Keeping Track of “Our Money”

There is a new way to staying up with the “jones” as they use to call it.  Seeing what your friends and other people are purchasing.  It is called BLIPPY,  http://blippy.com register certain credit cards with them and then each purchase you make gets broadcasts for all too see.   This is a great way to see what is hot.  This could also be a great way for all of us to see what is happening to “our money”

Every year hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by government employees on purchases that have nothing to do with government work.  You might call these items “personal” however they are spending Tax Payers money on these items and with no accountability.  After all with over 2 Million employees working for the government how is anyone supposed to keep track?   You might say it would be like your children buying anything they want with a credit card and never having to account for one single dollar…but you still have to pay the bills.   Is that frightening or what??

Enter Blippy…what if every item that is purchased with a government credit card was posted on Blippy? After all it is our money and we want to see what it is being spent on.  If an aid has to get some items for the office…it would appear on Blippy…if a congressperson has to rent a car using our money, it would appear on Blippy.  After all, haven’t we been told over and over that it is the tax payer’s money that is being used??  Well what if the tax payers want to know what some of that money is being spent on and who is spending it?

Make it mandatory for every credit card issued by the government to be posted on Blippy.  Now that would be the start of transparency!!