I have seen a recent estimate that fraud in federal government programs accounts for 600 billion dollars. You could tell me that it was a trillion and I wouldn’t blink an eye.
Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
We always hear about “margin of fraud” when it comes to elections. Seems like it is also applicable to the federal budget and the annual deficits as well.
Speaking of subverting trust in institutions, here’s my prediction. No one will go to jail. Even if they get a conviction of someone, some Demo appointed judge will reverse the jury’s decision and let them go free.
Souls must know that to steal from an other, the other’s sins and trespasses are stolen from the other as well.
In the same manner the killing of an other, the other’s sins and punishments are stolen from the other as well.
You may be going to hell for the murder and for the victim’s punishments in hell. So, be careful who you chose to murder. There is room in hell for everybody.
IMO, the distribution of grant money to corporate bodes (bar a precise list of exceptions, mostly inter-governmental transfers) should end and should end at all levels. I think we also would benefit from changes in corporation law. Tax money should be used to pay public employees (and their compensation should be transparent to legislators and voters), to pay suppliers (who should have obtained their contracts by sealed bids), to pay bondholders, to finance insurance programs and voucher redemptions for individual households, to finance income transfers for individual households, and to finance disaster relief (which is a small fragment of the welfare state). Insurance and voucher programs should be in the realm of medical care, long-term care, schooling, and disaster relief and that is it. Governments should invest in public works financed by regular tax collections and occasional bond issues. They should not be in the venture capital business at all and they should do no lending bar what the central bank does to maintain financial stability. Tax preferences should be limited to the tariff schedules and to dispensations for philanthropic bodies incorporated into property tax law. Fewer programs more frequently audited.
P.S. This is why persons shake hands to welcome an other, their neighbor into their personal sovereign space and into their soul. Otherwise it is assault and battery.
Artificial handshakes for business are pro-rated in hell for their genuineness.