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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on July 18, 2011, 01:30:06 PM
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In this case, someone representing himself as a Russian drug dealer flush with cash -- he claims he has a McClaren with a gold-plated engine costing $800,000 -- is encouraged to claim his business is "babysitting." The Medicaid employee tells him what to hide and what to claim in order to defraud the state.
The thing is, this isn't an isolated thing. I'm sure that 90% of employees in the various bureaucracies do this, because it's the path of least resistance, not even for ideological reasons. It's just easiest to help people scam the system than to turn them away.
And that's not really a problem of any particular employee, but of the system which encourages this, and which tells them to just get the government checks out there by hook or by crook because who cares, it's free money anyway.
Over and over again this is what happens in bureaucracies. There are the paper "rules" that exist in the employee handbook and are entirely hypothetical and notional, and then there are the actual rules for conduct which everyone knows, the rules for keeping your job and not getting hassled and not making the decisions or exercising the judgment you are (supposedly) hired to make or exercise. ...
http://minx.cc/?post=318921
http://projectveritas.com/node/50