Federal Government Tries Transparency
Another government transparency website hits the web. It is called USAspending.gov.
Like many of you I was not aware that the federal government has a transparency website where a citizen can search for whom the federal government has awarded contracts and how it spends your tax dollars. This website come is the result of legislation sponsored by US Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).
While the website is far from perfect it does give the average citizen more access to its government…. that is always a good thing!
Take a look at the site by clicking here.
This proves that open government and transparency are issues that Republicans and Democrats can support!
This is an interesting discovery, and a step in the right direction, but did you notice that the site was last updated on April 28? At the federal level, that one month lag represents several hundred billion dollars of spending!