For the life of me, I don’t understand why there aren’t better controls. I don’t think there is any lack of government audits.
If the guy with the video camera can catch all this fraud, why can’t the auditors? I know part of it, is the unwillingness to share data, and to run stings.
Our fellow FReepers would be far more effective if they learned the truth and used it to teach rather than attack. Chances are that the woman in the video could have gotten the same phone under Clinton and again under Bush. She isn’t getting anything special under Obama that she couldn’t have gotten before and she’ll still be able to get it if Romney is elected.
Its rooted in a longstanding federal program that’s grown unchecked for decades.