Fraud Is The Major Cause of Our National Debt
Recently a blog was posted implying that disability fraud was a major problem and contributes to our national debt. I have done some research and can find no factual basis from government sources that this is true.
Using a little common sense should be enough to dispel this myth. Disability payments make up a very small amount of our national budget. In fact, the cost of investigation and persecution of fraud in the disability program may be higher than the fraud itself, especially if prison sentences are involved. The cost per month for incarceration of one person is much higher than any monthly disability check would have been.
Our national debt exceeds 14 trillion dollars. If anyone is really serious about curtailing it, they would go after the real high cost items in the budget. These include corporate welfare, tax breaks for the rich, mandatory prison sentencing, the war on drugs, the high costs of unneeded military weapons and many other budget items that could be cut without harming those who need a safety net.
It appears that it is easier to go after those who have no power and no voice.
Thank you John.
obviously ! +++++++++++++++++++ !!!!!!
but remember, it is MOST IMPORTANT to focus on poor people are destroying america by robbing social programs
Hi Allah,
Can you please enlighten on something. What does corporate welfare means?
This is new to me and I am recently seeing the term pop up….
Even if we narrow the budget chopping axe to Government insurance programs and safety net programs, the biggest fraud is padded billing by Health Care Corporations. Not individuals. Of this there IS evidence. On the blog you speak of, this was declared a separate topic.
I love when the Fascist inclined deny that they are and control.
I have part D Medicare. I pay $100.00 a month for this health insurance even though I paid in, my working life. It seems fair to me. The co-pays are up to 20% now for everything. Part D is new. George Bush created it. It is a privatized drug/medication program that costs the tax payers plenty. Look into it. The rip off to the tax payers is huge.
A private company receives money every month for having me enrolled and then denies me coverage because they make the for profit rules…. They keep the free government money…
I knew a guy…
When Reagan lied about the Cadillac welfare queen, it entered the conservative Bible as fact. It is moral outrage that anyone should receive something “free”. This is not the biggest factor in our financial problems.
Just the dead horse conservatives beat while they chop away at anything “socialist”. Like insurance that the government provides less expensively than for profit corporations.
I did a blog where I said I have no time to read political blogs written by conservatives. They may be nice as individuals but their politics stink. They quote disreputable sources, tell bare faced lies and, overally, just strike me as embittered, graceless, and unwilling to carefully consider what they say before they say it. If I were you I wouldn’t bother with such blogs either. I prefer blogs that have facts to back up what is said on those blogs. Sorry to rant but this is how I truly feel.
I agree with Streetz. I visited the blog to which you refer John, and several people have been silenced for giving views that differ from the main “focus” of the blog. Of course those views were in “focus” and not entirely disagreeing either, but rather putting the disability claims into perspective with the much larger corporate frauds. But these views were dismissed out of hand as irrelevant. So I am glad you posted this blog.
The monthly payment for SSD is $979, the monthly payment for SSI is $623. The cost of incarceration for one person is a little more than $62 per day. You do the math.
It is obvious that those poor rich folks (no offense to any wealthy people) need a tax break- why not remove the Middle Class- simpler to have the rich and poor, in varying degrees. If the wealthy individuals and corporate fat boys were taxed dollare for dollar and not capped, can you imagine the revenue made? Oh yet what a silly notion. Tax them to a ceiling, and leave the rest of their Billions untaxed, but get the tax money from the guy who needs every dime he- she can earn.
I say if they are in prison for life, have them make and earn their way- I do not care what they have to make- but why pay to have them sit around for 40 or 50 years……… maybe some or many things that are bought from other Countries cheaply, can be made for cost in prisons. but wait- their rights would be violated….. oh never mind- obvious solutions are just too sensible.
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But what if you think it’s all wrong…big fraud, little fraud, middle fraud.
Seems to me lots of people think if you’re against Social fraud you are then for Big* fraud and if you are against Big fraud you’ll turn a blind eye to Social fraud.
*Big fraud being…These include corporate welfare, tax breaks for the rich, mandatory prison sentencing, the war on drugs, the high costs of unneeded military weapons.
I don’t know which is worse with some of these cons, their stinginess or their burning desire to be the morality police.