Who's Cooking the Books?

Originally our governmental systems was a system of checks and balances. At least, that's what I learned in grammar school. When did we get away from that idea? All well run companies and organizations should have a system of checks and balances. It eliminates the 'cooks' and the 'crooks'.

Our child support systems apparantly has no checks and balances. After we received a whopping bill for unpaid child support in 1999 from the Commonwealth of MA, we had to prove that all the payments were made. Luckily we had receipts for all of it which we provided to them. They acknowledged in writing that there was a zero balance of past due child support in 1999, but they NEVER APPLIED IT TO THE ACCOUNT!! We'd been asking for the zero balance that was acknowledge in writing to us in 1999 for a full 10+ years.

Finally, we got some help from John Linder's office and after 10+ years we actually have a report that shows a zero balance in 1999 but still shows the same amount past due. How is that possible you ask? I'm glad you asked. Every other credit that has been on our account for the last 10 years has been moved/removed. So, kudos to the Commonwealth of MA for well cooked books!!

How do you like your books cooked? Well done??