The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands

Two otherwise unrelated headlines that went by almost concurrently on my Twitter feed:

• “FEDERAL EMPLOYEES owe $3 billion in unpaid taxes. Try a cabinet appointment — that seems to get ‘em to pay up.”
• “AP Readers’ Rule: Quickly Skip to the Final Paragraphs; Article Cites $60 Billion Per Year In Medicare Fraud At End.”

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(Concept by G.H. Reynolds — with an assist from A. Capp; video by D. Burge, currently celebrating his sixth year in the Blogosphere.)

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