GAO: Government Accountability ONLINE
June 13th, 2008 . by economistmomOK, here’s my post as today’s “guest blogger” at the Association of Government Accountants’ (AGA) Weblog. Go check it out. I suppose this is the most controversial (meanest?) thing I say there:
[EconomistMom.com's online appeal to ordinary parents and grandparents] is in line with Concord’s “grassroots” approach—EconomistMom.com is a sort of “virtual Fiscal Wake-Up Tour” after all—which in my common-sense opinion has promise to be almost infinitely more effective than strategies that gather old (no offense), wise (fiscally-hawkish) men in grand ballrooms inside the Beltway to say that politicians ought to listen to them because they’re smart. (And no offense to those policy groups who pursue such strategies, because I still see merit to an “attack on all fronts.” I just think the grassroots approach will prove to be the much more cost-effective strategy—maximizing political bang per buck.)
If you venture onto the AGA homepage, you will see they are promoting the I.O.U.S.A. movie I’ve talked about here (see my “about” page). They are big David Walker (former Comptroller General of the real GAO) and Concord Coalition fans, so I hope many of them will like what they see if they come visit here today for the first time…and that they’ll point their moms and others who are not normally such “GAO types” here.
