CAFR Government's Best Kept SECRET!!!

Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Government's Best Kept Financial Secret

The first portion of this post is based on information compiled by:
Walter Burien - CAFR1.com
P. O. Box 2112
Saint Johns, AZ 85936
Tel. (928) 458-5854
       

The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is a very little known, yet detailed presentation of a US governmental entity's financial condition. The CAFR is also one of government's best kept financial secrets, as these reports show that almost all governments have far more money than people would ever suspect. Literally hundreds of billions of dollars are available to governments in investment accounts that are never mentioned to the public, as verified in these publicly available government reports.

What CAFRs reveal is a devious policy whereby taxpayers collectively surrender enormous assets to the government, which then invests the trillions that swell in these accounts. As this money is secreted away, taxpayers are warned of debilitating budget deficits to either squeeze more taxes from them and/or cut public services. To add insult to injury, the state commits a gross lie of omission by never informing citizens of their withheld trillions as they eliminate jobs, reduce education, and attack the quality of our lives.

The American Constitution is a contract of limited government whereby the public informs and is informed by our representatives. CAFRs are damning public documents that expose political leadership from both left and right as a thoroughly corrupt and self-serving oligarchy.

Below is a link to a 10min video on why the government is NOT really broke!  Further on is the full length first edition of the video.

Walter Burien - CAFR1 Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy8tnC4xLX8

The way our government can "and" should be.

This first cut is a video that is essential for viewing by every responsible American (1hr 12min). The "Final Cut" should be finished in 2012. (1hr 30) and will be released on DVD.

Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn3hUcmNDdA

Why have political leadership and corporate media not informed American taxpayers of this intriguing option? And why isn't this data publicly submitted for professional and independent economist cost-benefit analysis to consider other options which benefit both government and the people? As we all know, money talks and power corrupts.

According to Mr. Burien, "Any local government can be restructured to meet their annual budget needs "Without" taxes. TRF (Tax Retirement Funds) paying for every City, County, State’s annual budgetary needs!"  Probably this is also true even for the federal government, as seen in the video.

Check out this recent 60 minutes discussion of congressional "insider trading" which because of the laws that congress has passed in their favor they have made perfectly "legal".  In my estimate, these activities by the "representatives of the people" are highly immoral.  See whether or not you agree.

60 Minutes' Blows The Lid Off Congressional Insider Trading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x95uC_wzUX4

The deceipt about the economic conditions is designed to keep us enslaved, and when financial reality is all but impossible to ignore, we are bombarded with bread and circuses, which invite the masses to lust after the latest electronic gagets, distract them with televised entertainment (think the gladiator sport of football, or dancing with the stars, even the "greatest looser" showing off how our overly obese society has to resort to contests with each other for prizes in order to remove their excess pounds).  Truth be told, however, that like Greece and Italy and a good portion of Europe, the U.S. (corporate) government is headed down the slippery slope to insolvency.

Meanwhile, YOU are taxed when you earn (payroll taxes, paid by your employer), taxed when you save (capital gains taxes) and taxed when you spend (sales taxes). You're even taxed when you just sit on a pile of money and do nothing (monetary devaluation / price inflation). And remarkably, some of the more ignorant members of society have been out protesting, calling for more taxes on the People as a "solution" to all this!

The purpose of the federal tax code is to keep us down, heads buried in the sand so that we can never see the light, rise up and get ahead.  Taxation is a financial shakedown, used by governments to remind us commoners that we are slaves to the state.  In this way, federal taxes are very effecitve, all the while the IRS reminds everyone to "be afraid" and to comply in paying a tax that is technically  "voluntary". 

The bankster bailout monies went to their Insider pals, while the debt burden was heaped upon the working poor, and their children, grandchildren and future generations... the problems in America are not caused by capitalism, but rather corruption and criminality!  

The greater truth of money is that it is created through the energy and creativity of the people.  When a society begins to falter, the gaining of money is not by  consent of those trading their energy for reward, but by compulsion, and when you find that in order for you to produce any goods or services you need to obtain permission from those who produce nothing, you will realize that when men become richer by graft and by influence than by work, when you see that corruption is being rewarded and honesty is becoming a sacrifice of self, you will know that your society is doomed.

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper.This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values.  Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced.  Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.  Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the  victims..... Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded."

The above is Francisco d'Anconia's reply to the claim that "money is the root of all evil." from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, "THE MEANING OF MONEY".

Money in itself is not the evil, it is the corruption that accompanies the acquisition of it by dishonest means.  Ultimately, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!.

Till next time,

Merlyn

CPI changes benefit government income and hide inflation

Inflation, COLA declines and tax increases

Another change to the CPI is being proposed by the congressional "supercommittee" just as the elderly recipients of Social Security are anticipating their first COLA (cost of living adjustment) in 3 years. It is expected to reduce future COLA increases and increase taxes for most families with the largest pain being felt by the populace with the lowest incomes.

Congressional "supercommittee" proposes new CPI calculations that show a lower level of inflation than currently is in use that would hurt low income earners and elders because it would let policy makers cut benefits and increase taxes in a way that might not be aparent to Americans. Changes would at first be small. Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to preserve Social Security and Medicare stated "I think the thought process behind this is slip this in, people won't understand it." His message to Congress was, "Don't believe that taking this approach to cutting Social Security will not be noticed, you will pay for it".

The eventual effrects of these changes are as follows:

TAXES: By 2021 taxpayers making between $10,000 and $20,000 would see a 14.5% increase in their federal taxes while those making in excess of $1 million would see a tax increase of 0.1%.

SOCIAL SECURITY: COLA adjustments would be reduced by an average of 0.3% each year. At 65 that would mean about $136/yr less but for someone who is 95 the loss would amount to about $1,392. "For someone in the first year, it may not seem like a lot", said David Certner of AARP, "But as people get older and then they get poorer and more reliant on Social Security, the cut gradually gets larger and larger".

 Just exactly what is the CPI? The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a time series measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. a Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices and a Chained CPI are also widely used measures of consumer inflation. The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes both a headline CPI which counts food and energy prices and in August they released the statistics for July of 2011 reporting an increase in year-over-year CPI growth to 3.63%, the highest rate of U.S. price inflation since October of 2008. July's official government reported year-over-year U.S. price inflation rate of 3.63% was up from 3.56% in June, 3.57% in May, 3.16% in April, 2.68% in March, 2.11% in February, 1.63% in January, 1.5% in December, and 1.1% in November. This means that The official rate of U.S. price inflation has increased by 230% from November of 2010 through June of 2011. http://inflation.us/debtpoliticalcrisis.html

How does this affect you and I? As shown in the chart in my November 6th post, our dollars are able to buy less and less, the purchasing power has declined at an alarming rate due to the quantitative easing (QE) policy of the Federal Reserve (a move to print more and more fiat currency putting it into circulation and watering down the value of what is already in circulation). Bernanke has already given us QE 1 and QE2, with the potential of QE3 coming along as the government tries to raise the debt ceiling and put the current $14 trillion debt on the backs of the children's children's children of our country into perpetuity! (some are already saying it is now $15 trillion). The world is now recognizing the truth about how U.S. price inflation is spiraling out of control with the price of gold rising at an amazing rate -- $230/oz a few short years ago, now hovering around $1,700 - $1,800/oz. 

The National Inflation Association (http://inflation.us) went on to state in its December 9th article, "If there is one American who deserves to be charged with treason, it is Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke." "It is not humanly possible to betray ones country in a way that is more egregious than Bernanke's despicable acts."

Some economists would argue that as prices increase, consumers will switch to lower cost alternatives, as an example if the price of beef goes up and pork does not, people will buy more pork, and as the cost of home heating oil goes up, people will turn down the heat and put on more sweaters!

Perhaps Bernanke, the congress and especially the bureaucrats of  this Supercommittee would like to experience what it is like to live like the rest of us!!!

Till next time,

Merlyn

The MSM is beginning to reveal some truth..???

In spite of not being much of a TV watcher, nor actually sitting down to read the news paper thoroughly, I have recently noticed it has become apparent that the main stream media press (MSM) is opening up to more truth being allowed to reach the public as there have been a couple of recent items that made it past the smoke/mirror screens.  This is encouraging, as it gives a sense that there is an awakening of the sleepwalking public. 

The reference the to the occupy movement is only a minor part of this phenomenon.  I would like to  call your attention to a video from an older presentation by David Icke, referenced below which gives a clear picture of what the MSM is not telling  us...worth taking a bit of time to watch, though the quality of the video is less than perfect.

DAVID ICKE -THE CORRUPT MONEY  13 min & 40 sec long, which really explains what is happening behind the scenes of this latest occupy movement (the Tea Party was infiltrated quickly and quickly lost its effectiveness in the process)
THE CORRUPT MONEY & BANKING SYSTEM - ENSLAVING HUMANITY  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OgxTuVHlCc&feature=player_embedded

When I heard that Andy Rooney had died and that 60 minutes was going to do a short presentation on his life, I decided that I wanted to tune in, because he did have a wit and way of putting the things we see in life in a humerous if sometimes irreverent perspective.  To my astonishment, the first portion of the program addressed the corruption of the elected "representatives" in Washington D.C. by the lobbists, an interview of one who was an insider of K street responsible for easily $1million in influence a year on his own, for which he was convicted and spent several years behind bars.  He truly (he said) believed that he was doing no wrong, though now he says that he realized that what he did was evil.  The startling revelation though was that although there have been legislative controls put into place, that the lobbying groups just figure out another way around it and proceed with buying influence for their clients with bribes, favors, etc., etc., etc. so in reality, nothing has changed...

A headline in the regional newspaper which originated in the Washington Post from yesterday is another example:  "Wall St., bank profits soar under Obama".  The opening statement was "Taxpayer bailouts allowed financial institutions to avoid collapse, make huge gains."  however to quote Neil Barofslky, the former fed watchdog for the TARP $700 billion bail out used to help the banks remain solvent, "There's a very popular conception out there that the bail out was done with a tremendous amount of firepower and focus on saving the largest Wall Street institutions but with very little regard for Main Street. That's actually a  very accurate description  of what happened."  So although TARP was supposed to encourage the banks to increase lending, which might have spurred spending and growth, instead the banks increased their investment returns by nearly 10% , since lending to prime consumers did not seem to them the most profitable use of their capital... and we are now seeing a renewed slowdown in the U.S. economy.  This appears to me to be a direct result of the astronomical amounts of money spent to buy a corrupting influence of the elected "representatives" in Washington D.C.

The final item of note is that there is now a push to create the legislation that would allow entrepreneurs to actually sell products that they have made (handcrafted, homegrown, artisanal - buzz words for gourmets) that regulators are targeting to require an expensive assortment of of permits, inspections and controls that force would be bakers and chefs to go through a rigorous and proihibitively expensive approval process.  In recent years state and local ordinances have surrounded do-it-yourselfers with red tape on everything from sales of backyard flower bouquets to restaurants growing their own vegetables to an underground market peddling home baked breads and cookies!!  Currently, even bake sales are illegal here (in California) unless they are to benefit a charity.  Again, this appears to have been created as a protection for large food producers, preventing any would be customers from opting instead for the more flavorful crusty loaves  of home made bread that are made by artisan chefs...  This does not even address the recent attacks made upon growers of organic produce, raw milk, herbs and supplements and other products that could contribute to a healthier population... If we are healthy, who is going to support the pharmaceutical industry??

So now that there is a glimmer of light being focused upon some of the control mechanisms that have been placed upon us, based on the 5"C"s of the new world order, global elite's agenda:

     Consolidate
     Commercialize
     Clasify
     Claim 
       and
     Control
     EVERYTHING!!!

The truth is finally coming to light.  What are you and I, the majority of the humans upon this earth going to do about it?  Are we going to allow the current agenda to errode what little self determination we have remaining, or are we going to move in a new and more equitable direction for humanity and the planet? As a starting point, it is critical we become educated to what is actually going on.  Here is a starting point, a short excerpt from the book posted in .pdf format on my web site:  www.ItsEnergy.com "The Great Deception, Liberty Betrayed!!!

These are the five Cs of the New World Order (NWO). If the NWO is fully empowered, free speech, personality, personal goals and decisions, individual responsibility, private property, private business, morality, Constitutional government, national sovereignty; and religious freedom will no longer be tolerated. Everyone in every country will be subject to the NWO management system.

The global elite power brokers (GEPB) have determined that they have somehow been designated as the controllers of the planet, on the order of the doctrine of the “divine right of kings”.  They realize that their numbers are small by comparison with the commoners and in order to remain in power and maintain their wealth, they must be in a position to exert control over the “unwashed masses” or their underlings if you will.  They have set up their system of controls in a way that allows them to maintain their power, by controlling access to the things that the masses require in order to be able to survive and function effectively as the labor force that is the source of the value they seek to extract from the rest of humanity.  What they have chosen to use for this control system are the following:

·        Money – the medium that is required in order to exchange goods, services, necessities.

·        Energy – fuel for heat, transportation, electricity, agriculture, etc.

·        Law – the Uniform Commercial Code which regulates all commerce, and since most judges   and elected officials are attorneys, the court system and government as well.

·        Information – by controlling what people are allow to know, they can control what they think and how they behave.

·        Health – the medical/pharmaceutical cartel which controls access to health, enforces vaccination, and has developed a plan to enforce CODEX alimentarius which will make it impossible to obtain supplements in effective doses with out prescription and remove access to any alternative form of healing modality that is not recognized by the medical establishment.  By so doing they control access to health.  

·        Sustenance (by controlling all food, water, and even the quality of the air we breathe).

You may want to take note of this:  They have set up their system of controls in a way that allows them to maintain their power, by controlling access to the things that the masses require in order to be able to survive and function effectively as the labor force  (IN OTHER WORDS THEIR ENERGY SOURCE EXTRACTED FROM US) that is the source of the value they seek to extract from the rest of humanity.

Food for thought... till next time,

Merlyn

Promises, promises, promises...

This will date me significantly, but there once was an advertising campaign tha went something like this, "promise her anything but give her Arpege" - is that perfume still around anymore? No idea, but it seems that today that marketing is a combination of making promises that either are not possible to keep, over promising/under delivering and doing whatever it takes to convince (sell) your customer in such a way as to extract from them money - whether they need or can afford to purchase your (fill in the blank widget) or not.

Have you noticed the number of telephone sales solitiations, lately... seems that they are calling earlier, later and more often than ever. Thank goodness for caller ID - if I do not recognize the caller I usually do not bother to answer otherwise, I would waste all of my time explaining why I do not want to take advantage of whatever offer they are promoting. A recent article from the National Inflation Association points to in my opinion the reason there is such a concerted effort to separate the people from their money resources. The following quote explains:

"Although we believe the 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are a very positive sign, Wall Street is not the problem. The Federal Reserve and their policies of creating massive monetary inflation are the root cause of all our economic problems, including the destruction of the middle class. Having a prosperous Wall Street is important for the future of the U.S. economy. American entrepreneurs need to be able to access our capital markets in order to raise money to build the next Apple."

"If it wasn't for the Federal Reserve's unconstitutional actions and the moral hazards they create, instead of having massive assets bubbles that constantly blow up to overvalued levels and then burst to insanely undervalued levels, stocks would trade based on their true fundamentals. Companies that took reckless risks like Goldman, Citigroup, and Bank of America, would be out of business."

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Even though the government claims that the rate of inflation is extremely low, just one look at the prices in the grocery store, and at the items that one absolutely must have to maintain any kind of reasonable comfort level (food, heat, gasoline, necessities, etc. ) have been ratcheting upward at an astonishing pace. What this really means is that the purchasing power of your dollar has declined significantly.

I have avoided posting partly due to the overwhelmingly depressing and confusing tenor of the main stream news - the conflicting evidence of how difficult it is for the people who are either unemployed or underemployed and therefore not in the top earning levels to make ends meet, yet the mainstream news is talking about the "recovery" as if this news applies to anyone other than the top 1% of the populatio. Meanwhile the rest of us are struggling just to make it from pay period to pay period. . . An example is from an article written by Barry Gray, titled CEO pay in US soared 23% in 2010, in which he comments that US unemployment remains at near-Depression levels and health care, pensions and education are being slashed by all levels of the government, the pay of corporate CEOs is soaring. The compensation of the 200 highest-paid chief executives at large corporations increased by 23 percent in 2010 over the previous year, according to a New York Times report in July of 2011. Perhaps it is naive of me to ask, but just exactly what is it that these CEOs do that entitles them to such extreme pay and bonus levels while those that actually produce whatever it is their company sells have difficulty buying the necessities of life???

As we connect the dots, there is little question as to what the "occupy movement" is attempting to communicate to the world, "We are tired of the haves taking eferything from the have nots!"

The Greatest Depression now underway is an engineered event (just like the one in the 30's) . The destruction of the dollar, the increase in the fiat money supply that will create merciless inflation, and the slow withering away of the middle class — all of this is part of the plan to remake the world as the globalists see it. If the Greatest Depression is allowed to continue unabated billions of people will be reduced to serfdom under a global government scheme cooked up by the elite. Another problem reaction solution scheme to further their ends to a one world government with a one world currency, a one world army and a one world court.

The empty promises - of a free lunch, etc., etc., etc. are just that. If a government is powerful enough to give you everything, it can just as easily take everything away, since they create nothing of themselves, they must take it from someone else to provide it to you... Pretty soon there is no one else to take it from. Remember to ask the question, who actually benefits and follow where the money trail leads to find out.

That is about enough for now, till next time,

Merlyn