Monday, March 2, 2015
Should all documents produced with taxpayer dollars be open to the public?
I probably do this every year, and if you’re a regular reader you may be able to recite the following from memory, but I think it is important to keep alive what I consider to be one of the most profound statements from one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson.
“We’re it left for me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
At the heart of the quote is Jefferson’s well known distrust of a government with too much power, and the power of a free press.
In this week's rant, I take a look at national Sunshine Week, and at all the documents that should be available to the taxpaying public.
I guess the issue here is, do you agree?
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Any and all paperwork and documents should be available to the public. The people are the employers of all government employees. Would you want your employees telling you what they are or are not going to do. Pheasant under glass was nice but Government under glass is better.
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