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In the age of AI (and way past the age of scanners and decent OCR) the IRS employs people to do manual data entry multiple times into a computer to enter forms into their databases. BSO systems from the SSA take 2 weeks to get a access to a service to file wages.

The fact that treasury allowed 4.7T to go out the door without a description or traceability should say enough.

Bottomline, there is a lot of nonsense going on.

Culture: One of my army buddies tells me that they must use up all the ammo at the end of the year so that they can request more budget the following year.

Government is clearly corrupt, we've just legalized (and normalized) graft. It's funny that the same people that criticized corporations about graft under Bush-era republicans, now believe that government programs are above reproach.






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