05-31-2018, 03:13 PM
(05-31-2018, 12:52 PM)SammyOES Wrote: I think the point of the outside auditors is to play up that Government isn't to be trusted and that you need "outsiders" to clean things up.
Eroding trust in Government and Government agencies is a major tenet of some conservatives these days.
They irony of course being that one would instead be expected to put trust in outside auditors who will be vetted in advance for their political inclinations and be given a mandate to produce the politically required result.
"Folks" are easily manipulated.