Doug Powers – Michelle Malkin.com
Transparency we can believe in?A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found.
And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, which looked at 2012 spending data. Only 2% to 7% of spending data on USASpending.gov is “fully consistent with agencies’ records,” according to the report.
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For more than 22% of federal awards, the spending website literally doesn’t know where the money went. The “place of performance” of federal contracts was most likely to be wrong.
You know what the problem is, right? Yeah, they just need a bigger budget.
You know what they really need? To send most of that money back to the states where taxpayers can keep a better eye on it.
