Accountability Profession
Here is today's bonus item, a presentation that was delivered by acting comptroller (the head of GAO) Gene L. Dodaro to the Institute of Internal Auditors' 2008 International Conference last week.
It's called "Preparing the Accountability Profession for 21st Century Challenges." Government Inc. found the array of issues facinating. Mesmerizing, even.
It's a clear reminder of how important oversight is and will be for a long time to come.
By Robert O'Harrow |
July 14, 2008; 2:49 PM ET
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Posted by: 3rd-Party Advocate | July 16, 2008 4:49 PM
"secularism=license"?
Hardly. But coming from a religious point of view as you do, I can understand your confusion.
Secularism doens't mean a lack or moral accountability and certainly has no "out" for legal accountability in any United States court.
Secularism simply means laws and morals stand on their own rather than being attached to a carrot/stick approach that varies among religious sects. Laws and morals vary so much between sects they condemn each other to perdition/hell, so how to choose which ones must apply to everyone in the U.S.?
Secularism means laws and morals are to be obeyed because they are the right thing to do as a human being, rather than a prize ticket to "heaven" or "paradise".
Many religious people equate secularism with hedonism because they are indoctrinated with that mistaken concept in their church/synagogue/mosque.
Posted by: LALA | July 17, 2008 1:24 AM
Secularism=License
E.g., "Laws and morals stand on their own", as apart from the
main: Germany, Russia, Cuba, North Korea, etc,.
QED.
Posted by: 3rd-Party Advocate | July 17, 2008 12:29 PM
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Accountability Profession
Beginning in the 1960s, era of mergers and acquisitions, I concluded that Public Accounting was more reliant on achieving income for itself than lending objectivity elsewhere; proxy statements from the Dow 500, perennially underscored the point. Vying CPA firms just did not make it.
The Old Testament and Talmud established the rules for accountability, but with the pressure for secular freedom,
accountability meant constraint. The sexual revolution and
Wall Street ( make that Hollywood as well ) championed that
cheating was the path to fulfillment; and some of its effects is seen below110th Street and in the Hamptons.
Sen. Schumer applies accountability to the Supreme Court and
makes it a waiver for Wall Street: dare anyone hobble or
suggest jail time to the latter and leaping Schumerman will appear. Sen. Schumer would be a good mentor on the subject.
If religion is off-limits, to enable accountability, Devil's Island
should be an option. Unfortunately, secularism = license.
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