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List of Useless Government Sponsored (and very expensive) Websites

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limitgov Posted: Wed, Feb 16 2011 8:38 AM

http://www.letsmove.gov/

http://www.ahealthieramerica.org/

http://www.fitness.gov

http://www.smallstep.gov

http://www.physicalfitness.org/

http://www.health.gov

http://www.nutrition.gov

http://www.mypyramid.gov

http://fnic.nal.usda.gov

http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov

 

as I see more of them, I'll continue to list them.  I usually see 1-2 per day on channel One.

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bottlehey replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 9:26 AM

If it ends with .gov. It must be trustworthy. Anybody can put anything on a .com site. But a .gov site there's a lot of screenwork to be had before hand. Or at least that's what our overlords at the public school tell us every day.

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Kakugo replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 10:34 AM

Any idea how much did they cost to design and how much server and maintenance costs are? I assume the domain came free of charge...

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jay replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 11:03 AM

http://www.fitness.gov

http://www.nutrition.gov

http://fnic.nal.usda.gov

 

What horrid designs on these ones. They look straight out of Geocities-era design standards.

The rest are mediocre to decent.

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Drew replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 11:43 AM

Being governement sponsored is very easy and was very tempting until I realised what I was getting into.

My friend is starting a website that promotes helping kids on drugs, and the governement is offering him a great ammount of people's taxes.

/facepalm

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Drew replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 11:44 AM

Any idea how much did they cost to design and how much server and maintenance costs are? I assume the domain came free of charge...

I'm going to ask him what amount he gets. I know it's an insane amount, bigger then the website costs.

 

If it ends with .gov. It must be trustworthy. Anybody can put anything on a .com site. But a .gov site there's a lot of screenwork to be had before hand. Or at least that's what our overlords at the public school tell us every day.

I suppose, but in the end it doesn't mean anything. It takes longer to build a good reputation with a .com I suppose, people would rather trust a .gov more then a .com. Most good website bussiness are non-governement.
 
 
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It might be quicker and easier to list the useful government websites. The only time i have used a government website is to get a phone number so that i could contact them about paying taxation.

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limitgov replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 2:59 PM

"It might be quicker and easier to list the useful government websites. "

I just wanted to point out how many government websites there actually are.  not like the normal ones, like irs.gov....

 

but these wierd, new ones.  anytime you see the first lady talking about eating healthy, there's probably 5-10 websites built for that campaign....like nutrition.gov, letsmove.gov.....a slew of them.

its amazing really.  I'm going to try and list them all right here.

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Sieben replied on Wed, Feb 16 2011 4:09 PM

Their nutrition websites say protein is not an important part of sports diets, and that americans already get enough protein.

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limitgov replied on Fri, Feb 18 2011 8:23 AM

http://www.girlshealth.gov/

http://www.womenshealth.gov

http://www.cancer.gov

http://www.usaid.gov

http://www.aoa.gov

http://tn.ntis.gov/

http://www.bam.gov

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limitgov replied on Mon, Sep 12 2011 8:52 AM

here's the latest one:

http://www.texasgetonline.com/

looks like this one is being advertised by google for some reason.  I'm assuming there is tax money being given to google for doing this?

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