*yawn*

It's embarrassing.
I'll admit it.

FTFA

"The problem appears to be with recipients who either were unsure of or confused over their congressional district or recipients who made an honest human error in manually entering the data for their reports," said Cheryl Arvidson, a spokeswoman for the recovery board.

Some texans are stupid and it is Obama's fault.

But the same folks that will be so "concerned" about this, probably ingored the fact that billions went to Iraq and just disappeared. But that is ok.

maniacbastard: But the same folks that will be so "concerned" about this, probably ingored the fact that billions went to Iraq and just disappeared. But that is ok.

Political kickbacks needed to be made. You need to grease the wheels of progress if you want to get re-elected.

As someone who has gathered a lot of signatures on petitions, I can tell you that maybe one in ten people actually know which congressional district they live in. I imagine some of the high numbers are people entering state legislative districts.

maniacbastard: But the same folks that will be so "concerned" about this, probably ingored the fact that billions went to Iraq and just disappeared. But that is ok.

And we have the b..b.. but Iraq in 4. I'm not sure why it took so long.

Ron Paul represents both.

I honestly don't know what my congressional district is. If pressed, I would say VA-11, but I'm making that up.

I got a piece of junk mail from Frank Wolf (R-VA) the other day and my response was "is he even my rep?"

it doesn't help that the districts make no sense whatsoever.

Oh noe! Teh stimulus created jobs but some idiot listed them as being in the wrong district!!11!! OBAMA FAILS.

O wate.

I hate these ignorant mouthbreathers so quick to look for faults. So, out of the thousands, possibly tens of thousands of entries, a few handfuls put in an inaccurate district. Is this the worst they could find? No terrible wasteful spending? No millions mysteriously disappearing, as happened under the last administration. At least this money is accountable in some degree.

maniacbastard: But the same folks that will be so "concerned" about this, probably ingored the fact that billions went to Iraq and just disappeared. But that is ok.

Oh yeah I remember the pallets of money that dissapeared.
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My primary opposition to the composition of the stimulus was the fact that it was going to government projects. Projects managed at a local level where the amount of corruption and quid pro quo is the highest. Believe me, being from Chicago I know all too well about how shiatty local agencies can be with tax payer monies. And Obama should have known this too - though part of me thinks his idealist view of the function of government outweighed his own personal experiences. And now we have money going into the hands of the very rich - again - this time under the table instead of directly like Bush did. Well-connected insiders prevail, it's the American way, huzzah!

Sybarite: As someone who has gathered a lot of signatures on petitions, I can tell you that maybe one in ten people actually know which congressional district they live in. I imagine some of the high numbers are people entering state legislative districts.

That's rough to remember especially when dealing with city wide petitions. Often times they are split on streets and you need to remember that East is the 1st and West is the 5th. Probably have an easier time remembering who their city councilman is, but that's also giving them major credit.

/believe I'm in the 5th

krelborne: And we have the b..b.. but Iraq in 4. I'm not sure why it took so long.

Thank you for proving my point.

krelborne: And we have the b..b.. but Iraq in 4.

We're still waiting for a Republican to acknowledge it.

Didn't this just get fixed, I thought?

The Homer Tax: I honestly don't know what my congressional district is. If pressed, I would say VA-11, but I'm making that up.

You are what's wrong with America. Too many people focus on the President and can't even name their own local representatives. The fact of the matter is that your average voter is too stupid to understand macroeconomics and public policy at a national level. The vote should be restricted to the local government, as originally intended, with those electors then deciding the representatives for Senate and the President.

burninator777: maniacbastard: But the same folks that will be so "concerned" about this, probably ingored the fact that billions went to Iraq and just disappeared. But that is ok.

Oh yeah I remember the pallets of money that dissapeared.
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Surprising THIS. $6.2 million to one guy and "quick spend it before anyone finds out." It's like a bunch of five year olds saw mom pulling in the driveway as they were raiding the cookie jar.

the stimulus failed.
the administration wants us to pretend that it created new jobs.
it also created new districts.

is there anything the stimulus can't do?

I have no idea what Congressional District I live in. I know who my Representative is, but if you asked me the district number, I haven't a farking clue.

colon_pow:

is there anything the stimulus can't do?

cure retardation?

Today's phantom story provided to us by Fark and the Houston Chronicle.

Larry Mahnken: I have no idea what Congressional District I live in. I know who my Representative is, but if you asked me the district number, I haven't a farking clue.

Wow, now that is embarrassing for the Obama administration.

"is there anything the stimulus can't do?"

It can't make Obama less smarmy

Shaggy_C:
You are what's wrong with America. Too many people focus on the President and can't even name their own local representatives.

I live two minutes from one end of a gerrymandered district, and my representative lives two minutes from the other end, two hours away. He has about as much in common with the local issues here as Obama does.

Wow...This is completely what I expected to happen while the Obama Regime is in power

Racht: I live two minutes from one end of a gerrymandered district, and my representative lives two minutes from the other end, two hours away. He has about as much in common with the local issues here as Obama does.

Sorry you live in the middle of nowhere. My district represents about 3 square miles total. I drive past my Rep's local office every day on the way to work.

Shaggy_C: The Homer Tax: I honestly don't know what my congressional district is. If pressed, I would say VA-11, but I'm making that up.

You are what's wrong with America. Too many people focus on the President and can't even name their own local representatives. The fact of the matter is that your average voter is too stupid to understand macroeconomics and public policy at a national level. The vote should be restricted to the local government, as originally intended, with those electors then deciding the representatives for Senate and the President.

Meh. I honesty think it's Frank Wolf. Here's the thing, it was Frank Wolf when I lived 45 mins away. It been Frank Wolf my whole life. Frank Wolf never loses, he has used the exact same campaign signs for 30 years. I vote against him in every election, but he never loses.

After a while i just stopped caring. I'm not being intentionally ignorant, just apathetic.

Shaggy_C: Racht: I live two minutes from one end of a gerrymandered district, and my representative lives two minutes from the other end, two hours away. He has about as much in common with the local issues here as Obama does.

Sorry you live in the middle of nowhere. My district represents about 3 square miles total. I drive past my Rep's local office every day on the way to work.

I live in the DC suburbs. We are just gerrymandered to shiat. People across the street have a different rep, but people 20 miles down the road have the same as me, it's silly.

In defense of Obama, I consider my apartment to be Texas' 58th congressional district. I have also declared myself Emperor Pope for Life of this district and accept all stimulus money. I intend to use it on a multitude of shovel ready projects; and by "shovel ready" I mean "Buy beer and drink it while playing Atari."

Wasn't Biden in charge of making sure there was no mistakes and fraud regarding the stimulus handouts? Hard to believe this happened on his watch.

Being an IT/DBA type, I'm kind of amused at the hullabaloo over this. The extent of the mistakes clearly indicates some kind of data issue, either with the data entry itself, the way the data is being extracted, or even with the application itself.

can we get intelligent people manning the data entry for stimulus related stuff?

i mean really, how can you not?

transparency is a biatch

It's okay that the government is making up numbers because Bush invaded Iraq.

The Recovery.gov website cost $18M and the data is unreliable. AND the Obama administration won't fix it AND Biden lied about it on the Daily Show.

Is this the "transparency" you were promised?

Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?

Obama retained all of GWB's "State Secret" policies, too.

Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?

What does Obama need to do to inspire your anger? Stand on the deck of a carrier under a "Mission Accomplished Banner"?

Will you ever admit he's a failure or would that require a level of personal honesty your fragile egos are incapable of?

colon_pow: the stimulus failed.
the administration wants us to pretend that it created new jobs.
it also created new districts.

is there anything the stimulus can't do?



Kitler is not pleased by your shenanigans

WhackingDay: ... I'm kind of amused at the hullabaloo over this. The extent of the mistakes fabrication clearly indicates some kind of data issue somebody (or a group of somebodies) within the administration felt they had to make up a bunch of bullshiat so it looked like the stimulus wasn't a bunch of payoffs to special interest groups for getting the man elected ...

FTFY

colon_pow: is there anything the stimulus can't do?

Make you less of a troll?

colon_pow: the stimulus failed.
the administration wants us to pretend that it created new jobs.
it also created new districts.

is there anything the stimulus can't do?

The stimulus saved state government jobs, but only for about two years. Teachers, police, firefighters etc. By the way the numbers are around 700,000-1 million jobs its "paying" for for these two years. The jobs it created are very small (construction and road work mostly).

It also has gone to state WIA (workforce) and rehab programs and is paying for staff and new programs.

If in another year+ the economy has not bounced back with job creation and state revenues are not back to levels that can sustain the current spending levels THEN it's failed. Saying the stimulus failed now is like saying a football game ended in the first quarter, it might sound good but that's not how it works (unless your a Lions fan like me).

So, are these reports sent in electronically to Recovery.gov? If so, there is no excuse for someone entering the wrong district when it could easily be looked up online through house.gov.

Either this is a bunch of fraud or complete laziness on both ends.

I'm not too happy with either of those options.

The voyage of the Fail Boat continues.....

Davey Croquette: Is this the "transparency" you were promised?

Yes. I prefer my transparency unsanitized.

Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?

Nope.

Obama retained all of GWB's "State Secret" policies, too.

Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?

We have morons like you to thank for them being there in the first place. I hope he uses them to round people like you up so his dogs ball might bounce off of your taint while you are tied up in a "FEMA camp".

What does Obama need to do to inspire your anger? Stand on the deck of a carrier under a "Mission Accomplished Banner"?

He is doing a great job, so why would I be angry?

Will you ever admit he's a failure or would that require a level of personal honesty your fragile egos are incapable of?

Just because you are lead around by the nose by some talking heads on yer teevee and they git you so dadgum angered, don't expect us all to be angry for nothing.

Bush actually violated the constitution openly and without shame, because it is "just a piece of paper."

I would type more, but you are boring and your "points" are halfassed at best.

Go wipe the blood from your buttpussy, you've been taking quite a pounding lately.

You've got another 7 years of this so you may want to pace yourself.

We have morons like you to thank for them being there in the first place.

Like me? You don't know me, chum.

I guess Bush's State Secret Policies were just to hard to "CHANGE!!!"

He lied to you. Does that make you happy? Or sad?

Bush actually violated

Aaaah, The siren call of the ObamaBot..

"But..but...BUSH!!!

"But..but...BUSH!!!

"But..but...BUSH!!!

Obama said he would bring CHANGE!!!

But all he is another Bush. Gitmo, Afghanistan, Transparency, AT&T suits, New entitlements, No viable alternative energy strategy.

Bush sucked but he's gone. Obama sucks in the present tense and you won't admit it because your ego won't allow it. Admit it: You are a weak person just like the Bushbots.

Davey Croquette: The Recovery.gov website cost $18M and the data is unreliable. AND the Obama administration won't fix it AND Biden lied about it on the Daily Show.
Is this the "transparency" you were promised?
Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?
Obama retained all of GWB's "State Secret" policies, too.
Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?
What does Obama need to do to inspire your anger? Stand on the deck of a carrier under a "Mission Accomplished Banner"?
Will you ever admit he's a failure or would that require a level of personal honesty your fragile egos are incapable of?

Sometimes I make things up AND offer no evidence AND post them on the internet too. I think we have something in common!

So some moran clerk entered the wrong district number into their reporting page. Whoopdie doo.

Actually, I blame the web designer for not validating the data entry. First rule of database coding: Garbage In, Garbage Out. It shouldn't allow an invalid district number to be entered. Would've cleared up a lot of this mess.

Davey Croquette: The Recovery.gov website cost $18M and the data is unreliable. AND the Obama administration won't fix it AND Biden lied about it on the Daily Show.

Is this the "transparency" you were promised?

Not completely, but it's at least a much better effort at transparency that I would have had under McCain or any other Republican.


Obama retained all of GWB's "State Secret" policies, too.

Not all of them, and he's working on ending some. But yes, he's been disappointing in that area and he should have done a better job with that aspect. I suppose it's the nature of politicians to voluntarily give up power only reluctantly.


What does Obama need to do to inspire your anger? Stand on the deck of a carrier under a "Mission Accomplished Banner"?

Sure, if he starts a war under false pretenses that costs us thousands of lives, and then declares it "Mission Accomplished" eight years too early, that would absolutely inspire my anger.

Will you ever admit he's a failure or would that require a level of personal honesty your fragile egos are incapable of?

You seem to have this binary failure/success mode that really bears no relation to reality. He's been good in some areas, bad in others. All in all, decent, but not great.

make me some tea: So some moran clerk entered the wrong district number into their reporting page. Whoopdie doo.

Actually, I blame the web designer for not validating the data entry. First rule of database coding: Garbage In, Garbage Out. It shouldn't allow an invalid district number to be entered. Would've cleared up a lot of this mess.

This is the Fark Politics tab, there's no room for logic here!

Davey Croquette: The Recovery.gov website cost $18M and the data is unreliable. AND the Obama administration won't fix it AND Biden lied about it on the Daily Show.

Is this the "transparency" you were promised?

Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?

Obama retained all of GWB's "State Secret" policies, too.

Are you sorry yet, Obamabots?

What does Obama need to do to inspire your anger? Stand on the deck of a carrier under a "Mission Accomplished Banner"?

Will you ever admit he's a failure or would that require a level of personal honesty your fragile egos are incapable of?

[citation needed]

Lundah: make me some tea: So some moran clerk entered the wrong district number into their reporting page. Whoopdie doo.

Actually, I blame the web designer for not validating the data entry. First rule of database coding: Garbage In, Garbage Out. It shouldn't allow an invalid district number to be entered. Would've cleared up a lot of this mess.

This is the Fark Politics tab, there's no room for logic here!

Don't be ridiculous, the mistake of some moran clerk completely reflects on the stunning failure that is the Obama administration, and if you think differently then you are LITERALLY an intellectual child who should never be allowed to leave your mom's basement, much less vote. Davey says so.

Davey Croquette: Will you ever admit he's a failure or would that require a level of personal honesty your fragile egos are incapable of?

Your problem is that there are only two options, complete failure or complete success. Obama has and is going to screw some stuff up, period. Just like every single other president we've had. That in no way whatsoever makes me want to jump ship and join the Republican party, especially now as they spasm in Palin induced hysteria.