Shrinking U.S. Entitlement Fraud, the Great American Rip-Off

Ask a politician how he wants to balance the budget and, nine times out of ten, he'll give you a politician's answer: cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. Normally, the correct response to this is contempt and mockery: What drives federal spending isn't office supplies walking out the back door with a rogue secretary at the Merit Systems Protection Board — what drives federal spending is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And you know where there's a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse? Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid ...