Politicians on a Polygraph continued - why we need this!

Looks like Politicians on Polygraphs would be a popular CBC reality series.

Exceptions to The Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) USA
Lie detector tests can be administered under the following circumstances:

• Polygraph (a type of lie detector) tests to be administered to certain job applicants of security service firms (armored car, alarm, and guard) and of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and dispensers.
• Subject to restrictions, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act permits polygraph testing of certain employees of private firms who are reasonably suspected of involvement in a workplace incident (theft, embezzlement, etc.) that resulted in specific economic loss or injury to the employer. 

The law does not cover federal, state, and local governments.They can polygraph away! Many US cities require polygraphs for employees.

Then of course there are military jobs requiring the test depending on security clearance.

So let's make the argument.

First be it the House of Assembly or the Parliament of Canada - it is clear that these members are involved with legislation that impact financial markets or policies that may benefit one corporation over another. Then there have been instances around the country at various levels of government - where elected members have served jail time or found guilty of impropriety with tax payer dollars.

Then there is this bit about the protection of corporate proprietary information - when your government is dealing with a private or publicly traded company on the development of a resource. This means you and me - the people and owners of the resource do not get to take part in negotiations or perhaps pick up on details that would leave us holding the short end of the stick. You must admit that happens all too frequently.The politicans got clever and even subject Nalcor to this - and we own the company!

You see we must not see an election as a replacement for polygraphs. How many of you have been mislead or lied to during an election campaign? Newfoundland and Labrador is 10 billion dollars short as a result of the Harper lie. If our Prime Minister - while campaigning can lie as easily as this - no doubt they all can.

Up until a few years ago they would not even allow the House of Assembly to be audited - look what the results were.

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have been shafted too many times - to go blindly under the cape of a political leader or party. We require more information if they want the legislative right to negotiate assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Based on what I seen out of the West Coast the other day or various instances in our past - banks should consider the same thing.

Finally - these people who want to get elected - say anything - do anything - just to get your vote and an unearned lucrative pension. They are all excited about going on open-line for the first time - going to weddings, funerals, christenings, and anniversaries - and all excited to show you how sincere they are and how entering politics is a sacrifice on their behalf. Well then - they should have no problem answering all that under a polygraph examination. How many of them do you think might volunteer to do this?

This type of reality show would be a smash hit - so CBC should consider spending some of our tax dollars on it. They might not get corporate support via commercials - as many advertising would end up being cut-off from the public welfare trough. 

Lies - Lies and how much has this cost us?