{"id":270,"date":"2006-01-31T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=270"},"modified":"2006-01-30T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T21:18:29","slug":"cutting-the-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cutting-the-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting the corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/opinion\/story\/14113083p-14942598c.html\">Cutting the corruption<\/a> by Arthur Levitt Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Now <\/p>\n<p>removed from Washington and viewing its problems from the perspective of the private sector, I&#8217;ve come to think that our federal <\/p>\n<p>government is plagued by some of the same problems that have been hurting corporate America, primarily a lack of transparency, <\/p>\n<p>accountability and independence. As with many of the disgraced corporations of the past few years &#8212; Adelphia, Tyco and WorldCom, for <\/p>\n<p>example &#8212; so it is with Congress: Conflicts of interest abound, oversight has been myopic and those given the public&#8217;s trust have used <\/p>\n<p>it to enrich themselves. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[L]awmakers need not look far for an example of how to reform themselves. Just as Congress passed the <\/p>\n<p>Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 to clean up American industry, it should pass similar legislation to clean up American government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I highly recommend you read the entire piece linked above. These are practical suggestions for cleaning up a <\/p>\n<p>process from someone who has mucked out other stables. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS: The Albuquerque Journal titled this &#8220;Our <\/p>\n<p>Congress Cannot Police Itself&#8221; &#8212; which is not at all the message of this piece.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting the corruption by Arthur Levitt Jr. Now removed from Washington and viewing its problems from the perspective of the private sector, I&#8217;ve come to think that our federal government is plagued by some of the same problems that have been hurting corporate America, primarily a lack of transparency, accountability and independence. As with many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cutting-the-corruption\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cutting the corruption<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}