We have so often discussed the reality that the country and the Federal government that operates it is quickly heading towards a fiscal cliff that, unless something drastic is done, will crash our economy, our savings, and our freedoms. The Federal government budget is quickly ascending to a whopping $37,000,000,000,000 ($37 TRILLION for those that do not want to count the zeroes). In fact, the case could probably be made that we as a nation have already gone over that fiscal cliff but have just not hit the valley floor below and gone splat.
Despite the raging epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome among liberals and Democrats, Trump, Elon Musk, and the members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have done a great job in a very short time identifying stupid, nonsensical, corrupt, and unneeded Federal government costs and expenses.
No matter what you think of Trump as a person (and by the way, I have never voted for the man), his attacking of excess costs had to be done if we have any chance of getting outlandish and wasteful government spending under control. Otherwise, the dire results listed above and the hyperinflation that would come with it would not be at all pleasant.
Our first discussion on the outlandish costs he identified were listed in a series of posts earlier this year beginning with the following:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025-by-numbers-part-2.html
Over this series of posts we will continue that discussion and identify the corruption, waste, and stupidity that the Federal government is guilty of when it comes to wasting taxpayer wealth.
1)Waste and corruption is not just found in Federal government programs, sometimes it is individual Federal employees that are ripping off taxpayers:
Levita Almuete Ferrer was a State Department senior budget analyst during the Biden administration.
She recently pleaded guilty to stealing over $650,000 from the Federal government.
She used a State Department checking account and her signature authority to write herself 60 personal checks and three other checks to a friend.
She was quite sophisticated about it since she wrote the checks to herself but then adjusted the official accounting system by replacing her name with the names of State Department vendors.
She faces ten years in prison and has committed to paying back the stolen taxpayer wealth.
The good news is this corrupt former government employee got caught and the taxpayer wealth will apparently be recovered. The bad news is that we do not know how many other Federal government employees are engaged in similar schemes to rip off the American taxpayer.
2)The Trump administration recently uncovered another fraud and corruption scheme:
U.S. Attorney Ed Martin recently reported that the Trump administration had recovered almost $1 million in another fraud case.
An audit of the now infamous USAID organization apparently was overbilled by a company called Stax, relative to a Sri Lanka initiative.
Another day, another million dollars in fraud.
3)Many times we have discussed the reality that the Social Security process will face a serious funding shortfall in a few years, resulting in Social Security recipients seeing about a 20% decrease in their monthly payments. And a recent DOGE finding shows how that fateful day may be coming sooner rather than later:
A DOGE official recently announced that a large number of illegal immigrants, possibly upwards of five million, have been issued Social Security numbers.
Even worse than this screw up is the reality that these illegal immigrants have been drawing Social Security checks despite having not paid into the system and despite being in the country illegally.
According to Antonio Gracias of DOGE these fold are also soaking up Medicaid funds: “Every benefit program we looked at was being accessed by these people. 1.3 million of them are on Medicaid right now, today. And by the way, it’s just ramping.”
And adding insult to this financial wasting, DOGE also found that these illegal immigrants are voting in our elections, something that should not happen.
Many of the individuals found to be voting and sucking up taxpayer funded retirement and medical benefits were actually criminals and people on terrorist watch lists.
Another example where Washington politicians continue to care more about illegal immigrants than American citizens since they have allowed millions of illegal immigrants to use up retirement and medical resources intended for American citizens, the people that actually pay taxes to support these programs.
4)Let's finish up this post and the current string of posts that documented how DOGE and Trump have been identifying and eliminating government programs, bureaucratic inefficiencies and criminal fraud to save wasted taxpayer dollars. In the post referenced above, the unbelievable and wasteful spending by the USAID organization on absolutely stupid and ineffective foreign aid programs was documented. Billions of dollars wasted.
How ineffective and wasteful has USAID been? According to Congressional testimony of current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for every taxpayer dollar spent that was supposed to help people in need in far away countries, only 12 cents on the dollar actually directly impacted the needy people. 88 cents of every dollar was eaten up by fraud, mismanagement, administration, and criminal activity.
In other words, more than six times more money was spent on overhead than actually helping people. An absolute insult to every American taxpayer.
Enough for today: massive USAID administrative failures, illegal immigrants by the millions possibly draining limited Social Security wealth, and Federal government employees ripping off government budgets and taxpayers. DOGE is working and saving the American taxpayer billions of dollars. Whether you like Trump or no, he is doing what he promised to do relative to wasteful spending and it is working.
**********************
If you agree that we need to deseat every member of Congress for their lack of success and accomplishment, then please consider going to the following petition link to help the cause:
https://www.change.org/p/deseat-congress-reset-freedom
**********************
No comments:
Post a Comment