Comments on: What principles should guide our elected officials? http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/ NC Policy Watch with Fitzsimon & Schofield Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Malice In Blunderland http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/#comment-109 Malice In Blunderland Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:12:39 +0000 http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/#comment-109 transparency and accountability should be the guiding principles. Both seem to be in short supply these days in Raleigh's bureaucratic hiearchies. After all, FEMA and the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board arent the only government agencies nationawide riddled with political hacks and incompetents. Taxpayers/citizens should look a little closer to home to see what the seer Lawrence J. Peter described in the "The Peter Principle" and "The Peter Pyramid" and why we all are the victims of astoundingly large-scale incompetence. transparency and accountability should be the guiding principles. Both seem to be in short supply these days in Raleigh’s bureaucratic hiearchies. After all, FEMA and the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board arent the only government agencies nationawide riddled with political hacks and incompetents.

Taxpayers/citizens should look a little closer to home to see what the seer Lawrence J. Peter described in the “The Peter Principle” and “The Peter Pyramid” and why we all are the victims of astoundingly large-scale incompetence.

]]> By: Jim Stegall http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/#comment-108 Jim Stegall Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:09:53 +0000 http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/#comment-108 When your on-line poll shows that 55% of respondants think it's OK for the General Assembly leadership to operate a slush fund (as of 11:20 on the 16th) no wonder the left has no ideas for a code of ethics. It didn't used to be like this--I remember when the left usually held the moral high ground. But at least since the Clinton years, "liberal ethics" has been a virtual oxymoron. When your on-line poll shows that 55% of respondants think it’s OK for the General Assembly leadership to operate a slush fund (as of 11:20 on the 16th) no wonder the left has no ideas for a code of ethics. It didn’t used to be like this–I remember when the left usually held the moral high ground. But at least since the Clinton years, “liberal ethics” has been a virtual oxymoron.

]]> By: Cheerful http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/#comment-107 Cheerful Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:53:25 +0000 http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/cms/2005/09/15/guiding-principles/#comment-107 Principles, schminciples: whatever oligarchs decide & can get away with. It's only money (taxpayers' at that) & our state's reputation Principles, schminciples: whatever oligarchs decide & can get away with.
It’s only money (taxpayers’ at that) & our state’s reputation

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