[DannyTN]

"My thinking is that there is easily $500 Billion a year in waste, fraud and abuse. Conservatively."

$500 billion fraud in a program that according to the article costs "($70.9 billion in 2016)"? That's your thinking huh?

[ataDude]

$500B total in federal government spending... which is about $5 Trillion per year.

Jerk.