“Gee, consider this: 50% of all taxes collected by FedGov are wasted due to waste, fraud, and abuse. FIFTY percent!”
I won’t argue with your sentiment, but, in terms of facts, I don’t know from where your 50% figure is derived.
Here's one item to get the flavor of his book: “. . . We have 154 different job-training programs. At no point does anyone even claim that they get any jobs. They had a cosmetology job-training program that cost $148,000 per license. We have a job corps that costs $25,000 per kid, the residential program. They said 46 percent of the kids finished the program until the inspector general came in and said, ‘No, you're lying; only 14 percent completed it.’ We have job-training programs in all 14 cabinet agencies. And, when I said it was $17 billion wasted, when Nancy Kassenbaum took over in ‘95 as head of Education and Labor, she said, “No, no, it's not $17 billion; it's $25 billion.”