This guidance helps make sure that adequate management controls are in place to ensure that taxpayers' dollars are spent efficiently and responsibly.

It's not too late to have adequate controls on that which is spent on the reconstruction and on the contracting in Iraq,

The CPA did not implement adequate financial controls.

This raises profound questions for taxpayers as to what their tax dollars go for. If they don't go for essential services, what is their money being spent on?

It's a shame millions of dollars of taxpayers' money was spent to sit there and rot. The state really needs to do something about it.

We believe management wanted to reset the guidance bar as low as possible following four downward earnings revisions in the past six months.