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Monday, Oct. 14, 2002 4:30 p.m. EDT
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a letter to Congress that the federal government's accounts would "never be tolerated in the private sector."
The New York Times is reporting that, "In part to embarrass the agencies so they will improve their financial performance, the budget office early this year began rating the 24 largest federal departments, scoring each green, yellow or red. Green indicates that the agency's financial systems are acceptable, yellow that they are troubled but improving and red that there are serious, chronic problems."
In June's rating, only one tiny, little agency was rated green. The National Science Foundation. It's the fourth-smallest of those rated.
The fourth-biggest, the Department of Defense, is the worst offender, reports the Times, with "unsubstantiated balance adjustments totaling $1.1 trillion." That's trillion, with a T.
Not that the money is missing, mind you, it's just that it can't be accounted for, and has been written off.
As if there's a difference, as far as we're concerned, but we digress.
Here are a few other write-offs and goof-ups [you might want to take notes in case the IRS comes to your house to audit you. You can play the "glass houses" card]:
The IRS does not know how much money is owed the government. It goes through an incredibly difficult and time-consuming process of estimating, so that the government can plan spending. (Not that they could ever make a mistake and estimate, for example, a surplus that never actually comes to be...)
You thought the IRS process took a long time? Try this: The INS "had to count, manually, approximately five million immigration applications" to determine fees due the government, said an inspector general's report, adding that the work "shut down production at several sites for more than a week and caused delays in processing applications." Was this shutdown before, or after 9/11, we wonder?
Four agencies had un-auditable books (i.e., Congress told them not to audit the books because it couldn't be done): The Pentagon, the Agriculture Department, NASA and the Agency for International Development. Agriculture's books have been un-auditable sine 1994. Oh, by the way, 186 people who no longer worked for the department still had approved access to the system.
Medicare made improper payments of $12.1 billion.
The Forest Service made 15,337 adjustments, credits and debits in its books, totaling $11 billion. Auditors examined 144 of those adjustments and found that 73 percent were "unsupported, unapproved and erroneous."
This is what we got from eight years of Al Gore's government efficiency improvement initiatives.
Looks as if the president needs to create a Government Fraud Task Force and haul some of these U.S. government agency CEOs and CFOs off to jail.
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a letter to Congress that the federal government's accounts would "never be tolerated in the private sector."
The New York Times is reporting that, "In part to embarrass the agencies so they will improve their financial performance, the budget office early this year began rating the 24 largest federal departments, scoring each green, yellow or red. Green indicates that the agency's financial systems are acceptable, yellow that they are troubled but improving and red that there are serious, chronic problems."
In June's rating, only one tiny, little agency was rated green. The National Science Foundation. It's the fourth-smallest of those rated.
The fourth-biggest, the Department of Defense, is the worst offender, reports the Times, with "unsubstantiated balance adjustments totaling $1.1 trillion." That's trillion, with a T.
Not that the money is missing, mind you, it's just that it can't be accounted for, and has been written off.
As if there's a difference, as far as we're concerned, but we digress.
Here are a few other write-offs and goof-ups [you might want to take notes in case the IRS comes to your house to audit you. You can play the "glass houses" card]:
The IRS does not know how much money is owed the government. It goes through an incredibly difficult and time-consuming process of estimating, so that the government can plan spending. (Not that they could ever make a mistake and estimate, for example, a surplus that never actually comes to be...)
You thought the IRS process took a long time? Try this: The INS "had to count, manually, approximately five million immigration applications" to determine fees due the government, said an inspector general's report, adding that the work "shut down production at several sites for more than a week and caused delays in processing applications." Was this shutdown before, or after 9/11, we wonder?
Four agencies had un-auditable books (i.e., Congress told them not to audit the books because it couldn't be done): The Pentagon, the Agriculture Department, NASA and the Agency for International Development. Agriculture's books have been un-auditable sine 1994. Oh, by the way, 186 people who no longer worked for the department still had approved access to the system.
Medicare made improper payments of $12.1 billion.
The Forest Service made 15,337 adjustments, credits and debits in its books, totaling $11 billion. Auditors examined 144 of those adjustments and found that 73 percent were "unsupported, unapproved and erroneous."
This is what we got from eight years of Al Gore's government efficiency improvement initiatives.
Looks as if the president needs to create a Government Fraud Task Force and haul some of these U.S. government agency CEOs and CFOs off to jail.
