That’s the cry of all the good T-partiers and conservatives anytime a governmental spending program is brought up. Given the record of the Bush administration in Iraq shown in the following article it is easy to understand why.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/27/iraq.audit/?hpt=T2#fbid=-RvbgFn4EnR

A federal audit of $9.1 billion targeted for reconstruction in Iraq cannot account for more than 95 percent of it, a federal report said Tuesday.

The report, by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, blamed “weaknesses in DoD’s [the Department of Defense’s] financial and management controls” and called on the Pentagon to improve its financial and management controls.

The audit centered on the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), which was established in May 2003 by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).

In contrast look at this site to see how the stimulus dollars overseen by the Obama administration are being spent.

http://projects.propublica.org/recovery

Recovery Tracker
by Jennifer LaFleur, Dan Nguyen, and Joe Kokenge

We’ve taken all the data used on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov, cleaned out the cobwebs and added thousands of records the feds didn’t include — the law doesn’t require all recipients to report to Recovery.gov — to create the most comprehensive publicly available analysis of stimulus spending that we know of. Type in your county or click on your state to find local projects, and check out how per capita spending compares with poverty, income and unemployment in your area.

I think the lesson learned from these examples is that when someone is railing that the government can’t do anything well, they should not be put in a position to prove their claim.

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