Close Enough For …

Thanks to the marvels of the digital epoch, citizens can now track the government’s spending of public money.  On a website, of all things.  Of course, while the technology may change and improve, the eternals still apply.  So one is not especially astonished to learn, as Gregory Korte of USA Today reports, that:

A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/close-enough_802081.html