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Lots of things we could do immediately. Prisoners don't deserve social security. Stop paying them and anyone who marries them while they are incarcerated.
Don't hire more people to find fraud. Make the existing people find it. That's what CMS (part of SS) is for. A good friend was the guy who ran the programs and found the little old ladies in nursing homes double dipping. There has to be a lot more. Convert welfare into welfare for work. Start daycares, provide bus vouchers, and make the third and fourth generation welfare recipients work. They can clean streets or public buildings or something that provides a return and reduces costs.
Finally, open up clinics using new doctors in return for government liability from malpractice (for a certain period). Even if they are free, clinics would reduce the costs to hospitals and thus to health care. Put military medical folks there and use them to distrubute medicine instead of having medicare do it. It has to be cheaper that way...
..and I agree. Get out of the middle east. If only for economic reasons. We have predator drones and icbms...use them to maintain stability.
Just a few suggestions.
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