We can’t cut spending!  This is the line that politicians will scream when you try and touch entitlements.  To some, these entitlements are all that they have left as a bribe to the voters.  These entitlements are used as a political weapon, “Vote for Dewey Screwem and he will take away your Medicare!”  Even the slightest effort to reform is met with resistance.  Just consider the following information and tell me that our entitlement programs aren’t in need of a serious overhaul …

According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2010 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported an estimate of “almost $48 billion in Medicare improper payments” and $22.5 billion for Medicaid. The causes of the improper payments include “include inadequate documentation, medically unnecessary services, coding errors, and payment calculation errors.”

Or how about this recent report from John Stossel …

The U.S. Inspector General says many people who got $3,000 power wheelchairs you funded should not have gotten them.  In some cases, the customer didn't need them. Others could have used a much cheaper device. In 52 percent of the cases, the Medicare claims were "insufficiently documented to determine whether the power wheelchairs were medically necessary." Medicare paid $700 million for the power wheelchairs anyway.

Find me one example of government doing something well or efficiently.  And you send your children, the most precious things in your life, to these people to be educated??