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. . . savings from eliminating one-quarter of current fraud would reduce cuts from the sequester by more than 10% for defense and by more than 40% for nondefense spending. While that doesn’t offer a total solution to U.S. budget problems, it certainly makes sense to go after fraud aggressively before contemplating cuts that would do real harm to national security and the general welfare.
There is reason why there is no balance budget. If their executive branch cannot even balance's it's budget, how do you expert other departments to balance their budgets?
The countries in which the people are the happiest seem always to be those with a good government safety net. To me, this is fine, so long as we keep vigil against government corruption and that the system is not being taken advantage of.
What is the alternative - a system as exists in some parts of South America, with a few very wealthy and very happy folks on top and the rest starving? I think not.
Our system itself is not bad, but there are evidently not enough checks to prevent corruption.
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