Posted on 04/16/2007 9:34:16 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
IT'S no wonder the state has such budget problems - no one seems to know exactly how it spends billions of taxpayer dollars.
That was the conclusion of an investigation into the California state General Services Department's database by The Associated Press, which found the records of tens of thousands of contracts and purchases incomplete and riddled with errors.
What's worse is that the database, called the State Contract and Procurement Register System, was created in 2003 specifically to track expenses after an audit uncovered millions in misspent money. So much for that goal.
If the state's doing that bad a job of keeping track of the billions it spends on the public's behalf, it's not a far stretch to wonder whether it's doing an equally bad job of spending it.
Tax and spend, and tax and spend, and spend and spend and spend . . .
This was once a great state, the best — economically, in education, in demographics, you name it. That was about 30 years ago — then the fools that inhabit this state brought in the liberals and their power-mad tax and spend ways, ignoring all else. And what you see today is the direct result of that sick Democrat liberalism. A state that is BENT AND BROKEN.
Such a waate.
You’re so right. Welcome to Louisifornia.
I remember CA during the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s; truly a lost world. Gone like Atlantis. I’ve lived in Arizona for the last 30 years. It’s going down the tubes for much the same reasons as CA. I’ll probably die in Aztlan.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Tax and spend, (borrow, borrow) and tax and spend, and spend (and borrow) and spend (and borrow) and spend . . .
And never, EVER, leave a record of where the money went!
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