About a year ago ago Andrew Cuomo accused State Senator Pedro Espada of looting his non profit of $14 million. This kind of mass fraud could only happen because of either a lack of auditors or a lack of well trained ones.

The Federal Government, states and localities are cutting back on auditing and quality control positions, beause they don't have the money. But, as we have also seen from the August massive egg recall, not only do the government agencies lack investigators and quality management staff, but also many agencies lack the enforcement authority.

Another issue is whether the auditors themselves are in the pockets of the businesses that they're supposed to audit. The continuing excesses on Wall Street make Timothy Geithner look complicit. Similarly, the opening of more public lands to drilling and logging and the BLM wild horse and burro roundups have made Ken Salazar look like he's continuing the Bush policy of putting our natural treasures up for sale for bargain rates in closed door deals. Is Obama bought? Bush appeared to either bought, delusional, or incompetent.

This is why we need many more investigators, quality management personnel and prosecutors trained in this area. We also need a far simpler system for whistle blowers to both report their concerns and be protected against retaliation. Currently, the system is a lack of system and labyrinthine. Thus potential whistle blowers look the other way because they don't know where to report their concerns and because they doubt that they will get protection from retaliation by their employers, if they do.