Shame and Waste

Shame and Waste Nearly 18 million people — one in 20 Americans — are collecting some $170 billion a year in disability payments, a record high, and the government estimates that fraud and other improper payments account for $25 billion of disability spending over a recent four-year period. Social Security and Medicare together accounted for a whopping 36 percent of total federal expenditures in fiscal 2011. Any program involving the government wastes money, lies about its effectiveness and advertises with newspeak. An AmeriCorps ad claims you can “fight poverty with passion.” Is any further proof necessary that SSI, S/S and Medicare ( each run by the federal gov’t) should be eliminated?