The Real Federal Deficit
It isn’t just the size of the deficit but this sentence from this article:
Congress has written its own accounting rules — which would be illegal for a corporation to use because they ignore important costs such as the growing expense of retirement benefits for civil servants and military personnel.
This is so typical of all levels of government and at the root cause of nearly every problem in society today.
Government gives itself monopolies that would be illegal for anyone else, wavers from laws that would be illegal for anyone else and special privileges that would be illegal for anyone else that then does everything it, (government and those who run it) can do hide what it is really doing.
Article here.