Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama’s designed chief of staff, has promised White House support for creation of “a Google-like search function to show every program funded by the [$775 billion economic] stimulus package, whether it comes in under or over-budget, whether it is meeting its intended purpose, and how many jobs it is creating,” according to ABC News.

Virtually all government spending – not just economic stimulus spending – should be quickly accessible via a Google-like online search, which is the basic idea behind USASpending,gov., the Google-like searchable database created by the 2006 law popularly known as “Coburn-Obama.”