If you've been paying attention, I've been using the Defense Department (along with NASA) as a sterling example of what you get when the government runs something. Hint: It isn't accountability, low cost, and efficiency.

This news story talks about the DoD accounting problems (not "missing money"), and the same kind of problems in other agencies.

Keep all this in mind when you want to create a U.S. Department of Universal Health Care, and people tell you it will, unlike any other government program in history, come in at lower costs, be more efficient, and be completely free of corruption.

And I think my boat metaphor was more accurate than yours.