Financial Transparency?
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
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I’ve mentioned before how the 13th Floor is a daily reading must for me.
This was found while roaming that floor …
The following Thomas Jefferson quote is getting a lot of play these days in connection with transparency Web sites. Not that Jefferson was much of a computer user. But here goes:
“We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them.”
           –Thomas Jefferson, 1802
Yikes!  How things have changed!
Municipal finances can’t even meet those standards.
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