Members of a key panel created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill, have scheduled a meeting on November 22 to consider ways to prevent "fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds." The meeting will be held at the super-luxe Ritz Carlton Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. Read More
President Barack Obama released a report last week lavishly praising the alleged results of his $814 billion economic stimulus bill. That the president would issue a report praising his program as a success isn’t surprising. Even so, the inescapable reality facing Obama and his aides is the fact his program has failed to create new jobs as he promised it would. One new claim in the report deserves special comment. Read More
Recovery.gov, the Obama administration’s supposedly transparent attempt to let citizens know how every dollar of the $787 billion stimulus package was spent, is turning out to be a lot more comic fiction than fact. Read More
