The Economist magazine recently calculated fraud in America’s government run medical system to run at $272 billion a year. The system is difficult to administer. In 2015 the administration will have 140,000 coding categories for doctors and nurses to fill out. There are 9 different coding choices to make in case a patient is attacked by a turtle. Was this a wild turtle? Did this turtle have evil intent? Was the turtle a male or a female? Maybe all this complexity is to keep the fraud alive.

Zero Hedge had an article the other day about working Americans struggling to make ends meet by selling blood plasma. Since 2007 we’ve added 1.4 million waiter/bartender jobs while losing 1.4 million manufacturing jobs. We are down 1.3 million construction jobs since the peak construction boom. One in four non-government workers make less than $10 an hour.