{"id":3132,"date":"2009-11-17T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/wreckovery-dot-gov\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:02:14","slug":"wreckovery-dot-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/wreckovery-dot-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreckovery Dot Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/porklogo2.png' alt='porklogo2.png' class='right' width='150' \/>The most transparent administration has magically created or saved jobs in <strong>phantom congressional districts<\/strong> all over the nation. Their sleight of hand, however, has been detected by some investigative agencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/2009\/11\/17\/6-4-billion-stimulus-goes-to-phantom-districts\/\">$6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.<\/p>\n<p>According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to \u201ccreate or save\u201d just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts\u2013almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress\u2013which, for the record, counts 435 members\u2013in early 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The site\u2019s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America\u2019s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vice President <strong>Biden<\/strong> must be proud to be in charge of such a magical effort. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/Pages\/home.aspx\">What was the number of that website again<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I found the Wreckovery logo at <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/\">Michelle Malkin<\/a>&#8216;s website a while back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most transparent administration has magically created or saved jobs in phantom congressional districts all over the nation. Their sleight of hand, however, has been detected&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beltway-kabuki","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}