2.3 billion more in under reported funds found. (Sacramento, Nice: crime, how much)

[Bulldogdad]

Yeah lets give these Liberals in Sacramento more money in taxes to screw around with in November.



Up To $2.3 Billion In California Public Funds Was Hiding In Plain Site - Business Insider

A week after uncovering a hidden-funds scandal at the state parks department, finance officials are now trying to piece together why the balance sheets for similar "special funds" are off by $2.3 billion -- money that appeared to be right under their noses amid California's financial meltdown

Read more: Up To $2.3 Billion In California Public Funds Was Hiding In Plain Site - Business Insider

[TVC15]

Another reason to vote HELL NO to increased taxes!

I could not get to the story from that link.

http://calcoastnews.com/2012/07/cali...n-2-3-billion/.

Nice job!


Voters WAKE UP!!!!

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by TVC15

Another reason to vote HELL NO to increased taxes!

I could not get to the story from that link.

California departments hoarding more than $2.3 billion.

Nice job!


Voters WAKE UP!!!!

HELL NO, READ MY LIPS...!!

You missed the little link to go past the ad. Or just wait ten seconds. Just checked it again seems fine.

[TVC15]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

HELL NO, READ MY LIPS...!!

You missed the little link to go past the ad. Or just wait ten seconds. Just checked it again seems fine.

I was too impatient! Went out and found my own link!

What I meant by nice job was a sarcastic jab at how this state government operates.

That's right HELL NO and Don't ask me AGAIN!!!!!

[Curmudgeon]

How about "Hell no!" to consistently re-electing the same legislators and/or their wives, parents cousins, brothers, sisters, in-laws and outlaws?

Voting in the same lames over and over again is a sure sign of mental illness if you really expect dsifferent results.

I mean, you even have an out-moded retread as Governoer.

[TVC15]

Can you imagine how much waste and mismanagement (as I observed as soon as I moved here) of the disability and welfare money is occurring? I hope this is the unleashing of Pandora’s Box about the CA government. If this type of over sight has occurred just in these areas can you just imagine what else they will find or cover up? Then plead their case for more taxes!

[Think4Yourself]

A lot of these are supposedly things like the Crime Victims Restitution Fund which is money set aside to help victims of crime recover some of their lost assets or pay medical bills associated with crime. Sure, we can raid funds like that once but then they're gone and the worthy causes the money was put away for will be completely without money. Honestly, this reminds me of politicians raiding the Social Security Trust fund for one time money grabs.

Sorry, but this isn't the way to fund our structural budget problem. Then there is this:

"That does not necessarily translate into hidden funds," said Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer. "In many cases, there will very likely be legitimate accounting reasons for the difference in those funds."
For instance, a chunk of funding promised in December but delivered in July would be counted in separate years by the controller's office and finance department.

So really a lot of this isn't actually extra money and instead it's just how it is being accounted for (authorized in one fiscal year but spent in a different fiscal year). Seriously, some people see a conspiracy under every rock.

[TVC15]

Originally Posted by Think4Yourself

A lot of these are supposedly things like the Crime Victims Restitution Fund which is money set aside to help victims of crime recover some of their lost assets or pay medical bills associated with crime. Sure, we can raid funds like that once but then they're gone and the worthy causes the money was put away for will be completely without money. Honestly, this reminds me of politicians raiding the Social Security Trust fund for one time money grabs.

Sorry, but this isn't the way to fund our structural budget problem. Then there is this:




So really a lot of this isn't actually extra money and instead it's just how it is being accounted for (authorized in one fiscal year but spent in a different fiscal year). Seriously, some people see a conspiracy under every rock.

Some people do but in this case it is not a conspiracy it is about complete incompetence. All you need to do is look at the economic situation in CA to realize that this state has been run incompetently for a long long time. That is fact not conspiracy. CA government is one of the most inefficient out there…inefficiency costs money.

[jkbatca]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

Yeah lets give these *******s in Sacramento more money in taxes to screw around with in November.

Up To $2.3 Billion In California Public Funds Was Hiding In Plain Site - Business Insider

I do not blame the CA executive branch nor the CA legislators in this. A bureaucrat is going to do what a bureaucrat is going to do. I directly blame all the California voters who keep voting in the same people who enable and perpetuate this mess.

[Bulldogdad]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

How about "Hell no!" to consistently re-electing the same legislators and/or their wives, parents cousins, brothers, sisters, in-laws and outlaws?

Voting in the same lames over and over again is a sure sign of mental illness if you really expect dsifferent results.

I mean, you even have an out-moded retread as Governoer.

You voted him in the first time so what are you griping about.