Recovery Acountability and Transparency Board

In what appears to be the increasing Orwellian administration of Barack Obama, the White House has established the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. In effect the Chairman of the RATB will serve at the request of the President to be the ultimate hall monitor for the $787 Billion American Recovery and Investment Plan of 2009.

We as a society are walking a narrow line between an intrusive federal government with its reams of rules and regulations and a society that functions in an environment that is entrepreneurial,where shades of grey weave through the black and white of rigid bureaucracy.

It is a wonder,that given the regulatory weight that burdens each of us, that we as a nation have accomplished what we have. The free enterprise system that has provided the framework to support the ideal that is America is burdened.

We are operating under the constraints of a 19th century perception that American business owners and CEO's of companies are out to perform salacious acts of greed upon an unsuspecting and innocent American public. We govern to the lowest denominator and as such the exceptions that dominate our media for their extreme forms of unsavory behavior become the benchmark in the eyes of the public for corporate behavior

We are a nation of paradox at war with ourselves. We are sacrificing the principles of free enterprise,allowing socialism to dominate our political manifest as we have been bruised and battered by economic extremes. America is tired. We have carried the hopes and dreams of
not one nation but many nations for two centuries.

We were a social experiment that has wandered far from the precepts of the founding fathers. We have evolved through layer upon layer of social engineering and institutional evolution to arrive at this point in our history where czars are being appointed in Washington to formulate policies and execute strategies that are designed to limit our free enterprise system and the incentives of individuals for the collective good.

We are tackling the challenges of the 21st century with 20th century solutions that proved inept
and led to the collective containment of dreams for hundreds of millions of people. The Obama administration, rather than move us further into the 21st century is responsible for propagating a governance that has us firmly planted in the liberal politic of the last century.