Recovery

In February of this year, President Obama got a $787 billion stimulus package through Congress. This money is supposedly going to stimulate the economy, help the people that elected all the politicians and put our country back on track....sometime within the next 10 years.

It is interesting to note, that while this stimulus package, also referred to as The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is attached to the 2009 fiscal year budget, not all of the money will be spent in 2009.

In keeping with his promise for transparency in government, however, Barack Obama has made certain that we can all have access to where and how this money is spent.
Supposedly, if you're interested, almost every penny will be accounted for here:
http://www.recovery.gov/

If you're interested in just how much money went to each government department and how much of it they've spent so far, you can go here:
http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/investments-agency

If you're interested in how much of the stimulus package was made available to your state and for what purpose, you can go here:
http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/investments-state

If you want to read the actual Recovery Act, and compare it's intent with it's actual outcome, you can go here:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1enr.pdf

If, after reading the Recovery Act you have anything to say about it, please, by all means, put your comments here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ARRA_public_review/

I heard a lot of complaints about the stimulus package in January and February, before it passed, but I haven't really heard the media report much about the actual spending of it, other than a couple of states that didn't want their share of the money. I really hope Texas does not secede from the union. I'd rather have Barack Obama as my President than Chuck Norris. No offense.

Copyright © 2009 Annette Fortunato

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