Government Accountability

We witness a government that believes it is accountable to no one. We have a government that in many respects has become a business to profit the few at the expense of the many, where special interests with fat wallets take precedence over the needs of the people, and political power matters more than fiscal responsibility.

I believe that a culture of corruption that infected our government and must be stopped. With little effort to control cost or quality, our government borrows trillions of dollars and mortgages our future and the futures of our children and grandchildren. In disregard of the best interests of the vast majority of our people, the government creates tax advantages for special interests and the government then pays for those special interest benefits by taxing the hard-earned money of the rest of us. The government doles out billions of dollars with irresponsible ease in no-bid contracts to companies whose officers are politically connected, and Congress wastes our money on unjustified earmarks like the billion-dollar bridge to nowhere. The federal debt is reaching levels so high that our children’s children will have less opportunity than we have or may even be impoverished in order to repay the government’s debts. Then, when the money that has been borrowed or taxed has been sent, Congress tells us that there is still not enough money to provide basic government services. We must release the grip that lobbyists and self-serving special interests have on our government. We must restore fiscal transparency and accountability through tighter financial controls in campaign funding, federal budgets, congressional appropriations, and government contracts.