Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 26, 2010
October 25, 2010
October 27, 2010
Transcript:
Zipper: Wow... what's going on here, Uncle Z? Zonker: As you know, nephew, I've long dreamed of openly growing hemp in the California backcountry... thanks to Prop 19, that dream is ow within reach! This is a dry run of my new future as a small family farmer! Zipper: Wow... wait! Don't you have to have a family? Zonker: Well, eventually. Zipper: But how will you meet someone in the wild? Zonker: I think they have square dances.
Nemesys’ allusion to Medicare fraud as a Guv’mint corruption symptom misses the point.
The fraud wasn’t IN Guv’mint, it was PRIVATE criminals taking advantage of a largely UNregulated industry, that a Single-Payer (call it Medicare-for-All) would have a chance of bringing under control, when put together with proper auditing.
One of the people my wife worked with, just after she left that section, defrauded (a Huge Aerospace Company) of some $12 Million, once she realized the auditing was going away. No Guv’mint involved a’tall there (except for being the Customer), and she might even be out by now.