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White House Gets Green by Putting Federal Budget Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the won't-someone-think-of-the-trees dept.

coondoggie writes "Looking to save $1 million, 20 tons of paper, or close to 500 trees, the White House said today President Bush's 2009 Federal Budget will for the first time be posted online. The E-Budget will be available for downloading at the Office of Management and Budget Web site on Feb. 4. Typically the White House has paper-bombed congress and anyone else who wanted to read the budget with a tome which can reach 3,000 pages and weighed multiple pounds each."

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  1. The Journey of a Thousand Miles by dsginter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now, all we need to figure out is how to let the constituency modify it.

    This is an exercise that is left to the reader.

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  2. Re:Net Savings: $0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you have any idea how much harder it is to hide Pork in a searchable document with revision history then a 20 pound stack of paper? Like this would really take off.

  3. Re:The page uses browser exploits by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful
    In addition to economic benefits, this 'peace' idea has some other nice side-effects, like tens of thousands of people not being slaughtered.

    Doing the math, it appears the Big Dig was about 1/70th the price of the Iraq war. (Oh, and did I mention tens of thousands of people not being slaughtered?)