Track The Other White Meat, Federal PORK!

Townhall reports via their February ‘08 magazine that we can now track all government contracts, grants, insurance, federal assistance and loans through the Office of Management and Budget’s website at www.USAspending.gov

We can search from the government agency down or from the recipients up, by city, county and state all the way to the specific transaction. They can no longer hide funding of The Bridges To Nowhere or other Pork like the Museum for Woodstock.

This website was provided by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) who mandated it with the “bipartisan” Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 which opened the website in December 2007. Coburn said in a news conference the day it opened that Bloggers were the “key group in getting this done” and told us to “get out there and start using this….I think it’s going to be wildfire.”

I think Tom was trying to tell us in no uncertain terms there’s a ton of Pork to reveal to the American people…what do you think he meant?

Lets get busy guys and gals, through this source we can whittle down big government very quickly when they realize we’re watching them like a hawk…but, we have to actually use this rightful tool and I know for some of you, you’re already at the website.

For those of you who would like a guide to know where to start digging and why, I highly recommend Fred Dalton Thompson’s Government at the Brink: The Root Causes of Government Waste and Mismanagement. ( Townhall Press August 2007 )