The "Transparency" we can believe in

Okay Mr. President. During the campaign you told us your administration would usher in a new era of transparency in government. So far it's not working out too well.

You told us you would post all bills on the White House web site for at least five days to let the American people read them. But with the "stimulo-porkosaurus" bill that didn't happen. In fact you said the need for expediency was so dire that the bill had to be passed immediately - before even those is congress could read the bill (though I am not so sure five days would have been enough for congresspeople - I don't have a lot of faith in their ability to even read at all). Then after saying time was of the essence you waited five days to sign it. In the interim you wasted all kinds of money using Air Force One to fly back to Chicago for a "Valentine's Date" with your wife then wasted more big money flying to Denver to sign the bill. What's up with that, Bro' ?

But it gets worse, Monsieur le President. You chastized corporate CEOs for their spendthrift ways and execs for going on outings and retreats and sponsoring golf tournaments, etc. and while doing that you signed an executive order to limit the pay of CEOs of companies that have taken money from the government to five hundred thousand per year. Interesting, then, that you have were conspicuously silent (while union members are losing jobs) about the little AFL-CIO "shindig" at the ultra ritzy Fontainbleu resort and Spa in Miami beach. Not only that but your VP, Mr. Bon Mot himself, spoke in person and you spoke via teleconference to the union bigwigs (telling them you will get the "card check" law passed)while not allowing any press coverage.

And just as slyly, under stealth mode, you have signed an executive order that all government contracts must use union labor. Not only is that not trasparency but you have just raised the cost of government contracts by a minimum of ten percent at a time when the government should being doing its utmost to save the taxpayer's (not YOURS) money.

Mr. Obama your promise of "transparency" was a lie. Pure and simple. However, your agenda was transparent during the campaign and it continues to be so. Too bad so many of the voters chose not to see through you. So just "go on wit your bad self". Keep pushing that agenda. More and more Americans are taking off the blinders.