I personally prefer facts because common sense is not all that common and is sometimes based on outright lies.<\/p>\n
A case in point is medicaid\/medicare fraud. I don’t know the percentage but when I googled medicaid\/medicare fraud I found that the bulk of it was not individuals who claimed to be disabled and were not, but providers of care and services to the disabled. People claim though that these fraudulent receivers of disability benefits are a cause of our national debt.<\/p>\n
When I worked for the State of Louisiana, for a few years my job was to build cases against people who received foodstamp and welfare benefits by falsifying information provided. I was quite good at my job and so were most others in Louisiana and we annually got bonuses from the federal government for the good job we did. I never in one year saved the government the amount of money that I was paid in wages.<\/p>\n
When we turn ourselves to the upcoming political battles in 2012 we must realize that we never vote an idea into government. We vote for people. Sometimes we get pissed at Joe Doe because he voted against a couple things that we really wanted and forget that he voted for 98 things we agreed with. So come election time we push the button for John Doe to get even. Now John Doe votes for 100 percent of the things we disagree with. We constantly do it to ourselves.<\/p>\n
People who blog and claim they are using common sense need to give us links to verify what they say is true. Often times their common sense is based on invalid information.<\/p>\n
Please when you make a claim, do some research and base it on facts not common sense and provide us with links that will verify your facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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