Recovery.gov is getting updated. Whenever we update the blog to the newer version of Wordpress, it’s a headache. But, it doesn’t cost us $18 million:

“Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent,” James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. “Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions.”

The contract calls for spending $9.5 million through January, and as much as $18 million through 2014, according to the GSA press release.

In five years, they are going to spend $18 million to update a website they claim tells the taxpayer see where their dollars are being spent. For $5 million and some change a year, I could go to college, double major in economics and computer programming, hire some people to help me collect and input all the information and still have some loot left over for a Mountain Dew and Crunchy Cheetos celebration party for me and all my Twitter followers (go ahead and follow me now, space is limited).

Un. Be. Lievable.

The RNC thinks it’s a bit over the top also:

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