No, said Anderson. We will have a rule. If you come from a state with lower benefits, you collect at that rate for 5 years. That lasted about 15 minutes until a judge said, “14th Amendment.” To this day folks on Chicago’s south side talk about Minnesota’s streets being paved with gold. That’s what I heard with my own ears.

The Hmong came in the late 70s. Lots of cultural issues, some resemblance to Springfield (harvesting everything that moved for protein). But Hmong work hard and were accepted. Some tendency to exploit language barriers to rip off government programs.

The Somali started coming in the 90s. Initially well liked, hard working, polite. But the culture depends on the tribe, clan and subclan structure. That is not happening here. And as often so, the kids of the immigrants go out of control. The parents have no idea what to do because the clan always enforced behavior.

And they have figured out how to exploit government handouts at a much greater rate than the Hmong ever did. Polygamy.

Both groups loathe the other. Somali don’t mix with American blacks. And with law enforcement not happening in the Cities, Minneapolis is rapidly becoming unliveable.

once in accident, two is coincidence, three is enemy action,

https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-cat-eaters-of-ohio

The media system “worked.” Trump said something that may not have been literally true, the media pointed that out, and now Trump supporters are embarassed. But the larger truth Trump described is lost and attempts to dig it up will be met with jeers about cat-eating. The media is not going to have to acknowledge anything about mass illegal migration and its effects, and the many lies Biden and Harris tell don’t get the “fact checks” that the cat-eating story has received.

When the government hands out large sums of money, as both Obama and Biden did in abundance, cities turn to NGOs to address things like immigrant housing, healthcare, education etc. The badly-named Inflation Reduction Act was a huge influx of money with hazy goals. The press has turned up examples of IRA money building bicycle paths and golf courses. A lot of it has gone to NGOs that address immigrant issues. And some of those NGOs have looked at this influx of cash and thought they should get involved for the money they could make out of it. Where there’s money, a need will occur to make us of it — and obviously to profit.

Google generates a list of NGOs in Springfield that includes a lot of the standard ones like food banks and churches, which I’m glad to see. They also list others like Think Tank, Inc., whose mission is “To work with social service organizations to assess, develop, and implement creative strategies to strengthen their capacity. . .” and so on. When I see a mission statement like that, I wonder if it’s just a money sponge. You get the idea.

NGOs provide useful services around the world. I have worked with some in Africa, and some were great. Others were frankly a waste of money. I have no doubt the same situation exists in Springfield, OH.

I would like to see someone total the amount of federal and state money going into Springfield, and try to analyze if it is well spent or not.