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Larry Fisher

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I graduated from Michigan Technological University (MTU) in June 1968 with a BSBA in accounting and have been a federal accountant for 40 years, mostly as a whistleblower, now 11 years retired. During the period 1980 - 1986, as the Veterans Administration's (VA) Accounting Section Chief, I warned the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that the VA's budget totals that my staff/I had provided were inaccurate, and driven by an AICPA accounting standard that was not based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). We were literally fudging the already fudged budgeting and accounting totals that we were forced to use. In 1986, the VA overspent its budget and I was told to make the adjustments to hide that deficiency. I refused, resigned in October 1986, and gave my required written reason for resigning as the "VA's falsification of its budget totals," also fudged by the VA's non-accountant political appointees to "disagreements over systems improvement ideas." During my 6 years at the VA, I was so appalled at what I saw that (on my own time), I modified the AICPA's private sector GAAP-based accounting standard to create a single public sector GAAP-based standard to accommodate the unique budgeting/accounting needs for all governments, federal, state/local, and even foreign. I also completing a GAAP-based book, Principles of Accounting, Budgeting & Cash Management For Government, that explained how those processes worked. In early 1987, I used that book to lobby Congress and the Central Agencies' Treasury, OMB, and GAO political appointees over the need to replace the AICPA's deficient (manual) non-GAAP-based standard with this single GAAP-based (automated) standard. On October 13, 1987, Treasury created its Financial Management Services (FMS) branch of 9 qualified (8 accountants/1 IT) civil servants and made me the lead Treasury systems accountant to supposedly work with OMB and GAO to implement this GAAP-based accounting standard, also just another political game. Now 11 years retired, my research revealed that both Congress and all 46 Presidents (Washington - Biden) have consistently promised to prevent the waste, fraud, and abuse of the American people's tax dollars while they take turns undermining themselves and each other to instead enrich themselves, and still no money (audit) trails! GAO's own testimony to Congress and President Joe Biden even confirms that GAO's audits of those federal budget totals are still inaccurate, also never addressed by Congress or President Biden. This undemocratic travesty (alone) more than supports the American people's demands for major civil service reform.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
An American Democracy With No Money (Audit) Trails?!: https://www.opednews.com/articles/An-American-Democracy-With-American-Center-For-Law-And-Justice_American-Center-For-Law-And-Justice_American-Crossroads_American-Education-230219-21.html There is no

Wednesday, February 22, 2023
An American Democracy With No Money (Audit) Trails?!: https://www.opednews.com/articles/An-American-Democracy-With-American-Center-For-Law-And-Justice_American-Center-For-Law-And-Justice_American-Crossroads_American-Education-230219-21.html

Friday, February 17, 2023
How Both Parties Created a $30+ Trillion Debt Spike, Unconstitutionally: https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Both-Parties-Created-a-Debt_Government_Unconstitutional-230214-142.html This article labels 44-years of the U.S. government?s operation as le

Friday, February 17, 2023
How Both Parties Created a $30+ Trillion Debt Spike, Unconstitutionally: https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Both-Parties-Created-a-Debt_Government_Unconstitutional-230214-142.html This article labels 44-years of the U.S. government?s operation as le

Friday, December 30, 2022
How Both Parties Destroyed America's Democracy: https://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Both-Parties-Destroyed-American-Flag_Americans-Elect_Americans-For-Democratic-Action_Americans-Together-221221-164.html This article explains how Congress and 7 Presi

Monday, October 24, 2022
Without Bottoms/UP Reform the U.S. Government Will Collapse: https://www.opednews.com/articles/Without-Bottoms-UP-Reform-Bottom-Up_Bottom-up_Bottom-up-Economics_Bottom-up-Revolution-221021-503.html

Sunday, January 25, 2015
Trading a Political Appointee-Based Oligarchy for a Cost Effective, Citizen-Based Democracy: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Trading-a-Political-Appoin-by-Larry-Fisher-Democracy_Democracy_Democracy-In-Action_Oligarchy-150120-401.html

Wednesday, December 3, 2014
When the U.S. Government Gives You a Lemon (oligarchy), Restructure and Make Lemonade: http://www.opednews.com/articles/When-the-U-S-Government-G-by-Larry-Fisher-Change_Government-Criminals_Government-Incompetance_Government-Of-The-People-141201-411.html

Thursday, October 23, 2014
Ending a 36 year, 17+ Trillion Dollar U.S. Government Ponzi Scheme: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ending-a-36-year-17-Tril-by-Larry-Fisher-Government-Bullying_Government-Corruption_Government-Crime_Government-Crime-141019-350.html

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Without Whistleblowers and Real Reform Now, the U.S. Government Will Collapse: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Without-Whistleblowers-and-by-Larry-Fisher-Appointees_Budget_Change_Citizens-131006-146.html

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Eliminate All Political-Appointee Managers. They've Added Trillions to Our National Debt.: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Eliminate-All-Political-Ap-by-Larry-Fisher-130328-865.html #wikileaks #us #ows

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Say No to Corruption and Slash the National Debt: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Say-No-to-Corruption-and-S-by-Larry-Fisher-130211-902.html Cut the corruption instead of slashing the bureaucracy. #p2 #topprog

Friday, September 14, 2012
Occupy the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative Branches: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Occupy-the-Executive-Judi-by-Larry-Fisher-120912-132.html

Monday, March 5, 2012
Restructuring a Broken Federal Spending Machine: http://bit.ly/wrETj0 This article shows how secrecy, CBI, abuses isolates president Obama

Monday, March 5, 2012
Restructuring a Broken Federal Spending Machine: http://bit.ly/wrETj0 This article shows how abuse of secrecy CBI policy isolates presidents

Wednesday, January 25, 2012
@jearnest44 Cutting the Federal Bureaucracy by 50% (minimum): http://bit.ly/zMNvNk

Thursday, January 19, 2012
Cutting the Federal Bureaucracy by 50% (minimum): http://bit.ly/zMNvNk @alangrayson

Thursday, January 19, 2012
Cutting the Federal Bureaucracy by 50% (minimum): http://bit.ly/zMNvNk @alangraysonsays

Thursday, January 19, 2012
Cutting the Federal Bureaucracy by 50% (minimum): http://bit.ly/zMNvNk @barack obama

Thursday, January 19, 2012
Cutting the Federal Bureaucracy by 50% (minimum): http://bit.ly/zMNvNk #p2 #topprog #TCOT #Obama2012 campaign @MMFlint

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