Transparency+Responsibility= Action?

I love the explanations. it's always interesting how our leaders give us a take on how they perceive things happened. My problem is the "living in the past" syndrome rather than the "this happened so we are going to do this to fix it" syndrome. And it's a national, state and local problem that they don't seem to ever get. Well, I though Gov. Paterson had a novel approach. He knew what was inevitable and he spilled his dirty laundry all over the media. that's one way.

When it comes to these discretionary funds of the City council, come on! What I think should of been the more effective scenario for Speaker Quinn would of been like this:

Interview in The New York Times. Speaker Quinn announces that there is a practice in our government that her office is going to tackle. After, blah, blah, blah...discovering that there are dummy organizations set up to hold funds until needed Speaker Quinn said "I find this unacceptable and will introduce a bill to the Council to reform the appropriation of these funds." Then she gives her spiel, the media gets their dirt and she looks like she is on top of it....nice work! But this never seems to work like that. It's always the reverse and the solution of the problem seems the last on the list of priorities.

This system of funding projects has been going on for years, decades, centuries. Is it a bad thing that we elect our leaders and allow them to fund projects that they believe are important? Duuuhhh.... I think that's why I would vote for them or oppose them if I felt their funding priorities are not good for me and the city, state or nation. I understand on our local level the system got set up so the mayor wouldn't be able to control the spending and that the money was available later in the fiscal year. Great! And as it should be. I don't want anyone controlling everything because we have seen what that leads to. But.......

In my dream world the legislature would give me, Big Dick, line item veto on everything, hehehe. Then we wouldn't have spent 3 trillion dollars on war, we would have a great educational system, the economy wouldn't be tanking, or as Yul Brenner said in The King and I, "etc, etc,etc....."