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>> i always hate roller coasters. i used to love them. i just am not into them. they say that an entire pine tree actually fell on the tracks. which you don't think about when you're up there and you see the trees around, you know, a bunch of pine remnants falling onto the tracks can do such damage. >> yeah. i'm not really a big fan of them. there is no agency that monitors the number of amusement parks fatalities each year. and the safety regulations and inspection process is very state by state, so there's a lot of concern about those coasters being up without a lot of oversight. >> that's f...

Little oversight how effective of a program it is and when people are better and can go back to work. really very little oversight, right? >> two points, number one, if we go on like this the social security disability trust fund, totally runs out of money by the end of 2016. that is not that far away. number two, there has been an expansion in who qualifies for disability payments. mental disorder is now acceptable. moody's order, or back pain. now, that kind of opens the door to fraud because you can't really prove a lot of that. and plus, once you get disability, you're on it for a very lon...

This is a systemic problem and they have been cheating and gaming this for years. >> you say this is a systemic problem. how do you -- i mean, how can you say -- how can you say that for sure? >> well, i guess i can't say that for sure. it's certainly been going on in phoenix for years and talked the people at other vas and told me the same thing. basically when you have a system where if the hospital director turns in good numbers to the vision director, they get ahead. if the vision director turns in good numbers to the va administration, they ahead. if congress comes and asked how's the va ...

Problem. how do you -- i mean, how can you say -- how can you say that for sure? >> well, i guess i can't say that for sure. it's certainly been going on in phoenix for years and talked the people at other vas and told me the same thing. basically when you have a system where if the hospital director turns in good numbers to the vision director, they get ahead. if the vision director turns in good numbers to the va administration, they ahead. if congress comes and asked how's the va doing? numbers are great. so there's absolutely no incentive for upper va management to demand or get good numbe...

Really stretching it and hopefully we can do something about that in the near future so it isn't the proverbial rubber band and snap. >> the demands on staff extend beyond inmate housing units to service areas such as the jail's mail room. >> the most overwhelming aspect is not the mail itself, it's the volume of the mail. on a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we don't read all of the mail. however, we do scan the ...