{"id":3573,"date":"2009-02-18T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2009-02-18T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:02:43","slug":"obamas-promises-of-transparency-were-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/obamas-promises-of-transparency-were-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s promises of transparency were lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect this comes as no surprise to most of my readers. In fact, Barack Obama was lying when he said that his administration would be transparent with consumers&#8230; offering them the chance to see exactly how bailout dollars were being spent.<\/p>\n<p>The site recovery.gov was touted as a place for taxpayers to go see how their money was being spent. They were going to be able to see what was stimulated&#8230; and give their feedback. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gHiaAoCbgJio65Us4MhU2Muxd7cgD96DHUG00\">That&#8217;s not really going to happen.<\/a> The site is only giving general information about the money being handed out, and taxpayers aren&#8217;t going to see specifics of how it&#8217;s being spent. That doesn&#8217;t add up to much trasnparency.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, this isn&#8217;t the only lie being told. As another $787 billion was committed for &#8220;stimulus&#8221; spending, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Business\/story?id=6870873&amp;page=1\">lawmakers were rushing to push the bill through<\/a>.\u00a0 Did they really even have time to read the whole thing before they voted? Not likely. Heck, there wasn&#8217;t even time to actually make changes to the bill on a computer. It went through with handwritten notes in the margins and a multitude of scribbles and cross-outs. Makes you feel good, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect this comes as no surprise to most of my readers. In fact, Barack Obama was lying when he said that his administration would be transparent with consumers&#8230; offering them the chance to see exactly how bailout dollars were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-VD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}