Hello; I imagine most have had the chance to hear about the huge fraud in Minesota by now. If not presented on your common news sources the information can be had online. Too much political crud for posting links right now but there are at least two topics we can discuss.
One is how a couple of ordinary citizens seem to have done some legwork and uncovered the sites of part of the fraud. At least one man when to a building which is supposed to be a child services day care. But one was an empty building and another is a place with no children. So my first question is why the media missed these things and apparently did not make an effort?
The other topic is how widespread can this sort of fraud be. Fraudsters catch onto these things pretty quick. I wonder if it is in TN?
I have and associated question. My WAG is for the government to spend one dollar it must use some number of tax dollars to do so. Even the simplest way to do it would require some office workers to take in the tax money and then hand it out. That simplest method would require a building and employes which would cot something. The real situation is likley more complex. There would be layers, and other agencies such as the EPA, HUD, and other alphabet types taking a cut. In my mind I have been figuring the government must take in $4 in order to spend $1 on anything. So, if the fraud in the news amounts to one billion dollars, then something like four billion tax dollars likely were used. I begin to wonder if my 4 to 1 ratio is too small ?
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