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"The total fraud amounted to $6 billion. That's $6,000,000,000, and nobody went to jail there. The department couldn't account for any of an $800 million Stafford College loan made to a single student! They issued $123 million in duplicate payments of grants. We ran a story recently where the Congress admitted to misplacing an additional $17.3 billion worth of our money in a year. These are just two examples of gross mismanagement!"

Want more examples of WorldCom-like behavior? Take this January 13th, 2000 press release from Congressman John Kasich's office. It reads, "The federal government wastes more than $19 billion annually in improper payments in a wide variety of programs." There was $1.8 billion in waste to the federal employees health benefits plan. Remember those 40 million uninsured Americans supposedly out there?

Why is Dick Gephardt always griping instead of going after this fraud? Now, I know I'm whistling Dixie here. People are not going to get outraged over this $19.1 billion in fraud in things like Medicare and Food Stamps. They're going to freak over WorldCom. But fraud is fraud, folks. WorldCom screwed a few of us, but if they should pay for that - and they should - then the government should pay for screwing all of us, shouldn't it?" Quote from Rush.