“Drop. Bucket.”
NO kidding! I’d wager that if we could completely stop waste, fraud and abuse, that we would have a budget surplus!
If people only knew how widespread and common this is - especially with Mom and Pop grocery stores around the inner-city and in depressed areas heads would explode.
My personal estimate (educated guess here) would be less than half a cent on the dollar of expenditure for entitlements goes towards fighting fraud and on top of that there is no incentive for any investigator to find fraud because the supervisors are Kool-Aid drinking proponents of the redistribution programs. I would even bet that in many areas of the country you might hit as high as 50% fraud.
Government healthcare is also being looted along with Bush’s prescription program to tens of billions of dollars.
Fraud in government programs administered by liberals is out of control and nobody will do a thing. It’s found in everything - taxpayer funded daycare - migrant work housing and section 8 housing - inner-city youth programs where employees don’t even show up and get paid - etc etc etc.
It’s easy to catch this stuff and prove it, but there are not even consequences for the individuals that abuse the system - only the big guys and that is rare enough.