All waste flows from two wells

Part of every tax dollar is wasted.

All waste flows from two wells; incompetence and corruption.

There is no other remediable source of waste.

We might argue about the part of the dollar that is wasted;
10%, 25%, 50%, maybe more. But there is no argument
that none is wasted.

Imagine that 1% of the budget is spent every year, on
impartial forensic audits of the spending of every dollar.

Imagine that it becomes impossibly difficult to be corrupt
or incompetent, and get away with it.

What is the downside?

There is none.

Except for corrupt and the incompetent in public service.

You can expect that annual forensic audits of public service
will be opposed by every single public servant,
from the school board to the presidency,

who does not want to be audited.

You can expect them to fight audits vigorously; in fact like
their jobs depended on it.

It is an idea whose time has come.

The beginning of the end of public corruption and
incompetence is as early as next Wednesday afternoon.

It doesn't make any difference if you care about the APS
or even if you live in Albuquerque.

There is no legitimate agenda that does not move forward
on the day that impartial annual accountability audits
become the norm, and not the exception.

There has never been a full scale forensic audit of the
leadership of the APS. And it is riddled with corruption
and incompetence.

Accountability is fatal to corruption and incompetence.

There is only one way for public servants to hold themselves
accountable for their conduct and competence, and that is
to submit to an impartial audit.

Everything else is just talk. There is no equivalent gesture.

An audit, the results of which will be made public, in their
entirety. The results will not be delivered instead,
to those who's conduct and competence is being audited,
for them to hide from public knowledge.

The first annual forensic accountability audit of public service
will begin the very afternoon that enough people show up at
a board meeting to demand that audit.

... and not a day sooner.