Government Secrecy

Henry Paulson should be tried for treason and stand in front of the firing squad. This jackass is as crooked as they come. The former head of Goldman Sachs has the key to the chicken roost and he is giving all his friends a piece of the pie. In the process, the American public is being screwed.

It is bad enough that the banks are still going to pay the enormous bonuses to their top people. The rationale: they do not want to lose this fine talent because they go without their compensation. Memo: these are the idiots that got those companies in this mess. They ought to be let go.

The latest, and most offending, of the Paulson tricks is the hiding of the names of who received the $2 trillion in taxpayer money. This is absurd. We are the ones footing the bill yet we are not entitled to know who is getting our funds. He ought to be shot for that on the White House lawn. The American people have a right to know where their funds are being spent. A secretive government creates a gestapo environment. Consider how Hitler came to power without a single bullet being fired. In the end, he created a crap load of damage.

We need to stop lying pieces of crap like this. I applaud the efforts of another politician (read liar in his own right), John Boehner for his move to have Paulson release the names of these people. In this instance, he believes in transparency of government (read the article I wrote on this here). We need to demand this of our leaders.

Here is an excerpt out of a story posted on bloomberg.com.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, there is little disclosure about how the programs are being implemented.

Notice how they agreed to transparency when they were soliciting Congress's approval yet turned when they received it. And, it is interesting to note how Congress gets upset when promises are broken to them. Yet it is perfectly alright for them to go back on their word to the American people. Seems to me that it should work in both instances.

Those who read this site often know I trust nobody in Washington. All of our leaders, whether they are in the White House, Congress, or the Fed, are professional liars. They are corrupt to the core with their only concern being power. The needs of the people they represent are not even considered. It is time to start reversing that trend. If they continue on the path they are following, I surmise there will be an uprising. And, The Revolution Again will be helping to lead the charge.

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Transparency In Government

It amazes me how backwards our system is. I want to give you a little example of how crazy this situation is with our government. Imagine going into work and being accountable to nobody in the organization. When your boss questions what you are doing, you are free to withhold the answer. As you go through your budget, there is no accountability for the money spent. If you reach the point where you ran through the budget, you simply get a check from the owner. To top it all off, you can give yourself a raise whenever you feel you merit it.

I am certain this is not how things work in your place of employment. The fact is that we in the private sector are accountable to those who are responsible for the money. Washington is a totally different animal. There is no transparency with our government. Leaders do not answer questions as to what they are doing with our money. It is time this was changed.

Technology came a long way in the last 30 years. Computers make it possible to process larges amounts of data quickly. This gives us the ability to monitor every expenditure that the government has. With the improvement in databases, we can now filter it so that we get the proper information that we are seeking. If a Congressman or woman went to lunch with a particular lobbyist, we should be able to find a record of that expense. This also tells us who they are meeting with.

In the sales, one is responsible to his or her sales manager. At any time, that person can ask about a particular account. The schedule is open for the manager to view if desired. Of course, this same authority is granted to the owner of the company if it is a private concern. That power comes from being responsible for signing the payroll checks (or at least funding them).

Why can't we have this same ability with our government? We can if we demand it. These people work for us not the other way around. It is time we stop allowing them to spend our money without recourse. The system allows for too much waste and fraud without the public's eyes on them. Even if they enter Washington with a degree of ethics, they soon become corrupt with power.

There are some who will tell you that all the figures are available. That is technically true. However, in typical Washington fashion, it is a misdirection. Who is going to be able to find the data in a pile of 5 million documents. This is how they keep people uninformed. Power is protected by burying ill advised expenses. Congress does the same thing with pork that is added to spending bills. It buries appropriations deep within a 200 page bill totally billions of dollars. A classic case of misdirection.

I think America is getting close to having had enough. Anyone who is expecting change from the great Savior Barack Obama is a total fool. This is the person who refused public funding which allowed him to keep his donors secret. He raised $650 million. I want any Obama supporter to tell me who the donors were and to assure me that there were no illegal contributions. There is one catch, if you are wrong we will execute on the steps of the courthouse for being stupid. Obama is just as crooked as the rest of them. I am certain there were donations from the same people that exceeded the limits while others came from overseas. Yet, like the government, there is no transparency.

If Obama wants to change the culture of government his first task will be to get Congress to fund the establishing of a database which monitors the expense of ever person in his office, congress, and all lobbyists. That will prove to me that this is a "man for the people". Short of that, he is showing how he is another corrupt politician who is only going to enrich himself and his friends. More of the same will start to move us towards the violence. The revolution is coming one way or another.

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