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The Transparency Train

In the efforts of creating an accountable and responsible government, the Ocean State Policy Research Institute has created the Transparency Train website. It is an ongoing project creating a searchable website that contains budgets, payrolls, public sector employee contracts and the monthly check register for every city, town and school district in Rhode Island. Updates are made daily as new information becomes available.

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Title: Freedom is the cost of social justice
Author: William J. Felkner, President and Fellow for Welfare and Education
Date: March 24, 2008
Extract: "Ayn Rand once said that the difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. It appears that that time is now in many parts of the world. London decides who is worthy of care and Canada holds its market captive like America holds the poor in public schools. Oppression sells its wares under the guise of "social justice" that demands that state's safety net instead become society's fabric. Once people become dependant, individual freedom is lost."
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