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Go to www.USTreas.gov, click on Treasury Bureau on the left, then click on "financial management services."
If you've made it this far click on "Financial Report of the U.S. Government" for 2001 and download it.
Now find page 49. Look at the line that says "Unreconciled transactions affecting the change in net position." The figure in the 2001 column next to that is $17.3 billion.
What that means is that when the accountants tried to balanced the government's books they came up $17.4 billion short. Note 16 on Page 110 sort of explains.
That footnote says that the accountants had to pencil in $17.4 billion that didn't exist (or was missing) in order to achieve a balanced government ledger.
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And you want me to give them more money?
Nah, they'll just waste it on drugs and whores.
thanx,
bill