Posted on 02/21/2025 3:09:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux
When trillions of dollars routinely go missing under the government’s stewardship, the money doesn’t just disappear into a nebula or black hole. The unaccounted-for money goes into people’s bank accounts. That’s why anodyne terms like “waste, fraud, and abuse” are wholly inadequate descriptors.
It would be one thing if the U.S. government made the trains run on time. Or if highly questionable government agencies and programs were just superfluous but inexpensive oddities like a human appendix.
Yet, look at the performance metrics and finances of the DMV, Amtrak, the Social Security Administration, FEMA, the Department of Education, Medicaid, USAID, on and on -- all government agencies and programs primarily serve as fig leaves to disguise graft, the theft of taxpayer dollars by government officials.
Which proves the adage that those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. And those who can do neither fail up, up, and away in government, purloining tax dollars while performing virtually no actual, meaningful work. Taxpayer money provides boatloads of welfare for government drones.
With trillions of appropriated tax dollars serving as a gigantic slush fund for government officials, it is hardly surprising that politically aligned Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and government contractors want to get in on the feeding frenzy.
Many NGOs and foundations under the umbrellas of George Soros and Bill Gates gorge themselves at the taxpayers’ trough as they partner with government to advance far-left initiatives that were never approved by voters (and in many cases violate federal law, as with the promotion and facilitation of illegal immigration).
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Bureaucrats and other government officials know they face little or no oversight (and no legal jeopardy), and thus feel free to skim as much as they like right off the top.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I want my money back.
Has anyone ever seen RATS oppose any gubmint agency before? This DOGE thing is hittin' home.
Guess what.
A Democrat Federal bureaucracy that will steal some hundreds of billions from taxpayers, via their favored NGO cutouts aka bagmen. >>> Will also cheat on elections.
Your votes and taxes paid mean nothing to these Creatures From the Black Lagoon, aka the Washington DC Swamp Deep State.
Federal bureaucracy votes 90% DemonCrat, according to what I read.
Anyone else wondering if US taxpayers have been keeping Europe’s welfare states afloat...?
add "theft"
When you see the politician crazies screaming in the streets they are involved, its a matter of time when we get to each one of them individually. They are public servants and we should demand we see how have become millionaires when their salary as a public servant does not show it Leaving a small part of the IRS just for this would be a plus
FTA——the performance metrics and finances of the DMV, Amtrak, Social
Security, FEMA, the DoE, Medicaid, USAID, the US Treasury and so on.
Govt agencies and programs primarily serve as fig leaves to disguise graft, the theft of taxpayer dollars by government officials, purloining tax dollars while performing virtually no actual, meaningful work.
Tax dollars provide boatloads of get-rich-quick welfare for govt factotums.
DOGE REPORT—The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code
linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (a standard financial process).
In the corrupt Biden Govt, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion
in Treasury payments, left “blank,” making traceability almost impossible.
Update Trump made this a required field, increasing
taxpayers’ insight into where their money is actually going.
BTTT
I want handcuffs, frog-marching, paddy wagons, trials, convictions for crimes and sentences being carried out. Anything less allows this sort of criminal behavior to continue apace.
I'm starting to think we've been keeping the whole damn world afloat.
Note that this is speculative at this point, but here's hoping.
While missing TAS codes complicate direct tracking, Grok can sift through vast financial datasets to detect patterns and anomalies. Even without TAS codes, payments often carry identifiers like vendor names, contract numbers, or timestamps. By cross-referencing these with budget categories and historical trends, Grok could infer likely allocations.
Second, with access to related systems—procurement records, agency reports, or vendor data—Grok could integrate these sources to fill gaps. Linking disparate datasets, it might reconstruct spending patterns that would otherwise stay hidden.
Third, Grok can use contextual clues like payment amounts, dates, or program descriptions to suggest budget line items, boosting traceability even without direct identifiers.
Limitations remain: deliberately omitted details or inaccessible records would hinder full reconstruction. Grok 3 can deliver probabilistic insights based on available data but can’t conjure what’s entirely absent.
In short, some untraceable payments might not become fully transparent, but some might. We'll just have to wait and see if Musk and DOGE can pull the rabbit out of their hat. In the meantime, we can be sure that the Democrats are sweating bullets.
Good post.
I enjoy beating up on AI but tracking waste, fraud, abuse and evil is a wonderful application for it.
Most of the Democrat (and some Republican) thieves were old timers who did not see it coming....
It is like having an army of a billion forensic auditors let loose on the federal budget—with none on the Deep State payroll.
Possible MO to be sure.....but I think Musk
likes it spelled.....sans all that rigmarole.
I'm hoping that Grok will ferret out the fraud that the politicians and bureaucrats thought was so cleverly buried and hidden. With luck, orange will become the new color of Democrats (and some Republicans).
I still think that either the mob took over or the dems learned a lot from them. “Don’t worry about the money disappearing. Nothing to see here.”
Waiting for someone to commit suicide with 2 shotgun blasts to the back of their head. It is the way they take care of business these days.
Let’s wait for the final audit report. Stop the spending until it is issued.
Let’s wait for the final audit report. Stop the spending until it is issued.
It sounds as though elected politicians who champion sending big money to wars and causes overseas expect to get a “cut” of the money. New laws should be enacted to prevent kickbacks from going into any politician oversea bank or tax haven. These slimey people have been doing this for decades.
It is the only way to explain why congress people can be so enthused about announcing zillions in U.S aid to backward countries that have absolutely no effect on our national interest.
Off topic—link for today. Fasten your seat belt—this guy is very controversial but has an interesting story to tell:
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