The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending
By Barry Ritholtz - February 10th, 2012, 1:30PM
To see a certain category of spending provisions, click on one of the following: Accountability | Aid to People Affected by Economic Downturn | Aid to State and Local Governments | Business | Education | Energy | Health Care | Other | Science and Technology | Transportation and Infrastructure
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Source: Pro Publica
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February 10th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
since I’m signed in – Thanks for this – went thru it this morning .. if this terminal had its sound on “$2M to accountability NASA” that should be in all CAPS .. then something about a Mars mission
February 10th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Did a little population study. 7% (by dollar amount) is between 100-500MM and 92% for >500MM, the rest being negligible. Of that last bucket (92%) the “budget” is asking for people to manage a median 1.5B appropriation. Note the skew to large numbers, showing a degree of discretionary spending.
If this were a private organization they’d be held accountable. To the dollar, not “one and a half billion.”
February 11th, 2012 at 8:25 am
Pardon my stupidity but whose stimulas plan is this? PODUS?
Suggest retitling it as “Stimulas Plan for Every Friggin Government Agency.” This is what got PODUS into trouble and behind the eight ball right out of the shute – the initial stimulas plan that was sprayed everywhere and on every earmark and bridge to nowhere the Dems could recall and so, 3 years later, the Repubs are saying it didn’t work.
So much for “targeted.”
February 11th, 2012 at 8:38 am
OK. I went to Pro Publica and now understand wherefrom. Makes my blood boil anyway. Good thing everyone around the globe is our friend and is working to make things better for us. Otherwise frittering away our tax dollars like this might be dangerous.
February 11th, 2012 at 9:36 am
I say we move twenty percent of every Federal Department to the IRS and start collecting some taxes, Roman style.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:45 am
“If this were a private organization they’d be held accountable. To the dollar….”
HAHAHAHAHAH.. that’s a good one.
February 11th, 2012 at 11:04 am
hankest, evidently you’ve not argued about impacts of 1-penny moves on multi-billion dollar models and settlements. So sorry.
February 12th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
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