Cutting Spending Requires Government Transparency [Administration Is Opaque]

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 2011-06-13 | [Staff]

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If there’s anything the Obama Administration came into office heralding, it’s transparency. However, after government spending has exploded with little to no accountability, open government advocates were less than elated halfway through the President’s first term. Today, heralding the “success” of recovery transparency, Vice President Biden announced a new executive order that, for all intents and purposes, restates the Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive and codifies the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) into a permanent body.

Ahead of the White House’s announcement, the House Oversight Committee announced its own plan to actually shine the light on government finances. The solution to the tangled web of data reporting websites is to track federal spending on a single, consistent electronic platform...

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Our friend from Chicago, Mr. Obama, leads by inverse example.

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