In his business column in today's NY Post, John Crudele points out a couple of scams. Certain NYC mom and pop stores are selling fake stamps at half price. He alerted postal inspectors, who claimed the problem is unsolvable. He doesn't know how widespread it is, if it involves big bucks. Just this week the post office announced it has lost $65 billion in the past eleven years, a sum covered by tax payers through congress, maddening proof of government inefficiency and indifference. The second scam involves prison inmates, to which Crudele was alerted by a retired corrections officer. "Convicts fake illnesses, get medication they don't need and spit the pills out on the lawn outside the medical facilities, all so they can build a case for disability that will pay off nicely once they get released." The amount of fraud occurring in this great country is staggering. In this particular instance, it might be worth it if the beneficiaries, once sprung, eschewed crime.
Betsy McCaughey addresses more government malfeasance in her op-ed piece. 5% of the population consumes almost 50% of all health care dollars. Everyone enrolled in Obamacare, whose rates are rising astronomically, pays the same premium. She points out that every proposal made by Republicans planned to pay for the care of those with pre-existing conditions through a general fund - and still nothing was done. Democrats play politics by blaming Republicans for the costs rather than admitting the disaster that is the ACA, and working on something more sane.
An Australian diner is equipping patrons with water guns to ward off seagulls, Here's a pic:
It was too wet under the scaffold - and still raining, so I decided to take the floating book shop to an old haunt, the viaduct at East 15th. Since at 68 I'm not the man I used to be, I brought only Russian books and CD's & DVD's. I didn't sell any wares, but a compassionate old-timer deposited four bucks in one of the boxes. Thank you, sir. The display was about a fifth of its normal size. Here's a pic:
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