It's harder to get away with scams when you're in DC because the dollar numbers are huge and the hands that touch those dollars are few. By contrast, once money slides all the way down to the hundreds of thousands of municipal entities, it's almost impossible to get caught if you run a scam. There aren't enough investigators to track it - and not so shockingly, the ryan types of budgets work to prevent regulators of any kind to police such matters.
Pushing programs out to the "communities" sounds nice and folksy in theory, but in reality, it becomes a pay-to-play form of institutional patronage - which is probably explains exactly why the republican party would like to implement it. It works very well for them in Pennsylvania. Voters have amazing recall for the photos where a politician stands next to wheel-chair-bound folks holding a huge cardboard check.
About Paul Ryan
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