In the aftermath of ENRON, The SEC focus on accounting practices and reporting of financial conditions of businesses and corporations extended to that of woefully neglected financial disclosures of "governments" now required to report liabilities for compensation packages of public employees.

Estimates are measured in $Trillions of that "Black Hole" of frequently unfunded largesse in compensation, benefit and pension packages, with liability for performance a mere surcharge [law enforcement, social services, King/Drew Hospital], 10,000 slots in LA's Skid Row inadequate for the 60,000 "homeless," and these "public managers" overriding the financial breakers to now bill "Joe and Jane Taxpayer," regardless of their ability to absorb same, when they have no where the job security of their "public employees" excepted from consequences of performance; to wit, Republican strongholds of San Diego and Orange County along with Democratic Los Angeles County

Apply cost effectiveness of enhanced productivity to reduce public payrolls [2% union dues]overall, reduce class sizes, increase compensation and add bonuses for qualified teachers; recognize social services and counseling as critical and integral components of educational systems, far more cost-effective than systems of jails and prisons.

Decriminalize recreational use of drugs, tax those sales, and impose the same sanctions applied to consumption of alcohol. Emphasize and fund quality systems of education and social services inclusive of those to address protocols essential to genuine rehabilitation of adverse conduct.