Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Expose Fraud
by: Walter J. Burien, Jr.
THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN
The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) Exposed
This is a rather lengthy transcript of the CAFR video as aired on
public access television
(approximately 32 pages).
Walter J. Burien, Jr.
©December 17th 1999
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Transcript is of the nationally distributed CAFR video:
PART ONE
The Biggest Game In Town is of major importance to every American.
You are encouraged to video tape it for further review and sharing with
others.
This program is a comprehensive disclosure of governmental financial
operations that have been deliberately concealed and kept from the
American people by the governmental financial agencies as well as by the
syndicated media. The scope is huge; the personal financial impact of
vital concern to all.
Do the people of this great land own the government or do the
collective governments think they own the people?
Is it time to mandate "effective action" through united efforts of
the American people?
Can David still fling the rock true and straight to hit its mark and
defeat Goliath?
Are you aware that 30 years ago only 8-12% of the financial activity
and ownership of our nation resulted from the activity of the
government, but today the figure is conservatively 48%?
We the People have been victimized by the largest organized syndicate
on the face of the Earth. The Constitution declares that all political
power is inherent in the people and that all powers not directly and
specifically delegated to public servants remain with the people.
Our public servants are accountable to us and it's time we hold them
accountable with genuine liability and cause the profits resulting from
governmental activity to directly benefit the people!!!
**************************Walter Burien ;
Narrative******************************
Good morning. What we're going to be talking about today is what I've
called The Biggest Game in Town. My name is Walter Burien. I live in
Prescott, Arizona. I became aware of something approximately 10 years
ago, which changed my life. I will give you a little analogy of how I
learned about the complete financial takeover of the wealth of this
country by composite government.
Back in 1989 1 lived in New Jersey. There was a governor by the name
of Jim Florio who was running for office under a no-new-tax platform. He
won, and as soon as he got into office a $2.8 billion tax increase was
enacted---the largest in the state's history. It's obvious that the
public was not too thrilled about Mr. Florio's actions and one of the
local radio stations, 101.5 FM, started doing some rabble-rousing,
taking calls from listeners on examples of waste and misspending in
government. My first two days I was listening, and I heard people
calling in with examples of $5,000, $15,000; $85,000 was the highest
figure I heard. I pulled out the State of New Jersey's budget report,
which is the only thing I was aware of at that time. They had $11
billion on budget, $6 billion off budget; the total annual service
budget was $17 billion a year. I called in to the show and I made the
comment, "Come on, guys; you're missing the whole point. The highest
figure I heard was $85,000. The state's dealing with billions of
dollars." I read off the figures. I said, "If there's fraud, waste and
misspending taking place, it's taking on tunes of tens of millions, if
not hundreds of millions of dollars." The DJ at that time challenged us,
the listeners, to start a tax protest organization to repeal the $2.8
billion tax increase.
Ten of us got together the next day and incorporated a group called
Hands Across New Jersey. We scheduled our first rally ten days out from
that point. And basically, with the help of 101.5, we had 115,000 people
converge on Trenton from all the shore points in New Jersey, effectively
shutting the city down. Now, during the course of organizing that rally,
I took over looking at the budget, revenue and finance of the state.
For about fifteen years I was a Commodity Trading Advisor, I was one
of the first tenants of the World Trade Center, back in 1979. And large
figures didn't bother me-a hundred million and one dollar - there was no
difference. So when I started looking at the figures on the New Jersey
budget report, as I mentioned, there were $11 billion on budget, $6
billion off budget, it showed a net available of $25.6 billion. Then, I
asked myself the number one question that IRS asks in an audit: What are
the cash gross receipts? I started noticing the large cash cow groups in
state government - the New Jersey Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, Port
Authority of New York, and New Jersey. The revenue was not inclusive in
the budget report. I didn't see any large returns from investment funds
on the budget report. And I said, "They have to have two sets of books
here. They're not accounting for the whole picture". The director of the
budget at that time was an individual by the name of Richard Keevy. He
was on vacation till the following Tuesday of that week. I found out who
his lower assistant was, called in, and the conversation went just like
this:
I said, "Hi, this is Walter Burien. I'm working on a report for
Richard. Have to have it done by Tuesday when he gets back from
vacation. I need all the figures on the autonomous agency accounts,
interest accounts, investment accounts. And the reply I got was, "Oh,
you want the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report". Bing!!! First time
I ever heard that before in my lifetime. Got it that Friday. Started
crunching numbers. It showed a total liquid investment funds of $188
billion dollars --- $188 BILLION DOLLARS---of which common stock
ownership $70 billion, on loan to public and private corporations $10
billion, insurance company equity participation, $14 billion, on loan to
public and private corporations $10 billion. And I started looking for
the total cash gross receipts. As I mentioned, what IRS would ask for in
an audit. I found it on page 174. Now this is 1989's Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report. On page 174 under Cash Additions, all agencies,
all departments, all sources, here's a state with a declared service
budget of $17 billion, who was bringing in $86 billion, 799 million in
cash. I saw that figure and instantly realized the definition of
syndicated organized crime. Here, we had a representation to the public
that the state of New Jersey was bringing in $17 billion when in
reality, they were bringing in close to $86 billion. They had $188
billion in liquid investment funds. I also learned the principle of
operation that day. Anything that was a cost and an expense, traditional
service side of the budget report, health and welfare, human services,
motor vehicles, was left under the budgetary basis, and the public
footed 100% of the bill for 100% of the services. Now, anything that was
a profit center, had the ability of being a profit center, large
investment fund that generated tens and hundreds of millions of dollars,
totally restricted by a statute for no tie or inclusion whatsoever with
the budgetary basis.
Now, this is what I have called The Biggest Game In Town. I saw it
first in New Jersey and I said the Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report. here I am a Commodity Trading Advisor, I was doing a national
news line coast to coast at the time and I never heard of the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. I wanted to find out why. I was
mad. I mean, there was such a distinct difference between the revenue
shown on the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and the minuscule
revenue that was shown now on the budgetary basis. I said, "Why did I
not see this in a newspaper, radio show, TV show?"
Now, the department that mailed out the report the Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report was from the Department of Treasury. I called
the mailroom, and the mailroom usually doesn't get a call from the
public, so they were very cooperative. I wanted to find out who the
report was sent to. I thought it was a short list. They said, "I'm
sorry, sir. The list is too long - we can't read it to you on the
phone." So I start qualifying. I found out it was sent to every editor
of every paper on the East coast. It was sent to the deans of all the
colleges. It was sent to the CEO and every one of the directors from
ABC, CBS, and NBC. When I verified that, I started smelling cooperative
effort for nondisclosure. I then got the telephone number for ABC and
NBC on where the report was sent to. I called, and the conversation
went just like this:
"Hi. This is Walter Burien calling from the Department of the
Treasury. We've been sending you our Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report for the last fourteen years and we're doing a logistical survey
on how many other states are sending you their reports. Could you please
help me?"
ABC was getting it from 36 states; NBC was getting it from 34 states.
When I heard that, now I'm getting very mad. I'm starting to see a
clear-cut cooperative effort for nondisclosure on the most important
information that exists in this country...Period. The extent of the
financial takeover by composite government of the wealth of this
country, with the full cooperation of the syndicated media for
nondisclosure.
My next step was I called New York, got New York's Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report, which showed approximately $735 billion in
liquid investment funds. I then got the city of Manhattan's report.
Now, when I mention the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, it's not
just the state-the majority of all cities, counties, school districts,
pension funds, autonomous agencies such as the New Jersey Turnpike or
New York Throughway Authority, put out a Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report. When I got Manhattan's report it showed liquid investment funds
of $1.2 trillion, more than the entire state. My mind started getting
boggled, thinking of the composite totals-for all the states, all the
cities, and all the counties.
Subsequently, over the last ten years I've been factoring in,
compiling, the aspect of composite totals. The current figure stands at
about $60 trillion plus, in liquid investment funds - the composite
totals for all cities, counties, states, and the federal government.
Now, the viewers of this show would say "Oh, wait a second here! Wait a
second here! I thought we were in debt for the state, in debt for our
school districts, or in debt for the federal government". Well, let me
explain something. I'm going to give you the biggest wake-up call in
your life. This example holds true all across the country, for every
city, county, and state and the federal government. You always hear the
budgetary basis referenced - "the budget report, the budget report."
Now, I'll use this one example. Say, for example, you are making
$100,000 a year, and your budget for operating your house is $20,000 a
year. You could audit you3333111r budget a hundred times over - account
for every nickel, dime, and penny on your budget report. If you spent
$19,000 this year you'd have $1,000 surplus. If you spend $21,000 this
year you'd have a thousand-dollar deficit. Now, in reality, if you
decided you wanted to spend $30,000 this year on your budget for
operating your house, would you go knocking on your neighbor's door,
saying, "Hey, John, I had $20,000 allocated to operate my budget, but I
spent $30,000; can I borrow $10,000?" No, you'd pull from your $100,000
salary.
Governments across this country on the city, county, state levels,
and federal, have created a two-tier accounting structure. One, the
annual operating budgets, the cost side of operating government for the
year - the monies they bring in for the year to handle that cost and
what they expend. What's being left out is the decades -- the decades of
investment wealth, enterprise ventures which generate hundreds of
billions of dollars each year, which are not inclusive in the budgetary
basis. Government has turned into a financial empire across the board.
And the public, basically, allowed the foxes to write the laws on how
many hens they could eat from the hen house. And of course, foxes being
foxes, they've eaten all the hens.
When you start looking at composite totals of revenue and compare it
to the private sector, government currently now is substantially bigger
than the private sector. We are standing at about 65% government, 35%
the private sector.
Now, when you look at stocks, as I mentioned, New Jersey State
Government I saw, had $70 billion in common stock ownership. That
floored me. I never even thought about New Jersey as a state owning $70
billion in stocks. Composite totals city, county, state and federal on
stock ownership, equates to approximately $32 trillion. That's over 53%
of the entire open interest of all issued stocks from all exchanges is
owned by composite government sources. You won't have one city or county
or state owning a phenomenal base in one stock, but you'll have
thousands of the different cities, counties and states owning the
composite totals. They own over 51 percent. So, when you look at
individual corporations, Xerox Corporation, IBM, AT&T the primary owners
are composite government funds, and they'll be listed as institutional
funds - when you see the word "institutional funds" - that is government
monies, in most cases. So, when you have a supposed public corporation -
say, 72% owned by composite government funds, I wouldn't call that a
public corporation; I would say that's a government operation. Xerox is
approximately 72% owned by composite government funds; AT&T is up around
42%, so on and so on...
But the bottom line here is, when I learned this, this was a
revelation that changed my life. Up until this point, when the
comprehension finally dawned on me, prior to that, I always thought
government was maybe 5% of the GNP of this country and this was a
free-market economy, and I learned I was wrong. Basically, what the
public has done here - I did this, you did this - we all have done this
- we left the vault door open. In fact, 95% of the public would say,
"Vault? What vault?" And those sharp little crackers said, "Thank you
very much. Have a good day."
Now, the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report., I brought., this is
from Missouri, there's a total press blackout of mentioning of the name
of this report, - the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. This is
Missouri's of 1997. This is Ohio's cover page for 1998. I have the state
of Utah's 1998; I also have Washington's and Maryland's figures. Also,
this is from the state of Arizona, the state of Arizona retirement fund
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 1998, which I will make some
very interesting notations on. Now, the federal government., this is the
federal government Combined Financial Statement, the last page from the
report, one notation . . . The federal government, in 1981, mandated
that all local governments prepare a Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report -every city, every county, every state, or, in the alternative, a
Combined Financial Statement, if they did not prepare a Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report.
The background on the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: a group
by the name of GFOA, Government Financial Officers Association, in 1946
created the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reporting accounting
structure. I think the city of Manhattan produced one of the first ones
in 1951, as a large entity. So, the Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report has been around for quite a long time. There are 54,000 separate
government corporations; cities, counties, school districts,
authorities, that produce their own separate report - that's 54,000. You
start looking at the composite totals of the revenue from 54,000 reports
- the cities, the counties, the states - and you see the $60 trillion
inclusive with federal government's revenue.
Now, about five months ago I got a call from an individual by the
name of Joe Long, who runs a group called Federation of New Jersey Tax
Payers. He called me up on a Sunday morning. He goes, "Walter, we just
got New Jersey's 1998 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. They have
$295 billion in liquid investment funds. Isn't that awful?" I said,
"Joe, you're just looking at the state report. There's 21 counties, a
couple hundred cities and municipalities, autonomous agencies - all
separate reports. If you take the composite totals of the liquid
investment funds, you're well in excess of $1.2 trillion. If you take
the population of New Jersey and divide it into $1.2 trillion, that
comes out to a cash allocation of $146,000 per man, woman and child
living in the state or family of four (sic) [five], that equals seven
hundred and some odd thousand dollars. The obfuscation of the wealth has
been excessive.
But just one notation regarding the federal, because this is not just
going on in local governments - you know, cities, counties and states.
Federal government's playing the exact same game. And I've noticed a lot
of people always point the finger at the federal government as the bad
guys, but when you break down the actual revenue of the $60 trillion,
two-thirds of it belongs to the local governments - the cities, counties
and states - and one-third belongs to the federal government.
Now, I'm going to try to do a close-up shot of this one page here.
Okay, here we have the-this is the last page from the federal Combined
Financial Statement. This is the appendix list of significant government
entities included in the Combined Financial Statement. Now the majority
of the items included, if we can scroll down the page here, can we get a
close-up there?, now the majority that are included are agencies which
most people are familiar with. We go to the back here - this is the
final listing of agencies that are included - but the last column, down
below, it -says "Significant entities excluded from these statements."
(I think we're on that.) Now, they give honorary mention to the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve, which I think we all
know by now are basically private. But then they list the Federal
Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the Thrift Savings Plan, the Farm
Credit System, the Federal Home Loan Banks, financing corporations,
Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Sally Mae, Resolution Funding Corporation.
These groups are the cash cow investment groups of government.
Now, also, I want to make special note to three items that are listed
at the bottom. We have the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy
Exchange Service Command, the Marine Corps Exchange. Folks, this is not
the PX. We have funding operations for exchange of foreign troops to the
U.S.- U.S. troops on the foreign soil, which they kept separate from the
Combined Financial Statement of the -federal government so it wouldn't
be so easily seen. But if we take the federal investment groups, the
cash federal cow investment groups, and look at their revenue - and,
very important, they have a phenomenal amount of revenue on loan, that's
been loaned out there... if you take the accounts receivables and their
current cash on hand, you come out to about a 16 trillion positive on
the total operation.
So, here, even the federal government is taking their cost side - the
expense side- leaving it on the Combined Financial Statement - they call
that their budgetary basis - but they've separated the cash cow
investment groups of federal government so that they don't show on the
budgetary basis. So, currently, the federal government shows a slight
deficit on budgetary basis, but the profit centers, which would show a
$16 trillion positive, are excluded. Now, we started on national
exposure about 18 months ago on the Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report and the structure behind it, and I think that a few of you may
have heard on the network news the feds saying, "Oh, by the way, we
happened to find we're going to have a $6 trillion surplus going into
the year 2004." They mentioned a surplus, a $6 trillion surplus? Keep in
mind, that $6 trillion surplus is on the budgetary basis. They're not
including the cash cow investment agencies. If they were being 100%
honest, inclusive of all revenue, the federal government would have
approximately a $12 to $14 trillion surplus. And, in fact, if they
included the cash cow investment agencies in with the budgetary basis,
they could probably have a 50% reduction across the board of all
taxation, on the federal side. Something to think about.
Let's go back to the local governments. The states, the cities, and
the counties, they have their budgetary basis, the annual operating
budget but they have enterprise funds. In my little city of Prescott,
Arizona, where I live, the city owns a golf course. Why does the city
own a golf course? So the judges and the attorneys can get lower greens
fees? Here is a $45 million dollar asset which is paid for by tax payer
funds, developed, and not $1 goes back directly to support the budgetary
basis. They have investment funds sitting as idle funds -- $48 million.
Now, with this much money out there, this phenomenal base of wealth,
empires that are being built, it is mandatory to keep the public
oblivious to what was going on. If the public was aware that this type
of wealth was being built and obfuscated as tax dollars are being
drained out of their pockets, where people are citing a shortfall of
budgetary revenue, there would have been an uprising 30 years ago. But
the government, to perpetuate this game, they needed the 100%
cooperation of the syndicated media. That they have. You will not see
ABC, NBC, saying, "Oh, by the way, we just happened to find out about
the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and we found out that the
budgetary basis is this big (small noted) but the revenue shown on the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is this big. (Large noted) You
will not see that happen. They have been in cooperative nondisclosure
for 25 years. That's why the situation has taken place.
It's mandatory to get the word out. It's mandatory to have your local
radio show, your local TV show., call in, mention the Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report. Depending upon what city, what county, what
state you're looking at the ratio of the budgetary basis, the annual
service budget, to the reality of the total wealth, usually ranges from
a percentage of 8:1 to as high as 40:1. That comparison between the
budgetary basis and the reality of the wealth. It's not. Right.
In retrospect with what I've learned, it reminded me of something I
was taught in grade school. I remember back in fifth grade, sixth grade,
seventh grade, I'd hear a lot about Russia, and how the control Russia
had over the public was bad. Well, when you look at the financial
takeover of the wealth by composite government in this country, it
dwarfs the control Russia had, in comparison, based on that financial
control. In fact, did you ever wonder why Gorbachev went democratic? He
looked and he said, "Hey, the boys in the United States have more
control than we do, and they're making ten times as much."
A federal auditor of 30 years, I briefed him eight months ago. He was
in charge of auditing one of the largest federal agencies in the country
and also eight of the central western states prior to his retirement. He
was always looking at individual budget reports, the individual leaves,
branches and trees in the forest. And I briefed him on the composite
totals. Floored him! He looked, he verified, and three months later he
made the comment to me. He goes, "Walter, what we have here in this
country is 100% Communism under the guise of a free market capitalist
system." He goes, "The government owns everything."
[http://www.cafrman.com] Now, the public is constantly
complaining about higher taxes, higher taxes, more money being taken for
this, for that. And they're conditioned - year in, year out. We had the
Boston Tea Party--I think it was for a 3% tax on tea, caused the
revolution. Here we've been conditioned to 45% of our pay going back to
government. And when you look at all aspects of what the government's
getting - export tax, import tax, duties on manufacturing, the composite
total is phenomenal on the money that's taken by government.
The principle of operation in this country is, the boys running this
structure - they keep the chipmunk running on the treadmill chasing the
carrot as through trickle-down economics they provide just enough
revenue to keep that chipmunk running at optimum proficiency as they tap
off 80% of the energy produced. This is not right. The country was
established for the public to rule in this country - for prosperity, for
our families, education, the whole nine yards. If you see the country
going down the tubes, it's strictly due to the factor that we have greed
taking place on an unprecedented level in all levels of city, county,
state government and federal government. Empire- building, power
mongering. When you start breaking down the figures, using fifth-grade
addition skills, just knowing where to look, adding up the composite
totals & endash;as I mentioned there's 54,000 local governments,
separate reports, separate corporations, school districts,
cities, counties, states, autonomous agencies - 54,000; the totals of
that revenue is phenomenal.
I have the summary from the state of Washington, I'll just use for an
example - I'm not picking on Washington. But Washington state, on the
statistical section which is in the back of the Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report, it shows a ten-year demographics of revenue taken in,
population growth, the whole nine yards. Retail sales, the top
employers, Washington state, in the course of a ten-year period of time,
there was a 100% growth in government. During the same ten-year period
of time government took 115% more revenue. The revenue over doubled in
ten years in what they're taking from the public. You have a runaway
freight train. As I mentioned, the public left the vault door open. And
the sharp little crackers said, "'Thank you very much."
On the government pension funds - city, county, state, federal -
they're standing at about $28 trillion-$28 trillion. The private sector
will never see $28 trillion in their lifetime. I go back to that word
"Russia" and "Communism" under the guise of a free-market capitalist
system. The figures are there. We're not talking about any gray area;
there's no speculation here. This is outright their figures. This is a
massive operation-it's a multi-trillion dollar organized syndicate of
composite government wealth. They needed to keep their own accounting of
their own structure - the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report was
their accounting. The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report showed the
wealth. And the reason it was never mentioned to the public was it did
show the wealth. Let's take a break for right now and we'll get back
into this in a minute.
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Welcome back. Previously, I had mentioned the state of Washington and
the growth of 115% on the revenue taken. I've had people look at their
Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, and they'll say, "Well, the
figures are all here. It's all here. They account for everything. Here's
the billions of dollars." I said, "You're seeing the billions of dollars
that you never saw before in your lifetime. You're now seeing them for
the first time, you now realize the scope of the billions."
I want to show you one other point. Now, I'm going back to the chart,
this is from Washington's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 1998, it
gives a ten-year demographics of the revenue taken in a ten-year period.
I think you should be able to see these figures. This starts in 1989.
This is in millions of dollars. The total taken by the state from the
public was $9,514,000,000. Now, as we go through the years, 1990, 91,
92, over to 1998 - the total revenue now taken was $18,008,000,000. So,
we went from 9 billion to 18 billion, in a course of ten years. That's
100% growth!! This is ludicrous!!! The population growth in the state of
Washington was approximately 8 percent during the same time period. And
by the way, that is total revenue taken - the budgetary basis for the
same period went from $6 billion to approximately $10,900,000,000 in the
same period of time. That's the budgetary basis, but the total revenue
taken is $18 billion. So it's a $6 billion disparity between the
budgetary basis.
So we're not just talking the extent today of how much money
government has taken from the public and the decades of wealth that's
been building. We're talking also about the runaway freight train of
growth on the city level, the county level, the state level. If you go
back 25 years ago, government was approximately 6 to 8 percent of the
GNP of this country, gross national product total revenue base.
Currently, today, composite government - city, county, state and federal
- it's 48% of the GNP based on cash and ownership. This is not right. We
fell asleep at the wheel. We allowed it to happen. You have to realize
this is the largest organized syndicate - a multi-trillion dollar
organized syndicate - with thousands of facets that spends billions,
billions of dollars, to make sure the public is looking off in right
field as they conduct business as usual in left field. You'll see the
orchestration in the media on different events which keep the public
spinning their wheels over here as the boys are making their billions of
dollars over here. They laugh their asses off on the way to the bank
every single day. They're becoming wealthy, empires are being built.
When you look at the $60 trillion in liquid investment funds, the
composite totals - the billions...
Let's look at the state of California, with approximately $12
trillion under management. Now, under the Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report you'll see about, oh, a total of maximum of about $3 trillion.
But when you start tracking down the cities, the counties, all the
revenue base, you're up to about $12 trillion. Now, in California, say,
for example, one of the investment managers who is handling, say, $400
billion in funds, and he had, say, $150 billion -with Shearson Lehman
Hutton American Express institutional banking. That's a very powerful
position. If that individual contacts the director of the institutional
banking, and said his brother in Argentina needed a $120 million loan in
Argentina for a sugar cane energy development project, unsecured, do you
think he's going to say NO? I don't think so. He'll have one of his
associates from another company that he deals with closely cut the loan.
If it's defaulted on he'll just make up the difference on some business
he'll do with that firm.
The power mongering and the elbow rubbing that takes place here is
obscene! And it's not just one group, one organization, doing it, it's
the principle of operation. Since we started our national disclosure 18
months ago I've had thousands of phone calls from people all over the
country.
I'll get a call from New York, "Walter, I just got the New York
through-way Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. They had $31 billion
in liquid investment funds and -they're still charging us." I'll say,
"Don't worry about it.".I'll get. a call from Anchorage, Alaska,
"Walter, I just got our Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for our
city. They're making $100 million more a year than they're showing on
their budget report." I'll say, "Don't worry about it." I said, "Stop
focusing in on a leaf, branch or tree in the forest. Start focusing in
on the forest; understand the principle of operation of the forest.
There are ten thousand of these operations going on all over the
country." I said, "If you're going to apply your efforts, apply your
efforts to change the principle of operation of the forest, which will
affect every leaf, branch and tree in the forest. "
That's the bottom line here, folks. We're not talking any gray areas;
there's no speculation here. This is black and white. You know, the
public has been complaining for the last 25 years. Every problem I've
seen in this country to date has to do with extortion of revenue from
the public. Period. It is the root of evil in this country - the wealth
being taken from the populace. And one of the problems here is, a lot of
people have been looking for the needle in the haystack, trying to find
government corruption and wealth being stolen from us. Well, we're not
looking for the needle in the haystack here, folks. It's the haystack
sitting on top of the needle. All you have to do is look and start
adding up the composite figures. Stop being distracted by one leaf or
branch or tree in the forest. Start qualifying the forest. And when you
do you'll see the clear and unequivocal financial takeover of the wealth
of this country by composite government, right from the city level to
the state to the federal level. It's power mongering it's empire
building. The boys that are in there on the inner circle; the wealth is
absolute.
Now, I'll give you a few examples going back into New Jersey from ten
years ago when I got New Jersey's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
It listed the state universities and colleges, and gave a composite
total for all. I noticed right off the bat they had $8.5 billion in
liquid investment funds - this is 1989. It also showed they made a $1.1
billion profit on their investment funds for the year. My next question
to myself was, "I wonder what the total tuitions are for all students
attending colleges and universities in the state." Total tuition base
was $644 million. I said right off the bat, "Hey, they made a $1.1
billion profit and total tuitions are $644 million. They could have sent
all students to school for free for the year and paid them to go to
school." In reality, what they did that year was sighting a shortfall of
budgetary revenue, they had a 7% tuition increase.
The game is absolute, and we're talking there is so much money behind
the game, and you have the participation of the syndicated media in the
game, the public really has not stood a chance. The only way the public
stands a chance is through full and open disclosure of the wealth - not
being distracted, just sitting down crunching numbers. Not looking at
one leaf, or branch or tree in the forest, start looking at the forest,
adding up the totals, and it becomes evidently clear. Corrective action
is needed and is needed immediately. With the scope of the financial
takeover that is in existence today, they're consolidating that
ownership. Within several years you'll have composite government owning
85% of the wealth in this country. And at that point in time the public
may just become a liability - they don't need them anymore. So, it's
very important that the public starts taking a serious look at what's
going on.
I'm going to go into two other points here. I'll give you an example
from Edgefield County, South (sic) [North] Carolina. I briefed a
doctorate in economics, she wrote for a little paper in Edgefield County
called the Edgefield County Advertiser. She got a hold of the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports for the state, the county, and
the city and ran into a few obstacles trying to get them. They don't
like to give them out in some cases. But she noticed that their school
district - Edgefield County School District - participated in the local
government investment pool. So, she requested from the state ... you
know, it showed where to request the financial report from the local
government investment pool, and it showed that Edgefield County School
District had $36 million invested in the pool. Now, this is a school
district, which was rather poor and had several tax increases over the
last couple of years, citing a shortfall of budgetary revenue. She
approached the county school commissioners, saying, "What are you doing
investing millions in the market?" The school commissioner said, "We
don't invest in any ... the market. We don't have any monies invested.
You have to be mistaken." She then produced the financial report. His
next response was, "Well, this is our account for paying salaries and
expenses for the year." She goes "Okay." She produced the prior year's
report, which showed they had approximately $29 million invested in the
local government investment pool. Now there were additions and
withdrawals, the principle never changed, and now it jumps up to $36
million - close to a $7 million profit for the year. The money that's
involved here is, on the broad spectrum, it's one big game. The
politicians will lie straight to your face.
As I mentioned earlier, when I found out about New Jersey's report I
found out that it was sent to every editor of every paper - had been for
14 years. It was back in 1990 I was checking. It was sent to ABC, CBS,
and NBC. When we started on national disclosure...I've participated in
about 60 radio programs, probably reached about 25 million people across
the country in the last 18 months. I requested that everyone send a
certified letter to their editors and producers of their news shows
asking, requesting that simple and conspicuous mention of the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report be made. All have refused. Now,
the cutest response I got back was from someone in California, I think
around Bakersfield. The editor replied, "We've received your request."
Now keep in mind what was being asked was to make simple and conspicuous
mention of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. He said, "We've
received your request. We do not have the staff or the resources to
report on a story of this magnitude. So your request is declined." I
thought that was real cute.
Now, everybody remembers Orange County. Years ago Orange County, on
their management funds, they got burnt playing with derivatives, such as
options, calls, puts, features, they lost a little bit over a billion
dollars. And they were crying, "Bankruptcy! Bankruptcy! We have to shut
down! Stop all operations! Close the parks. Fire the police officers."
Well, someone stumbled across their Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report, which just happened to show that they had $16 billion in
profitable investments. Well, all of a sudden Orange County left the
news, they never went into bankruptcy. In fact, Orange County created a
situation where they drew light to the reality of the investment finds,
and they created liability for every other city, county and state across
the country by bringing light to their loss and the investment funds.
So, corrective action was taken after Orange County to make sure no one
else ran into the same situation because.
I think everyone's heard of Lucky Luciano from back in the Twenties
and the Thirties. There was something called Luciano's Law. Lucky
Luciano was the banker for the syndicates - he moved the money between
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami. And Luciano's Law was once you're
suspected you're out of business. Anyone who spoke Luciano's name
regarding a transaction disappeared. Luciano died of old age - never got
indicted, he got deported from the country, but never had a problem
other
than that.
Government's been operating under the same principle of operation. If
we're not suspected, we can continue business as usual. They have
fronted up the budgetary basis to the public - continually, budget,
budget, budget, shortfall of budgetary revenue. As per the example I
gave earlier the difference between your budget for operating your house
and your salary, there's a substantial difference. And when you break
down the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, as I mentioned, the
ratio comes out 8:1 to as high as 40:1 in comparison between the budget
and the total revenues that are held by that government body. The
examples I've given here - whether it be New Jersey, Missouri,
Washington - they apply to every state, every city, every county, some
more, some less.
I had a few notations here from Maryland. This is out of Maryland's
1998 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. The.let's see here, Pension
assets were about $31 billion total contributions were $814 million,
total investments returned was $3.7 billion; they'd increased $3.5
billion. Okay, here we go. Total government wages in the state of
Maryland; and by the way, on the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports,
they started making a change. They used to list the top employers, in
the state, and it always was the state, the cities, the counties.
Usually, government was 7 of the top 8 employers. They've now changed
their statistical section to the top private employers. But if you pull
one of the old Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, which, by the
way, have been sent to your local library. You'll find back issues going
back 15-20 years. The game here was not making the Report not available,
the game was never mentioning the report no one knew to look for it. So,
the game continued. But, total wages for the year paid in Maryland, to
government employees, was $15 billion, 349 million. Total private sector
wages were $55 billion. Okay? Total manufacturing was about $6 billion
in Maryland. What this is saying is for every 4 people in the
private sector working in Maryland, they are paying the salary of one
government employee.
It's not right. The growth is ridiculous. It's runaway growth. It's a
very serious situation -something needs to be done about it. Disclosure
is the key factor. If you go to your editor - in fact, actually, for
your state, confirm that the editor of your paper has been receiving the
reports for 10-15 years. And when you go to him ask him if he's heard
about it. If he says to you, "Never heard of it. I guess I'll have to
look into it," you'll know he's lying straight to your face after you've
confirmed in advance that he's been receiving it. Require, require these
characters to make immediate simple and conspicuous mention. Require
these characters to give the difference between the budgetary basis and
the total investment wealth in what's held by governments. Require it.
This is no game, folks. We've had our heritage stolen from us right
under our noses. As I mentioned, if you go back 25 years ago government
was about 6-8 percent of the GNP; currently, we're standing at over 48%,
and that's a conservative figure. That's a phenomenal amount of wealth.
We have the largest orchestrated syndicate on the face of the planet,
which is composite government wealth. A little notation. This is
supposed to be a country of laws, correct? Law is supposed to protect
people of this country, correct? Well, when I got New Jersey's report,
it had the pension plans listed. I didn't understand pensions or the
actuarial basis used. One of our Volunteers for Hands Across New Jersey,
he wrote the pension funds for Blue Cross/Blue Shield nationally. I gave
him the book, and I asked him to break down the pension funds and
compare them to a Fortune 500 company. He told me it would take him
about two weeks. Two weeks later I check back and I say, "Well, what
have you got?" He goes, "Well, on a scale from I to 10, with the Johnson
& Johnson being a 5, all of New Jersey pensions came in at a 7,
excluding the judicial branch." He said the judicial branch was the
millionaire boys' retirement club. Every state judge in New Jersey was
guaranteed $5 million after serving one year tenure. In other words,
they didn't have to work five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty
years to get their pension. All they had to do was their tenure - one
year and they got their full benefit package, which was excessive. Now,
district ... let's go to federal. District court judges, how many of you
out there think that district court judges have a pension or retirement
fund? I guess you would assume they have a pension or retirement fund.
Well, they don't. District court judges are appointed for life. They get
their full paycheck for life and benefits for life. And, in fact, two
years ago they just took the action that when they die they can assign
their full paycheck and benefits for the life of their surviving spouse
or dependent relative. Now, that's a sweet deal.
The game is absolute. You know, we don't have the Joe Six-Pack crowd.
here watching TV, betting on the football game, "Hey, five dollars on
Dallas." We have the sharpest crowd, sharpest crackers on the face of
the planet that are running one of the most sophisticated structures on
the face of the planet - composite U.S. government - that is drawing in
trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars. And it has turned into
a parasitic situation. The blood that's being drawn off the host ... if
you look at the public as, being the host for the parasite, the parasite
is now substantially bigger than the host. That's a serious problem,
folks. Anyone have any Raid? I think we're going to need it. But, the
bottom line is disclosure. Yeah, the public has this phenomenal growth
on its back, and the majority of the public, they keep saying to
themselves, "Is there something wrong here? Why are things not right?
Why are things going to hell in a handbag?" The problem is these guys
are getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each - millions, in
some cases. They have phenomenal backing to do it - to perpetuate the
game. The public is struggling to get by.
The runaway growth is rampant. Doesn't... whatever city you look at,
whatever county, whatever state, the average has been a 100% growth each
ten-year period. Yeah, we're closer to where Russia wanted to be than
Russia ever got. And, you know, we have to make the decision right now
in our lives, a commitment to ourselves. This is not right. We have to
take corrective action. We have to change this immediately. We only have
one advantage, folks--one advantage only. As I mentioned, this is a $60
trillion organized syndicate with thousands of facets behind it. The
judiciary is controlled, the finances are controlled, and the wealth is
controlled. We have one advantage. And the only advantage we have is we
outnumber the boys running the structure, about 400: 1. This happens to
be our country. What has developed is wrong. We fell asleep at the
wheel; we have to correct it.
In Part Two of this program, we'll be discussing what I call a CITA:
Citizens Investment Trust Account, which can be implemented by
initiative across this country. What the CITA is, is it's an
organization started by the tax payers. They will have approximately two
to three CFAS, Certified Financial Auditors, which (sic) will examine
the books - city, county, state, as will be applicable to those
residents in that city, county and state to identify surplus funds,
venture projects - which, no way government should be involved in but
the private sector should be handling, which the CITA would recommend
for sale. The CITA, upon identifying and recommending for
re-appropriation of the surplus revenue, and also sale of different
venture projects like golf courses and different other items which
cities and counties now own. The revenue that builds up in the CITA has
one exclusive principle of operation. That exclusive principle of
operation ... it's set up as a.basically an annuity pension fund for the
resident tax payer. From the interest and dividend yield that's
accomplished, it is to satisfy the budgetary requirements of that city,
county or state.
I'll use an example of my little hometown in Prescott, Arizona. I had
a couple of federal auditors go over the books; they identified $200
million on a cursory review, first glance. The city's operating budget's
$17 million a year, the ... if you include the school districts, comes
out to $34 million a year. The current rate of return 16-17% on pension
investment funds. On $200 million that's $30 million at 15%. There goes
the budgetary basis. In fact, the $34 million they are collecting, $30
million of that becomes surplus revenue for redeposit back into the CITA.
They can eliminate the majority of all taxation and still have a
surplus, which is returned to the resident property owners as an annuity
dividend check. Because it's set up for their benefit.
Now, folks, what we're talking about here is not cutting back on a
tax increase. What we're talking about is changing the principle of
operation, of government - where, from the existing liquid investment
funds that have built up over the decades, the wealth projects that
government's operating right now, combining the operation as a whole
where the revenue that is ... you know, the surplus revenue, the revenue
that can be re-appropriated into the CITA - that fund, the CITA fund,
just from the interest and dividend return on that fund, can satisfy the
budgetary requirements, thus eliminating all taxation for that city,
that county, that state. [ In effect, an annuity pension fund for the
resident property / taxpayer having the ability to phase out all forced
taxation and upon prudent financial management, provide a dividend
return on top of no forced taxation]
Also, we can recommend downsizing of government to get it back into
an appropriate proportion to private sector versus government. We have a
chance here to change this country immediately through effective action
and disclosure. We're up against a very powerful structure [syndicate].
The arrogance factor behind that structure is absolute. The top
individuals running this structure on the investment side, the brokerage
side, the banking side, they have egos the size of the World Trade
Center. They have accomplished their objective, they have the control.
But the public does own this country. Through effective action and
unified force between the public we can correct this in a very short
period of time. The structure has built up over 65 years and can be
reversed in three to four years. And if the public unifies across the
country it can be done on an effective level where we can eliminate
taxation in this country for all time to come and create a situation
where a dividend return comes back to the public. We'll continue on
Program Two of this series on specifics on the CITA. I thank you for
your time.
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PART TWO
The Biggest Game In Town is of major importance to every American.
You are encouraged to videotape it for further review and sharing with
others.
This program is a comprehensive disclosure of governmental financial
operations that have been deliberately concealed and kept from the
American people by the governmental financial agencies as well as by the
syndicated media. The scope is huge; the personal financial impact of
vital concern to all.
Do the people of this great land own the government or do the
collective governments think they own the people?
Is it time to mandate "effective action" through united efforts of
the American people? Can David still fling the rock true and straight to
hit its mark and defeat Goliath?
Are you aware that 30 years ago only 8-12% of the financial activity
and ownership of our nation resulted from the activity of the
government, but
today the figure is a conservative 48%?
We the People have been victimized by the largest organized syndicate
on the face of the Earth. The Constitutions declare that all political
power is inherent in the people and that all powers not directly and
specifically delegated to public servants remain with the people.
Our public servants are accountable to us and it's time we hold them
accountable with genuine liability and cause the profits resulting from
governmental activity to directly benefit the people!!!
*******************Walter Burien ;
narrative*************************************
Welcome to Program Two of The Biggest Game In Town. The prior program
... on Program One we discussed the Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report and the structure behind it. That structure shows the clear and
unequivocal financial takeover of the wealth of this country by
composite government. On the local side, cities, counties, state and
federal, 54,000 separate individual government corporate entities filing
separate reports with investment wealth, enterprise funds, venture
projects, well beyond the scope of the public's knowledge and
comprehension. We're going to bring it within the scope of the public's
knowledge and comprehension for effective change. The ... we left off
... on Program One ... if you have not gotten Program One I highly
recommend calling the station and getting a copy. There's a lot of
information contained therein, so you'll be able to appreciate Program
Two and Program Three.
At the end of Program One, we ran a little short on time, and I
wanted to bring up one point. It had to do with the pension funds within
government. This is for all of those government employees out there who
are about to find out there's a good chance they're getting severely
shortchanged. It's not just the public, friends. The same is happening
to your government employees.
Now, in my hand . . . I'm from Arizona, Prescott Arizona. This is a
copy of the state retirement Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for
the state of Arizona, 1998. The state of Arizona, under the
state retirement fund, has 175,000 participants, retired and active.
Using the highest actuarial basis possible to determine 100% funding for
all participants required, approximately, based on current standards,
about $14.5 billion dollars. Now, I have a page from the report, page 42
- I'm going to put it up, I think you should be able to see this. Now
we're going to page 42 here, on camera 3.
Now ... right here, it says the ... lets see here ... this is for the
total actuarial accrued liability; and what total actuarial accrued
liability means is what is required - the money required - for 100%
funding of all participants, in the fund. That figure is $13 billion, 63
8 million. With $13 billion, 638 million, this funds 100% of all 175,000
participants in the fund. Now I have a separate page from this report,
this is page 15, from the Arizona state retirement Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report. The total assets of the fund, at the end of June 30th
1997, is $20 billion, 353 million. Now as I mentioned, the total
accrued, actuarial accrued liability, was about $13-1/2 billion and
they're sitting with $20 billion, 353 million. Now the current report,
the current figures, I've called to verify the standing of the fund, the
current actuarial accrued liability is approximately $14.5 billion now.
The fund's balance, after getting a 16.65% rate of return for the year,
is standing up close to about $28 billion - with contributions and
returns into the fund. Allowing for a 125% funding of all employees -
100% funding of their pensions, they're $9 billion over funded; in other
words, the Arizona retirement fund is reaching 200% funding. There is
not one city, county or state statute that even addresses the return of
surpluses back to the employee or the employer - the cities, the
counties, the school districts, the state agencies. Legislature showed
their culpability two years ago on these surpluses. With these types of
surpluses in the pension funds, there was no requirement for any payment
from the employees or the employers. In fact, they should have been
getting substantial refund checks back. What the legislature did was
they passed their own internal statute mandating to participate in the
fund a minimum payment of 2.18% for the employee and the employer, as a
separate statute. They don't want to return those billions. When you
break down within the report where those monies are invested, there's
what I call "the blue list" of stocks and investments, things we all
know and you can recognize easily. Then there's what I call "the red
list," things I've never heard of before.
I'd be very interested to find out what judge, what attorney, what
congressman, what senator, what county supervisor, is behind some of
those investments, who is the shell owner of some of those investments
and how many of those investments are actually real corporations
providing goods, products and services and how many are shell
corporations. It'd be very interesting to find out.
But the administrator of the fund, I chatted with him a few months
ago and I brought up the point on allowing for 125% funding of the
employees' pensions that freed up $9 billion. You cannot return $9
billion in investments through liquidation without causing a major
catastrophe. Because if Arizona liquidated $9 billion from the pension
funds for return to the employees and the employers, every other state
with substantial surpluses, in theirs, would say, "Oh, my God. Arizona's
moving openly, we'd better liquidate our funds, you know, while we still
have a chance," and you could create a 1929 scenario crash; everybody
moves at the same time
I said there was a very easy solution. For the government employee,
based on his pro-rata share participation in the fund, he is issued an
individual IRA account as his refund. Nothing's liquidated, nothing
sold, paper transfer, total order, no problem. For the city, the county,
the school district, the state agency, based on their pro-rata share and
participation in the fund, they're issued an individual market annuity
account as a refund. Nothing's liquidated, paper transfer, same
management, no problem. Now, the interesting point is, on the refund -
just from this one account, one fund - the state of Arizona retirement
fund, just on the surpluses, back to the employees and the employers,
that's $4.5 billion back to the employees, $4.5 billion back to the
employers, and they're still 125% funded. I asked the administrator
"Could it be done?" He goes, "Sure, if there was a law addressing it, we
could easily do it." And the rightful beneficiaries from this one fund,
being that it's a retirement fund, would be the employees and the
employers. But the refund back to the cities, and the counties, and the
school districts, just from that refund, the return. as I mentioned,
they accomplished a 16.65% rate of return this year, that's been roughly
their average for the last four years ... the return for the cities and
the counties and the school districts just so happens to equal about
15-20% of their operating budgets for the year. Anyone sense a tax
reduction here?
I mentioned at the end of Program One the CITA, Citizens Investment
Trust Account. We covered the points extensively as to the composite
totals of the government revenue- city, county- state, and federal -
equaling about $60 trillion in revenue. There is no national debt -
there is no debt, as we know it. They have a debt under their budgetary
basis, their annual operating budget. And the example I used during
Program One was if you had a budget for operating your house of $20,000
a year but you were bringing in $100,000 a year on your salary, you
could spend $21,000 on your budget and you'd have a $ 1000 deficit.
[Your liquid net worth under this example over your $100,000 annual
income could be 1.5 million]
The same applies here. When you look at the budgetary basis of a
city, a county, and a state, and then look at their total investment net
worth, total enterprise projects, toll ways, bridges, different venture
projects they've started which are generating substantial revenue, if
you look at the whole picture there is no real deficit From the liquid
investment assets they could wipe any deficit instantly, if they chose
to do so.
But on the CITA, the Citizens Investment Trust Account, I'd like to
cover that in depth. The CITA is established by the resident property
owner, tax payer, for your city, your county, your state. The CITA is
initially formatted with the use of CFAs, Certified Financial Auditors,
who examine the books - city, county, state - as would be applicable to
the residents of that city, county or state, to identify surplus
revenues and projects being operated by government which should be
operated by the private sector - golf courses, whatever, places where
government has started venture projects which no way should they have
their hands on, that should be sold back to the private sector. The CITA
recommends for re-appropriation of the surplus funds, which were
identified, into the CITA. It recommends for the sale of venture
projects, their assets, which should be sold back into the private
sector, for that revenue to be deposited into the CITA. The CITA
recommends for the downsizing of that government, city, county or state.
As I brought up in Program One, each ten years, it's been about a 100%
growth in government on the city, county, state level-in general, across
the country. The CITA can have a phenomenal amount of revenue built into
it in a very short period of time.
I use the example of my hometown of Prescott, Arizona. A CFA
identified $200 million in surplus funds in a cursory review. The city's
annual operating budget was $17 million; the school district's included,
that came out to $34 million. $200 million on deposit with the CITA,
generating 15% return, equals $30 million. That eats up the budgetary
basis. In fact, the city's still collecting $34 million to support their
operations, which makes the majority of the funds at that time surplus
revenue for redeposit back into the CITA- You can eliminate taxation at
that point in time, in most areas, and there's still a surplus in the
CITA. And being that the CITA is established as an annuity pension fund
for the tax payer, when it has a surplus, the resident tax payer gets a
dividend check -on top of no taxation.
It's the way it should have been 200 years ago. And it's possible to
happen right now through disclosure and effective action by the public.
I think we're all tired of having the people building their empires from
within their city, their county, the state, or the federal government,
imposing their will for more money, more revenue from us. [And control
over us]
The one thing I'd like to bring up to make myself perfectly clear.
Most people are familiar with taxation, ok, sales tax, property tax, you
know, taxation. When you break down government structure and you look at
where the revenue is coming from, alright, especially the money on the
investment returns on the decades of wealth that have been building up
in different areas, which the public, in most cases, is totally
oblivious to but they can see if they look. When you look at the entire
structure, taxation, including on the federal level, is approximately
30-35%, in some cases 40%, of the income for that government body. They
are bringing in the majority, at this point in time, they are bringing
in the majority of the revenue, not from taxable sources, from taxation,
they're bringing in the majority of the revenue from returns on
investment funds, from enterprise projects such as toll ways, roadways,
bridge ways, financial authorities.
I've noticed in many of the states, I saw this first in Missouri;
they have the Missouri Finance Authority, the Arkansas Financial
Development Authority. We have at this point in time, states creating
these financial authorities where the cities, the counties, other state
agencies, can invest with these financial authorities their surplus
revenue, their investment funds. And these financial authorities, when
they have the bond issuance for the school district, the new roadway,
the county jail, and they have a bond issuance, most of the public would
think that bond issuance is being funded by the public. Wrong! The
state's are using their own investment funds, your monies, to fund their
own bond issuances, locking the public, under irrevocable trust, for
repayment of those bonds. Thus, the state is securing their own return
on their own investment funds, your money, through putting you in debt.
It's a big wake-up call. The game is going on unabridged. I mean, the
whole point here.you know, they operate with immunity due to the factor
that the public is not looking. If the public looks and sees the scope
of the revenue, where it's held, where it's built for years, you start
seeing how the game is played. School districts ... you know, look very
closely ... if you look at your Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
for the state, most states have a local government investment pool and a
list . . . you know, get the report for the local government investment
pool, and you'll probably see your school district, your city, your
county participating.
I gave an example, Edgefield county, North Carolina, school district
was crying poverty, and someone dug into it and found out they had $36
million invested in the local government investment pool. Initially,
they denied it, then they tried to justify it by saying it was an
expense account. Then, finally, the truth came out. They had shuffled
away $36 million off the budgetary basis, it was an idle fund account.
The public had no idea. And North Carolina also showed a total
participation of about $1.1 billion from other government entities
within the state.
But, back to the pension funds. You know, just on this one account,
$9 billion being freed up. $4.5 billion back to the government employee.
In fact, on the individual IRA accounts returned to the individual
government employee, it's substantially larger than their guaranteed
pension fund. In other words, from the surpluses that exist right there
in that one account, they would get a refund back substantially larger
than their entire benefit package. That should catch the car of every
government employee out there.
Now, I'm using Arizona as an example. I've looked at some states and
they're just ... you know, supposed to be at 100% funding on their
pensions, some are at 140%, some are at 160%. But you have to look. As I
mentioned, in Arizona, there's not one city, county or state statute
that even addresses the return of these surpluses back to the employer
or the employee.
You have to make it happen. On the CITA account, we have the ability
here, folks, to change the course of this country, to make the public
the beneficiary of the wealth. It's been a runaway freight train. We all
complain, we all.... you know, have our heartache stories about too much
money being taken from us, from the city, from the county, from the
state, from federal government. We have been conditioned -
psychologically conditioned - to accepting it. We've been given the term
"the budget report," "the budget . . . shortfall of budget," "we need to
have money for this, money for that." There's no difference here.
I'll use this one example. If everyone watching this show ... say,
for example, we had a 12- and a 13-year-old boy. And we gave them carte
blanche to write their own allowance check each week. And we made $1200
a week. In a very short period of time, they're going to be cutting a
check for $1000 a week. Now, if we said we're going to cut them back to
back to $800 a week, that 13- and 12-year old are going to scream,
they're going to holler, they're going to kick; they're going to use
whatever logic possible to them to justify how a 12- and a 13-year-old
boy could not survive off of $800 a week. There's no difference here. We
just have bigger boys and smarter players.
When you examine the records - any state, any city, any county -
you'll see the growth, the runaway growth, of government. It averages
out to almost 100% growth, they double in size over every ten-year
period of time. [ Arizona State Government, 1984 to 1999, in 15 years
had a 1000% increase of annual revenue income] It's not right. You look
at the a. the scope of government 25 years ago was about 6-8% of the
GNP. Currently, it stands at about 48%. It's not right. It's money out
of our pockets. It's creating a power base, multi-trillion dollar power
base, which is totally contrary to the constitution of this country, the
best interests of the public. Its sole motivation is to perpetuate its
own wealth and power mongering and -control of the populace. Now, the
composite government wealth that has been obtained, right now, by the
cities, the counties and the states, as I mentioned in the last program,
international stock ownership is at about $32 trillion, which is over
53% ownership of all issued stocks from all exchanges. Government has'
become the market place. If you follow the hype on investing in the
market and so forth and follow the news - CNN and FNN and.and you bounce
in and out of the market and find yourself losing $10,000-$20,000, well,
guess who your opponent is? Your opponent is the government, the
composite government funds. They're not just liquidating your revenue
through taxation, through toll ways, through insurance company equity
participation, they're liquidating your money through participation in
the stock market. When you break down the numbers it's there. There is
no gray area here; there's no speculation. Anyone with fifth-grade
addition skills can start compiling the figures and see the unequivocal
financial take over of the wealth. And we're at a crossroads here in
this country. We left the vault door open. The sharp little crackers
said, "Thank you very much." We fell asleep at the wheel. We listened to
the propaganda from the syndicated media, which is in 100% partnership
with composite government. If you break down the revenue that's brought
in from ABC, CBS, NBC, from composite government sources - city, county,
state and federal, from the so-called public corporations, which the
government owns over 51% open interest of those corporations and they
can exercise their proxy votes for direction to media campaigns. The
syndicated media is getting a phenomenal amount of the revenue from
composite government sources.
Now, back in New Jersey, when I found out about this and I saw the
cooperative efforts, this being ten years ago, I saw the cooperative
effort from the syndicated media for nondisclosure on mentioning the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report or mentioning the difference
between the budgetary basis and the cash gross receipts and the
investments. They would never mention that.
Jim Florio, who was elected governor, when he was elected, he
appointed 14 editors and reporters with directorships inside state
government. The individual they pitted against myself at that time was
an individual by the name of Harvey Fisher, who, prior to the Florio
campaign, was one of the top Bergen Record reporters. Now, Harvey was
appointed as the assistant treasurer of the state of New Jersey. And,
by the way, Harvey had no formal financial training whatsoever and he is
now the assistant treasurer. This kind of cued me. I started looking.
Harvey was making $35,000 a year as a reporter, as assistant treasurer
he's making $65,000 a year. I said, "Well, that's not too big of a
difference." I said, "I wonder what his expense account is?" He had a
$125,000 carte blanche expense account of discretionary funds, tax-free.
I said, "That makes a big difference." My father used to work for the
Department of the Treasury as director of personnel for four years.
That's in charge of all agencies and departments within state
government. I knew within the Personnel department, they had a data
search department run by four individuals, which tied all agencies and
departments together under Personnel. All resumes are key inputted into
the data bank for keyword searches. I called up one of the four
individuals. He was cooperative. I asked him to do a keyword search on
all directorships and key-level supervisor positions on how many were
ex- editors and reporters in their past. He told me I'd have the report
by 2:00 the following day. I called back and said, "What have you got?"
He came up with a data bank of about 3400 names, as far as total
supervisory and directorship positions. Out of that, I think it was 1783
were ex-editors and reporters. The fix is in deep. There's a lot of
money here.
As I mentioned, I come from Prescott, Arizona, and I moved out there
about ten years ago. I found out about the Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report ten years ago. Then I backed off from public disclosure
for about eight years, seven years. But, when I was out in my little
city, I saw the, you know, local police, the judges, and local
politicians acting as a little organized crime syndicate with no fear of
consequence or liability for their conduct or action. I saw the fix
being in right through to the attorney general's office, to the
governor's office. And I said to myself, "What allows these little
piss-ants to act like an organized crime syndicate with no fear of
consequence or liability for their conduct?" I said, "The Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report. The only reason they do what they do on the
lower levels is because everyone above them has their hands deeper in
the pockets."
The same holds true in every city, county, and state across the
country. When you have this type of wealth, this type of wealth, held in
the hands of the management of the pension funds, the enterprise groups,
the ... the corruption is absolute. You know, did you ever wonder why
that politician spends, you know, $400,000 to get into a $65,000-a-year
job? The payola from cutting one deal, a construction project, an
investment, is worth 50 times his salary. 'The power structure, it's
there. It needs to be corrected.
The CITA, Citizens Investment Trust Account, is a viable vehicle for
the public to get involved to grab the bull by the horns and flip it on
its back. Because through disclosure and looking at the figures, looking
at the revenue, what they don't want you to see, you identify the money,
the revenue, the investments, you identify the power structure. You do
not want to allow yourself to be distracted. Focus on the principle of
operation. Focus on business as usual - not what they're telling you to
look at but looking at the whole picture, look at the Comprehensive
Annual Financial Reports, look at the notes within the reports, go to
the other noted reports that show substantial amounts of other revenues.
If you want to get your state's report, there's a Web site, its:
http://www.financenet.gov/state/cafr.htm If you go to that site you'll get a listing alphabetically of all
Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports available for downloading off the
Internet - city, county and state. There's probably only about, a ...
oh, I'd say 40% of the states up there and just a few cities and
counties, but it's a good starting point. The key word here is, folks,
we don't own the country anymore because we allowed it to be taken by a
runaway corporate empire known as composite government. Government has
turned into an empire. We are insignificant in comparison, based on the
wealth that has been obfuscated from us. We own this country, and it's
time to take effective corrective action. What's needed is for everyone
across this country, state-by-state, city by city, county by county, to
network together on this one issue. Now, the government spends . . .
like I said, this is a $60 trillion organized syndicate. There's a lot
at stake for them. They've amassed their empire. They spend billions of
dollars, throwing out 40,000 red herrings to make the public look in
this (as they continue business as usual over here ( ) unabated. It's
time you have your focus, learn basic addition skills, have your focus
over here (), see the obfuscation of the wealth, see the totals. Realize
that there's no deficit. Realize that there's no need for any taxation.
When you look in the city-county level and you look at the total
operation, all of the revenue, the whole picture, the whole picture,
there's no need for property taxation, there's no need for the majority
of taxation. And for it to be collected from you through
misrepresentation, I consider to be indictable under the RICO act, for
these government bodies conducting themselves as an organized crime
syndicate, extorting money from the populace through whatever means they
can possibly do it, justifying it through any means, just as that 12- or
13-year-old kid would do. Because they are becoming drunk on the power
and the wealth that they have so easily taken from us because we fell
asleep at the wheel. It's time to get the gumption, the energy ... this
is a lot of money! If it's reversed, if it's reversed, now, it can be
done in two to three years across the country - it checks the game cold
in its tracks, and the ownership of this country will go back into the
hands of the populace. To do otherwise, is criminal. Our heritage
requires, mandates that we unify immediately to put this forward.
Let's take a break here, and we'll be back in a little bit.
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watching of programs on public access television]
Welcome back. In this segment, we're going to cover certain specific
points to look at in your Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and
which Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports to request.
Now, I have a copy of the statistical section from Ohio's
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report which I would like to make some
references to. On the statistical background here ... this is from 1989
to 1998. It shows the total revenues collected by strictly state
government, year to year. Now, if we go back to 1989, the total revenue
take was approximately ... a ... the total revenue take was . . .
fifteen ... this is in thousands, ok? Three more zeros at the end. The
total revenue take was $15 billion, 704 million. If we go over to 1998,
now, in 1998, they were talking $27 billion, 215 million. So it gives
you an idea of the substantial growth of the revenue being taken out of
your pockets. Now, when you get your Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report, they have a statistical section in the back, which is something
that's very important to look at. Now, I noticed in Ohio, it has federal
government's monies coming in. This was pretty high for a state. They
were bringing in $8 billion, 353 million from federal government
sources. So, that's pretty high for the state. There's a -lot of money
involved here. As I mentioned, on the $27 billion in 1998, that is
strictly from the state. If you add up the other revenue sources - city,
county, municipality, and authorities - it's a substantially higher
figure. They list in the report also approximately $188 billion as their
liquid investment worth. That' s a lot of money.
But, on the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports - as I mentioned,
I just referenced the state of Arizona, you want to get your school
district s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report you want to get your
city's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the county and the
state's, and any financial authorities that are operated by the state,
and any special enterprise group. If there's a large toll way, a large
bridge authority ... say, for example, New York Port Authority of New
York-New Jersey, get their Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. If
they say they do not have a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report then
ask them for their Combined Financial Statement. Now, the key factor
here is, both the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and the Combined
Financial Statement both end June 30th of the year. So, whatever year
you're looking at, it should say "Ending June 30th of the year". Either
CAFR for Comprehensive Annual Financial Report or Combined Financial
Statement.
[POST NOTE FROM WJB: In 1999, GASB (Government Accounting Standards
Board) changed the policy for showing revenue on the combined financial
columns of the CAFR. Prior to 1999, it was required to show all income,
investments, and revenue. The change starting in 1999, was now on the
combined financial columns of the CAFR, it was required to show all
income, investments, and revenue necessary to meet obligations of that
local government. A big difference! It is important to get back issues
to see what now does not show as of 1999 forward. The notes in the CAFR
must be looked at closely for direction to other accounting reports
whose revenue is not shown in the report you are examining.]
Now, I mentioned earlier, a Web site to get CAFRs downloaded: it's
financenet.gov ...
http://www.financenet.gov/state/cafr.htm . Go to that site, and
you'll be able to download some of your Comprehensive Annual Financial
Reports. You will also, instead of putting cafr.htm at the end, if you
put "reports.htm" you will also get other financial reports available.
http://www.financenet.gov/reports/cafr.htm
Now, the game here has been played, regarding the obfuscation of the
wealth, boils down to nondisclosure. The reports are available for
viewing. The game was not making those reports not available; the game
was "Don't discuss, don't talk, don't mention. If you don't know, you
can't take effective action." So, request the report. [Require your
local paper or politician to make continuous and open mention of the
CAFRs]
Also, the news media, request that they make simple and conspicuous
mention. There is no reason whatsoever for them not to do so except
confirming their criminal culpability in nondisclosure. Any politician
running for office - the governor, the congressmen, the senator, the dog
catcher - I don't care. Amy person running for public office - the
sheriff - if he refuses .if he refuses to make simple and conspicuous
mention of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report from the podium,
the platform, or in public forum, throw his materials in the garbage can
and immediately look to another candidate. If that person running for
office refuses to make simple and conspicuous mention of' the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report they are confirming their
cooperation with the nondisclosure. They have ... they do not have your
interests at heart, they only have their own. They want to become part
of the inner circle and perpetuate the game. They're not for your ...
they're not for your interests, or your family's or your children's.
Very important. But, when you look at your Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report, try to see the total of gross investment figures that
are on the Combined Financial Statement. Start from there. Look through
the notes of the report.
Now, I noticed in Missouri, I saw in the notes, bond dividend yield,
$47 million; bond dividend yield, $118 million. And I said "Why is the
state declaring bond dividend yields?" I came back to the Missouri
financial authority; they're investing the state's own monies and they
had to disclose the return that was coming back in from their
investments.
Back to New Jersey. Ten years ago when I saw New Jersey's report I
noticed it said $14 billion in insurance company equity participation. I
said to myself, "What is insurance company equity participation?" I
started looking. Found out the federal government, back about 25 years
ago, close to it, mandated that the insurance companies, had to create a
major catastrophe fund, in the event of natural disaster, large
hurricane hit the East coast-wiped out a couple hundred thousand homes,
a million or two automobiles; a big earthquake hits California, same
scenario; they wanted to make sure that they were covered. Well, this
equated to trillions of dollars, which the insurance companies did not
have at the time. The federal government gave them ten years to
implement the program. At the end of the ten years, 94% of the revenue
requirement was satisfied by state and federal investment funds.and when
you look at the records, was mostly a 2.4-2.6% interest, well below
prime, they invested their monies.
Now, what this means to the public in real term.let's use automobile
insurance. Auto comes under the major catastrophe fund, as I mentioned,
large hurricane hit the east coast, wipes out hundreds of thousands of
automobiles; big earthquake hits California, same scenario. I'll use
Arizona as an example. In Arizona, the minimum coverage is $30,000. And,
based on the major catastrophe fund rules, one-third of the value of the
policy, the face value, has to be left on deposit. So, one-third of
$30,000 is $10,000. That money being provided by state and federal
investment funds, say at 5% interest for easy accounting that equates to
a $500-a-year return. Now, my auto insurance premium is $658 a year.
Under this example, the insurance company is only getting $158; the
government is getting $500, on the return. Did you ever wonder why they
make it mandatory insurance, state by state, and enforce it by armed
force? Every state with mandatory insurance is opening up a phenomenal
investment pool for the state and federal investment funds.
Now, I took this a step further. I called the Division of Motor
Vehicles in Phoenix to find out the total number of registered vehicles,
both commercial and noncommercial in the state. To be registered it
required insurance, mandatory insurance state. I then called the
insurance company data banks to find out the total liability claims paid
by all insurance companies operating in the state of Arizona. I then
took that figure, added on a 35% markup to allow for a profit margin in
operating costs. For a paper company that's pretty good. I then took the
total number of registered vehicles, divided it by (sic) (into) that
number. The average annual insurance premium, using that.those figures,
came out to being $126 per year. Got the picture?
Government has been getting into every aspect of taking money. The
public's familiar with taxation, taxation is actually turning into a
very small portion of government's take. Investment funds are their
primary vehicle for revenue generation at this point in time, taxation's
secondary. You have to start tracking down these investment funds. The
next time you hear, "Well, we're going to have to shut the school down,
it's got holes in its roof, we need to raise taxes for a million
dollars," or "the police are under funded, we're gonna have to let half
of 'em go," pop up with "Oh, by the way, they said they had to shut down
the school, well, I see they have $42 million here in the local
government investment pool. Why are you not using this?"
Now, Jesse Ventura, when he was mayor of... a... I think it was Menlo
[Brooklyn] Park, the city wanted to have a tax increase of $260,000, a
small increase, for the school districts. They said they were at a short
fall of money. He looked and saw a $48 million investment fund sitting
there, listed as idle funds, so he goes, "Here, take it from here." And
he was the first person to openly admit as to the difference between the
budgetary basis and the liquid investment funds. He was elected
governor, and also the first step he did was to target $7 billion in
surplus funds for return to the public. Now, legislature, ok, who has
their hands very deep in the pockets here, went to block him on the $7
billion and he was only able to free up about $1.8 billion, which
equated to about a $800 check for every person living in the state.
The bottom line is it's a power game. 'With this much money available,
especially with the public not even being aware - or oblivious to the
majority of the wealth - the legislature, the congressmen, the senators,
the judges, the attorneys, they're all fighting back and forth to see
who can get whose hand in whose pocket the quickest. And it's important
for the public to look and start getting basic comprehension, because
the game is too big. I mean, we've let it ... a ... go . . . a ... with
$60 trillion in composite investment funds, that's ... that's ludicrous.
We've lost control of this country.
If you look at the ... you know, the court systems, the lawyers, it's
... it's a revenue generating business. If... if you look at the court
systems of this country, they're generating more money than any Fortune
500 comp . . . a group of ten ... the ten largest Fortune 500 companies,
the court system is generating more money. They're taking more and more
money, any way, shape or form. Insurance company equity participation,
health insurance. If you look at your county, your city, you'll find out
that they're buying up all of the hospitals. Did you ever wonder why
they get such a . . . a . . . you get such a big bill from the
hospitals? They're participating on an investment level with the
hospitals.
The game has to be stopped, and the way the game will be stopped is
through a ... unified action from the public for disclosure. Everybody
cannot sit back and say, "Well, somebody else will do it, let's watch
and see what happens." You, you, have to do it. Call your friends, call
your neighbors, and call your business associates. Get together.
Confirm.confirm, the extent of the obfuscation of the wealth. When you
look at the scope of the existing investment funds, the scope on the
composite totals, it shows the clear and unequivocal financial takeover
of the wealth. When you look at the scope of the growth of government -
five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago -
it's obscene! It needs to be checked immediately. Now, the majority of
government employees - 98% - don't have a clue, either. They were not
aware of the scope of the takeover. Everybody is too busy looking at the
leaves, branches and trees in the forest to see the forest. I emphasize,
focus on the composite totals.
Now, since I started on disclosure 18 months ago, a ... there has
only been one rebuttal to any of my comments. I got an e-mail from the a
. . . head accountant from the a ... Department of Transportation from
Portland, Oregon, saying, "Well, I don't think you're familiar with fund
management, and we declare revenue that we have on our, you know ...
report that we haven't yet collected, so the figures are misleading."
And I responded back to him. I said, "Sir, I'm sure you do an excellent
job as the head accountant for the Department of Transportation for
Portland, Oregon, a budgetary agency, and all budgetary agencies are
gone through with a fine-toothed comb." I said "Sir, look ... get your a
state's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Go through the notes.
Look at the balance columns. Look at the billions and billions of
dollars of assets which you didn't even know existed. Look at the
different funds and programs and trust accounts which you didn't even
know existed. Ok? Once you see and for the first time. I said "That is
the revenue I am talking about. Then, respond back to me." Never heard
from him again. I guess he looked and became a little bit too busy.
Now, when you look through your Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
- all cities, counties and states and different governmental
authorities, will have what they list as idle funds. And usually, on the
easily seen funds, they're ... they're declaring about a 5.5-5.6%
return. It's very conservative management. That's one arena. But, what
you want to keep your eye open for is where they're getting 12-14-15-17%
rate of return, similar to pension fund management. Currently, all
government employees, if they ask, you know, what are they getting on
their pension funds, they think they're getting 8%. 8% is the standard
used all across the country as an actuarial basis. It's a number picked
out of the air by the accountants. In reality, the pension funds have
been getting between 14 to as high as 23% return per year. Ok? You have
to know to look and ask the questions.
This is a very serious situation and it's out of our hands currently,
right now. The scope of the growth of government, the revenue that
government's taking, the thousands of different entities that are just
running away, taking more money like that 12- and 13-year-old kid and
justifying it with any reason whatsoever. Even if you look at the school
districts ... they've done studies all over the country. They found that
the school districts which were getting the least amount of money had
the best results for the children. The ones who are getting the most
amount of money were having the least results. It's obvious. They don't
have the children's interests at heart; it's the money. More wealth,
more power. The public has to take a stand immediately.
Now, Program Three . . . Program Three, we'll be ... I'm putting out
the word across the country for the states, in ... within your state, to
unify and organize to get ready to do effective action. As I mentioned,
the CITA initiative, we'll do that; it opens up for full disclosure. The
CITA publishes an annual report of identified surplus revenue,
identified operations of government which government should not be
operating that only the private sector should be doing. It identifies
areas for downsizing, what revenue would be made available for deposit
into the CITA; that's published annually. And with the public seeing the
reality of the ability to downsize, the ability for re-appropriation of
surpluses, the ability ... the ability for sale of venture projects
which should be sold back to the private sector, and that revenue now,
just from the interest and dividend yield, canceling out taxation in
their city, their county, their state. I think this should motivate
everyone across the country and create a tidal wave of effective action.
Program Three: the first state that unifies, gets a council together,
gets an organization together, and they're ready to move forward with
effective action - the initiative will be drafted, ready to go: that
will be Program Number Three. When we're contacted and we know that the
effort has been made in that state, the first state to come forward with
a solid group to make it happen - that will be Program Number Three -
showing that council and showing what's about to happen. And hopefully,
there'll be about fifteen other states, many a counties, many a cities,
ready to follow to implement the same program.
The boys controlling ... controlling the structure - now, the real
power structure of this world is the international banks, the brokerage
houses, and the insurance company conglomerates. They are controlling
the wealth. That $60 trillion is controlled under management by them. If
you try to take the money from them, they would stop you cold in your
tracks. But under this proposition, of the CITA. the CITA is identifying
surplus revenues, they're shifting the wealth back into the direct
benefit of the public for the elimination of taxation and upon doing so,
a possible dividend return back to the resident tax payer. Under that
program, the banks, the insurance companies, the brokerage houses, they
don't lose one dime 'cause they are still going to be managing the
funds, accomplishing their best rate of return.
The beneficiary is switched to the public. No longer will it be the
politician, that little ... little inner circle group moving the funds
back and investing the funds back and forth to their benefit. The funds
will be invested for the direct benefit of the public under the
exclusive principle of operation that from the interest and dividend
yield on those funds, the elimination of all taxation and then also upon
the downsizing of government, the dividend., annuity dividend check
being issued to the resident tax payers. There is no better proposition.
Period. Now, the spin-doctors involved in this multi-trillion dollar
organized syndicate, will try to disrupt and, you know, confuse the
issue. There should be no confusion.
On your organization, state by state, county by county, city by city,
try to find a CFA, Certified Financial Auditor, very good at identifying
... the game and revenues hidden in other places. Look through those
notes very carefully. When you're looking at your county or your city
trying to identify funds, get the state report. The state report will
list the local government investment pool and where to get the financial
information on that fund. And it'll list your city, your county, your
school district and how much money they have in participation.
Now, there's also another Web site, which is very informative. It was
a Web site created by a 30-year veteran retired federal auditor. It's
http://www.cafrman.com. If you go to:
http://www.cafrman.com , the auditor is very conservative but he
spells out exactly what to look for. He will give you an Excel
spreadsheet where it'll tell you where to look in your Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report to fill in the blanks to identify the surpluses
and shows you what it means to you. He also shows how to look at the
state, the county and the city. If you live in a city, the city has
surpluses. The county which you live in now also has surpluses and then
the state. So we have three different entities ; the city, the county,
and the state that applies to you as a resident of that city. He's
identified $28,000 per person in one state, as an example. It's very
informative. That's www.CAFRman.com .
But, as I mentioned, the public is up against a multi-trillion dollar
organized syndicate that is well-entrenched, they know exactly what
they're doing, it's run by the sharpest crackers on the face of the
planet. The public is being basically a.they're the food for this
organization. As I mentioned, government keeps the public running like a
chipmunk on a treadmill, chasing after the carrot as through
trickle-down economics, they provide just enough revenue to keep the
chipmunk running at optimum proficiency as they tap off 80% of the
energy produced. It's not right. As far as government is concerned,
productivity is the key word. They figure if they return the wealth back
to the public, everybody will stop working and there goes hyperinflation
and major problems. I don't think so. The wealth is rightfully the
publics. The wealth is not rightfully composite government's and the
small circle that controls the wealth.
For information on the CITA, Citizens Investment Trust Account, I can
be e-mailed at: WalterBurien@aol.com and if you request CITA
information, I'll give you the basic format for it. If you're ready to
organize in your state and you have a solid structure, a good structure,
e-mail me and let me know that it is taking place. And if you're the
first state that is ready for effective action, your state will be
Program Number Three.
POST NOTE: Financial backing is required to move forward. If
accomplished, things will happen very quickly! To date 12/28/00, no one
has stepped forward to provide the financing necessary to move forward.
Things are at a standstill until this happens! Go ahead, make my day!
WJB
As I mentioned, this is a multi-trillion dollar organized syndicate
that you're up against, so it cannot ... whatever structure takes place
within your state, it has to be ... between solid . . . workers ... tell
... tell the pastor of your church, tell every business you know to pass
the word. The game only continues through nondisclosure, and we have the
ability right now, at this point in time, to mandate disclosure. There
are enough intelligent minds out there that can use the art of basic
addition when they start looking at the reports and adding up the totals
to confirm the theft of the wealth by composite government sources. The
growth, the obscene growth, of government is obvious. If we unify at
this point in time we can correct it.
I look forward to Program Number Three and effective unified action
coming forth from all the states in this country. I'm confident 15-20
other states will be right behind. It's time to move and to move strong
and swiftly. I hope everyone does his or her best effort to correct this
situation in this country. But as I mentioned, any politician, any
reporter who does not make simple and conspicuous mention of the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, they're out of there, gone. If an
elected politician does make simple and conspicuous mention and mentions
the difference between the total of cash gross receipts, total
investments, and the budgetary basis, which is small compared to the
totals, yeah, sponsor that person. Very important. Well, Wishing the
best for this country and every citizen. Have a good day and I look
forward to Program Number Three.
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Special thanks to the United States Senators, Congressmen and women,
and those millions of Americans who don't have a clue, whose actions
have made this program possible and necessary.
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Add-On**************
As an add-on to Program Two, and for a better understanding of the
CITA initiative, as an aid to help anyone out there and from their city,
their county or their state, to start working on and building a CITA, I
would like to cover some specific criteria for getting the structure
going.
On the CITA, the CFAs, the Certified Financial Auditors, who are now
identifying the surpluses, they have to look at the three different
areas. They have to look at the surpluses identified from the city, the
county, the state, state-run agencies, county-run agencies, enterprise
groups, the whole nine yards, to identify these surplus monies for
re-appropriation into the CITA. That's area number one. Area number two,
they have to identify from the enterprise groups within government--the
golf courses, the toll ways, the bridges, the different projects that
government is operating which should be returned to the private sector,
which the sale of these items back to the private sector would generate
hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars, depending
upon what area you're looking at. Also, the identification of excessive
growth within government that should be recommended for downsizing. So,
in other words, if you're downsizing certain areas of government, you're
now freeing up billions of dollars for use elsewhere or re-appropriation
into the CITA. So, with revenues being re-appropriated into the CITA,
via recommendation, from surplus revenues, from the sale of items which
no way should government be involved in - different venture projects,
through the downsizing of different areas of government, the CITA grows
at a phenomenal rate, phenomenal rate! And the sole principle of
operation of the CITA is from the interest and dividend yield on this
massive trust fund that's building up, set up as an annuity pension fund
for the tax payer. The interest and dividend yield subsidizes and
cancels the budgetary requirement of government.
We are changing the principle of operation of government here, which
affects each leaf, branch and tree within government. It makes
government now not the runaway spoiled kid taking more, more, more,
more. It changes the principle where government now becomes the prudent
financial manager who is operating from the interest and dividend yield
on the existing CITA fund account and also monitored and streamlined
where there becomes a surpluses in the CITA for return to the resident
property owners, on top of no taxation, from their prudent financial
management of their operations. This is essential to have happen. Now,
the CFAs and the CITA, their principle of operation, number one, what I
. . . what I recommend for the initiative, is that the CITA and the
management of the CITA and the CFAS, which is a private organization run
by you folks, the public. The public hires, fires and determines who is
going to be on the CITA and the CFAs used; these individuals, number
one, they should be compensated from, first of all, the revenue that
they identify for re-appropriation into the CITA. They should get 1.5%
of that revenue. Also, on the performance of the fund they should get
1.5%, of the performance. If they accomplish a 17% rate of return, 15.5%
now is going towards supplementing the budgetary basis. This gives them
a phenomenal incentive to, number one, identify revenues, and number
two, performance on the fund when they are re-appropriated into the CITA.
They cannot be bribed; they cannot be bought off; they have a phenomenal
incentive for the growth of the CITA which has the sole exclusive
principle of operation of supplementing the budgetary basis so that
government is operating from the interest and the dividend yield, and
also streamlining government so there's a surplus in the CITA. They
maintain their jobs by performing for you.
Now, being that the CITA is not a government body, it does not have
governmental authority. They may identify funds and revenue for
re-appropriation and that government agency, they say, "We're not going
to give you one dime." That's a big problem for them, here, folks. The
majority of these revenues that are identified, the public was not aware
of in the first place. The CITA . . . the CFAs are putting together a
Certified Financial Statement which identifies the revenue, surplus,
identifies the assets for sale which are not benefiting directly the
public, identifies the downsizing of government which will generate X
amount of millions of dollars or billions of dollars in surpluses. And,
if that government agency 1133says, "Sorry," well, through disclosure to
you, the public, the public will mandate the re-appropriation, will
mandate the sale of these items. The game is over, folks, for them. They
cannot continue business as usual with disclosure. It's our choice. It'
s our heritage. It's our right. We fell asleep at the wheel. We allowed
this to happen. We cannot depend on someone else doing it; we can't sit
back and say let's see what happens; we have to make it happen. History
is written, not based on best wishes and watchers. History is written
based on doers and people that make it happen. Now, across the country -
city, county and state - everyone who is ready to stand up and take
control of this situation for the benefit Of all should be tracking down
CFAs, Certified Financial Auditors. Look at the retired community. There
are many a CFAs out there who would love to participate in this venture
project to benefit the public. Find them; get them involved. Now, when
the CITA is established, upon the identification of the surplus revenues
and the Certified Financial Report being put together and what's
recommended for re-appropriation, what it means on a budgetary basis,
satisfying the budgetary basis, potential surpluses after satisfying the
budgetary basis; that report is now distributed to the populace. You can
then write an initiative, a referendum, in your city, county or state.
You have the Certified Financial Report, in your hand, which states,
"With this being done, we can eliminate all taxation within our city,
our county, our state within X period of time, if not at present.
Additionally, with the operation of the CITA, on top of the elimination
of all taxation, we have the ability, within X period of time, or at
present, to offer a refund check to every resident of this community on
top of the elimination of all taxation. Folks, this is the way it should
have been a hundred years ago. It's the way it can be tomorrow, only if
the public unifies, in force, to make it happen. We've allowed a runaway
freight train to take place here.
As I mentioned earlier, 30 years ago government was 6 or 8% of the
GNP of this country. Currently, we're standing at 48%. It's time for us
to take control of the reins. Folks, let's make it happen.
Now, since disclosure started 18 months ago on the national level, I
remember about five months ago, I had an e-mail from a political leader
out in the Midwest. She wanted to know a little about the topic of the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and she basically said " Well,
this is very complicated, can you boil it down to a simple analogy which
everyone could understand?" And I replied with the following. I said,
basically, we chose to ... we had a government, which we . . .we knew we
needed a military, we knew we needed protection of our country, we knew
we needed certain services and conveniences provided by government, so,
I refer to government as the foxes.
The foxes have been writing the laws on how many chickens they can
eat from the hen house. At first, out of our 3, 000 chickens, we gave
them 100 per year to perform their services for us. They ate them and
said they needed 200 chickens. So, we gave them 200. They ate them, and
then they said they needed 400 chickens. So, we gave them 400, but we
started complaining, saying enough is enough. So the foxes said
they needed 440, justifying 440 with any logic available to them, but
realizing that we were complaining about giving them 100, then 200, then
400, they, in their wisdom, started to put 150 chickens aside each year,
in their own hen house, held by them and undisclosed to us. Well, after
many a years, many a decades, in the fox's own hen house, they have
collected 6500 chickens. (Total available revenue, not tied directly in
the publicly known budgetary basis, or the operating budget.) As they
continue to collect, now, 510 chickens, the disclosed operating budget,
as they cry to us saying they are barely getting by on the 510, but
since we are complaining about the-510, they will cut back the annual
take to 490, at great sacrifice to them, the foxes.
Well, folks, this is a pretty good analogy of what's going on, in
simple form. We've had the budgetary basis rammed down our throat, the
budget . . . "We have a shortfall of money for the schools, we have a
shortfall of money on the budget for ... a ... the police, we have a
shortfall of budgetary money for the city and we're going to have to
throw these little old ladies out on the street - we can't take care of
them anymore. We're going to have to shut down the parks, we have
shortfall of budgetary money."
Well, folks, we have a two-sided game here; the budgetary basis,
which you can compare to your annual operating budget of operating your
house and we have the total revenue, the decades of investment funds,
the decades of different venture projects that have built up into
billions and billions of dollars of assets, with no direct tie what so
ever with the budgetary basis. It's time to take back control.
Now, I'd like to address one issue - the most important issue -
regarding why this has happened. The obfuscation of our wealth, to this
degree - $60 trillion in assets now held by composite government - would
not have been possible without the 100% cooperation in partnership of
the syndicated media - ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the syndicated newspapers
owned by a few in this world. It was in their interest to make sure
business continued as usual for composite government, folks. If you look
at the revenue, carte blanche revenue they get from composite government
sources - city, county, state, federal, grants, direct payments - it is
a substantial portion of their annual revenue generated each year.
If you took at the games that are played, back and forth, the elbow
rubbing, it's phenomenal. If you look at different state agency groups,
federal, county, city, you'll find out a high percentage of ex-editors
and reporters now in carte blanche executive directorships within state
government, federal government. I mean, government has bought off the
cream of the crop of the reporting field, editors, producers,
directorships are given. It's like winning a lottery ticket for them.
The fix is in deep here, folks. And in the media, they have been getting
the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for over 35 years. They know
what it is. They know that the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
shows this (large) much revenue compared to what's shown on the
budgetary basis (small). Yet, we have the media constantly referring to
"Well, there's a shortfall of budgetary revenue. Ah ... this problem
under the budget, that problem under the budget. Ah folks, pay your
taxes this year so we can support the budget."
Not one mention of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, not one
mention of the difference between the cash gross receipts and the
budgetary basis, not one mention of the massive investments funds held
with no direct tie whatsoever with the budgetary basis. Not one mention
of the autonomous agencies, the toll ways, the roadways, the bridges,
the financial authorities, are not tied. in with the budgetary basis
where not one dollar goes back, not one mention! This is not accidental
folks, this is intentional.
I was doing a radio show about two months ago, Tom Valentine, Radio
Free America. And I mentioned to Tom the aspect of ... that the media is
in 13100% partnership with composite government. A few minutes later he
mentioned, he goes "Well, it's so hard to get the media to report on the
truth-and do their job." I said, "Tom, I don't think you heard me." I
said, "The media is in 100% partnership with composite government. They
are doing an excellent job. They do exactly what they're supposed to be
doing in partnership with composite government, to make sure the public
is looking off in right field as they continue business as usual in left
field. They are doing their job, based on that partnership.
It's important to understand, folks, that communication on this
issue, to get the word out for comprehension to reach every person in
this country, it requires each and every one of us to pass the word.
There will be a total blackout from the syndicated media. They have
perpetuated the game over the last 65 years through a total blackout as
to disclosure. So it is important ... in fact, when you go to your
editor or your news producer, you may see this show, and say "I'm going
down to my editor right now and make sure he knows about the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and we'll have this on the front
page tomorrow. " Well, folks, before you do that, call the mailroom of
the agency that puts out that report. Confirm your editor has been
receiving it for the last 15 - 20 years, since he's been editor at that
paper. This way, when you approach him, he says "Why, I never heard
about that, I'll have to look into it," you'll know he's lying straight
to your face. Tell him to get out of town. The intentional nondisclosure
taking place within media, I call it criminal culpability, intentional'
criminal culpability for nondisclosure, on their part." There's nothing
else. In fact, its close to treason, because through their
nondisclosure, the syndicated media, in cooperation and in partnership
with composite government, they have allowed, they have facilitated the
unabated obfuscation of the wealth from the rightful owners of this
country, you, myself, all of us, the American people.
So, pass the word. This has to get around across the country,
person-to-person, mouth-to- mouth. We're not talking about any gray
areas here.... speculation. You look at the reports, and using
fifth-grade addition skills, you see the complete financial takeover of
the wealth of this country. If you take the time, add up the totals,
city, county, state, 'and federal, $60 trillion in assets, folks. Of
which $32 trillion in common stock ownership. The mark ... the
government is the market. Period. It's time for us to take the reins
back into our hands, slow down that runaway freight train. We have to
make it happen, and we have to know what we're up against and the media
is what we're up against here, on the nondisclosure. We have to break
that wall of silence.
And folks, if you'd like to put the pressure on, on the city, county,
and state level, there is a letter, which if you request, I can e-mail
to you, which will cover requesting specific items for disclosure to
you. And if you request that.my e-mail address, CAFR1@aol.com, just
request "sample letter" and I'll make sure it gets into your hand, and I
guarantee you when it's sent off, the boys are going to start squirming
because it mandates disclosure. If you want it, just request it.
Now, as I mentioned, we started disclosure of the Comprehensive
Annual Financial Report and the structure behind it, it started June 8th
of 1998, and it's been approximately 18 months. The first disclosure
took place on Tom Valentine's radio show, and it was noted as being the
most important issue in the last 200 years in this country as to what
was being disclosed. Now, five months ago I got a call from Tom ... you
know, we've ... I've reached probably 30 million people via 60 different
international radio shows. There's been 10 publications now with
featured editorials, nothing from the syndicated media, they won't
mention one word. But, Tom called me and he goes, "Walter," he goes
"we're wasting our time. The American public is stupid. Here, we gave
them the biggest story in the last 200 years, on a silver platter,
spoon-fed them, and no one is doing anything from across the country."
He goes "We're wasting our time."
My response was, very simply, I said "Tom, we're up against the
largest organized syndicate on the face of the planet, a multi-trillion
dollar organized syndicate run by the sharpest crackers on the face of
the planet, who spend billions and billions of dollars to make sure the
public is looking in right field as they conduct business, as usual, in
left field. And they have the full 100% cooperation in partnership of
the syndicated media to continue business as usual. I said, "Picture a
22-pound rock sitting on a mountaintop and you wanted to flip it off the
side of the mountain. You apply five pounds of force, nothing happens;
ten pounds, nothing happens; fifteen pounds, nothing happens. You apply
21 pounds of force, the rock rattles a little bit, but nothing happens."
I said, "With all of the disclosure that took place to date, the radio
shows, the different articles that have come out, we've applied a 5
pound force on a 22 pound rock. Law of physics, nothing is going to
happen." I said, "What is required, what is essential, mandated here, is
for a few heavyweights, one or a group, to step forward, who can apply
35 pounds of force on that 22 pound rock. And you want to see how fast
it's gonna fly? Real quick!
So, I emphasize the point. What is required at this point in time,
are for some heavyweights, some sincere individuals who have the ability
to take the bull by the horns and flip it on its back, to come forward
and apply the effort and financing necessary, so we can apply that 35
pounds of force on that 22 pound rock. If that happens, we'll start the
tidal wave, folks. -That tidal wave will crest, and the effect of that
crest will be effective action that will sweep across this country to
return the wealth of this country back into the rightful owners of that
wealth: the peoples of this nation. And we can set the principle of
operation up in composite government where, for all time to come, for
our children, their children, and their children's children. No more
taxation, and actually, government performing a positive benefit through
a given return to the peoples of this country by performing their
function and business as usual. Thank you