by James Dubreze

Created on: April 13, 2009

A financial transparency within the government has become much easier to manage than before. The Internet has provided the public with the possibility of checking how tax payer's money is distributed among different sectors of our government an addition to how it's being spent. That way, public officials who are accountable can become transparent behind the walls of government. Transparent procedures include financial disclosure statements, open meetings, budgetary meetings, audits etc. Transparency is a good idea and thanks to the Internet, members of the media can now televised transparency and broadcast all government expenditure to the public.

As tax payers, we want to know how the tax money is being used and how every penny is accounted for. However, transparency is not a new idea; some would argue that it was Republican Govs. Matt Blunt of Missouri
or Bobby Jindal of Louisiana who started making government expenditure available on the Internet, but is it the same transparency that we came to know under the Obama's administration.

Transparency in politic is the process by which officials of the government sets rules and regulation in order to monitor how tax payer's money exchanges hand within different branches of our government. Without knowing how much money was transmitted originally from the initial hand, is not transparency, this would be pretentiousness. Making unjustified or excessive claim that transparency existed when in fact no one truly knows how much money was initially transmitted from the hand of the Federal Reserve.

The possibility of tracking every step of that money from the hands of the FR to the hands of corporations, local & states government is precisely the transparency that has become visible under the Obama's administration. No one is attempting to debate that transparency within the government never existed before, but in the manner in which the Obama's administration has strengthened transparency, no one can say for certain that it has been done before.

Now, I will not argue that no presidents other than Obama have strengthened transparency within the government body. That would not be a good position to take, just because no former presidents have exploited the Internet to broadcast transparency like the Obama's administration have done, doesn't mean it never existed. Transparency or not, former president Clinton left office with a surplus and to most tax payers, that's all we need to know. Was transparency strengthening to

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