Transparency within the Stimulus package.

When President Obama’s Stimulus package went into effect early this year, the Federal Government set up Recovery.gov as an act of transparency. This website has given the ordinary citizen the ability to check where their tax money and future obligations are going.

However, what happens when you find that over a million dollars of stimulus money has been appropriated to districts that do not exist?  $1,257,183 dollars has been appropriated to four districts in Alabama that do not exist.

This list includes $1,257,183 given to the 8th, 9th, 12th, and 19th congressional districts of Alabama saving 52 jobs. Now how is this possible? Is this just another 1.25 million dollars that is going to end up in the abyss that is Montgomery Alabama?

To you, the reader, it may seem that 1.25 million dollars is not a lot. However, lets look at another state. Arizona apparently has an 86th congressional district that is receiving over 34 million dollars!

I am thankful that this administration has been transparent on this issue of where our money is going, but where is the outrage over the mismanagement of it? Why has the media kept quiet on this? Is it an error in the system or has this money just been handed off to someone? This leaves a lot of questions unanswered, and hopefully we will get the answers.