Posted on 07/14/2002 2:32:00 AM PDT by sarcasm
Yeah - and chances are they don't speak English either. Been there and done that!!
Where do we go to surrender?
Making Enron's $600 million restated financial statements look like a mistake in a child's allowance, the U.S. Treasury has admitted an accounting error and a resulting loss of $17.3 billion.
The admission appeared in the 2001 Financial Report of the United States Government issued earlier this spring and accompanied by the statement by the General Accounting Office (GAO) that once again, for the fifth consecutive year, the GAO is "unable to express an opinion on the consolidated financial statements because of certain material weaknesses in internal control and accounting and reporting issues."
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill stated in the report, "I believe that the American people deserve the highest standards of accountability and professionalism from their Government and I will not rest until we achieve them."
The report indicates that three factors contributed to the error: inaccurate bookkeeping by government agencies, errors in reporting contracts among government agencies, and timing problems associated with reporting costs and revenues.
For further information: http://www.fms.treas.gov/cfs/01frusg/01frusg.pdf
I'm not surrendering jack squat. Although, I'm sure most of the knuckleheads that think the government will solve all their problems will be surrendering at the ballot boxes.
To keep my sanity, I now go to a pharmacy which doesn't accept Medicaid.
I do the same thing. My grocery store in Lakewood (Dallas old money) has a pharmacy and I get my prescriptions filled there while I do my shopping. There's more than one way to skin a cat.
That's what has happened. We see it here all the time, illegals and other visitors from Mexico get completely free health care, they don't have to put a dime into the system, meanwhile premiums and co-pays and deductibles and taxes for the citizens are just going up and up.
I'm sure I live in a different part of Texas than you do but it does represent the majority opinion of the ones here. Texas will soon have a state income tax to support all the government programs they're adding. The school system and health care are becoming completely socialist in Texas.
Sure hope that does not come to pass. I believe there are a few constitutional hurdles that must be jumped first. But I've got Wyoming on the radar screen just in case.
If you have not read "Mobocracy" by Matt Robinson, do yourself a favor and do so.
He pretty much blows away any rationale for paying attention to or relying upon polls, especially of this kind.
In the present case, I suspect you'll find they are polling people who have essentially NO IDEA of any of the ramifications or consequences to their answers. They simply respond to the pollster's questions, which without knowing exactly what they were, and how they were framed, makes them worthless for analysis.
Robinson showed how you can do two polls at the same time on exactly the same issue, with the same sample-size, and get DIAMETRICALLY opposite results.
Again, this is just bullsh*t, another lame attempt by the press at "journalism," which they no longer know how to do.
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