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The Spectacle Blog
Federal spending seems more outrageous when it hits close to home, and now smart phone users are able to monitor government waste instantly with the “Open the Books” mobile phone application.
The free app allows citizens to “see the massive money flows from Washington, D.C. into every zip code.” The application “hyper-localizes” the fed’s checkbook spending, including contracts, loans, grants, direct payments, insurance payments, farm subsidies, and five years of federal salaries.
According to non-profit group, For the Good of Illinois, Inc., “Open the Books” is a transparency project to hold elected officials accountable and is “the only application to aggregate across the entire continuum of federal spending, 2000-2011.”
“Open the Books” founder Adam Andrzejewski said, “Until this point, we’ve had to vent blindly—now we have detailed, specific information on the unique transactions of federal spending.”
This may be the smartest thing smart phones have produced yet.
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SCPOret| 2.22.13 @ 9:54AM
Unfortunately it appears the App only coveris Il. It needs to be expanded to cover the whole USA - Federal, State, & Local government entities
pamlicobound| 2.22.13 @ 11:22AM
Looks like it has government spending going to all 50 states and federal employees in every state. Other government employees are only IL though. Pretty cool.