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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector-*********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 3/4/2003 at 5:15 PM GG <wrote: >Better title: GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING 101 on how to maintain 2 sets of >books and not get caught like ENRON did while LYING to the PEOPLE. > >But the truth of the matter is the government does not care if you >catch them in LIES because the government says it does not have to >respond to the PEOPLE because the government is SUPREME over the >people! >Zieg Heil FEDERAL STRUMFUERHERS! >walter sharp >box 562 >Abilene, KS 67410 >-------------------------------------------- > >Numbers never lie. Or do they? With government, it's simply a matter >of who's keeping the books. Take America's so-called war on drugs, for >instance. Last year, Congress earmarked nearly $19 billion�nearly >twice what it spent on military operations in Afghanistan�to enforce >U.S. drug laws. > >This year's totals, however, are remarkably different. According to >the White House's 2003 "National Drug Control Strategy," released in >February, the Bush Administration will now only spend some $11.2 >billion fighting drugs! > >How can this be? Is some part of government actually shrinking? On >closer inspection, it's clear that this year's supposed >belt-tightening is only illusory. Thanks to new Enron-styled >accounting procedures initiated by the White House, America's drug war >costs a lot less than it used to�at least on paper. > > >In a little publicized announcement last year, officials from the >White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (a.k.a. the Drug >Czar's office) revealed that they had developed a "new methodology" >for reporting the federal drug budget�which had grown from less than >$2 billion annually in 1982 to $18.8 billion last year. Under this >scheme, only funding for agencies involved in so-called "primary" drug >war activities is now tabulated in the national anti-drug budget. As a >result, more than two-thirds of the agencies included in past years' >budgets are conspicuously missing from this year's financial totals! > >By far the largest and most startling financial manipulations are >within the Department of Justice (DOJ), which reported a reduction of >more than $5.5 billion dollars in drug-war related expenses between >2002 and 2003. Remarkably, the majority of costs removed are those >associated with the incarceration and care of federal drug prisoners! > > > >How so? "Based on the criterion that they are associated with the >secondary consequences of the government's primary drug law >enforcement and investigation activities," such expenses will no >longer be tabulated in the federal drug budget, the ONDCP explained. > >Other DOJ departments and activities related to drug law enforcement, >investigation and prosecution are also deceptively missing from this >year's tally. For example, annual funding for INTERPOL, the U.S. >Marshals Service, the U.S. Attorney's office, the federal "asset >forfeiture fund," and community policing are noticeably absent. > > > >Millions of dollars in annual funding for additional agencies >previously tabulated in the national drug war budget, such as the >Department of Education, have been reduced without explanation, while >others�including the Department of Transportation ($594 million in >2002), Department of Interior ($39 million in 2002), and the >Department of Agriculture ($29 million)�have been expunged from the >books all together. > >To make matters even more confusing, the 2003 "National Drug Control >Strategy" makes virtually no reference to the White House's new >accounting procedures, and manipulates past years' budgets to >retroactively reflect the Feds' latest "fuzzy math". As a result, the >White House is now claiming that America's war on drugs has never cost >more than $11 billion per year, even though the office itself >previously recorded surpassing that spending milestone in 1991! It's >the sort of deception that would make George Orwell cringe. > >If you're searching for the motivation behind the Drug Czar's >deceptive accounting, look no further than the polls. In recent years, >nationwide surveys have consistently shown that the majority of >Americans believe the drug war's current "do drugs, do time" approach >to be ineffective, fiscally costly, and doomed to fail. > > > >When given the alternative, nearly seven out of ten Americans say they >support treatment for convicted drug users rather than incarceration. >Nevertheless, despite the public's sentiment, the percentage of >federal dollars dedicated to drug treatment and education programs has >consistently been minuscule compared to those earmarked for >enforcement and interdiction. > >Until now. > >At the same time the White House is concealing billions in drug war >related prison and interdiction costs. Investigations of this year's >budget by the think-tanks Common Sense for Drug Policy and the Drug >Policy Alliance reveal that the Drug Czar's office is inflating their >expenditures on drug treatment by including hundreds of millions of >dollars in alcohol treatment spending, which by law is specifically >excluded from the ONDCP's scope of activities. > > > >As a result, the ONDCP claims that this year's budget allots nearly >equal amounts on drug treatment as it does drug enforcement�up >dramatically from past years' ratios which favored enforcement nearly >two to one�despite making no substantive spending changes. > >Ultimately, the goal of all this smoke and mirrors is to create the >perception of a kinder, gentler, and less expensive drug war�qualities >favored by the American public but seldom (if ever) delivered by >federal drug policy. Of course, beneath the clouds it's still business >as usual; the only question is: Who's going to report the Feds to the >SEC? > >------ >Paul Armentano is a senior policy analyst for The NORML Foundation in >Washington, DC, a think-tank which lobbies for the liberalization of >marijuana laws. 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