posted By: hsr0601 @ 07/12/2009 6:33:57 AM

    In regard to the stimulus investment, my understanding is as follows:

    1. The current surging fuel cost (World oil prices doubled during the last 6 months) is overwhelming the market rally.
    And the pending clean energy bill might serve as a second stimulus package world-wide boosting private investments.

    2. People are so worried about losing their job, coverage, denial of treatment, which seems to increase bank deposit latetly. That means stimulus funding mainly goes toward bank deposit for a rainy day increasing jobless rate. It proves again that a healthy society yields better productivity, prosperity.
    It is time to 'Change' the notion of the public health as a fundamental human right and install 'a safety system for all' like all of the other industrialized nations, I think.

    3. The stimulus funding begins to mobilize just 11%, meanwhile, the auto industry has undergone its restructuring with the massive job-related impact.

    4. The pandemic swine flu has been hurting the global economy seriously.

    Thank You !

  • Posted By: fireant @ 07/11/2009 8:02:04 PM

    Obama will bankrupt our country saddling our children with enormous debt and a shattered country. Obama is nothing more than a meglomaniac Chicago trained Thugocrat. Thank God he will be nothing more than a Cateresque type footnote in four years.

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