California Spent $196 Billion and Can't Tell You What It Got
On the structural gap between spending accountability and outcome accountability in California's bond programs — and the cryptographic audit infrastructure that makes outcome measurement independently verifiable.
This piece connects the Oak Park surveillance contract failure to the broader bond accountability problem, and introduces the clawql-government specification: Merkle-chaining and Arweave anchoring applied to government program outcomes so voters and auditors can independently verify whether bond-funded programs delivered what was promised.
California spent roughly $196 billion without a durable, independently verifiable answer to a simple question: what did we get?
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