Obama Spending $18 Million Of Your Tax Dollars To Prove He’s Not Wasting Your Money
Is there anything more ironic than spending $18 million to revamp a website that was supposed to show us how Obama and his “stimulus” spending spree aren’t wasting our tax dollars? It makes me wonder how much the original, apparently failed website cost us.
For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. The new Web site promises to give taxpayers more information about where their money is going than the current version of the site.
$18 million. To design a website. As someone who hosts a website of his own (on a shoestring budget, I might add) I know a thing or two about what it costs to keep a site on the internet, and it’s nowhere in the ballpark of $18 million.
The Republican Study Committee actually made some phone calls and asked what a top-of-the-line website design quote would be. And what they found wasn’t in the ballpark of $18 million either.
While GoDaddy.com offers a deal for premium web-building at $10 a month, it’s understandable that the administration would want the best of the best for American taxpayers. So let’s get a professional quote.
A quick cost estimate from http://www.DesignQuote.net offers us a curious calculation. According to the site, the top-end estimate for a premium web design from a professional firm flush with all the bells and whistles, flash pages, search functions, digital graphics, and 500 pages of content comes in at a whopping….$192,740.
Interesting. That would leave some $17.8 million left for the web team to play with. So what will information-seeking taxpayers get for all the rest of their cash?
That’s a good question. The RSC thinks maybe they’re going to use the rest to hire Bruce Springsteen to write a song about economic recovery to play on the website.
Regardless, it’s a sad commentary that Obama can’t even manage a website properly. And he expects us to believe he can manage the economy?
Give me a break.
