An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Fiscally and Morally Bankrupt
Help wanted, a president who knows how to manage
By Thomas A. Schatz
“Huge organization with serious financial management problems seeks a CEO to make tough decisions in order to avoid bankruptcy.” The federal government should be running this want ad in response to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual audit of federal agency financial statements, released last month. As it has for many years, the GAO concluded that it cannot express an opinion on the statements because of weak internal financial controls and unreliable evidence to support material information.
In other words, the government’s financial reporting is so abysmal no one can tell taxpayers exactly how their money is being spent. That’s aside from the fact that the nation’s current fiscal path is unsustainable.
Read the entire column here.
Can you imagine a private business being run the way the federal government has been run? Said private business would have gone the way of the do-do a LONG time ago. Yet, we have had so called leadership, year after year, decade after decade, that has driven this country (business) into the ground. Members of BOTH parties have been playing politics with our future freedom, spending our children’s future on useless programs, driving us into the dirt. It’s past time to put a stop to their destructive behavior!
Noooo, I do NOT want a ‘manager’ in the White House.
I want an ‘administrator’.
Nor do I want any elected official to ‘manage’ us. Managers run peoples lives and make decisions for them about private matters.
Welp, we are sorely lacking in rational leadership. A CEO would typically lead the company in a positive direction, and grow the business, right? If he/she didn’t, that company would go toes up eventually. That’s what is going on in our country right now. We are barely on life support, and if continue on this road, we will be totally toes up. Hmmm… Does that make sense?
I certainly don’t want someone else managing my life. I do just fine on my own. Well, mostly. LOL
I have a wife that runs my life and tells me what to do.
She needs no help from the govt!!!!
Actually, things work out rather well.
My wife runs our house and then follows my advice on what should be done about the rest of the world.
Tho, it was tough to get her to root for the 49′ers over the Saints!!!
ACK! sigh… Well, I guess y’all get to make a decision or two when it comes to sports. Heh.