That nine trillion deficit could become nineteen in a hurry:
New York State’s Medicaid program has also become a $44.5 billion target for the unscrupulous and the opportunistic. It has drawn dentists like Dr. Dolly Rosen, who within 12 months somehow built the state’s biggest Medicaid dental practice out of a Brooklyn storefront, where she claimed to have performed as many as 991 procedures a day in 2003…. School officials around the state have enrolled tens of thousands of low-income students in speech therapy without the required evaluation, garnering more than $1 billion in questionable Medicaid payments for their districts. One Buffalo school official sent 4,434 students into speech therapy in a single day without talking to them or reviewing their records, according to federal investigators.
This sort of thing always happens whenever the government gets involved with paying for goods and services. The only thing that’s remarkable is the way you can always find idiots who will argue, with a straight face, that this time it will be different.
Considering that the Obama administration has been shown to be completely wrong about the unemployment rate and wrong about the deficit, why would anyone still believe they are capable of running this ship, let alone righting it.