{"id":12311,"date":"2011-12-08T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T19:52:27","slug":"feds-spending-stimulus-money-to-tell-the-public-how-well-theyre-spending-stimulus-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12311\/feds-spending-stimulus-money-to-tell-the-public-how-well-theyre-spending-stimulus-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Spending Stimulus Money to Tell the Public How Well They&#8217;re Spending Stimulus Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one has to be read to be believed. Nearly three years after passage of the stimulus package, the horror stories of fiscal malpractice continue to emerge. <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/why-obamas-stimulus-failed-a-case-study\" target=\"_blank\">From Reason<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Palladian Partners, a communications firm in Silver Spring, [Maryland has] received $97.5 million dollars in government contracts over the past\u00a012 years. The National Insitutes of Health (NIH), which is Palladian&#8217;s biggest client, tacked $363,760 stimulus dollars on to an existing contract, and then followed it with two more awards totaling $431,333. Palladian was to spend the money collecting and disseminating information about how the NIH was spending stimulus money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what did NIH get for this money? According to the Reason piece, Palladian&#8217;s &#8220;main activities have included building\u00a0a website, and\u00a0publishing 29 short\u00a0articles for the site.&#8221; That&#8217;s over $27,000 per article if you&#8217;re playing at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one has to be read to be believed. Nearly three years after passage of the stimulus package, the horror stories of fiscal malpractice continue to emerge. From Reason: Palladian Partners, a communications firm in Silver Spring, [Maryland has] received $97.5 million dollars in government contracts over the past\u00a012 years. The National Insitutes of Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1220,2602,3231,2861],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economic-policy","tag-keynesian","tag-national-institutes-of-health","tag-stimulus-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}