Sometimes, when a politician campaigns and addresses a bouquet of issues, and the array of issues is vetted, allowing voters a comprehensive,
knowledgable approach when deciding support of a particular candidate.
When votes are cast, how many have researched the issues thus voting according to ones understanding where the candidates position is on each issue by
attestation of the candidate at speaking engagements, town halls, meetings, other Q & A events, candidate debates, infomercials, ads, interviews and
other venues as part of the campaign.
The incumbent, a non-contender, his approval rating low, leaving support of voters disenfranchised, adding a candidate as contravertial as McCain, the
party looks defeated, making the testimony of the new candidates is crucial to assure a hard fought presidential race.
To recieve the voters, through their respective electorial colleges, (with another set of concerns,
here), each cast ballot, the voters would obviously vote using largely, review of testimony
and campaign promises.
One of these promises is a policy of transparency.
We'll use President Barak Obama as the test subject since he won, allowing us to persue his transitions from
candidate, to
President-Elect, to
innaguration, swearing in reciting
oath of
office,
twice, finally ascending to the
"
throne", taking the reins of the most powerful office of the monster machine, industrial and
war complexes
et alin the history man..., no..., of the world.
The
transparency promise, . is contrary and a long awaited, refreshing, anticipatory change from
the lack thereof (link to example of non-transparency
here),
The previous administration has many examples akin to the example linked to above, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Obama get off to a gallop, but while waiting for the transparency to manifest,
(
here), his agenda has evolved at an exponential pace to warp drive speed as
legislation is fast tracked and ever increasing.
All the while, the financials and banking systems have become illiquid through bad loan practices, an unprecidented increase in forclosures, layoffs,
business, commercial,residential and sub-prime loan failures, takeovers and bankruptcies.
The toxic loans packaged into exotic instruments such as derivatives, sold to markets that invested retirement and other investment funds of working
class, retired and other participants in long term invesments, then, taking a short position and purchasing credit default swaps to insure failing
loans and then distributing more and more profits as
company bonuses. Many
institutions have failed, some survived, yet of those that didn't, some were stong competitors of similar companies that survived, and as such,
seemed to fail due to preferencial treatment of certain companies that were rescued arbitrarily through decisions of Secretary Treasurer.
Such companies were regarded by
Administration,
Treasury, the
FED,
Reports ,
the House, and
the Senate as, "to big to fail", and subsequently allowed further
consolidation, and began mergers with troubled institutions to strengthen weak "to big to
fail" positions, and to have available a more multifaceted arcenal to combat the varying sections of concern in the credit, loan and investment
markets.
There is more, but a distraction and a top
contraversial issue for us all.
I use the bailouts because once the
TARP Act was passed, hundreds of billions in loans were
issued without any transparency regarding
these loans, and contrary to the
Constituants voice against the bill, and of those on
Capitol Hill as wells as their intended use of the dispersment
of the Act's loan monies, and is not persuant to
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of
2006.
The act also through it's so elegantly devised wording, gives
broad authority to the Treasutry
Department allowing the subsequent
decision of Secretary Treasurer Paulson and
the strategic change in where and who recieved funds,
with this explaination to the
nonsatisfaction of Congress (
link to example 1), and the People,
(
link to example 2),
the statement of a career.
As attention is diverted by these and other interferences, legislation is submitted and passed wothout much noticed, and the shell game continues ss
campaign promises are dismissed as political rheteric (
here), rather than contrary to ones word,
and is reported as a nonissue as the people passively sojourn, loosing interest as new contraversy errupts.
National Health care and the house passed climate bill
Another piece of the transparency puzzle is
Obama's eligibility, and it's vetting process,
As multiple suits are
pending, others have been denied, some dismissed, legal
issues, that could be resovled simply by presenting a certified long form
birth certificate to
the courts, there is suspicion and wonder in the refusal of Obama to do so and the inferences of this position from a President who promises
transparency, yet spends
over $800,000.00 on legal fees
to prevent submitting his birth certificate a document of and simple proof of eligibility.
As the promise of transparency is
repeatedly broken,
and broken, the questions of integrity and trust arise regarding
usurping. and
allegiance.
Even with that, no breech of oath and other investigations, mandate, law or reprimand seems to apply to the
e l
i t
e, and the government. As blatant as it all is, the
authorized powersand
citizens sit idly and do
nothing about corporate rule, blindly passing and accepting legislation without redress, indebting our future generations, as indicated
here,
here,
here and
here.
The day we awake united, it will be too late for us to do anything but apologize to our children for passing on
debt, who will suffer the most from out
lack of action .