$ $ 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
This transcript may be copied, published or
reproduced in it's entirety only.
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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aired encouraging
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television]*********************
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 exported 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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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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of Part Two***************
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Information 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.
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