>From G. R. Anderson's article:

"Running a city is like simultaneously running a great many checkbooks that
are all supposed to reconcile when added together. There is enormous
potential for creative accounting."

"They acquired debt there so the general revenue fund wouldn't go down"

"What you have here is the city essentially borrowing money from itself,
from fund to fund"

"There was an appetite to do things that was more important than good
financial management would permit."

"Bad investments have put us in a box,"


VH comments:

I thought that I was reading the Enron testimony to Congress!

Vicky Heller
Cedar-Riverside and North Oaks



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