Reply #34: If you take taxpayer money then everything should be open to the public

[DebbieCDC]

You're not "private" anymore if you are accepting "public" help.

Analogy: look at people who live in "public" housing. Everything -- and I mean EVERYTHING -- about their lives, families, finances, etc. has to be revealed to the governning body (the local housing authority/HUD entity).

These people are most often elderly, poor, and/or minorities. Why should THEIR lives be a open book when they take public assistance but the multimillionaire rat bastards on Wall Street get to keep everything private when THEY take public money?