by Sergeo Tomacelli

Created on: May 14, 2008

The question, are candidates missing an opportunity to connect with voters on open government issues,? First of all, begs clarification.

If I'm not mistaken our constitution states that ours is a government created by the people , for the people and all of its members consist of people elected from the people. So, what is this "open Government issues" business.

As far as I and many others in America are concerned, all government issues are the peoples issues and should be open for scrutiny by the people who, in the final analysis, will be ultimately responsible for the conduct of those issues, good, bad or indifferent.

The statement, "open government issues", implies that there are some issues within government that are, indeed, kept from the people.

Although we all know that there are, in fact, many issues which our employs within the government find "necessary" to hide from there employers, the American public, for what ever reason they should imagine and concoct, it is still foreign and smacks of impropriety when ever such occasions arise.

I and I have found, many other Americans, are slowly arriving at the realization that those whom we have elected and are electing to conduct our business have, we believe, purposely lost sight of the fact that it is the American people who are to have the definitive decision making opportunity concerning the outcome of all government business as, again, ultimately it is the American people who will bare the brunt of responsibility for all actions and repercussions of those decisions.

I hesitate to utilize the word corruption when attempting to find an explanation for this conduct on the part of our government employs, however, it seems appropriate when it refers to a corruption of character by those in government who have, because of arrogance bred by tenure, developed a perfidious sense of self importance and have lost sight of this most basic of job specifications.

This, I believe is the reason that both past and present candidates for office are reluctant to not only bring the subject of open government up but, since most if not all of them have usually been in government prior to their candidacy, have become adapt at acting as if the subject is not even relevant.

It is completely antithetical to successful government when those who are given the opportunity to conduct the peoples business and are, i might add, remunerated handsomely for it, completely usurp their positions by briskly subverting the concept of employer and

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