[the_Watchman]

This would seem to show a good trend! Just a few years ago it was trillions. Now, it's only billions. :)

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

(^: It is too big to handle. Mario Cuomo still hasn't accounted for a billion or so in missing HUD money, but the mainstream press wasn't interested in Clinton "mismanagement." It's resurfacing now, along with the newly discovered homeless "crisis," a 40 year-old case of a monstrous, murderous racist church burning, and the surprising fact that bad guys exist in the world....the fault, of course, of a Republican administration.

I found this surprising (from the #15 link):
It was the second time in U.S. History that the government has tried to comply with a 1994 law requiring it to account in a businesslike way for the revenues, expenditures and assets of the 24 Cabinet-level departments and agencies--a total of 70 agencies with some 2000 components.

How long do you think this law will stay on the books? My grandfather worked for the Re-negotiation Board back in the 60s and 70s....before they closed it and gave up the practice of true competition for government contracts, to keep costs down. In a decade we were buying those $100. hammers (for campaign contributions...). Well, so I was told by my most honorable grandfather. (^: