Transparency with the stimulus funds report

I just finished reading an interesting article on the Phoenix Arizona tv Channel 12 news website about the uproar over the errors in the stimulus quarterly reports. Apparently lots of funds were sent to nonexistent congressional districts. Fortunately, there were also lots of jobs created or saved in these same phantom districts. The Franklin Center for Public and Government Integrity reports there were over 440 phantom districts in the stimulus reports.

This amazes me since there are only 435 congressional districts in the USA. I am not an accountant or auditor, but it seems to me that if X amount of funds were paid to phantom districts then there should also be X amount of funds missing from the total paid to the non-phantom i.e. real congressional districts. Channel 12 reports that it appears most of the phantom funds were paid to the intended receivers, they just made a little error in reporting the district number.

I am certain this can be corrected sooner or later. Maybe the stimulus reports should only be done by states and not districts. After all transparency means the ability to see something clearly. Phantom means invisible.

If we, the American people, will have accounting problems with the $787 billion stimulus spending, what problems will we encounter if Obama/Pelosi care gets enacted? The senate finance version was about 1000 pages, the house version 1990 pages. We cannot afford the printing costs of these proposed bills. What will happen when if it is passed and employers, insurers and health care providers have to figure out how to cope with it? I am thinking, if the government cannot do better than this with the stimulus, we may have a health care revolution in the near future.