Making the government more accountable to the people who put them in their position. When we go to the grocery store we get a receipt for what are money was spent on. I propose the government sets up a website with receipts (records) of where they spend all our money. They know where we spend all our money. Why can’t it be reciprocated. I do understand some military expenses are a matter of national security. Basically, why can’t “We The People” have a say as to how our money is spent. Then, we would know in advance about all these fraud accounts that DOGE found before they happen. I also do realize that they are placed in government to make decisions on our behalf and best interests, but they have certainly proven they can not be trusted anymore. I say let the people see where all money is spent aside from national security accounts.
Not that this isn’t a good idea, but the government already lies to us about what they’re spending our money on. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see $1,200 toilet seats & $900,000 hammers in cost spreadsheets. Slush funds in government are so common we make memes about them. We had a slush fund that paid people off for sexual assault claims against Congresspersons until a few years back when Senator Rand Paul highlighted it in his Festivus Report. What I’m saying is yes, we should have a website that details where our money is going, but we’d never be able to take their word for the truth of where it is truly going. For example, do you really see the CIA posting travel receipts and hotel bills during their many regime change plots, because i certainly don’t and espionage agencies are notorious black holes for spending, just like the Pentagon?
Oh, how to break into this conversation politely… First define what is money? Where does the ‘money’ the government spends come from? You need better education on the federal reserve system, kensyian economics, fiat money supply, to even begin to form comprehensive arguments about this topic. Money is the root of almost all of our government problems. The most influential thing we could ever do for governmental corrections, imposing real tangible restrictions on government abuse of power, lies in the money.
Aricle I Section X; No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Can you imagine if every time the goverment needed another earmark, appropriation, or funding of some special interest program, they had to call the gold miners and say get back in that hole, we need more gold to spend! Or they had to call release more lands to the wood men?
Everyone wants to have a say in government, yet they skip the most essential aspect of a well ran government; An educated people to back. If you want a better America, you have to personally aspire to be a more well educated American. There is simply no way around this point. I’m here to help but am a little disheartened by the general public ignorance on so many important matters.