Stimulus Cash Went to Nonexistent Zip Code Areas, Too
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, January 4, 2010, 4:42 AM
Not only did the Obama Administration spend stimulus funds in nonexistent districts but recently it was discovered that stimulus cash went to nonexistent zip code areas, too.
New Mexico Watchdog Org reported:
First it was phantom Congressional districts. Now it is phantom zip codes.
Last month, we reported on federal stimulus money credited with creating jobs in nonexistent New Mexico Congressional districts. Further examination of the most recent report on the recipients and uses of New Mexico’s share of the $787 billion stimulus shows jobs created and money going to zip codes that do not exist.
New Mexico Watchdog broke what became a national news story, and fodder for Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert. The website launched by the Obama Administration to track the destinations of billions of dollars of stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act showed billions going to nonexistent Congressional districts. The website, recovery.gov, reported $26.5 million going to ten New Mexico Congressional districts that do not exist. Those millions were credited with creating 61.5 jobs. Spadework by our Watchdog counterparts in other states showed a total of $6.4 billion reported as being allocated to 440 nonexistent, or “phantom,” Congressional districts.
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.
Wasn’t Joe Biden tapped to be the stimulus czar?
Maybe that explains this look from Obama.
Nice work, men.
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BigAlSouth commented:
Who is that old geeze standing next to Obama?
Mark L Harvey (aka Snooper) commented:
Typical. How typical is that, really? Democrats. All morons.
listingstarboard commented:
well WTF is the money going then? Are these groups able to determine?
KR commented:
Well,… let’s see…they need money for up coming elections. Buying, stealing votes cost money. And there is always the need to bribe…
wtd commented:
Embezzlement is illegal in any other enterprise. Why aren’t these crooks behind bars and paying restitution to the taxpayer?
Daniel commented:
I am no longer amazed by the stupidity of this administration.
So not only do they spend money we do not have, they “send” it to places unknown.
Yeah, most transparent administration ever.
Not.
Redwine commented:
If taxpayer money went to fake addresses, then we desperately need to track the money. The money must be traced. Perhaps it went to fund terror organizations or states (the Palis are one of Hussein’s pet projects), the unions or to specially organized slush funds. Time to send the sleuths.
John Steele commented:
Redwine “Time to send the sleuths.”
Non-government sleuths I hope.
John in the Land of Louis commented:
Totally incompetent.
Redwine commented:
John Steele – Absolutely! Need to beat the government to it. If they get to the documents first we’re in big trouble. This is how the documents exposing the Fraud Hussein – from birth to education to associations to travel – were sealed.
Inge commented:
The more I look at this pic , I can’t help but think that this doffus Obama is ‘high’, maybe smoking a little ‘weed’??
mrt commented:
“The agency charged with tracking the stimulus funds, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board…”
So, that would be the R.A.T. Board?
How approriate is that what with all the “government cheese” in the bill.
Eden commented:
Biden is a flippin idiot. Someone once told him he was smart, and he was stupid enough to believe them.
All this stimulus and bailout funding was clearly political payback.
Eriah commented:
Being a resident of NM, Bill Richardson has brought nothing but embarrassment to my state. New Mexico is a poor state with hard working low income families, a serious gang problem and we are less than 60 miles from the Juarez border in Mexico. It is depressing to see the money this state receives is not going where it belongs, in fact we can’t even trace where this money is going…maybe Richardson’s defense fund? Mr. Richardson, you should be disgusted by this news and doing everything in your power to retrieve those fund but instead you will sit idle as always with your mismatched socks. (The first time I met our governor was at the opening of a business I worked for and Richardson came to the press conference with uncombed hair and two mismatched socks, one blue and one black …….no, it wasn’t a dark blue sock)
limolibsSuk commented:
0bama:
Let me be clear, we have checks and balances in place. I send checks to non-existent zip codes and Axelrod adds the money to his bank account balance – and gives me cut. It all works very smoothly.
You maybe asking, “Obama isn’t that fraud?” Well, yes it is – but I have yet to be caught for it. I usually just pay off people to cover my tracks.
My Limousine is running and I have a meeting with my Swiss Bank Account manager. As they say “Catch me if you can!” I must look busy. Good day.
squeaky commented:
Eden
January 4th, 2010 | 7:23 am | #16
here you go…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho
squeaky commented:
and speaking of “smart” – i know people who are smart, but don’t have an once of commonsense or streetsmart. a brilliant leader who doesn’t know enough to get out of the rain.
squeaky commented:
once = ounce
WRJonas commented:
I share Eriahs love for New Mexico but not the assumption that everyone is an honest hardworking victim.
Like most Democrats they have totally bought into the propaganda and lies of the Democratic Communist Party.
They are special victims and deserve special sympathy for being so put upon.
The zip code recipient is probably none other that Gov. Bill Richardson.
Eden commented:
Squeaky, that video is classic. I was going to post one (now removed from You Tube for “violations”) that shows what I saw live streaming from Springfield, IL, when Biden was announced as running mate. BO introduces him as “the next President of the United States!” Then Biden returns the favor by introducing him as “Barack American.” Laurel & Hardy were deeper.
One Way commented:
Wake up to just who/what this Democrat party is, America.
A not-to-be-missed video was linked by one commenter on the recent “Bill Kristol smacks this administration” post.
Caddell and Horowitz offer their opinions. The latter calling them “communists and crooks” while the former preferred “crazies and crooks.”
In any event, they agreed they’re crooks. I especially appreciated Horowitz telling it like it is: Obama is an outright liar. About everything. It’s his Alinsky training.
Caddell’s exasperated with the stupidity of the Republicans. We’d better learn to fight these guys.
aprilnovember811 commented:
THIS IS BLATANT THEFT OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY. This money is going into their pockets. It was never meant to create jobs, anyone with half a brain, knows that you don’t create jobs this way. I sent my two representatives, an article on the Cloward/Piven strategy a week ago. I told them, if they keep this up, they are not only going to be out of a job, but perhaps in Federal Prison. The White House is a crime syndicate.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Wake up to just who/what this Democrat party is, America.
A not-to-be-missed video was linked by one commenter on the recent “Bill Kristol smacks this administration” post.
Caddell and Horowitz offer their opinions. The latter calling them “communists and crooks” while the former preferred “crazies and crooks.”
In any event, they agreed they’re crooks. I especially appreciated Horowitz telling it like it is: Obama is an outright liar. About everything. It’s his Alinsky training.
Caddell’s exasperated with the stupidity of the Republicans. We’d better learn to fight these guys.
Horowitz who used to be a leftist, and whose parents were card carrying communists would know. Guess what else he is lying about? Where he was born, he’s INDONESIAN!
One Way commented:
Re #29 — that was KR #18 who linked the excellent video on the other thread.
Caddell and Horowitz have credibility. They should be heard every day by every American until we undo the damage that’s being done.
Sojourner commented:
Another classic Sheriff Joe moment… what a dimwit….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRV5Y1JCGRI&feature=related
(I just THANK HEAVENS that nothing like this stimulus debacle will ever happen when these guys are in charge of our health care!)
Don Rodrigo commented:
It’s not really “incompetence,” it’s theft. Blatant, massive corruption on a scale never seen in this country before. And because of the huge sums involved, it will be quantitatively the largest corruption scandal the world has ever seen.
raybojabo commented:
Maybe those zip codes do exist, underground, in the secret underground military bases built with trillions of dollars of our tax money. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kYTnIeEUdc&feature=related
King Obama commented:
MYOB about where the moneys going. It’s going to some new places.