Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Sun View Post
From the FORBES article:

How much did fraud grow? It jumped to $592.7 million in 2016, up a staggering 61% from $367.1 million in 2012, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (See Table 46 in the report.) The monetary figures are "Fraud Dollars Determined By Investigations." In other words, these figures are based on identified incidents. In 2016, the number of fraud investigations totaled 963,965, up more than 30% from 2012. (Side note: Almost half of those investigations were in New York State, according to the report.)

OK, up 61% it is. WHY did you ignore the POINT here - from the same article:

"Or put another way, 99% of the benefit dollars were in no way associated with fraud, assuming that the government is doing its job of identifying malfeasance. If the fraud figure continues to grow at the same rate, then there is a real problem, but so far not so much."

What a load of horsecrap! You choose to ignore the 99% positive and focus on the 1% negative.

Whine, whine, and more whine. I call bull *****.
Anyone who finds $597 million in fraud acceptable is as dumb as a bag of hair. Nothing more need be said.