"Have the same problem..." = appearing to operate outside of legal boundaries, such as not having the evidence to convict.

Many people have commented on my well sharpened tongue, for better or worse. Thanks anyway

Gee, you caught me red-handed!

Do the democrats have the same problem, seems like they have been trying VERY HARD to convict Trump of something, anything, but still nothing being convincingly presented, unless of course it's to a bunch of true believers sitting in a grand jury box.

GREAT IDEA!!!!! Does that also mean that nobody has to pay into the retirement system since our all-wise, totally dev**ed to the public good politicians concluded they didn't have to put in a dime themselves?

Of course all of this was carried out under the exclusive direction and insistence of Slo' Joe's administration and fully supported by state officials, correct? Public indignation and disgust with the behavior of our "elite educated" youth acting like a bunch of 5-year olds throwing a temper tantrum had absolutely nothing to do with it.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

Of course it is a Ponzi scheme, are you not taking money from "new investors" (young workers) to pay off "earlier investors" (retired workers)? It works great until you don't have enough "new investors" to pay off an ever growing population of "earlier investors".

I don't believe that the system will ever work as it is envisioned. Seeking higher returns means taking on more risk which is totally unacceptable to many people. Seek less risk and returns will be lower, again unacceptable to many people. Give people a choice of what ratio of returns to risk they are willing to accept and the administration of the system becomes much more complex and there will always be a group that sees the situation as grossly unfair to them. On top of that there is the high level of dedication and efficiency that our government bureaucrats have displayed over several decades.

Congress (or maybe I should say the treasury) is paying back all of the money it took from SS. Current estimates are that it will be fully paid back sometime around 2033 or 2034, then what? As for multiple payments, I can see the problem when you have to write out what, 2,000,000 checks a day, not hard for things to slip through. No need to keep raising the retirement age, as soon as it gets within a year or two of the average life expectancy things will quickly improve for the SSA, SS recipents, not so much .

They are not so harmless if they are trying to drive while impaired.

Although I do agree with your points in principle, the amount of money spent on most of these types of projects ($ millions to $ 100's of millions, often over 10 years) is all but insignificant compared to the $ trillions the government overshoots it's revenues by on a annual basis. Even your source, Grants Plus, states that they only secured $150 million for their clients. Taking the $1.2 trillion at face value, does that include "big science" projects like the James Webb telescope, the human genome protect, NOAA c*****e c****e studies, etc.?

No problem, just that I get the impression that a lot of individuals firmly believe that 100% of all government fraud, waste and incompetence is exclusive to the DoD.

Why limit it to just the DoD? I'd suspect that EVERY department in the federal stable has an overabundance of useless personnel, and for some departments it's 100%.