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View submission: Elon Musk can’t balance the budget
"Their target wouldn’t be entitlement programs “like Medicare and Medicaid,” they say, but “waste, fraud, and abuse that nearly all taxpayers wish to end.”"
More fake "common sense" bullshit. I'm old enough to have heard this promise from every presidential administration for decades. Not only is there not enough waste and abuse to come anywhere near their target, but they are never going to after it anyway. Targeting waste in Medicare/Medicaid would mean hiring more regulators and more oversight, but they want to slash both. Cutting tax fraud would require more agents and more resources, they want to cut both. Cutting fraud in Defense would require more inspectors, and they want to cut those...
Comment by FuckTripleH at 26/11/2024 at 15:03 UTC
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Ultimately an issue that virtually no one in politics is willing to even acknowledge is the fact that the number of people employed by the federal government is in reality *too small*. The number of federal employees has remained surprisingly unchanged over the last 60 years despite the population growing by 140 million in that time-span.
The federal bureaucracy is inefficient and ineffective in no small part due to it being chronically understaffed.