Transparency and charity

White House Pushes To Keep Visitor Logs Private
by Don Gonyea (NPR)
Barack Obama's presidential campaign — a call for openness: "Transparency and accountability, getting the American people involved, that's how we're gonna bring about change," candidate Obama said.

And the theme continued on Obama's first day as president: "Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."

But for advocates of open government, the new era of openness has yet to dawn.

"Once all the pretty speeches were over in the first couple of days, the record now isn't quite so great," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

As for "transparency", he is very transparent when it comes to spending. Not so much when it comes to his birth eligibility, and apparently who comes to visit him, or even which specific projects are getting funded. What is he hiding? The same goes with his czars, they are beholden to none but President Obama. Where is the transparency? There are as many American Czars and there were in the Romanov dynasty.


Obama salutes non-profit programs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama on Tuesday promised that the White House will do its part to support grass-roots organizations that are successful in their efforts to improve communities.

"Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots. And government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts," Obama told representatives of non-profit programs during a White House gathering.

The president said he was asking Domestic Policy Council director Melody Barnes and the White House innovation team to travel across the country to discover and evaluate the best programs making strides in such areas as education, training and health care.

Obama noted that the community service act he signed into law contained a $50 million innovation fund that he wanted to use to provide aid to the most promising nonprofits in the country. "We'll invest in those with the best results, that are most likely to provide a good return on our taxpayer dollars," he said.

Obama also called on foundations, businesses and philanthropists to take an active role, saying they would require matching investments from the private sector.

How is the President going to "require matching investments from the private sector"? Oh yes, taxes. As I see it, Obama wants to decrease the amount tax payers can deduct for charities, because he believes the government should give our money to charities and "community organizations" that only he approves. All this because the masser hisself knows better'n us slaves.

In the end, immoral and PC organizations such as ACORN, Planned Parenthood, PETA and the NPA, will get the money and Christian-based groups will get less.