Should be rewarded for saving money.
Absolutely!
Next, after showing a surplus they may actually cut taxes too! (GASP)
The secret money was far more than the budget cuts. It shows government officials either lied or were too incompetent to even understand what was going on in their department. There appears to have been no competent audit, which should have uncovered this.
How much other money is stolen and wasted by the California State Government?
Sacramento Bee has good articles.
“Off Highway Vehicle Trust Fund” If it’s a Trust Fund, should it be accumulating money, just like the Social Security Trust Funds ? Oh, wait...
My feelings are that those in power there knew that should they reveal this money to the State, the State would have swooped down on them and scoffed up this little bit of money so fast it would have left them wondering where the money shot off to.
And they would have to, where is it now?
“Off Highway Vehicle Trust Fund” If it’s a Trust Fund, *shouldn’t* it be accumulating money, just like the Social Security Trust Funds ? Oh, wait...
The word is that there are a lit of these hidden accounts at all levels of government. People need to find them, and fire those who are hiding them.
Sacramento the new Chicago and the west coast branch of D.C.
The California state government LIED to us.
From the Article:
“Why and how this occurred remains a mystery and will be the subject of investigations launched Friday by the Department of Finance and the state attorney general’s office, said John Laird, secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, which oversees the state Department of Parks and Recreation and who announced the discovery of the funds on Friday.”
You begin to see the layers of buraucracy. We have a California Natural Resources Agency, with a “secretary” who “oversees” The State Parks Department!” We went to Van Damme State Park in Mendocino last year just as the park closures were beginning to take place. Several minor day use places where one could actually go out on the coast were being closed. The restrooms at Van Damme were a disgrace, The only thing that the “rangers” did was collect the $35/day fee. Everything else was closed. This guy Laird needs to go too and be replaced with a couple dozen PLO’s*
(*Permanent Latrine Orderly’s”)
Have a look at the passel of “RAT Turds” who are running this scam! The RAT Patronage System is alive and well in CA!
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/21/4646523/key-players-in-parks-scandal.html
Makes one wonder how much money is "hidden" by the thousands of other California depts.
Also makes one wonder if these were actual slush funds to skim off the top by politicians to fund various nefarious crapola...
One thing for sure....it wasn't an oversight....
Oops' we forgot we had 54 million dollars...Right...