{"id":6634,"date":"2009-01-17T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T18:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2009-01-17T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T18:21:43","slug":"bloggers-transparency-stimulus-and-laxatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6634\/bloggers-transparency-stimulus-and-laxatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers. Transparency. Stimulus. and Laxatives."},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, the following blog post is NOT political. PLEASE do not try to turn it political. (If you do, you will be 301 (read: permanently) redirected to the fact that this is NOT political.) <\/p>\n

It IS about bloggers trying to improve the world around them by shining light on a political process and making politicians more answerable to their constituents and less answerable simply to the power brokers inside the beltway. It is about my opinion that as long as there are bloggers who care enough to invest the time, they will have influence and authority.<\/p>\n

In response to the House of Representatives’ proposal to spend $850 Billion on another stimulus package, a blogger (and a great new media consultant) who founded Kithbridge.com launched a new blog. ReadTheStimulus.org<\/a>. What does it do? <\/p>\n

Glad you asked.<\/strong> Here’s what it does. It takes the PDF documents of the draft spending bills that the government is known for spitting out and it converts them to searchable text and provides a search engine for folks (including the press, if they care to), to search terms and find how much of the bill is stimulative to the economy, how much is stimulative to certain lobbyists vs what is well just laxative so to speak.<\/p>\n

Want to know if there is a bridge to nowhere in there? or funds for the mating habits of the iguana? Don’t think that will stimulate the economy? You can now find it within seconds.<\/p>\n

I applaud the efforts of these bloggers to get the 335 pages out there, indexed and in a searchable form for the public so that folks on both sides of the political spectrum can debate it openly. (Note: they are going to post the various other proposed bills as well.)<\/p>\n

Anyone want to make a bet with me as to how many of the politicians (from either side…again this is not political) have actually READ and UNDERSTOOD the implications of these 335 pages. If there were 10 of them in the whole House of Representatives who had personally read it cover to cover, it would surprise me.<\/p>\n

One of the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, the following blog post is NOT political. PLEASE do not try to turn it political. (If you do, you will be 301 (read: permanently) redirected to the fact that this is NOT political.) 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