Monday, January 4, 2010

Stimulus Money To Fake Zip Codes

Rick Moran from The American Thinker writes on a subject that has apparently escaped Joe Biden's grasp. It's another government screw-up. This administration is clueless unless it's, dare I say it, a cover-up. Gasp!

Jim Scarantino of New Mexico Watchdog was the first to uncover the fact that stim bill money was being listed as spent in non-existent congressional districts.Now he's uncovered another tasty tidbit; the money is going to fake zip codes:
The agency charged with tracking the stimulus funds, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, attempted to eliminate this embarrassment by lumping all the billions reported going to nonexistent Congressional districts into a new category called the "unassigned" Congressional district.
Closer examination of the latest recovery.gov report for New Mexico shows hundreds of thousands of dollars sent to and credited with creating jobs in zip codes that do not exist in New Mexico or anywhere else. Moreover, funds reported as being spent in New Mexico were given zip codes corresponding to areas in Washington and Oregon.
The recovery.gov site reports that $373,874 was spent in zip code 97052. Unfortunately, this expenditure created zip jobs. But $36,218 was credited with creating 5 jobs in zip code 87258. A cool hundred grand went into zip code 86705, but didn't result in even one person finding work.
None of these zip codes exist in New Mexico, or anywhere else, for that matter

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