re: #161 GeneJockey

Seriously. The amount of time and money they’re willing to spend, and the number of truly needy folks they’re willing to deprive, just to prevent a tiny percentage of potentially NOT-needy folks from getting benefits truly boggles the mind.

Their belief is that if it costs too much to prevent ALL benefits fraud, the solution is to kill the program, rather than accept a low, but non-zero level of fraud. And they don’t care about the recipients, because they should all get jobs as corporate VPs anyway.

At least, that’s what they appear to think since they say everyone who’s paid shit wages should just get better jobs, so I assume they believe there are enough better jobs for everyone.

That’s what the case is in Maine, after much study they found that the fraud rate was something like 2/10th of 1% of all transactions. There isn’t a system out there that is 100% perfect, but they love to grab these very minor things and blow them up. It plays well with the rubes.

RBS