Ambitious Goals for the Recovery Act

I've put the full list below the jump, but the White House has just released an extremely ambitious list of goals for departments and agencies to achieve under the auspices of the Recovery Act by December 31 of this year. On a macro-level, the administration wants to see 60 percent of the $499 billion allocated under the Recovery Act obligated to specific projects by that time. But Vice President Biden wants to see ground broken on a lot of projects over the next three months. It's a reminder of government's capacity--no matter what you think about the virtue or vices of that capacity, the federal government can do a huge number of things when some serious money is tossed in its direction.