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Old 11-07-2011, 04:34 AM  
kane
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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks View Post
The military is a legitimate role of government.

Paying women to have babies.. or to do nothing and drive SUVs and play with XBoxes.. is not. The level of fraud in government social programs is staggering. Faking job searches to collect unemployment is just one of the dozens of scams where the taxpayers get burned.
While I won't argue that there isn't fraud in social security, unemployment and welfare (I'm sure there is plenty of of it) this report seems to say that in the last 10 years military contractors have defrauded the government out of around $1.1 trillion dollars.

That is some serious money.
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