‘Waste’ depends who you’re talking to

One of the country’s veteran and some would say wise U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart nailed it when he wrote he could not define pornography but “I’ll know it when I see it.” Stop laughing because when it comes to defining “WFA” in the state budget, it really defends on whom is looking at it.

The “WFA”, of course is not pornographic, but refers to the alleged $5 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse uncovered by House Republicans after “going over the current state budget line by line” and then cutting state programs left and right to produce those savings for Michigan taxpayers.

But the harsh reality is, it depends upon who is deciding what WFA looks like. One persons waste is another persons valid state service.