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CAFR 'Off-Budget Incomes
DWARF 'Budget Deficits'

By Dick Fojut
5-5-8
 
Our State and Local government "BUDGET DEFICITS" may not reflect large SURPLUSES of CAFR money income our governments' ACTUALLY possess! For example: in 2003, the State of Arizona had an $11.45 BILLION SURPLUS of Taxpayers money it was not using! The City of Phoenix had a SURPLUS of $2.34 BILLION! (See details further below.)
 
WHY ARE MEDIA PEOPLE NOT PUBLICLY ASKING ABOUT THESE LARGE, SOME HUGE, CAFR SURPLUSES OF MONEY?
 
CAFRS are the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports sent each year to Washington, revealing the ACTUAL financial investment earnings, income, etc., and SURPLUSES of money separately possessed by 84,000 Government related entities - States, Counties, Cities, School Districts, Pension Funds, etc.
 
A State ONE BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT sounds enormous! (It was in Orange County too years back! See further below how they "solved" their deficit.*)
But publicly reported yearly BUDGETS and BUDGET DEFICITS do not reveal ACTUAL government financial conditions - especially SURPLUSES! Only the CAFRS do!
 
If there are LARGE SEPARATE ("off normal budget") CAFR SURPLUSES in the State of Arizona, its counties, cities and school districts, etc., it appears possible the proposed money-saving closing of schools, non-hiring, layoffs of teachers and other public employees - and tax increases - may NOT be as critically necessary as thought! (Probably the great majority of government officials, employees - and media editors, reporters are unaware of the CAFRS and CAFR surpluses.)
 
About the CAFRS: the COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORTS...
Since 1946 (legislated by a wiser Congress), 84,000 Government entities including States, Counties, Cities, School Districts, etc., have been required yearly to report the ACTUAL accumulated financial assets and income they each separately possess.
 
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THE NATIONAL CAFR SCANDAL WAS FIRST EXPOSED BY WALTER BURIEN...
 
 Arizonan Walter Burien http://cafr1.com/ was the first to alert us that the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports have intentionally been kept largely "invisible" to the American public, now for over 60 years!
 Burien further revealed that:
 
   The composite totals of investment assets held internationally by USA government is staggering. Between local and Federal government, the total of liquid investment assets held Internationally is a conservative sixty (60) Trillion dollars.
 
- And if Burien is correct with these percentages, note the following incredible revelation about behind-the-scene government ownership of American Big Businesses:
 ...Government owns most through Bond - Loan investment / stock ownership [EXAMPLES: 82% stock ownership of Microsoft Corporation, Disney 61%, AOL - Time Warner 58%, EXXON 72%] to manufacture abroad so that Government would realize greater returns on their investments at the Peoples of the USA's expense in jobs and wealth retention.
 
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 About Arizona specifically...
In 1999 Burien persuaded fellow Arizonan, retired Air Force Intelligence Officer and expert Govenment Auditor, Lt. Colonel Gerald Klatt, to do the necessary accounting to reveal the yearly CAFRS for some 39 States including Arizona - along with the two major Arizona counties and some cities. Colonel Klatt (cafrman.com), did so each year - until he died in 2004. The following CAFR reports are only through 2003. (But it should reasonably be expected that the CAFR government surpluses TODAY in 2008 total MORE than shown through 2003.) Valid question: Are the current proposals to cut teachers, government employees, services and increase taxes REALLY necessary? Consider the following...
 
Separate CAFR surpluses in Arizona through the year 2003 (from Klatt's website)... 
 
The State of Arizona Has At Least $11.45 Billion In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-AZ-S1.htm
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Phoenix Has At Least $2.34 Billion In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-Phoenix-AZ-CY1.htm
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Maricopa County Has At Least $845 Million In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-MaricopaCounty-AZ-C1.htm
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Pima County Has At Least $239 Million In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-PimaCounty-AZ-C1.htm
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Scottsdale Has At Least $483 million In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-Scottsdale-AZ-CY1.htm
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Tempe Has At Least $341 Million In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-Tempe-AZ-CY1.htm
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Glendale Has At Least $385 Million In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-Glendale-AZ-C1.htm
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Mesa Has At Least $245.4 Million In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
FY 2003 Report
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-Mesa-AZ-CY1.htm
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One nearby State...
 The State of CALIFORNIA Has At Least $59.83 Billion In Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-CA-S1.htm
FY 2003 Report
 
 "RAINY DAY FUNDS."
I've lived in Tucson for over 50 years, but until about year 2000 when some of us asked about the CAFRS, I had never heard about any "RAINY DAY FUND" - that our then County Manager said he "didn't want to dip into." Soon after, the then Arizona Governor also mentioned "not wanting to dip into the State RAINY DAY FUND." Recently on TV I heard one Network commentator say that some States may have to "dip into their RAINY DAY FUNDS." I am suspicious the term "RAINY DAY FUND" has been presented locally and nationally, to avoid admitting the existence of the publicly unknown (often HUGE) CAFR surpluses of money funds not being used (or returned to Taxpayers) by local and State governments!
 
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*Referred to at top, about another (past) ONE BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET DEFICIT - in Orange County, California... The following is extracted from Burien's article further down "CAFRS: THE BIGGEST SECRET"
 
 * When Orange County lost a little over $1 billion in derivatives investments, they were crying "poverty" and threatening to shut down schools, police would have to be laid off etc. However someone dug into the Orange County CAFR and found out that the county had about $16 billion in profitable investments! The county, from their profitable liquid investment funds / cash position could have continued performing the same services, without collecting one dime in taxes, and could have done so for another 11.9 years from the existing funds prior to running out of money! The crying stopped.
 
 * While he was a Mayor, Jesse Ventura's city council wanted to raise $360,000 in taxes to cover a short fall on their "city budget for schools." Ventura objected when he discovered the city owned $48,000,000 in idle investments funds from which the $360,000 could be drawn from without raising taxes!
 
From Walter Burien's current website...
 
THE GOVERNMENT OWNS IT "ALL" BY INVESTMENT - By Walter Burien
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report - CAFR
http://cafr1.com/
May 2, 2008
 
Excerpts only...
 
 THE CAFR SHELL GAME - THE REVOLUTION-BE A PART OF IT!
 
"GROSS" INCOME of government is now 1/3rd "TAX" income and 2/3rds NON-TAX income derived from: return on INVESTMENTS and money generated from government Enterprise projects.
 
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Any Company or in fact Country can be "made" or "broken" through the use of those government investment funds. China just cut off further new US "Government" investments, now several trillion dollars worth in China so that would not happen. China learned by seeing what happened to Mexico then Russia.
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The #1 Profit makers for Government from their investments are: The War Industry; Oil Companies; Pharmaceuticals; and Banking. (300% to 400% profits) - for NY CLICK HERE (on web page) TO SEE THE INVESTMENTS SHOWN IN JUST ONE (1) CAFR ( 2006 - NYSR-CAFR )  or for CA  ( 2006 - CALPERS - CAFR ) .pdf file
 
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 Local and Federal Government's gross income in 1999 was 8.5 trillion dollars and the entire population's of the USA gross income, "net after taxation" 4.8 trillion dollars.
 
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 After you look at a state CAFR review, then look at your many city, county, school district, State University CAFR. Government Enterprise operation such as Toll ways, Bridges, Ports, water, sewer, power, recycling, CAFRs should then be looked at.
Pensions, self-funding debt financial authorities, self insurance authorities CAFRs should be looked at also. As of 2005 there are over 84,000 "individual" Annual Financial Reports (the CAFR) produced by just our local government operations. Each with their own investments and cash accounts...
 
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The composite totals of investment assets held internationally by USA government is staggering. Between local and Federal government, the total of liquid investment assets held Internationally is a conservative sixty (60) Trillion dollars.
 
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    Could it be that our own Government over the last several decades has been promoting to those fortune 500 companies, of which Government owns most through Bond - Loan investment / stock ownership [EXAMPLES: 82% stock ownership of Microsoft Corporation, Disney 61%, AOL - Time Warner 58%, EXXON 72%] to manufacture abroad so that Government would realize greater returns on their investments at the Peoples of the USA's expense in jobs and wealth retention. Additional articles by Burien...
CAFRs: The BIGGEST Secret -
$60 Trillion Invested By Fed, State, & Local Governments! 6-30-00
http://www.rense.com/general2/bigsecret.htm
 
Excerpts only...
 
Reported - but for all purposes HIDDEN from American taxpayers - Local, State and Federal governments currently hold about 60+ trillion dollars of profitable investments in real estate, pension funds, insurance companies, liquid investment funds, bond financing accounts and corporate stock portfolios (32 Trillion) over 53% of America's stock market, and a large percentage of the international stock market, etc., are all revealed in their required filing of CAFRs (Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports) and noted reports therein.
 
Walter Burien, who has been blowing the whistle on this gargantuan scam, says, "Americans OWN the majority of America's WEALTH and don't know it." With the profits rolling in from international investments, you now know the true motive behind NAFTA and GATT.
 
 * When Orange County lost a little over $1 billion in derivatives investments, they were crying "poverty" and threatening to shut down schools, police would have to be laid off etc. However someone dug into the Orange County CAFR and found out that the county had about $16 billion in profitable investments! The county, from their profitable liquid investment funds / cash position could have continued performing the same services, without collecting one dime in taxes, and could have done so for another 11.9 years from the existing funds prior to running out of money! The crying stopped.
 
 * While he was a Mayor, Jesse Ventura's city council wanted to raise $360,000 in taxes to cover a short fall on their "city budget for schools." Ventura objected when he discovered the city owned $48,000,000 in idle investments funds from which the $360,000 could be drawn from without raising taxes!
 
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CAFRs And Pending US 'Economic Collapse
 
By Walter J. Burien, Jr
WalterBurien@cafr1.com
http://www.rense.com/general74/cafrss.htm
Oct. 29, 2006
Excerpts only...
 
1. Composite wealth may now be 80 trillion but I always use a conservative 60 trillion plus. This money is standing investment and cash accounts.
 
2. There "is" an Economic Disaster looming. Government in their greed to hoard the wealth has taken over the market. In fact government "is" the market now.
 
In 1929, the public was the primary holder and they would and did have panic selling spree causing the collapse. Now government is the primary holder and they orchestrate continued gains to perpetuate their balance sheets.
 
Here a bubble exists but a bubble under ultimate control. If 100% of the public panicked and sold every share they owned, the market would have a severe dip but then come right back and then shoot higher with government now picking up most of those shares at a discount and then by effect would own 100% of the market.
 
Government did this before and after 911. They had massive short derivatives held going into 911 whereby a few trillion were picked up on those derivatives almost overnight as time goes when the derivatives were exited from.
 
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The Government Economy Con-Game = "Derivatives" 
 
By Walter Burien
http://CAFR1.com/NGE.html
March 15, 2008
 
A few excerpts only...
 
One way Government now "creates wealth" out of thin air is by covertly taking it "all" as a monopoly from everyone else. The ever-growing 516 trillion dollar international derivative market is a key tool used by Government to do just that. Read the article linked below, (see URL links in website article) but before you do, please read my comments below the link first:
 
Many of these investment funds are now managed outside of the US (off-shore) with trillion dollar US Government account balances that are not even visible for ease of inspection per their trading activity.. Do the lower level government employees know this? No, for most they do not.
 
 Last year the Chinese Government cut off further US Government investments in China (US Government investment funds, especially on their derivatives market were taking over). India on the same day put restrictions on US Government investments in their derivatives market for the same reason also. The following day the US Stock Market was down 650 points. (Some thought the game was over, but it was not)
 
But don't worry about the US Stock market foolks, whoops, sic: folks) US Government local and federal owns the primary corporations in the US Market by composite stock ownership. Private sector ownership is insignificant in comparison. Salute Comrades!
 
To have a NWO (New World Order) under your control, derivatives are an important step to knock-out all opposition by taking their wealth and they will come in-line for management soon enough and then be accepted into the ranks of the inside players...
 
Not a peep on TV per the core of this game? Well, Silence is Golden it seems.
 
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