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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (124559)	1/31/2001 7:48:14 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The Clinton [mal]administration has left the Federal Bureaucracy worse than they found it. It is now a chaotic unmanageable disaster whereas it was just a mess 8 years ago. Is is too much to ask that Department of Agriculture at least be put into a shape that it's books can be audited before dumping management of the entire health care industry on the Beltway? It ain't just the Pentagon. It's ever department of the Federal Government. This background is what made Robert Pear's Jan. 18 New York Times article, "Financial Problems in Government Are Rife, Nation's Top Auditor Says," so very timely. The comptroller general, David M. Walker, reported that "the Pentagon's financial statements are in such poor condition they cannot be audited, and that most other agencies do not comply with federal accounting standards." The result is that the comptroller general "cannot certify the accuracy of consolidated financial statements for the government as a whole."