$3,400,000,000,000 Of Taxpayers' Money Is Missing THE WASHINGTON TIMESBy August Gribbin April, 1999 $3,400,000,000,000(Trillion) of Taxpayers' Money Is Missing - Thread 1 GOVERNMENT CAN'T BALANCE BOOKS The U.S. Government can't balance its books and can't properly explain how it spent $1.8 trillion last year or account for $1.6 trillion in such assets as parks, buildings, missile launchers, tanks and paper clips. That's $1,800,000,000,000 in dollars and $1,6000,000,000,000 worth of things--a grand total of $3,4000,000,000,000. The upshot is that, "once again, billions of taxpayer dollars were lost to waste, fraud and mismanagement," says Rep. Steve Horn, California Republican. Mr. Horn, chairman...