GAO Warnings Of Waste & Fraud Ignored Since 1998

Here are good reasons to attack anyone that wants to change how we do business in our federal government. Decades of criminal activity openly ignored by politicians year after year and apparently our progressive socialist media spiking every report.

Little wonder now that the Republicans and Conservatives are finally in a position to make a difference, the media is gearing up to attack on a daily basis any proposal by the Republicans or Conservatives that will benefit the general public.

It's important to understand to allow the Republicans to actually stop the fraud and waste will shine a light on the democrats that have been stealing the tax payers blind for generations, all under disguise of it's all about 'protecting the poor and the middle class'.

Still unconvinced, remember how Clinton was such a hero for eight years, balanced budgets and all, having the benefit of the Reagan revolution tax reform, and then left office with the .com nightmare for George 'W' to fix. And then it was eight years of daily attacks by the media on 'W', even before and after 911, that he was destroy our country. George should have fought back against the progressive left media, but he failed and their by failed the country.

One of the best examples was the unemployment rate of 4.6% under Bush was driving our country into recession or worse, and 52 straight months of job creation was ignored. George said nothing.

They, the media, knew exactly what was happening in the country, but it was imperative that the Republicans could not be seen as being successful so they managed the news, outright lied to the public. It was always about ideology in the press and the democrat party, it's who the democrats are, getting and keeping power, nothing is more important and by any means necessary.

Federal Agencies Ignore Recommendations to Improve Efficiency, Fraud, Waste
Source: Luke Rosiak, "U.S. agencies ignore thousands of suggestions to cut waste, stop fraud," Washington Examiner,' December 28, 2014.

January 2, 2015

Government inefficiency is old news, but you might be surprised by how old some of that news is.  Luke Rosiak of the Washington Examiner analyzed recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to federal agencies on ways to combat waste, fraud and abuse. What did he find? A total of 8,899 recommendations from the GAO for improving operations that have been ignored by federal agencies.

The GAO is a nonpartisan agency that audits federal agencies and looks for waste, fraud and other problems in the government, issuing reports weekly on everything from Medicare fraud to ways that agencies can generate more accurate cost estimates. These reports generally entail a list of recommendations from the GAO to the agency involved. Unfortunately, there are thousands of "open recommendations" that agencies have never followed.
Rosiak offers examples:

• The GAO warned the government in 1996 that domestic airlines could be targeted by terrorists without better passenger screening -- five years before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
• Sixty-three of the GAO's recommendations to the Department of Veterans Affairs have been ignored from 2000 to 2010, including a 2012 recommendation that the VA take action to "ensure reliable measurement of veterans' wait times for medical appointments." This year, it was revealed that VA hospitals had secret waiting lists in order to obscure patients' real wait times.
• As far back as 1998, the GAO found 20,000 individuals receiving food stamps from more than one state through fraud and recommended a national system to monitor the food stamp program -- another open recommendation.
• Since 1991, there are 266 open recommendations that have been issued from the GAO to the IRS, including ways to stop major tax fraud.
• The Department of Defense has the most open recommendations of any federal agency, followed by the Department of Homeland Security.

Rosiak says the oldest open recommendation is from 1982, involving the Air Force and excessive overtime pay.