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5751 LarryWilsonUS
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5753 BeverlyBraswellUSI agree wholeheartedly
5754 MIKETHOMASUS
5755 GregHolthausUS
5756 AlanaAtkinsonUS
5757 DavidMarquetteUS
5758 MarkWilliamson Sr.US
5759 SandraLintoUSWhere does it come from? Where does it go? Who knows? How do we find out?
5760 EdwardVernonUS
5761 SharonDowdyUS
5762 craigclarkUS
5763 MallorySouzaUS
5764 PatriciaHunsingerUSI hope my vote counts.
5765 JEANQUINNUSWE WOULD GO TO PRISON IF WE COULD NOT ACCOUNT FOR SUCH LOSSES. SO, WHERE IS THE MONEY?????????? LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE SHOULD BE DOING SOME PRISON TIME LIKE THE REST OF US IF WE COMMITTED SUCH A CRIME.
5766 JasonEatonUSTake back this country!
5767 ThomasVarugheseUS
5768 ThomasClarkUS
5769 ChrisMarckelUSTransparency Now!
5770 RobertStoneUS
5771 adamwebsterUS
5772 NicholasAdamsUS
5773 JamesFelicciaUS
5774 AlanStumpUS
5775 JedediahCraryUSEvery dollar should be accounted for!
5776 SarahHarveyUS
5777 BrendanDullaghanUS
5778 DouglasCampbellUS
5779 BDUTTUS
5780 DorisWilburUSThe way our money is wasted is a crime against the citizens of the USA.
5781 RichardGrantUSWhat is wrong with these people. I went to prison for money laundering and they run a chain of launder matts...
5782 JeanaReedUS
5783 JeanaReedUSThis is why we are in the state we are. Greed. It is in our govts pockets.
5784 JeanaReedUSThis is why we are in the state we are. Greed. It is in our govts pockets.
5785 TimSullivanUS

 


Petition To: The White House and Congress

More than $1.1 trillion of federal government money is missing. Our government leaders say they will not account for it. However finding this money could solve all of our federal, state and local budget crises.

Where is the Money?

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General has reported that HUD has not and will not account for $59 billion of "undocumentable adjustments."

The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has reported that DOD has not and will not account for $1.1 trillion of "undocumentable adjustments."

The "undocumentable adjustments" made by these government agencies are much like the balance adjustments many of us make when reconciling our checkbooks. Except that the amounts are staggering: California's share of the "undocumented adjustments" is $128 billion -- more than three times its current $35 billion budget deficit. The average American's share of the "undocumented adjustments" is almost $4,000 per person.

Where is the Money?

The fictional New Jersey mob family of The Sopranos television program has shown how some people make money by defaulting and foreclosing on HUD homes and destroying communities. Are the episodes of TV mobsters more informative about HUD operations than HUD financial statements?

A General Accounting Office report found that the U.S. Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units. Are planes, tanks and missiles running away from home?

We, the undersigned, are being asked to pay for government corruption and fraud. We are paying with taxes, unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies. We are paying with cutbacks in services, deteriorating public infrastructure, and declining quality of life in our neighborhoods. We are paying with reduced health care and retirement benefits.

We worry about the effect of the federal government's deteriorating financial condition on our children and grandchildren's financial security and education and on our environment. Such significant financial corruption is a national security issue.

US Citizens provide financial reports and supporting documentation to the IRS annually, as required by law. We insist that the US government be held to the same standard.

Where is the Money?

We demand a complete and accurate balancing of the books of all US government agencies.

We want a full audited accounting of the real cash and assets that should be in our national bank accounts and inventories.

Furthermore, we demand that all government financial data on the expenditure of our tax revenues, the management of federal credit, and all agency contractor budgets be made publicly available via open website access.

With citizen access to our financial data, we will find our money.

Where is the Money?



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News
Mainstream News Coverage

Pentagon Fights for (Its) Freedom

CBS News, May 19, 2003:
http://www.cbsnews.com

Military waste under fire $1 trillion missing
San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2003:
http://www.sfgate.com

So much for the peace dividend
The Guardian, May 22, 2003:
http://www.guardian.co.uk

Color Codes: The Deja Vu View - Back to abnormal
San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2003:
http://www.sfgate.com


HUD's Financial Woes Continue
Insight, April 18, 2003:
http://www.insightmag.com


Government Fails Fiscal Fitness Test
Insight, April 29, 2002:
http://www.insightmag.com

Congressman Kucinich on NPR's 'Morning Edition'
NPR, June 28, 2003:
http://www.denniskucinich.us



Independent News Coverage

US's Missing Trillions Make Mainstream At Last
Scoop, May 26, 2003:
http://www.scoop.co.nz


The Myth of the Rule of Law
Scoop, August 12, 2002:
http://www.scoop.co.nz


Questions for a Congressman
Scoop, July 4, 2002:
http://www.scoop.co.nz


Links
$1.1 Trillion and $59 Billion Government Disclosures

D-2002-055 Independent Auditor's Report on the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2001 Agency-Wide Financial Statements (02/26/02) (Project D2001FI=0172.000) -- In Four Parts @:
http://www.dodig.osd.mil/Audit/reports/02report.htm


Testimony of the HUD Inspector General re: $59 Billion Undocumentable Adjustments in FY 1999:
http://solari.com/learn/59billion.htm


Government Research Links

US Code
The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990:
http://wwwoirm.nih.gov/itmra/cfoact.html


HUD Reform Act of 1989:
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/papers/1989/89121500.html


Government Management Reform Act of 1994:
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/misc/s2170.html


Executive Branch
Department of Treasury:
http://www.treas.gov


Department of Treasury -- Internal Revenue Service:
http://www.irs.gov


DOD Office of Inspector General:
http://www.dodig.osd.mil


HUD Office of Inspector General:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/oig


Congress

House Committee on Government Reform,
Government Efficiency & Financial Management Subcommittee:
http://reform.house.gov


Senate Government Affairs Committee:
http://govt-aff.senate.gov


Senate Government Affairs Thompson Report -- Government at the Brink Vol. 1 & 2:
http://govt-aff.senate.gov/issues.htm


House Appropriations:
http://www,house.gov/appropriations


Senate Appropriations:
http://appropriations.senate.gov


Congressional Audit, Evaluation and Investigation
General Accounting Office (GAO):
http://www.gao.gov



Petition sponsor
Henri Poole
Software Activist
President, Affero , Inc.
Current Member of the Board, Free Software Foundation

Catherine Austin Fitts
Investment Banker
President, Solari , Inc.
Former Assistant Secretary of  Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner, HUD

Brad deGraf
Social Entrepreneur
Director, VentureCollective

 
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