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It's not like nobody's ever looked into fraud and error rates in social programs. It's consistently pretty damn low, and when problems have been found, they've
by alabastervlog 2y ago
It's not like nobody's ever looked into fraud and error rates in social programs.
It's consistently pretty damn low, and when problems have been found, they've usually been addressed.
People think these are full of fraud for the same reason they think foreign aid is some insane double-digit percentage of the budget: because Republicans shove messaging at them through dedicated propaganda outlets literally 24/7 complaining about these things, and have done this for decades, and folks don't bother to check.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoThe agreed error rate is less than 1% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06H7J0Wjg98&t=233s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06H7J0Wjg98&t=233s a number much lower than the various rates of wage theft that occur/defraud funding of social security by American businesses. Funny which one DOGE is going after first. Seems like Elon should go after businesses fraudulently not funding Social Security as the first priority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
- rurp 2y agoIt's almost like his stated reasons for DOGE are a thin pretense... Elon should never be given the benefit of the doubt on anything at this point given how blatantly and frequently he lies. Anything he says should be ignored and assumed to be false without actual evidence.