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No, and basically no one does.
Now they do.
How much of our money has been stolen and/or hidden away?
www.theepochtimes.com
Now they do.
How much of our money has been stolen and/or hidden away?
... Would it not be a normal and routine thing for a new administration to have access to and knowledge of payment systems in the government it now led?
Apparently not. Who knew? In a system of government controlled by the people, a new administration voted in by the people should have access to the books in order to serve the people well and assure high standards. It seems extremely strange that such would not be the case.
If you had any doubt about how shocking this was to D.C. elites, five former secretaries of the Treasury have written an article for the New York Times. Their names are Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, and Janet Yellen. All five served in Democratic administrations, but what they reveal pertains to every administration since the end of World World II.
Here is what they say:
“The nation’s payment system has historically been operated by a very small group of nonpartisan career civil servants. In recent days, that norm has been upended, and the roles of these nonpartisan officials have been compromised by political actors from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. One has been appointed fiscal assistant secretary—a post that for the prior eight decades had been reserved exclusively for civil servants to ensure impartiality and public confidence in the handling and payment of federal funds.”
I had to read that several times to believe my eyes. Did you know that presidents and their appointments have not had access to payment systems since 1946? I did not. Did you know that the entire nation has been dependent on “a very small group” of career bureaucrats to manage the multiple trillions coming and going without oversight from anyone who voters have elected? I did not know that.
This is a tremendously alarming fact and it explains perhaps why the nation’s debt is out of control, why no one seems to be able to manage the budget, why the voters have had so little real influence, and why we’ve had so little transparency.
Maybe that is also why close to a quarter of the nation’s spending is estimated to be drained away in waste, fraud, and abuse, and why so many agencies of the federal government, including the Pentagon, cannot pass a normal audit. Many agencies have never faced an outside audit of the sort that is wholly normal in the corporate world.
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