Comments on: This would be the same government that wants to take over the entire health care system http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/11/18/this-would-be-the-same-government-that-wants-to-take-over-the-entire-health-care-system/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:48:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: suek http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/11/18/this-would-be-the-same-government-that-wants-to-take-over-the-entire-health-care-system/comment-page-1/#comment-82476 suek Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:34:09 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9696#comment-82476 >>"officials attributed the $26 billion jump to some changes in how to define improper spending"..   These guys could define their way out of hell...! >>”officials attributed the $26 billion jump to some changes in how to define improper spending”..
 
These guys could define their way out of hell…!

]]> By: Dennis Elliott http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/11/18/this-would-be-the-same-government-that-wants-to-take-over-the-entire-health-care-system/comment-page-1/#comment-82466 Dennis Elliott Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:44:07 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9696#comment-82466 I think its telling that DoD has a .5% error rate (though it's still $800+ million) and the rest is transfer payments. The old liberal paene of "...all the money spent on war would be better spent on helping our fellow man" seems a little threadbare in light of this. That system of transfer payments, and those that lobby for, exist on, and distribute them represent the largest con game/slush fund/lootable money source in the free world. Of course Obama's reaction is to see that bid and raise it by giving "stimulus" money to Congressional Districts that don't exist among a number of other treasury thefts this year in the name, I guess, of redistribution. I guess if you never had to work for success, money doesn't mean much. It will be interesting to revisit these numbers next year after his first full year. I think its telling that DoD has a .5% error rate (though it’s still $800+ million) and the rest is transfer payments. The old liberal paene of “…all the money spent on war would be better spent on helping our fellow man” seems a little threadbare in light of this.

That system of transfer payments, and those that lobby for, exist on, and distribute them represent the largest con game/slush fund/lootable money source in the free world. Of course Obama’s reaction is to see that bid and raise it by giving “stimulus” money to Congressional Districts that don’t exist among a number of other treasury thefts this year in the name, I guess, of redistribution. I guess if you never had to work for success, money doesn’t mean much.

It will be interesting to revisit these numbers next year after his first full year.

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