Management
at the DOE (Department of Energy)
is so disjointed that radioactive tritium has leaked into
ground water and that clean up of radioactive waste at the
site where the leakage is occurring is twenty six months behind
schedule and $200 million over budget!
Transportation Department
The GAO estimates that the FAA has wasted $1 1/2 million in
it's seventeen year effort to modernize the air traffic control.
Department of Housing & Urban Development
Management waste is disposing of HUD single family housing
inventory costing taxpayers over $1 million every day! The
GAO has listed the entire agency on it's high risk list.
Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare - the IG at the Department of Health and Human Services
found over $20 billion in improper payments in Medicare's
Fee-For-Service Program. That represents 11% of the entire
Fee-For-Service Program!
Food Stamps
Almost $1 billion a year is lost because of improper food
stamp payments. The average American would be outraged to
know that his or her tax dollars are paying for food stamps
for prisoners, fugitive felons and people who are dead, not
to mention the enormous amounts of illegal immigrants who
flood the gates on a daily basis.
The IRS
The largest seed bed for fraud found in the IRS
is the tax credit programs. The largest by far is the Earned
Income Tax Credit Program. In 1995, the EIC program alone
sustained $4.4 billion in over claims! This figure represents
over 25% of the total claims of this program, that's right
25%!
The Social Security Administration Supplemental Security
Income (SSI)
This program is supposed to provide cash benefits to the blind
and the disabled children & adults. This program suffers
from long standing abuse, mismanagement, & increasing
overpayments to those who don't deserve them - $1 billion
for fiscal year 1998 and about $3.3 billion cumulatively.
These overpayments are going to convicted felons, prisoners,
people who are in this country illegally but the most disturbing
part of the SSI's overpayments are to individuals who claim
for the program under false pretenses or problems that they
caused themselves such as alcoholics and drug abuses. These
people choose the road their lives were going to take, why
should the tax payers pay for the drunk man down the street
to sit at home and drink more? Why should the tax payers pay
for the drug user to get high everyday? A disgusting misuse
of our funds. |
