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Dave Walden's avatar

“Follow the money.” Those of us who make it past puberty quickly come to grasp a reliable truth. If you want to understand what’s going on wherein there are money flows, nothing provides such understanding of them better than simply tracking them. Of course, to do so presupposes that one be able to follow the money’s “trails.” You know, the basics of Accounting and its handmaiden, the dreaded audit.

With all the frantic and hysterical theater surrounding Trumpanoia, the primary object of which is Musk’s cadre of young and capable wizards in starring roles; amid all that is being revealed; the one thing that has emerged which establishes the context surrounding all the others, is this:

Apparently, since 1946, no President – none, zero, zilch - nor any of their appointed staff of other appointees, up to and including the Treasury secretary, has had access to the U.S. government’s payment system????

Holy Accounting/Auditing 101, Batman!!!!

Simple me, having made it past puberty, THAT fact is all I needed to discover. It inescapably leads to this: the nation’s payment system has, for 79 years, been operated by a very small group of - and let me put this term into particularly relevant quotes, “NONPARTISAN” career civil servants!

Furthermore, this 79 years-in-the-making obscenity helps explain why the historical process of annual budgeting and the increasingly necessary increases in the debt ceiling, have given way to first, those shadowy “Omnibus” spending bills - beginning in the eighties, to the far more obscene, “Continuing Resolution“ spending bills that have come to be so “routine!” They can now be seen as but a logical progression of the on-going bi-partisan institutionalizing of unaudited, unreconciled, obscure-disbursements from the Treasury!

I would urge AG Bondi to make haste and get the rulings of several NONPARTISAN career civil servants, disguised as judges, before the SCOTUS. They are attempting to buy a huge throng of other, NONPARTISAN career civil servants, some badly needed time!

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Chriss Hammerschmidt's avatar

Good background information, didn't know that about USDS.

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