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Social security pays out $1.5 trillion a year. If only $8 billion a year is lost to fraud, that means fraud is 0.5%. It's impossible to design a system with ze

Social security pays out $1.5 trillion a year. If only $8 billion a year is lost to fraud, that means fraud is 0.5%. It's impossible to design a system with zero fraud, but keeping it under 0.5% is very impressive.

genewitch 2y ago
We've moved the goalposts. 0.5% here, 0.5% there, what's it matter, it's very impressive that it's so low. I mentioned the SSA budget errors because it's $15,000,000 five thousand times over. I still have to pay for that 0.5%. A nickel here, a dime there. Maybe it can be argued that spending $15,000,000 to "own the CCP" is worth it. After all, it's only a dime per taxpayer. Harassing the CCP (and any other government we "owned") means that we also need to spend 800 billion on Defense.
genewitch 2y ago
okay now do it for these numbers from 2021-2023: > SEC. 403. Policy statement on improper payments. > (a) Findings.—The House finds the following: > (1) The Government Accountability Office defines improper payments as any reported payment that should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount. > (2) Since 2003, improper payments have totaled $2.7 trillion with a reported Federal Government-wide error rate of 5.42 percent in fiscal year 2023. > (3) Improper payments between 2021-2023 have exceeded $750 billion and totaled more than the budget of the U.S. Army in 2023. i want you to explain to me how i don't grasp how big these numbers are, some more. I want you to explain how 79.1 billion in fraud or improper payments is "0.5%", and that's ok, and explain how ten times that amount, in 20% of the time, is ok, too. please. SOURCE https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/117/text/rh https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-concurren... I'm done with all of you.

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Social security pays out $1.5 trillion a year. If only $8 billion a year is lost to fraud, that means fraud is 0.5%. It's impossible to design a system with ze

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genewitch 2y ago
We've moved the goalposts. 0.5% here, 0.5% there, what's it matter, it's very impressive that it's so low. I mentioned the SSA budget errors because it's $15,000,000 five thousand times over. I still have to pay for that 0.5%. A nickel here, a dime there. Maybe it can be argued that spending $15,000,000 to "own the CCP" is worth it. After all, it's only a dime per taxpayer. Harassing the CCP (and any other government we "owned") means that we also need to spend 800 billion on Defense.
genewitch 2y ago
okay now do it for these numbers from 2021-2023: > SEC. 403. Policy statement on improper payments. > (a) Findings.—The House finds the following: > (1) The Government Accountability Office defines improper payments as any reported payment that should not have been made or was made in an incorrect amount. > (2) Since 2003, improper payments have totaled $2.7 trillion with a reported Federal Government-wide error rate of 5.42 percent in fiscal year 2023. > (3) Improper payments between 2021-2023 have exceeded $750 billion and totaled more than the budget of the U.S. Army in 2023. i want you to explain to me how i don't grasp how big these numbers are, some more. I want you to explain how 79.1 billion in fraud or improper payments is "0.5%", and that's ok, and explain how ten times that amount, in 20% of the time, is ok, too. please. SOURCE https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/117/text/rh https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-concurren... I'm done with all of you.