More “Fun with Funds” from California State Manual (see Media/Uploads post) [Publ. 11/14/2013
More “Fun with Funds” from California State Manual (see Media/Uploads post) [Publ. 11/14/2013]. (short-link ends: “-24q”) This title and short-link (and border/font-change) added July 11, 2019) Wordcount, about 20,000: note: I see it contains some tables, i.e., see Title).
SHOW AND TELL RE: FUNDS AND FUNDING. AND, THE SIGNS OF THESE TIMES. WHO WILL BECOME the “TRACKERs, observers, teachers” of these things?
This is another in a series of Show and Tell Posts providing more language (concepts) and tools (links) to “Shine the Light” (some readers will recognize where that phrase comes from) on exactly what my blog motto talks about. Including the money. Others include:
- My Media Uploads/Retrospective — But First, the Context (published 11/11/2013)
- Look and See, Show and Tell (Selected Media/Library Exhibits to this Blog (published 11/11/2013, just now…)
- Who Owns, Operates and Leases the Real Estate [and buildings] in Which Justice is Dispensed? [[make that “from which” justice is dispensed…]]
- There is in the State Treasury a Family Law Trust Fund (published 1/27/2013, about a year ago).
INCIDENTALLY, Blogging and Quoting Protocol:
WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get)! This is packed with information and insight, not to mention exhortation, demonstration, and all that. Originally I just wanted people to see the visual for the listing of those funds..
(By the way– this IS my effort and writing, and if you quote segments of it elsewhere, please include a link and reference “FamilyCourtMatters.wordpress.com” and or (See Gravatar) “investigative blogger “Let’s Get Honest.” Also be aware than when you do so, a lot of formatting codes are going to come along and possibly make it look visually (even) worse, a situation that makes posting neat and clean stuff (including those quotations and the occasional graphic) a real difficulty.
Anything not credited to someone else with quote or link, IS co. me, co. 2013 and for the readers, that’s “Let’s Get Honest,” owner of this blog, til further notice. I do not sign my name for reasons of safety/outstanding legal issues of the underlying court case. Were it not just me, I’d possibly have “ditched it” earlier, but as a parent, I cannot.
Did you come up with this information and put it in context and chronological setting?
So, if you quote — be sure to LINK and CITE (and let me know)!(Thanks!)
The longer ANYONE holds money (before distributing) in either interest-bearing or investment (ROI-producing) accounts before distributing it — depending on their relationship to the tax code — the more profits they have, and the less whoever gave it to them did, UNLESS those who gave also needed write-offs. The people who LEAST need to be giving the MOST upfront and hoping that stewardship is good and services (to handle your distressed neighbors, or self included) are good and timely — are individual workers, not having formed of joined corporations to protect and consolidate their assets. And that’s MOST of America, from what I can tell.
Economically “Out of sight out of mind” is not good balance of power. Unchecked power (and to properly check power, ONE Group of organized people have to have some economic sufficiency AND the time and heart to put into the matter!)
In general I may not say it beautifully, but I know these are the right questions to ask, and things to consider. A journalist who is going to unearth the amount of evidence in individual custody cases that this woman Anne Stevenson has, or about Courthouse Corporations and “The Training” rackets that THIS one has Marv Bryer, is rare. There are many, though not enough, more where they came from (including yours truly) particularly concerned with the courts.
However, ALL people can and should put in some basic, minimal time and learn to EDUCATE THEMSELVES how to look up fund balances, and identify where the money flowing through these family and conciliation courts is coming from, and going to! Their collateral damages affect neighborhoods and present, future and past generation, and there is a clear pattern of goods in motion FROM one sector TOWARDS other sectors. Only looking at the financials, and that movement, will properly identify the sectors. Moreover, it’s a good education of a neglected (except by those in it) field.
IT’S (BEYOND) TIME TO CATCH THE DRIFT, AND DIG FOR THE DETAILS, AND DETERMINE THE DIRECTION IT IS GOING, AND WHETHER THIS IS THE ONE WE (‘the People’) WANT. THIS PROCESS WILL ALSO HELP BETTER DEFINE WHETHER THERE EVEN IF A “the People of these United States” ANY MORE, AND IF SO, WHO THAT REFERS TO.
I hope that in my lifetime more people catch on, strategize a resistance, publicize this information and themselves get organized to disseminate the basics. I’m working on it too, but it’s definitely not a one-woman job, and after this gauntlet lasting years (it was never closed, resolved, or put right. The legal and factual matters remained OFF the table and there has been no consensus. People simply continue to get older IN the abusive relationships and as these things to, the longer you’re in it, the harder it is to get free. Anyone is welcome to help — there’s a Donate Button on the right sidebar. Looks like this:
CALIFORNIA MANUAL OF STATE FUNDS:
- A November 2013 printout of a listing labeled “October 2013″ (Column 2 anyhow) from the California Manual of State Funds; accessed at this site (Col.2) http://www.dof.ca.gov/accounting/uniform_codes_manual/funds/documents/20fundnum.pdf and a related one, for Column1, which (click and see) gives concise, one-page forms explaining which legislation started the fund, where it’s revenues come for and more information.
- Anyone can click on ANY fund# and find out valuable information about where it came from, how it’s allocated, who gets it, which bright idea it was (AB or SB #, i.e., who proposed the legislation to start with, before it became law) and if it’s still valid. If it’s been abolished, that’s listed, and where the balances were going to go IF it (as funds do) got abolished or replaced by some other fund.
- So looking at these lists is a “get-acquainted” process at a minimum, and get a better picture of what’s actually going on, economically and in an organized fashion — with public money.
This post of course supplements related ones on Economic Matters and how to plug some of the gaps in logic given us by “the powers that be” (through media) about our duty to continue supporting the stripping of our assets and the income from them by collecting it up front while still persuading most people that any services they provide are also still “PAY AS YOU GO” when they simply are not.
In other words, time to “stuff” that stuff in the correct filing basic — the out-box, i.e., file under “if not false, then pretty d@rn mis-leading.”
Seeing is better believing — so I’m showing some of the many funds, here, and as usual a few more pieces of evidence.
While it may be “Fun with Funds,” this material is not funny.
Yes, there is a cartoon, however I also included a large segment (medium-blue background) on the colonization and assets-stripping of Namibia, forced conscription of prisoners to reconstruct the infrastructure of commerce (railways, mines, etc.), and in the process of putting down resistance of the “indogenes” (people whose origins WERE from the area), genocide. And the reasons the GERMAN genocide was, while well-known as of at least 1918, covered up by the British, in the process of learning to get along as co-colonists, such that the “Blue Book” wasn’t readily available, or generally available, til about 100 years later (2003), apparently unless one was a scholar, or knew to look for it. We cannot turn back the clock, but cannot we learn something from the past, and forestall the next few genocides, seeing them coming???
I put this in there to remind us that the process of stripping a population, or a targeted component of any population of its assets, changing their social structures, and eventually disarming and then eliminating them (except for those kept for forced labor) BEGAN in a certain way. I also have to note that it is the same (ethnic and national) countries, or at least their rulers, doing it then as, in very many ways, now.
There are differences, of course. But there are plenty of similarities. All I ask is for people to consider the evidence. AND, when the weakening of an entire nation economically IS taking place, there is a long-term game plan in place, should there be too much “dissidence.”
MY ACUTE AWARENESS OF CASH FLOW and PRACTICES TO DERAIL, CURTAIL, COMMANDEER IT, OR USE OTHERS TO PRODUCE IT UNDER DURESS FOR PERSONAL GAIN AND FAME:
As a person living with a (paranoid control freak prone to drive the point home with violence, a.k.a. a batterer) I know personally that the hate/fear/love of money (versus love of self, neighbor or other human beings, including local communities–or one’s spouse and kids even) or of NOT having lots and lots of it without actually working for it, or using smarts to steward invest, and produce it — drives a lot of the violence around. In such people cutting of necessities or access to getting them from other than the controlling/abuser, is common, and IS a tactic – a very effective one, too.
We also know that lack of cash flow to buy necessaries of life (food, housing, transportation, clothes for self and children, education as possible) drives multitudes of Americans today.
If you’ve been through the rapid cycling of work // no work // violent incidents // work sabotage // restructuring through divorce and restraining order // fighting to keep (and the other, fighting to remove) that R.O. // major time sabotage and down times from income-producing, job-basedfor hour-based activities — you know that in our Western, federally-state-politically driven economy-based culture cash flow is CRITICAL to the success or failure of even life, let alone businesses. To survive all this I had to become acutely aware of the TIME vs. INCOME vs. ASSETS balance. While it’s always important, when it’s below a critical level, it will make or break any operation,, including a lawsuit to get protections to stay alive, or a household move to get away abuse. And, I noticed that consistently, when I showed initiative and altered even ONE piece of the puzzle or balance — there was a counteracting/reaction/retaliation from my ex and family, I called it a “pingback” and continued to seek outside (redress) from the courts or police when this was drastically destroying my only work, or income.
It was in that process I learned what led to this blog — the system’s strange response to being asked to do what it claims it exists to do — whether protection from violence, anti-stalking, enforcement of custody or visitation orders, or even enforcing child support arrears. The question came up — if they are not there to do the appointed jobs, than what ARE they there for?
LIKEWISE, the governments of this country, ALL OF THEM, are quite aware of the same issues — so, when the PAY AS YOU GO INCOME TAX is continuing to fill and build the coffers, the difference between citizen and governments increases exponentially. It doesn’t look good for them to be operating at astronomical profits (although they clearly are), so the diversification of services provided and funds set up to people who were previously deprived in advance of their income (as were prior generations of them many times) makes government operations look more and more vital. In cases where they’ve previously destroyed cultures, households, neighborhoods, and ways of life, they may be — but that’s still not good for the collective population.
(RE: PAY AS YOU GO income tax became policy LONG AGO (like 1943 / Beardsley Ruml)
From the Beginning, it seems the US Treasury was big on collecting revenues from taxpayers (even after sending millions of them off to die in war which later brought specific profits to some of the cartel that helped finance Hitler, as it turned out, and profited from concentration camp labor and human experimentation on prisoners, altering the culture and character of America today. AND after collecting excess gold from Americans under “trading with the enemy” AND then suddenly raising the price of gold.
This came, also, after a major “Reorganization of Government Act” in 1939, helped set up the New Deal, a Strong Executive Office of the President, and starting to operate the country more like a corporation, than a nation). January 11,1943 St. Petersburg Times Article (google) — also see p. 4 of same paper for more. In other words, to encourage more people to PAY UP on that tax, they had amnesty for the year 1942, which had the US Treasury complaining loudly about its losses. Some things never change, eh? Page 4 also notes that there is going to be a “Sex Democracy,” Women on Juries, and it’s hoped that in 1943 the Florida Legislature will pass some laws giving equal rights to women (we are still waiting for that federal “ERA” to pass. I don’t expect it anytime soon – 90 years later!). Here’s a FEBRUARY 5, 1943 Cornell Daily Sun [vol. 62 #80] article in which he’s (as Chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank) arguing that this is best for all, to House Ways and Means.
March 1943 – Pay as you go Tax from “Aunt Ethel’s War” [[=WWII Cartoons. Seriously, it was a man’s “Aunt Ethel” collection, and he began posting them on-line]]
By early 1943, Congress had raised income taxes radically to finance the war and also imposed income tax on millions of Americans who had not paid it before. But polls showed that few Americans now to the tax for the first time were saving to make their payment.
With a March 15 tax deadline looming (not April 15 as now), the Treasury Department worried about the prospect of massive tax evasion. To the rescue came a man named Beardsley Ruml, an executive for R.H. Macy & Co. and an advisor to Roosevelt.
At Macy’s Ruml had observed that customers didn’t like big bills. They preferred making payments bit by bit, even if they had to pay interest to do so. So Ruml devised a pay-as-you-go plan for taxpayers whereby employers would retain a percentage of taxes from every paycheck and forward it directly to Washington’s war chest. Withholding, as we know it today, was born.
ALL Disclaimers apply — I am posting this listing simply to demonstrate how many funds exist, and show they can be looked up. The existence of a fund number doesn’t mean it has a balance in it (that would be checked elsewhere), but each state (and no doubt other jurisdictions within states — for example, counties, or any other governmental “district” or “authority” legislated into existence) is going to have a listing of funds — because that’s how government is organized. These funds have names and numbers, and balances, revenues to and expenditures from, and purposes. It gets pretty interesting!
Most of this post is a two-column printout (Numbers — with hyperlinks to concise, one-page descriptions of the funds — and Names) of FUNDS in the California State Manual. I am assuming that these are all “Governmental” or “Govermental-Other” type funds, and do not include Fiduciary, Proprietary, or Special Revenue funds, either. However, see the link provided to verify.
Here are the first 10 rows, Fund 0001 being “General Fund.”
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The whole FUNDS list is after more introduction to emphasize that sleepwalking about accounting matters is not in our best interests — and to protest the process of selling off public infrastructure that the public helped set up, then leasing it to private corporations and billing the same public (or their kids/grandkids) for the usage — ESPECIALLY when some of this includes nice new courthouses to further fine, bill, and force the public to sit through indoctrination classes (a “Cultural Revolution” in Family Theory?) or ransom a few hours of time with their children, removed for initially, say — violence and later for, say, alienation (pointing out the violence and attempting to protect the kids or oneself)….
(Wikipedia on Fund Accounting also has some basics, i.e.:
State and local governments use three broad categories of funds: governmental funds, proprietary funds and fiduciaryfunds.[1][6]
So, this ENTIRE page deals only with “Governmental Funds” — either General Fund 0001 (around since the state), or since about 1978, it says, a whole set of other accounting codes for “Governmental Funds – “OTHER”)
Nonprofit organizations and government agencies have special requirements to show, in financial statements and reports, how money is spent, rather than how much profit was earned. Unlike profit oriented businesses, which use a single set of self-balancing accounts (or general ledger), nonprofits can have more than one general ledger (or fund), depending on their financial reporting requirements.[4] An accountant for such an entity must be able to produce reports detailing the expenditures and revenues for each of the organization’s individual funds, and reports that summarize the organization’s financial activities across all of its funds.[5][6]
At the bottom, I’m pasting another reminder (from the same Wikipedia article) that things work differently for governments than for businesses, and to hammer in, again, that ‘GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS” AT NOT THE ONLY KID ON THE BLOCK!! CAFRwealth
Or see “Bear Market Economics: The Debt Crisis; Real and Imagined (Geraldine Perry, 2/2011 in “The Dissident Voice,”) she uses a Chicago Example, refers to the work of Gerald Klatt and Walter Burien, and clarifies the situation — the public is funding the buildup of certain infrastructure which is then “privatized” in a technically correct, but ethically and fiscally DIShonest manner .
Quoting just a segment of that article (short enough, plain enough) doesn’t do it justice, however, here is a short segment:
Like the Fed, states and local governments appear to be [[italics mine/LGH]] between a rock and a hard place, and like the Fed’s QE2 program now aimed at Main Street, solutions for state and local governments have been so far less than palatable. One such solution known as “infrastructure privatization” has been rapidly gaining momentum in recent years and involves the sale and/or lease of public assets to private interests. These assets include such things as airports, parking meters and parking garages, public water and utility systems, toll roads and bridges, sea ports, zoos and other outdoor spaces, and more — all originally built by taxpayers and paid for with taxpayer monies.
Courthouse Construction
“The need for trial court construction and repair in California is immense, with an estimated cost of approximately $3 billion just for immediately needed courthouse projects. No single source of public funds is large enough to finance these projects, so the State of California, through the Judicial Council/Administrative Office of the Courts, is exploring new and promising ways to construct court buildings in partnership with the private sector. Performance-Based Infrastructure (PBI) partnerships capitalize on the development expertise of the private real estate, design, construction, and facilities operations sector, while ensuring that projects meet their objective of providing high-quality infrastructure for the public.”
Long Beach Court Building Proceeds (12/20/2010)
Project agreement finalized and financing secured for first U.S. Courthouse delivered by performance-based infrastructure, to replace the Long Beach Courthouse.
…[Back to the article]
Metered municipal street and garage parking spaces are among the most popular of recent municipal privatization schemes with one of the first taking place in Chicago “where the city received $1.16 billion in 2008 to allow a consortium led by Morgan Stanley to run more than 36,000 metered parking spaces for 75 years.” Essentially Chicago residents and visitors will, for the foreseeable future, be paying Morgan Stanley and cohorts for the privilege of using parking meters that had already been built and paid for by taxpayers – the income from which heretofore had been used primarily for governmental operating expenses.
This particular parking meter deal, similar to many such “privatization” schemes, immediately translated into higher fees – which not only resulted in a huge public outcry but prompted the inspector general to assert that “the city was short-changed by about $1 billion” based on the new fee structure. . . . .
Not only is this privatization trend “being spurred by a cottage industry of consultants, lawyers and bankers” but even more importantly, it amounts to a fire sale that could help plug budget holes now but worsen their financial woes over the long run.” Some have gone so far as to say, not wholly without justification, that this collective governmental move toward privatization of public assets amounts to little more than corporate fascism – ruled by government proxy through state appointed regulators, rather than citizen votes.
The Debt Crisis, Real and Imagined
Curiously, and at the same time that local governmental entities have been selling off public assets to buyers far and near through “infrastructure privatization,” many have also been actively acquiring a wide variety of assets as investment vehicles and profit centers. These assets, taken together, show that “collective government has controlling interest in all Fortune 500 companies and most other major corporations in and outside of the United States.” Documented evidence of this can be obtained through careful study of at least a portion of some 185,000 governmental entities – everything from school districts to city and county governmental bodies to state government – now using CAFRs, or the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reporting System. . . .
LIKE I KEEP POINTING OUT (here’s from 2012), who OWNS the Infrastructure? Which is not the same as, who paid for it (which was often the public):
Top 10 Owners in the Bentley Infrastructure 500
| Rank | Company Name | Headquarters Country | Infrastructure Value* (millions USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | United States | 343,200 |
you can see what the top industries (as far as “Tangible Fixed Assets”) are — however do realize that CALIFORNIA is the highest-ranked State out of the United States on this list:
| 13 | GDF SUEZ | France | 115,720 |
| 14 | WAL MART STORES INC | United States | 112,324 |
| 15 | KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS | Netherlands | 112,036 |
| 16 | STATE OF CALIFORNIA | United States | 109,015 |
| 17 | CHINA PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION | China | 107,484 |
| 18 | AT&T INC. | United States | 107,087 |
Notice we own less than Wal Mart. (Wal Mart, incidentally, received some kind of “Corporate Fellows” award from the National Governors’ Association (or, its Center for Best Practices) … TEXAS AND NEW YORK ARE NEXT. FLORIDA IS PROBABLY NEXT AFTER THAT — THE FOUR BIG COASTAL STATES:
| 24 | STATE OF TEXAS | United States | 96,155 |
| 25 | ENI SPA | Italy | 95,203 |
| 26 | STATE OF NEW YORK | United States | 91,866 |
| 27 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | United States | 88,434 |
| 28 | GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Russia | 87,317 |
Florida is #40 on this list:
| 38 | JOINT STOCK COMPANY “RUSSIAN RAILWAYS (JSCO RZD) | Russia | 72,410 |
| 39 | E.ON AG | Germany | 72,289 |
| 40 | FLORIDA, STATE OF | United States | 69,536 |
| 41 | NEFTYANAYA KOMPANIYA ROSNEFT | Russia | 69,294 |
| 42 | QATAR PETROLEUM | Qatar | 69,042 |
So, how odd (or is it related) that people are being driven onto welfare and having their homes appropriated by the banks (those that owned homes), in part through these courts. Does this process sound a little bit historically FAMILIAR? Did people who previously were subjected to the same treatment actually resist, and if their natural resistance was indeed overcome, HOW was it overcome? Persuasion to enter into treaties not in their best interest, destruction of resources they needed to live on, driving them off their homes, re-indoctrinating their kids into the “new, better’ way of life (cutting off their roots, essentially), or simply vastly superior resources — or weaponry (technology) – or the backing of a powerful country from another continent — or all of the above?
I happen, sorry, I’m a woman and it comes up — to be thinking specifically of the original Americans, and of South and Southwest Africans. Not for the first time, here’s a page from Klaus Dierks’ chronology of Namibia: Not the first time I’ve posted this.
I am also writing this with the hindsight and awareness AS IT WAS HAPPENING of a single mother DV survivor who had to restructure a livelihood post-separation, had already done so, and witnessed firsthand the tactics and techniques of the family court system in dismantling and targeting any ability to ever get to that level of self-sufficiency again. I was personally
What I’m saying is — people who are NOT fierce and DO seek peace — can end up losing severely when the other side is nothing of the sort; never was, never will be. In this case, the peace-seeking simply enables the others to better solidify their position.
That’s where the United States is right now (and individual states) regarding the vast accumulation of wealth. So here’s THAT summary, again. I have inserted a few horizontal lines for paragraphing. Notice the PROCESSES and the SECTORS attacked; that the time frame mentioned is about 40 years (one or two generations only) and that they were “interfering in local politics.” What we have now is federal funding interfering at many levels in local government (state custody courts, and more). THESE FUNDS (CHART BELOW) SHOW GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS AND ARE A GUIDELINE. In the next quotation — very sentence is loaded with meaning. Please consider!
THE CHRONOLOGY OF NAMIBIA from Prehistoric Times to Independent Namibia
Klaus Dierks
02 January 2005
Copyright © 1999-2005 Dr. Klaus Dierks
3. THE PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD: THE MISSIONARIES
SSIONARIES INTERFERE IN LOCAL POLITICS 1842-1883
Namaland undergoes a rapid social change in the first half of the 18th century, from a kinship-based, pastoral, self-sufficient society, to military oligarchies supported by European missionaries, which are dependent for production on a destructive trade network of European traders and hunters. These dependencies lead to increased “underdeveloping qualities“. Natural resources are irreparably destroyed (between 1760 and 1880 immense populations of seals, elephants, rhinoceroses and even giraffes in southern and central Namibia are wiped out) old, well established skills such as the digging of wells with hard labour (or the manufacturing of household utensils) are lost with resulting dependencies on springs and fountains which again lead to the closure of whole settlements.
The destructive trade network with the Cape Colony [[South Africa]] drains the country of assets and productive resources and receives nothing comparable in exchange. This is in spite of the fact that the Orlam Afrikaners and their allies do issue certain controls in order to keep in check the trade links with the Cape.
New diseases are introduced from the Cape Colony, i.e. smallpox, venereal diseases and alcoholism.
The social and historical distinctions between original Nama groups and the Orlams as well as the old group structures have all but vanished by the time these polities emerge.
From now on mission stations are planned as military centres, even the churches.
The missionary campaign to christianise Africa not only converts “heathens” into Christians, but also tries to convert Africans into Europeans. Many of the African (and Namibian) traditions disappear not so much because of theologically-based criticism, but rather because of the cultural imperialism of the early European missionaries.
Historical and anthropological studies show that the advent of Christian mission change the cultural imagination of Africans fundamentally. The efforts of Christian missionaries are decisive in the imposition of a new mode of being, the reconstruction of religion, aesthetics, knowledge, bodily representation, sexuality, gender relations, social institutions, such as marriage and the family, and indeed most of aspects of people’s living. Thus, the cultural implications of Christian missions cause a cardinal reconstruction of identity and the social space.
CONSIDERING THAT CHRONOLOGY (1842-1883) TAKE A LOOK AT THE EVENTS IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS; HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET BACK TO INDEPENDENCE? WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE EVENTS MENTIONED ABOVE? IN CHAPTER 3.2??? THIS IS A LONG EXCERPT, BUT THE POINT IS — WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FAILING TO ASSESS THE CHARACTER OF AGGRESSORS PROPERLY, AND IN A TIMELY FASHION, AND NOT BEING ORGANIZED OR COMPETENT TO RESIST. FIRST, THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY HABITS WERE COMPLETELY UNDERMINED….SO THAT IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT NOW, IN THE USA.
4.THE COLONIAL PERIOD: GERMAN RULE
4.1INITIAL PERIOD OF GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA (SWA) 1884–1889
4.2THE ACTIVE RESISTANCE STRUGGLE BEGINS 1890-1903
4.3 THE RESISTANCE STRUGGLE CULMINATES IN GENOCIDE 1904–1906
[Selected paras. from this section: Leutwein, then (the really bad dude) Von Trotha are the German commanders who are to establish dominance over German Southwest Africa (later to become “Namibia”]…Samuel Maharero orders all Ovaherero chiefs to take up arms against the Germans. He orders them to “refrain from touching missionaries, English, Basters, Berg-Damaras, Namas and Boers“. There are doubts concerning the date of this order. It is possible that Maharero wrote this letter after the outbreak of the war (around 20.01.), after the first shots were fired in Okahandja, where it is not clear at all, who actually fired these first shots (Missionary Diehl reports that only the Germans fired on his house, not the Ovaherero)._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Samuel Maharero tries to involve the Basters, under Hermanus van Wyk and Hendrik Witbooi, in the struggle. The two letters Samuel sends to Witbooi never reach him, and Van Wyk is not willing to support Samuel. Van Wyk hands over the letters for Witbooi to the Germans. In the second of these letters Samuel writes: “All our obedience and patience with the Germans is of little avail, for each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all. Hence I appeal to you, my Brother, not to hold aloof from the uprising, but to make your voice heard so that all Africa may take up arms against the Germans. Let us die fighting rather than die as a result of maltreatment, imprisonment or some other form of calamity.”_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _This uprising takes place due to loss of control and ownership of traditional land (German native reserve” policy), usury by traders, increasing debts, cases of rape, the sale of alcohol, the increasing ill-treatment of Ovaherero and threats to Samuel Maharero’s life– – – – – – – –The Germans are supported by Hendrik Witbooi, but in October 1904 Witbooi is prompted to revolt against German rule by the countless murders and ruthlessness of the Germans, in the light of which – especially after the Waterberg battle in August 1904 – Witbooi’s soldiers realise that the Germans are bent on wiping out all Africans regardless of their tribe or sex.[[DOUBLECHECK — this is a quote from a Rutgers Thesis (Co. 2012), page 20 — quoted below in a small table); the author Coleen Thornley, also cites this Klaus Dierks reference:“The Nama (also referred to as Witboois or with the use of the derogatory term, Hottentots) were originally a tribe from the Cape Colony who migrated to Southwest Africa in the early nineteenth century after years of conflict with the Boers.63 For our purposes, the Nama were led by Hendrik Witbooi, a learned and literate Christian man who led his people until his death in 1905.64 Although the Nama retained aspects of their original culture, the Blue Book indicates that the tribe began to include some European traditions, such as applying European governmental styles to tribal politics towards the turn of the century.65 Olusoga and Erichsen state that the Nama were skilled on horseback and fierce warriors, which unfortunately led German settlers and officials to target them between 1904 and 1908.66″
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Seeking to negotiate, Leutwein sends a letter to Samuel Maharero to ascertain his whereabouts. The German Government reprimands Leutwein for this attempt to negotiate. . . .Leutwein warns against a policy of exterminating of the Ovaherero.. . . .[in March, in Germany:] “In the German Reichstag (Parliament), August Bebel representing the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) condemns the “suppression war” against the Ovaherero. He further demands the termination of the war and refuses to budget for its continuation. He calls the resistance of the Ovaherero a “justified liberation war.” …The battle of Ongandjira is fought with heavy losses on both sides. The Ovaherero have to give way before a sustained German artillery bombardment commences, and they escape in a northerly direction. . . . . ._ _ _ _ _ _
Samuel Maharero has to retreat to the waterholes of Okatumba and Oviumbo.. .The battle of Oviumbo is fought and the Germans are nearly defeated. Leutwein decides to withdraw to Otjosazu and await troop reinforcements from Germany. In Germany he is subsequently heavily criticised for his decision. The overwhelming majority in Germany still do not recognise that the Ovaherero nation is fighting for its survival and against colonialism.. . .
Leutwein urges the German press to stop reporting that after the termination of the war all tribal structures – of the Nama communities too – would be destroyed, the chiefdoms abolished and all communities disarmed. This propaganda creates considerable unrest among all SWA indigenes, and is one of the causes of the Nama resistance war fought from August 1904 onwards. He writes the following: “I do not concur with those fanatics who want to see the Herero destroyed altogether. Apart from the fact that a people of 60 000 or 70 000 is not easy to annihilate, I would consider such a move a grave mistake from an economic point of view. We need the Herero as cattle breeders, though on a small scale, and especially as labourers. It will be quite sufficient if they are politically dead. ! ! ! ! !”
28.04. The battle of Okangundi is fought, ending in defeat for the Ovaherero.
A German contractor, Arthur Koppel arrives in Swakopmund to expedite the construction of the Otavi railway line being undertaken by OMEG [Otavi Mining Company]. The company makes use of contractors… ) and labourers either imported from Italy or Ovaherero prisoners-of-war (men, women and children forced labour).
Traugott Tjienda, an Ovaherero headman from Tsumeb reports: “I was being made to work on the Otavi line … We were not paid for our work … I was a kind of foreman over the labourers. I had 528 people, all Hereros, in my work party. Of these 148 died while working on line. The Herero women were compounded with the men. They were made to do manual labour as well. … They were compelled to cohabit with soldiers and with railway labourers. The fact that a woman was married was no protection. Young girls were raped and very badly used. They were taken out of the compounds into the bush and there assaulted. I don’t think any of them escaped this, except the older ones.”
Leutwein, shortly before the arrival of General Lothar von Trotha, makes one last attempt for a negotiated settlement. He issues the following proclamation, printed in Otjiherero, to the Ovaherero: “You well know that after you have risen against your protector, the German Kaiser, nothing else awaits you but a fight to the death. Until then I cannot stop the war. However, you can stop the war, by coming over to me, handing in your guns and ammunition and receiving your expected punishment. … “. Subsequently von Trotha turns down Leutwein’s negotiation efforts and henceforth a negotiated peace is out of the question.
4.4 GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA CONSOLIDATES 1907–1914
The “geneticist” Eugen Fischer uses German South West Africa as a field site for the development of later notorious theories on European racial superiority. Fischer studies the bodies of 17 Nama prisoners of war who have perished in a concentration camp on Shark Island near Lüderitz. These Nama fighters, including Nama leader Cornelius Frederiks of Bethany (who dies in the Shark Island concentration camp on 16.02.1907) who had surrendered to the Germans in March 1906, are decapitated. A published photograph of three heads supposedly provides visual evidence to support the “scientific” arguments for German racial superiority over the Africans. . .
5. THE COLONIAL PERIOD: SOUTH AFRICAN RULE 5.1 SOUTH WEST AFRICA UNDER SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY RULE 1915–1918 5.2 SOUTH WEST AFRICA BECOMES A LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATE 1919–1945 5.3 SOUTH WEST AFRICA BECOMES A UNITED NATIONS TRUSTEESHIP AREA 1946–1956 5.4 THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA BEGINS 1957–1974 5.5 THE INDEPENDENCE PROCESS: PERIOD OF INTERIM ADMINISTRATIONS 1975–1987 6. THE INDEPENDENCE PROCESS LEADS TO NAMIBIA’S FREEDOM 1988–1990
OK, that took us from 1840 – 1990 (and references to another continent and how Germans handled Africans, regardless of their tribes, after first disrupting their social structures in favor of a “superior” (as defined by them) one, weakened their self-sufficiency, wiped out the buffalo, passenger pigeons,… (‘scuse me), “seals, elephants, rhinoceroses and even giraffes” and used the churches as military outposts.
When the “indigenes” finally caught on and began resisting, the colonizers as we know, escalated to genocide which, in particularly German manner, was meticulously detailed. Even the deceased and decapitated bodies and heads became the topic of “social science” studies aimed at distinguishing one ethnicity from another in a “scientific manner,” while after refraining from COMPLETE genocide because some cattlebreeders and laborers were still useful. They developed in Shark Island and elsewhere, models for future concentration camps, and engaged in general in warfare for the purpose of increasing global commerce. Afterwards, when evidence of some of these horrors were discovered, it was suppressed for the period of German-English cooperation in managing the area. Search for “The Blue Book, Herero genocide” (and/or Namaqua). As it usually happens, about 100 years later, sometimes an apology MAY be forthcoming:
“preventgenocide.org” “On August 14, 2004, on th 100th anniversary of the battle that began the Herero genocide, Germany’s Development Aid MinisterHeidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul offered her government’s first formal apology for the colonial-era massacre of some 65,000 members of the Herero tribe by German troops in Namibia. “We Germans accept our historic and moral responsibility,”she said, “Germany has learnt the bitter lessons of the past.” Ms Wieczorek-Zeul repeated that there would be no compensation, but she promised continued economic aid for Namibia which currently amounts to $14m a year. [BBC Aug. 14, 2004]. Or from Georgetown library. Or from what looks like a woman’s 2012 Dissertation in partial fulfilment f an M.A. in History from Rutgers (Newark, NJ):
“Little HEAPS OF SAND.” GENOCIDE IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA AND PRESS SILENCE IN 1904” by Coleen Thornley Dissertation Director: Dr. Susan Carruthers (112pp, here’s the PREFACE):
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“NOTHING” like what’s going on nowadays, in slightly different terminology, right? WRONG!!!!
There are plenty of similar accounts (I like the detailed and objective style of narration from Klaus Dierks, apparently an engineer, and who also lived there). Year 1904: ” The overwhelming majority in Germany still do not recognise that the Ovaherero nation (in what is now called NAMIBIA) is fighting for its survival and against colonialism.. . “
In the Year: 2013, and for approximately now the past 20+ years (one full generation of children born and reached adulthood):
I live in the 16th largest owner of infrastructure in the WORLD, when corporations, nations, states and cities are all compared, as I showed above (2012 printout). The numbers in right column are expressed in MILLIONS, not thousands, and not real numbers. According to this, California controls $109,015,000,000 of hard asset infrastructure. As I showed above, again, per at least this source, the USA is #1. California is the first state that shows up, though (Year 2012, Source: Bentley 500)
| Rank | Company Name | Headquarters Country | Infrastructure Value* (millions USD) |
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| 1 | UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT | United States | 343,200 |
| 2 | EXXON MOBIL CORP | United States | 214,664 |
| 3 | STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA | China | 209,727 |
| 4 | OPEN JOINT STOCK COMPANY GAZPROM | Russia | 208,677 |
| 5 | PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. – PETROBRAS | Brazil | 184,133 |
| 6 | HIGHWAYS AGENCY | United Kingdom | 173,148 |
| 7* | ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC | Netherlands | 152,081 |
| 8 | ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE SA – EDF | France | 144,875 |
| 9 | NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION | Japan | 126,110 |
| 10 | CHEVRON CORPORATION | United States | 122,608 |
| 11 | THE TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INCORPORATED | Japan | 121,579 |
| 12 | BP P.L.C. | United Kingdom | 119,214 |
| 13 | GDF SUEZ | France | 115,720 |
| 14 | WAL MART STORES INC | United States | 112,324 |
| 15 | KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS | Netherlands | 112,036 |
| 16 | STATE OF CALIFORNIA | United States | 109,015 |
| 17 | CHINA PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION | China | 107,484 |
| 18 | AT&T INC. | United States | 107,087 |
(#7 is “blue” row is simply because of where my cursor was at the time).
So how can it be that this State owns $109,015,000,000 worth of (infrastructure) and yet is cutting food stamps for its people? Does it have to do with who OWNS what? So again, I raise that question — and I’m hardly the first — who OWNS most of California? Its people?
You see WALMART, #14? (Same guys that women employees filed a civil rights sex discrimination lawsuit again, not too long ago)? This (FORBES) list of the 10 wealthiest Americans, shows about 4 Walton Family heirs, 2 Kochs (the Koch Brothers), NY Mayor Bloomberg of New York and founder and majority owner of “Bloomberg, L.P., a data-driven financial services firm,” Larry Ellison of Oracle (didn’t graduate from College) and of course, Bill Gates (#1, dropped out of Harvard..) To me that looks like three telecommunications-related.
WHO OWNS WHAT (LAND, WATER, INFRASTRUCTURE, COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, UTILITIES, BUILDINGS, BUSINESSES?) ABOUT THIS OWNERSHIP – OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENTS OF MOST OF THAT WHICH SUSTAINS LIFE (AND PRODUCES INCOME) BY CORPORATIONS, AND GOVERNMENT LEAVES THOSE WHO DON’T CHOOSE THAT PATH, IN WHAT POSITION?
$$$^^^$$$^^^
Who OWNs, what? From October 2012 (about one year ago), Business Insider talks about the largest PRIVATE owners of land in America – two media tycoons, one own(ed at the time) more land than the state of Delaware:
The 25 Biggest Landowners in America
Good old fashioned land has become one of the hottest investments in the world, as stocks disappoint, currencies go to war, and food prices soar. Luckily, America has a lot of land. Especially America’s 100 biggest private landowners, according to the latest data from The Land Report.
The top dog on the list is, for the second year running, media tycoon John Malone, who owns 2.2 million acres—more than twice as much land as Delaware. He narrowly beat out fellow media tycoon Ted Turner.
(This article is showing the top 25 from “The Land Report.” What’s interesting, many of them (not all) made their initial money in telecommunications or media….). I just showed a few:
#3 Archie Aldis ‘Red’ Emmerson owns 1.84 million acres
Courtesy of Sierra Pacific Industries
Red Emmerson in California
Red Emmerson is president of Sierra Pacific Industries, a family-run lumber manufacturing business that ranks as California’s largest private landowner. He owns just under two million acres of forestland in California and Washington, adding over 100,000 acres in 2011.
Data published with permission from The Land Report.
#18, a farmer that diversified out of potatoes:
#18 The J.R. Simplot Heirs own 408,663 acres
J.R. Simplot Company
Founding father J.R. Simplot and his vast agricultural complex in Idaho.
The J.R. Simplot Company started its fortune in potatoes but diversified over the years to become one of the largest, privately held food companies in the world.
They own agribusiness land in Idaho. The land and livestock division has 37 farms and 15 ranches with capacity for 30,000 mother cows.
Data published with permission from The Land Report.
And a familiar name, sometimes comes up in foundation funding of some of the grants I’ve seen around Colorado: Anschutz:
#16 Phillip Anschutz owns 434,493 acres
Anschutz Exploration Corp
Sports mogul Anschutz and one of his many drilling rigs
Phillip Anschutz’s company has investments in energy exploration, telecommunications and agribusiness. His Anschutz Entertainment Group is also the world’s largest owner and operator of sports and entertainment venues.
He owns the 250,000-acre Baughman Farms in Kansas; 149,493-acre Overland Trail Cattle Company & Ranch in Wyoming and 35,000 acres in Colorado.
Data published with permission from The Land Report.
What about the Water? Who owns the WATER in this state, that we need to survive and live, and that is needed for fish, and agriculture, and so much more? Well, Wikipedia:
This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in theU.S. state of California. All thirty-six reservoirs that contain over 200,000 acre feet (0.25 km3) of water at maximum capacity are listed. This includes those formed by raising the level of natural lakes, such as at Lake Tahoe. Most large reservoirs in California are owned by the federal Bureau of Reclamation and to a lesser extent the Army Corps of Engineers, many serving the Central Valley Project or State Water Project. Smaller ones are often run by county water agencies or irrigation and flood control districts.
If you check each of the reservoirs (I just did), who owns their waters, or operates them (or built the dam when) becomes clear — Often “US Bureau of Reclamation,” or a Water District or authority, some, Parks and Recreation — it varies. Another thing that becomes clear, as California had a gold rush, and a gold rush produced mining — many times the original tribes were driven off to create the dam, and/or the water was polluted. One (Hetch Hetchy) was built after the SF Earthquake of 1906 — and the water supply was an issue. The Sierra Club and John Muir (who died before the fight was up, 1924) fought it, comparing the area to Yosemite, and recommended alternate sites.
The Water, Reservoir situation caught my attention when news (recently) proclaimed that one of the state’s reservoirs, San Luis, was low…earth is showing where there used to be water.
I am one of the luckier ones — but still this is NOT an usual scenario in our country…. and still I have been income-plateaued, which makes it difficult to leave abusive relationships (the two are related), and have found the “helping agencies” to have been helping themselves to tax-payer funds without addressing the primary causes posed by the court system itself. That sounds like a harsh statement, but keep in mind, I’ve been looking at VOLUMES of evidence in this field….
. . .yet while raising a family (including giving birth, working, and contributing as a worker to the local economy, that is, inbetween having work sabotaged by an abusive husband, thereafter the courts), I have experienced more poverty than at any time in my entire life, and during the work years of life, was forced to fight just to stay alive, for daily needs, and to continue to reach out for help, resources ,and eventually, legal intervention before my entire family line (household) was possibly going to be killed by a man who would not get help, and didn’t want to let me leave. moreover, there have been YEARS of stalking since, and harassment. For all this, as we speak:
Currently, someone else is controlling what assets are in my name; one of the children has fled the area and the other one has (from what I can see) adapted and submitted to the same type of control, for a temporary peace and rewards — while I, the mother, have been forced back onto Food Stamps (more than once since separation), my ex (the father) has NEVER been forced to maintain even (apparently) enough income to sustain himself (kind of like when we were together also) or pay his set-low child support — and food stamps are being cut by $20 a month, I think nationally, but I know locally.
I have heard every excuse under the book (sic) in and out of court, and realize late in this game that that’s simply national policy. Dads are in, Moms are out — and particularly single Moms are being scapegoated for our very status, while rhetoric is set up (“changing the cultural imagination” above) which, from multiple levels, conceals the scope of the situation, and CHANGES THE LANGUAGE TO ELIMINATE MENTION OF OUR KIND BY NAME, AND IF SO, POSITIVELY). How is this different from the same intentions from the same sorts of individuals, more than a century ago?
The new, official label to us “troublemakers” (we won’t go away by dying off fast enough, playing the assigned roles) and we often won’t shut up, either): “low income people” or “low-income families.” Alternately “high-conflict people.” There’s no end of labels and profiling. I have yet to meet a “low-income person” and don’t believe this is a good descriptor, regardless of what the person’s income may be. I have met high-income people I would classify as sociopaths, and others, not. The intense focus on “INCOME” from the powers that be (specifically, governments, collective — in the hundred-thousand-plus in this country alone) distracts the conversation (intentionally) from the government’s own income AND assets.
Social distress has become a marketable commodity for cause-related contractors and grantees — and is delineated below in many of these NAMED FUNDS. If we work, we fund through taxes. If we don’t work, the previous wealth is redistributed not to us, but to people who study why there are still poor people around (without getting to the heart of the matter, which is, the flow of money FROM them TO another sector, and as if were a complex mystery — when it’s not!)
Perhaps what is being WITH-held from citizens is contributing to the accumulated profits? Or perhaps as we are simply so busy with survival as a whole, that no one has been reviewing, questioning, or looking for the WHY of this diligently. So, I figured we should at least have a look at the named funds in ONE of the 50 States and US Territories, and start to talk about their contents, their purposes, select a few to find out whose bright idea they were, and etc.
This is a November 2013 printout of a listing labeled “October 2013” (Column 2 anyhow) from the California Manual of State Funds; accessed at this site (Col.2)
http://www.dof.ca.gov/accounting/uniform_codes_manual/funds/documents/20fundnum.pdf
and a related one, for Column1, which (click and see) gives concise, one-page forms explaining which legislation started the fund, where it’s revenues come for and more information.
Formatting: I did a lot of “data-massage” to get column2 (and 1) from a straight printout. Numbers may not always line up, and I don’t know how to do “vertical-align=top” so added some extra space at the bottom of column one.
It appears that (at least for now) that from this source, the format to find an individual fund by fund# might copy this; or look for and click on it.
http://www.dof.ca.gov/accounting/manual_of_state_funds/index/documents/0001.pdf
I wish I could just post a thumbnail view, it really is just 10 lines of information however the text (minus the form itself) of General Fund 0001 reads:
Department of Finance STATE OF CALIFORNIA MANUAL OF STATE FUNDS
Fund: 0001 PAGE 1 Renumbered From:
| Legal Title | General Fund |
| Legal Citation/Authority | Government Code sections 16300-16315 |
| Fund Classification GAAP Basis | Governmental/General Fund |
| Fund Classification Legal Basis | Governmental/General Fund |
| Purpose | The General Fund has existed since the beginning of the State as a political entity. It is the principal operating fund for the majority of governmental activities and consists of all money received in the Treasury that is not required by law to be credited to any other fund.The Legislature created various special accounts within the General Fund that are reserved for particular activities.Chapter 942, Statutes of 1977 provides for the treatment of these accounts as other governmental funds for accounting and budgeting purposes effective July 1, 1978. Accordingly, the State Controller set up separate fund numbers to accommodate the reporting of these accounts.These General Fund Special Accounts are described separately. |
| Administering Agency/Organization Code | The majority of agencies in the state are concerned with collection for and expenditures from the General Fund. A detailed listing is not practical in this outline but may be found in the annual Governor’s Budget and the State Controller’s Annual Report. |
| Major Revenue Source | Major taxes of the State are the principal source of money## . Income to the fund varies in accordance with the Governing statutes. A detailed listing is contained in the Governor’s Budget and the State Controller’s Annual Report. |
| Disposition of Fund (upon abolishment) | It is not anticipated that this fund will ever be abolished, since it is the primary source of funding for State government. |
| Appropriation Authority | This fund is available for appropriation by the Legislature except for various constitutional and statutory authorizations that continue from year to year without further legislative action.State Appropriations Limit Included–Proceed of taxes (primarily Personal Income, Sales and Bank and Corporation) used for financing state operations. |
| Comments/Historical Information |
Revised September 2011 FUND 0001
AS I UNDERSTAND IT (AND I’M NOT AN ACCOUNTANT), Certain practices permit excess revenues in any year to be re-named not as REVENUES, but thereafter as ASSETS or other Fund Balances, thus the government can indeed operate at and retain literal profits while technically, legally (through accounting verbiage) be saying this is the “primary source of funding for State Government” without actually lying. The restrictive phrase is, for “GOVERNMENTAL COSTS” (note: basic — from Fund 0001, or all these “other Governmental.” But as they refer to, and as even the table of contents in of a State Budgetary/Legal Basis Annual Report indicates — there many more holdings, and funds (not just hard assets like roads, buildings, bridges, etc. — but literally investment or interest-bearing accounts, etc.) than just GOVERNMENTAL costs.
Here’s another statement of the situation. I also posted this recently in the same context.
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From “CAFRMAN.com” Gerald Klatt. This entire site is worth reviewing (studying!). In this section, he proposed a “CBS” CAFR-based Budgeting System which was appropriate for citizens and government alike, and below it, explains the current process. So “CBS” was his proposal. This man possibly lost his life as a result of posting this information. I hope others will take time to consider it! From “INTRODUCTION“
The Problems [/LGH] “The CAFR Budget System (CBS) is a method of combining certain data from the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) with the budget process.” There are three major problems with the current budget process in most State and local governments:
*(c. Carl Herman talking about California’s $600 billion pension fund — that’s the asset!). He (author) also talks about the TIMING, and points out that it’s “utterly ridiculous,” with computers, for it to take a full year to publish the prior year’s CAFR — they don’t do this with budgets! It’s intentional, and signifies government NOT wanting the public to know about those CAFRS:
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YET EVEN LOOKING AT “GOVERNMENTAL COSTS (other, and Fund 001) alone — look at the scope of activities!
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** in other states, I have found this site (which was coordinated through a nonprofit to start “Children’s Trust Funds” in every state, often has and sells fatherhood curricula. See under State of Michigan, for example. There is a National Alliance association.
Another portion of the Wikipedia Quote, above:
State and local governments use three broad categories of funds: governmental funds, proprietary funds and fiduciaryfunds.[1][6]
Governmental funds include the following.[7][8]
- General fund. This fund is used to account for general operations and activities not requiring the use of other funds.
- Special revenue (or special) funds are required to account for the use of revenue earmarked by law for a particular purpose. State and federal fuel tax revenues require special revenue funds, because federal and state laws restrict these taxes to transportation uses.
- Capital projects funds are used to account for the construction or acquisition of fixed assets,[9] such as buildings, equipment and roads. Depending on its use, a fixed asset may instead be financed by a special revenue fund or a proprietary fund. A capital project fund exists only until completion of the project.[10] Fixed assets acquired and long-term debts incurred by a capital project are assigned to the government’s General Fixed Assets and Long-Term Debts.
- Debt service funds are used to account for money that will be used to pay the interest and principal of long-term debts. Bonds used by a government to finance major construction projects, to be paid by tax levies over a period of years, require a debt service fund to account for their repayment. The debts of special assessment and proprietary funds are serviced within those funds, rather than by a separate debt service fund.[11]
- Special assessment funds account for public infrastructure improvements financed by special levies against property holders. Sidewalk and alley repairs often rely on special assessments.
Proprietary funds include the following.[7]
- Internal service funds are used for operations serving other funds or departments within a government on a cost-reimbursement basis. A printing shop, which takes orders for booklets and forms from other offices and is reimbursed for the cost of each order, would be a suitable application for an internal service fund.[12]
- Enterprise funds are used for services provided to the public on a user charge basis, similar to the operation of a commercial enterprise.[13] Water and sewage utilities are common examples of government enterprises.[14]
Fiduciary funds are used to account for assets held in trust by the government for the benefit of individuals or other entities.[15] The employee pension fund, created by the State of Maryland to provide retirement benefits for its employees, is an example of a fiduciary fund.[13] Financial statements may further distinguish fiduciary funds as eithertrust or agency funds; a trust fund generally exists for a longer period of time than an agency fund.[16]
Fixed assets and long-term debts[edit]
State and local governments have two other groups of self-balancing accounts which are not considered funds: general fixed assets and general long-term debts. These assets and liabilities belong to the government entity as a whole, rather than any specific fund.[17] Although general fixed assets would be part of government-wide financial statements (reporting the entity as a whole), they are not reported in governmental fund statements.[18] Fixed assets and long-term liabilities assigned to a specific enterprise fund are referred to as fund fixed assets and fund long-term liabilities.[19]
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