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To: Little Joe who wrote (149634)	11/11/2010 1:06:21 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541604

Thanks for the links, Joe. 1. As for the fraud and abuse argument, there is nothing here to show either how they got the numbers they use or whether that would be accounted for in the administrative costs I found, or how that compares with fraud and abuse in the private sector. Lots of talk but either not relevant or not substantiated. 2. The WSJ article didn't work. I tried adding the lost "h" to the "ttp." Still didn't work. 3. On the Heritage foundation data, it's very much a rough draft. If Ezra Klein's right, one needs to compare size rather than private-public. But that then would run against the Heritage Foundation's ideological small government agenda. So until I see some better argued stuff, I'm sticking with the well argued Klein piece. And, also, with the argument that social security administrative costs are less than 1%. Which pretty well destroys the argument that the government is inefficient per se.