Congressional Republicans stir up emotions on issues to take the public's attention off of other things that they are doing!

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Like anything in life, nothing is perfect. The desire to help those in need is not only admirable, but essential in a civilized society. The problem of abuse in the welfare system could be solved by hiring more social workers and administrative support staff to oversee the program. The savings by correcting the problems which allowed the abuses would make the system stronger and help to pay for the extra staffing. Criminal prosecution of the offenders and fines covering the stolen amount plus court costs would also be financially beneficial and helpful to deter more abuses in the future. In addition, the personal hiring would create more permanent jobs. What I don't understand is why people have been encouraged by some our leaders to complain about the problems like welfare fraud but say nothing to a substantially LARGER problem of our government handing over billions and billions of our hard earned taxpayer dollars to large corporations, billionaires and special interests. Our Republicans Leaders in Congress successful use of misdirection causes citizens to worry about dollars, comparatively speaking, while Members of Congress are misappropriating billions of dollars and being paid extremely well for doing it. A most recent is example happened last week when Congress passed a bill eliminating peoples privacy rights to their internet use. Cable companies paid corrupt members of Congress millions of dollars to pass that law, which in turn makes it legal for cable companies to sell our internet browsing histories to the highest bidder and make billions. There were no protests about the loss of our Internet privacy and news coverage was minimal. I only heard the major news organizations mention it after Congress passed the bill into law. It wasn't a coincidence that there were headlines about Mike Flynn wanting immunity for his testimony about his dealing in the Trump/Russian scandal and a story about the transgender public bathroom issue. Once again, the American public was played like a fine tuned instrument and lost basic rights in the process! At the same time, nothing was resolved about the immunity deal or the public restroom issue.