Comments on: Transparency for Thee, But Not for Me

By: IgotBupkis

IgotBupkis — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:13:32 +0000

I would argue that a very large part of all of our problems comes from the capacity of the government to self-exempt from even the most basic common-sense rules for doing business and proper functioning (think GAAP).

For the most part, unless it is given a special exemption from the people (example: Capital Punishment) or specifically granted a power in the founding documents, the Fed, state, and local governments ought to be held to the same strictures as everyone else is held to. And the mechanism for making such exceptions should be torturous and fraught with both extreme difficulties AND always subject to a sunset clause that limits the term of the exception and requires the full re-passage process.

Remember this, Come The Revolution, folks.

By: Noumenon

Noumenon — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:51:58 +0000

It’s posts like this where you’re right and raise an underappreciated important issue that I never comment on, only commenting when I disagree. But these are the ones that make me read you in the first place.

By: txgolfer

txgolfer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:08:33 +0000

I do not like these assclowns. Never have, even back in the 70′s when we were all going to freeze. Wherever they have a position of influence, they all need to be defeated. And we take our country back from their poisoned mentality.

By: Rick Caird

Rick Caird — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:53:21 +0000

Henry and don;t forget the Senate is about to confirm Kagin to the Supreme Court. Kagin altered a report from ACOG and reported, in a court brief, the alteration basically lying to the court, She also ignored the plain meaning of the law and refused to allow military recruiters on the Harvard Law School campus. the reward for that was not a disciplinary hearing before the bar, but rather a nomination hearing to the Supreme Court. I am not sure any more what disqualifying factors there are as long as you are not an avowed communist like Van Jones.

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:36:41 +0000

Apparently the children of the sixties, who once pushed for the Freedom of Information Act as a check to those in power, now are rolling it back once they are in power themselves.

You are correct, of course, but what do we expect of these folks? After all, the current Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, blatantly lied to the Senate,, and was still confirmed easily. Helicopter Ben fights any real attempt to get the Fed to show its books as though doing so will mean the end of [what's left of] the republic. Why do Senators vote for a fellow such as Geithner? Probably because they realize that, were they in his shoes, they would have done the same thing. Corruption is running very deep.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:06:10 +0000

apropos:

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/05/little-noticed-is-new-unexpected.html