Yahoo! News - NASA's Finances in Disarray; Auditor Leaves: "That big number -- $565 billion, with a 'B' -- was the result of posting problems, new software and a 'massive cleanup' of 12 years of NASA's financial records, said Patrick Ciganer, NASA's chief for integrated financial management." No doubt this is an isolated case though. People who keep voting for larger governement wouldn't tollerate much of this would they? http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/politics/06HEAL.html?ex=1084766400&en=26bcd8eb6c7ba48f&ei=5070 http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0802/081902t1.htm http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/BG1282.cfm http://www.ncpa.org/iss/gov/2002/pd030102b.html http://www.cse.org/informed/issues_template.php?issue_id=1532 http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/itspending/story/0,10801,88509,00.html ... and on and on ...