Have We Become so Cynical, so Jaded, That $9 Billion in Fraud Against the Taxpayer Isn’t a Huge Issue?

I admit to being a fuddy-duddy, a curmudgeon, an old fogy when it comes to the public purse. I’ll be 72 on Sunday (cash gifts only, please). I cut my teeth in politics by writing about the deficit, arguing that a $100 billion government shortfall was not sustainable. I also wrote about the scandal of the national debt, which stood at an unheard of $1.5 trillion in 1984.

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Today, Congress yawns at a $2 trillion deficit, and there’s a conspiracy of silence about the $38.5 trillion national debt.

The voter doesn’t care either. We keep sending these spendthrifts back to Congress every two years after they rail against the deficit and national debt during the campaign, but they just spent the previous two