Re: Beamer, obviously the kind of socialism we're adopting here isn't the Venezuelan kind (though the personality cult of Hugo Chavez would disagree). Instead, it'll be more like the European kind, for better or for worse.
Then why are you so afraid of that? Last I checked, the dollar has been losing value relative to the Euro, so European government can't be all that bad. Or am I off here?
Re: By the way, recovery.gov isn't a web site for accountability. It's a web site for PR.
Accountability isn't done on the website, but it will result from information provided by the website. Of course, if Americans want transparency and the website provides it, it will be a positive PR driver for the administration, but to suggest that it was built to generate PR has the cause and effect backwards.