CAFR

By Walter J. Burien, Jr.

http://CAFR1.com

SUBMITTED TO: Snopes.com: 10/21/06
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*It is VERY important to bring the following forward to the public*
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.HISTORY: It has been reported that trillions of collective dollars not shown in government Budget reports are shown through Government CAFR reports and they are virtually never openly discussed by the syndicated NEWS media, both the Democratic and Republican Party members, the House, Senate, and organized public education, and as in such over the last 50 years the domestic and international investment assets of US Federal and Local Governments as a whole have taken over the Stock, Derivative, Insurance, and Debt Markets. The collective private sector's assets and investments as of 2000 are now insignificant in comparison with what US Government now owns by and through investment.

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With, and being that the CAFR is "the" accounting document for every local government, and with it being effectively "BLACKED OUT" for open mention over the last 60 years, and that this fact of intentional omission of coverage is the biggest financial conspiracy that has ever taken effect in the United States.

  
First, what is a CAFR? A CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report) is government's complete accounting of "Net Worth". The CAFR was established as local government's complete accounting record starting in 1946 through the efforts of a private group located out of Chicago, IL by the name of Government Financial Officers Association (GFOA) http://gfoa.org and became mandatory by Federal requirement on all local governments in 1978 to complete if they did not all ready do so.

  
What Government, both political parties, organized education, and the syndicated News media have presented to the public over that 60 year time period were Budget Reports. A Budget report is strictly planned expenditures for the year from a grouping of specific government service agencies. A budget may also note some statistical, statutory, and demographic data for reference. Most Government budget reports show where "tax" revenue will be used. The CAFR on the other hand is not a projection of one year's expenditures from a select grouping of agencies, but a complete cumulative record of assets, investments, and gross income from all agencies and all sources benefiting or held by that local government body.

 
A CAFR is the counter part to the Annual Financial Report (AFR) that publicly traded corporations are required to produce each year and give to every share-holder as a requirement of Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) law. In many cases, a CAFR may show two to three times more income over what is shown in the corresponding Budget Report.

 
Relevant to taxpayer interests, the CAFR "is" the report for review over a limited showing as seen in the corresponding Budget report. The CAFR could be considered the Bible of asset accounting for any local government body.

 
So, is the CAFR being "BLACKED OUT" from mention by the syndicated news media and both the Democratic and Republican Party members, and the House or the Senate, and even organized education?

 
A Google search for CAFR produces over 1,500,000 hits but a Google "NEWS" search for CAFR as of 10/21/06 only produces seven (7) obscure hits of simple mention.

 
A corresponding "NEWS" search in the archives of the New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Wall Street Journal, which go back in their data banks, several decades showed in combination less than seven hits for CAFR. Here with this disparity the answer for "is there a Black-Out from the Syndicated NEWS" agencies? The answer here would have to be a clear yes.

 
Have the school districts from across the USA that educate their students on Budgets, who also produce a CAFR each year made simple and basic mention of the CAFR at any point for education of their students of this basic subject? No, they have not. Here does a Blackout exist? Apparently, yes is the answer.

 
Have elected officials or politicians in or running for office who talk continuously about Budgets openly made mention of the greater report of their local city, county, or State the CAFR, linked them at their web sites, or linked for mention in their news letters over the last 60 years? Virtually not a peep if at all any mention. Here does a Blackout exist? Apparently, yes is the answer.

 
Are local Government CAFRs sent to all members of the House, Senate, Editors of Local News Papers, News Networks, and Educational department heads? Yes, they have. The printing of the CAFR is a budgetary item requiring records to be kept as to each sending. The before mentioned representatives have been sent the local government CAFR reports relevant to their locale now for over 50 years. Here does a Blackout exist? Apparently, yes is the answer.

 
Upon overall review of the question: Does a Blackout, and in fact a conspiracy exist towards bringing the CAFR into the light of day for public scrutiny. Based on the clear record over the last 50 years of abstention from the use or mention to the public, the answer here also appears to be a clear yes.

 
From the over 84,000 CAFR reports produced by local Government each year in combination with Federal Government's own investment holdings, shows a conservative value of sixty trillion dollars held by Local and Federal Government as of 1999. An example of the holdings shown from just one Government CAFR (NY STATE 2005 RETIREMENT FUND CAFR) shows 133 billion dollars of investments held (Microsoft 44 million shares thereof). http://cafr1.com/NYSR.html

 
Motive for conspiracy to Blackout the simple mention of CAFR from the public's realm of comprehension?

 
ANSWER: The substantial money, Investments, and Power obtained there from and accomplished for those on the inside track could be the most probable answer.

 
SNOPES.COM "CAFR SILENCE IS GOLDEN" URBAN LEGEND STATUS AS OF 02/01/07: No Comment

 To DOWNLOAD examples of State CAFRs, some City, County, and School District CAFRs, go to:

 http://cafr1.com/listings/Listings.html   (NOTE: link updated 2016)

CAFR1 NATIONAL RELEASE - 02/22/07

TOPIC: SCHOOL BOND ISSUES 

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Subject: School Bond issues 
From: "Paula"
Date: Thu, February 22, 2007 10:47 am
To: walterburien@cafr1.com
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> Mr. Burien:
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> Your article of "silence is golden" was sent to me,
> I have always noticed the education system has been used to
> generate large amounts of monies, currently there is a
> school bond being imposed, the steering committee has
> been chosen and they are going full force to get the
> bond passed, is there any information you can forward to
> get to the public involved?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Paula
>
> _____________________________________________________________

Paula:

Ask the school district / state for a letter as to who funded the School District's last several bond issues. (Get the investor information)

Then get a letter from the treasurer that the school district and or the state do NOT use their own investments funds to fund their own debt. Local governments through shell investment firms that they may start themselves or contract out with will use their own investment funds to fund their own debt and thus move money out of sight of the public to lock in a long-term investments for themselves and a debt under their "Budgetary" expenses for the public to repay.

No reply, or an illusive reply not answering that specific question is in any light an admission of their participation.

Put that can of worms out for the public to digest of their local governments over the last 20 to 30 years have transitioned into funding their own debt (bond issues) and see what happens. (The best result would be for much of the standing debt held is vacated against the standing investments held by the same local government entity) The only justification I got from the local government financial managers was that: "Look at what a good job we are doing investing the public's funds, we got them a .25% (quarter percent) lower then they could have got from the private sector."

This practice of self-debt funding by local governments now exceeds several trillion dollars in composite totals. The cost of interest for that debt is shown on the "Budget" report and the returns from the investment that funds the debt is shown in the note sections of the local government's corresponding CAFR "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report".

NOTE: It is some times better to go to the State run Enterprise Authority handling the financial investment and do a reverse look at what local governments are participating and for how much.

Walter J. Burien, Jr.
P. O. Box 2112
Saint Johns, AZ 85936

Tel: 928-445-3532
Web: http://CAFR1.com