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Very good interview and I have read several pieces by Smith. He's an excellent writer with many ideals I can agree with.

We all know that entitlements are the biggest expense at the federal level which goes without saying. The chances of our congress, with the ignorant masses we have voted in, implementing programs designed to reach a balance budget will never happen in my lifetime. And this is my problem with Idealistic Conservatives. We can preach about it, but it's not happening.

We can all support the good USAIDS does. But once the focus is off a program such as this, it would grow again, and money will pass through to illogical and dangerous causes. It is the inevitable result of organizations to grow beyond administrative control. And the only way to control this is by shrinking the size. In this case smaller government. In Minnesota our state smoked through $500 million in fraud through do-goody programs. Now we have another program that has smoked through a number we don't even know yet through Medicaid fraud. Certainly, in the millions.

I am all for Musk's investigations. It is the first analysis of government wasteful spending. The Mine that houses billions of social security documentation is an example of a department that is out of any reasonable controls. It will take a serious implementation costing billions to install a reasonable electronic system to manage and control this massive system.

Smith wrote a good article on this website, but he lost me pertaining to George Floyd. I suggest he read the Liz Collins book "They Lied".

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