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No shit. Pretty much the only bloat in government is the private contracts—usually for the unauditable “defense” budget.
If you’ve paid any attention, government programs are usually forced to operate with absolutely minimal funding. And the people who make it all work anyway—often with personal dedication and sacrifice—are heroes.
There are also too many contractors in non-defense agencies. It's really terrible because it both increases costs, slows things down (in my opinion), and means that there is little retention of skilled workers.
Oddly, the main way to save money and increase efficency is to expand the government workforce. Although, I do think there needs to be more effort on how we focus government work.
And the only Medicare fraud is done by people like senator Rick Scott on the provider's side.
Health insurance companies. Far and away the worst of the worst when it comes to medicare fraud. Ever seen an itemized hospital bill? That, but worse. And it happens to tens of millions per year.
You dummy...when insurance companies do it, it's smart business. I've learned the system coniders fraud until the correct amount of lobbying bribes are paid, the fraud dies and boom smrt business.
Thanks to Musk and Trump, they're now unemployed heroes.
Having worked for the government, I assure you there is absolutely waste happening on a huge level. One time I threw out about $50k of lab equipment calibrators that someone clearly bought a ton of at the end of the year to use their whole budget so they didn’t lose it the following year.
Nobody suggested reworking how budgets work though, so clearly the mission was not to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.
Not the military, that’s a massive source of expenditure. That’s where I saw the waste happening.
Yeah, that is terrible! Spending $50k on something that might be helpful or useful in the future! We should have used that money to purchase one JDAM kit so we can bomb more people.
This kind of thing is infuriating. I've seen that before as well (not the tossing, but using money they didn't have to to, to not lose it next year)
So you agree with him then