Secret meetings. Back room deal making. Crony capitalism. Private reports from government favored informers. Is this your government being open and transparent?
Crony Capitalism or Just Big Government Growing More Government?
If there was any one issue that candidate Barack Obama embraced and promised to pursue if he became president it was the promise of an open and transparent government. The country expressed its support of this promise by a wide margin. But a recent Wall Street Journal article, “FCC Encourages Media Companies to Provide Confidential Complaints on Time Warner Cable Purchase," uncovers how far this Administration and the FCC have drifted from that promise. The rent seekers have come running.
