President Reagan once said, "Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid." As any responsible shareholder should do, we taxpayers need to closely monitor if we are getting the greatest return on our investment and hold management (in this case, government officials) accountable when we are not. A major portion of that monitoring should be comparing spending to profitability. In other words, is more money going out than coming in?