Government transparency shot down...
Recently a bill was introduced in the Senate to promote government transparency -- let us, the taxpayers know EXACTLY whose pockets our money is going in. Unfortunatly it was shot down by an anonymous Senator who put a secret hold on the bill.

Ed Brayton just commented that it was confirmed that the Senator in question was none other than Senator Ted Stevens.

This demostrates a serious problem with our system. The people who need to be watched are the ones that get to decide the laws. Do you think they are going to put into place measures that would expose their own dirty dealings? Hell no. There is too much personally to gain in a system that has a lot of dark corners.

Sure politicians will get behind measures to spy and keep tabs on the citizens, but we will never see them jump aboard any measures that would give the people more insight and control over the government -- as it should be.

People need to wake and and learn a little about or system. Start talking about this stuff, and unite. This is OUR government, and we need to band together and be our own check and balance to the system. We must demand answers to our questions, hold our leaders accountable for their misgivings to critize and question every single action and decision they make.

This is why I believe that civics and a logic/critical thinking course should be mandatory subjects along side science and english. I fear such things aren't being covered and our education system is nothing but a machine to churn out complacent automatons.