Fraud, waste and abuse

by Kirk Thompson, Stevensville

Once again there is an effort to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the Federal government. However, you only need to look at Trump to see his personal support for fraud (he commuted the sentence of a man convicted of one of the biggest Medicare frauds ever), abuse (he pardoned people who were convicted of brutally beating police officers), and waste (he fired inspector generals who were actually going after waste). To really reduce fraud, waste, and abuse, we need many more people in government (investigators, prosecutors, IRS agents, etc.) to actually achieve that goal.

Currently, Trump is increasing the federal debt by over $5 billion every day! It costs another half million dollars every day forever to finance that new debt! Trump has big tax plans to further increase the debt. We will not see the federal deficit reduced significantly until Musk starts cutting Social Security and Medicare.