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Jan. 7th, 2009 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumWhen I was studying journalism they told us the secret to knowing what was going on in most stories which had large organizations was to, "follow the money".
If you can do that, you are way ahead of the game. Not because everyone in gov't, business, or charity is crooked, but what the money is being spent to do is indicative of all sorts of things.
Which is whylibertango cheered me immensely when he said follow the money. He's linking to a couple of very good points (and hopeful signs) about the general nature of the people Obama is appointing to important positions.
Some of which might be why Feinstein and Rockefeller (both of whom are complicit in vast numbers of Bush excesses. Rockefeller's note about his reservations isn't really worth much. It's a "cover your ass" letter, so he can say he had reservations. Well if he had 'em it was his job to make them known, but I digress).
Panetta, and an appointment to State; working for the new Secretary of, both worked in the Office of Budget and management. Not only do they know how to follow the money, they are intimately acquainted with various ways of hiding it.
If you can do that, you are way ahead of the game. Not because everyone in gov't, business, or charity is crooked, but what the money is being spent to do is indicative of all sorts of things.
Which is why
libertango cheered me immensely when he said follow the money. He's linking to a couple of very good points (and hopeful signs) about the general nature of the people Obama is appointing to important positions.Some of which might be why Feinstein and Rockefeller (both of whom are complicit in vast numbers of Bush excesses. Rockefeller's note about his reservations isn't really worth much. It's a "cover your ass" letter, so he can say he had reservations. Well if he had 'em it was his job to make them known, but I digress).
Panetta, and an appointment to State; working for the new Secretary of, both worked in the Office of Budget and management. Not only do they know how to follow the money, they are intimately acquainted with various ways of hiding it.
