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Okay, confession time: when Bev Oda says it was common practice in her dept to alter signed documents, I BELIEVE HER.
For those discussing government waste, I think this guy makes a pretty good point about promises to find and eliminate waste.
It's a legitimate position to support spending cuts or to accept the need for higher taxes, but to think that any government is going to balance the books simply by cutting out the waste is unrealistic and the fact that every party promises to do that in every election campaign should be taken as a pretty powerful clue that government waste isn't something that any of them are doing on purpose or are indifferent towards.