It's right or wrong, not left or right

This comes from the Patriot Post Email

http://archive.patriotpost.us/pub/07-20_Digest/


Income Redistribution File: Show us the spending!


Imagine being able, with just a few strokes of your keyboard and the click of your mouse, to see how the government spends your money! Kansas is the first state in the nation to adopt a “Google Government” database that will allow citizens to see all state expenditures. The move is due in large part to the “Show Me the Spending” organization, consisting of 19 groups who lobby for such searchable archives in all states. “Thanks to the Sunflower State, a new nonpartisan reform effort has begun to bloom,” said Andrew Moylan, Government Affairs Manager for the National Taxpayers Union who is part of the “Show Me the Spending” movement. “Good tools for public scrutiny can in turn build a good basis for public policy,” he said.
Congress last year passed legislation requiring the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to create a database containing information on all federal grants and contracts (but not full disclosure of all federal spending—the Feds could learn from Kansas, but we’re not holding our breath). “Every state in the country ought to pass similar plans because accountable government is not a left or right issue, it’s a right or wrong issue. The citizens who pay government’s bills deserve to know where their money is going, in order to have an informed debate about where it should head in the future,” Moylan said.