Back that statement up with fact. Generalities like "The federal government's accounting tricks and money waste far exceeds anything Enron ever did," are not facts.
This statement is in fact a FACT no matter how much you wish it to be otherwise. How about Social Security? How about the Dept. of Education's books coming back "unaduitable" year after year after year. Or the DOD failing to account for nearly 1 TRILLION dollars??!?!?!
Sure. The most obvious is the Ponzi structure of the Social Security system.
Last year's spending increases were hidden by moving the increases to the previous year.
This year's spending increases are going to be taken out of the military budget. A special appropriations bill will be done after the elections to make up the difference.
And if you don't think the federal government wastes billions every day, you're probably on the wrong website. Do you really think the federal government was underfunded by 30% when GWB took office?