Again ignorence about the budgetary system in a democracy has prompted you to make an statement like that. The office of the CAG in India not only watches the spent by the Govt of India but also pointes out errors by the government, if any. Based on which the officials incharge can be taken to task or the government penalised.
Futhermore any India citizen can ask the government any question about any matter and the government has to answer within 30 days. If not they are penalised by the courts. Can you as a matter of fact ask Hu Jintao how much money is spent on paying the electricity bills of his house? Certainly not, for if you dared the cops would be paying you a visit. Where as in India i can ask any such question withought any fear of retribution or imprisonment Now you decide who has more financial powers an Indian citizen or a Chinese citizen??
or you still want stick with the lame illusion theory!!??
As a matter of fact we can, because not long ago a new rule was taken in effects that all government officials in China are required to disclose their assets.
New Anti-corruption Asset Disclosure Rule | China Hearsay
Anyways, back to the topic of budget transparency. Just let me ask you a question, do you know what the India government budget report is about? Let's forget about India here for a second, take US for an example. How many people in US will ever read the budget report, let alone the people who will understand it. Do you know how many pages it has? The entire file size is 34.7M in zip format using .pdf. I will give you a link to it, if you can finish reading it line by line and understand what it says, then you must be very educated in the matters of US politics and finance.
US entire FY11 Budget
After that let's assume that you are an US citzen and you have a problem with how the budget allocates its resource. Well, can you call your president? The best you can do is to find your local congressional representatives in your district if you are lucky enough to be granted audience and make a complain about it. The story will end just right here after your complaining, because the representive will vote accordingly with what the party leader tells him to vote on this budget whether it is yes or no. The each allocation of funds in the budget are proportional distributed by whoever lobby the hardest. Also alot of its spendings in the budget are compromises of partisan politics.
So you are powerless in the end, however you can still go to bed with the imagination that you have a saying in the budget process.
Bismarck said "Je weniger die Leute darüber wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie nachts. "(The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night.) In this case budget too, since they are made by the same people.
Pls provide a link for the above rankings.
Look at the discussion carefully. When was it about corruption?? I was talking about transperency and accountability. You want to talk about corruption open another thread. I dont see you countering me on the points raised or do you think that you are on weak ground.
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http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2009/cpi_2009_table
Point here is a country's politic is corrupted because its politicians are corrupted, not because of its system or transparency in the political process.
