Demanding Transparency

In our demands for transparency, I am wondering just how far the US government intends to push. They took the right to look at our credit card transactions; they tape all international telephone calls and record all e-mails in and out of the US; and now they demand to know our bank account numbers so they can review our transactions.

But is what’s good for the goose also good for the gander? How much does the public know, for instance, about Queen Pelosi? Do they know, for example, that she works maybe three or four days a week in DC, travelling to and from California in a private 200-seat jet at a weekly fuel cost alone of about $120,000, roughly $6 million a year.

I think in the case of Pelosi, or any other so-called civil servant, the public needs to know the full cost of supporting these people, and the free-riders they associate with. I am certain that many of them are knowingly not meeting their legal obligations in paying taxes, and so forth. I am just wondering whether increased transparency and investigation helps the public recover these humungous sums.

I wonder about that because these legislators are pushing to obtain the full bank account records of 54,000 Americans who deal offshore with UBS (UBS). If the courts grant that request, then the bank records of every American who does international business will be available to the US government.

Do we really want to go down that road when the push from DC is coming from leaders like Queen Pelosi who already have no intention of becoming as transparent as required by law?

This issue will have its own life, or several, but the one that interests me the most is why America continues to make rules and regulations that are full of loop-holes that wealthy or connected people manage to slip through, only to be pursued at great cost by the rules “police”. It’s like the Keystone Cops.

Why doesn’t America just simplify the rules and regulations, eliminate conflicts of interest, introduce a flat tax and reduce the burden of filing requirements and size of government?

Why aren’t we thinking outside the box? Reflect on that for a moment. It’s because some people want us boxed in, and they want us to hand over the keys.

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