“Generally, when auditors find that an organization’s accounting system makes errors easy to commit and difficult to spot, they assume the system is designed that way because it is intended to facilitate fraud.
Maybe that’s not true here. Maybe the federal government is simply incompetent.

If that’s the case, though, then maybe it shouldn’t get so much of our money. ”

http://tiny.cc/8pk9001

"the Social Security Administration has no mechanism to prevent duplicate Social Security numbers from being issued — “which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!”

Fraud? incompetence? Whatever. Changes will be made.

Again, one wonders what would happen if the same forensic audit was done on the Australian Federal system.

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Foxy,
Throwing a tantrum is never a good look.

mhaze,

Neither is stooping to personal attacks.

Go away!

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Dear mhaze,

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I asked you to prove your claim that the subscriptions represented “corruption on a grand scale … including Treasury” and send us the details so that we could check it out.
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You did not post a single link to your information source to allow us to check and evaluate it.

I have searched the internet and have not found any mention whatsoever of what you claim to be “corruption on a grand scale … including Treasury”.

You alone, mahaze, have made that claim and as "mhaze" is a pseudo whose authority on such matters I am unable to verify. Whatever you say about your own claim does not qualify as proof.

To claim that subscriptions to major US media outlets represent “corruption on a grand scale … including Treasury” is a grave accusation that Trump and his administration would not have failed to exploit a maximum if it were true, both in the media and before the courts.

Given your evasive responses and lack of concrete proof, mhaze, I suggest you calm down and cease your wild accusations.

Let Trump and his boys carry on with their extensive spring-cleaning operation and we’ll make our judgments after the dust settles and we are able to see more clearly.

I understand the last time it was done was 32 years ago by Bill Clinton in 1993. The review lasted six months and made 384 recommendations to improve the federal bureaucracy. At the time, Clinton signed a bill that offered federal workers buyouts of up to $25,000 to reduce the workforce.

He is reported to have terminated 377,000 federal employees during his term of office.

Elon Musk and his team of brilliant young geeks will probably do it faster with the help of AI.

Whether they do it better or not, quantitatively and qualitatively, remains to be seen.

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Let's have a look at Albanese's authoritarian, buy definitely not popular, achievements:

. Biggest decline in real wages in the developed world (- 8.7%)
. 7 consecutive quarters of per capita recession
. Over a million immigrants in 2 years. 70% then in any other two year period
. Devastating housing crisis caused by above
. Food costs up 12%.
. Housing costs up 14%
. Rents up 17%
. Electricity up 32%
. Gas up 34%
. Productivity down by 6%
. 27,000 business gone
. 36,000 new federal employees $16 billion per year

And, it seems that he will not be achieving much with Donald Trump, who has accused Australia of breaking a verbal agreement to reduce steel and aluminium imports to America.

Albanese has been accused of mishandling the situation; he has been described as a “rookie” and being “naive” for thinking that one phone call might have solved any trade problems we might have with the US. He has been advised to get tips from Joe Hockey, who knows and understands the President.

Albanese and his chums are not the people we need to get satisfactory deals on trade.

“Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,’ Trump recently told the crowd at a campaign stop in Michigan. ‘The most beautiful world in the English language is tariff…”. (Donald Trump)

Our apologies for leaders remain ideologically stuck in the 80s and early 90s when questions about trade policy were supposedly solved for all time. We allow close to 100 percent of Chinese manufactured goods to be imported duty free.

So long as that continues, our country will never have a serious manufacturing industry.

Banjo,

I get that there is no level of evidence that will get you to admit that this was corruption. You don't want it to be so and thus, in your world it isn't so.

But in my world, a government surreptitiously passing gigantic funds to friendly media in order to get favourable reportage from said media, is government corruption. That's the evidence that you are averting your eyes from seeing.

And not just favourable reporting but reporting designed to alter electoral outcomes by censoring, willingly self-censoring, information unfavourable to the ruling elite that was surreptitiously passing on taxpayer funds.

You don't want to call that corruption then so be it. But if that's not corruption then the word has no meaning.