Favorite Slogan

            Conservatives say they are not cutting some important government program; they are just cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.  But lip service to these virtues belies the fact that they often engage in practices that create waste or fraud or abuse.  When the Trump regime fired sixteen inspector generals, whose purpose is to find waste fraud and abuse (WFA), they showed disinterest in WFA and instead a strong interest in lawless or corrupt behavior without consequences, the real goal.

Favorite Tactic

            Privatization is a way to create donors to conservative causes.  The Hatch Act forbids federal employees from donating to politicians, but if they are "private sector" they are fair game for fundraising.  The excuse is that the private sector outperforms the public sector, a point widely believed while the evidence is often just the opposite.  Free enterprise works well in a free market, but does not work well in monopoly situations.  When price can be raised without constraint or regulation, maximizing profit does not serve the public well.  Privatized operations exaggerate executive salaries and profits at the expense of lower worker wages.

Examples

            When George Bush added coverage for drugs to Medicare, he repaid donations from the drug companies with excessive payments for drugs roughly twice what other nations pay for the same drugs.  Creating Medicare Advantage was another scam to let private insurance companies entice consumers with low cost "freebies" like glasses and dental, but allowing those companies to "waste" money on cutting vital medical services, like expensive cancer care, much easier.  In short, this was to get around Obamacare guaranties against dropping coverage for "pre-existing conditions" and other ruses used by health insurance companies for avoiding paying for costly treatments.  These abuses don't happen in health care for all other advanced nations.  Paying for excessive salaries and cost controllers adds nothing to health care but useless middlepersons.  Whatever happened to the businessperson notion of eliminating the middleman?  So much for the so-called party of business.

The 40% Rule

            There appears to be a loss of economy of about 40% in various authoritarian structures, mercenary or private.  Some examples:  During World War Two the French Economy was reduced by 40% during German occupation.  During the Cold War the East Germany economy was 40% less than the West Germany economy (per capita).

Community owned electric utilities charge 40% less than investor-owned utilities throughout the United States. Single payer healthcare is about 40% Cheaper than US insurance healthcare.   In the Investor-owned utilities (IOU) the formula appears that 60% is for electricity, 20% for profit, and 20% for excessive executive salaries. Eliminate the last two and you have the community owned electric utilities at 60% of IOU rates.

Treason

            The Logan Act forbids laypersons conducting foreign policy.  Yet when President Johnson was trying to make a peace deal in 1968, Nixon rallied the Vietnamese generals against it.  In a phone call with the Republican leader of the Senate, Everett Dirksen, Johnson called this treason, and Dirksen agreed.  Nixon won a narrow election thanks to this treason.  When hostages in Iran threatened to stop Carter's re-election in 1980, Reagan had Casey and Bush go to Paris to block a settlement.  (Paris was the exile home of the Ayatollah before the 1979 revolution against the 1953 CIA installed Shah).  Since this time far more Republican presidents have had corrupt cabinet members than Democrats, approaching ten to one.   Attempting to overthrow the government, as in 1-6-21, is the definition of treason.

14th Amendment Section 3

            Insurrectionists were listed as ineligible to hold federal office by this US constitutional amendment passed after the civil war.  Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy in 1861-65 could not run for president in 1868.  However, the insurrection lead by Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 that overran the capitol, was allowed by the corrupt Supreme Court with three appointees by Trump on it.  Justices Alito and Thomas, as shown by the flags they flew at their homes, aided and abetted that insurrection and therefore are ineligible to hold any federal office.  Many congresspeople should similarly be prohibited from holding their offices.  But the Supine Court used the excuse that there should be enabling legislation first, a preposterous condition put in by the Supine Court to avoid the obvious remanding to a federal court that should have happened to the Colorado case.  The absurd Immunity case by the Supine Court breaks with 240 years of "no one is above the law" and is a clear case of obstruction of justice by the six Justices, helping the insurrectionist into the presidency illegally.  Speedy trial is a constitutional requirement.  The Federalist Society with its unitary executive theory is an insurrectionist institution of lawyers.  Dictatorship and kings are not supported by the constitution.  Trump had a book of Hitler's speeches at his bedside according to his ex-wife.  Trump's first wife was the daughter of a KGB agent and Trump has been anti-NATO since 1987.

Here are the problematic issues of militarism in an age of empire: https://www.academia.edu/11421799/MILITARISM_CONTROL_Empire_Social_Decay_WWW_97_6p

Please cite this work as follows:  Reuschlein, Robert. (2025, April 10), "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" Madison, WI, Real Economy Institute.  Retrieved from:  https://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Waste,-Fraud,-and-Abuse,2025310033.aspx

Dr. Peace, Dr. Robert Reuschlein,

Real Economy Institute

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2016-2025

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