Minnesota: the fraudster’s haven
This is just extraordinary:
One wonders how much of the social welfare money handed out all over the country has been to perpetrators of fraud. We’ve always known fraud existed in such programs, but the scope of the fraud being uncovered seems mind-boggling even to many people already cynical about the subject.
Yes, I’m guessing it’s not just Minnesota.
You can bet the Democratic Party is deep into this kind of fraud in the big cities with substantial black ghettos and all the various kinds-of welfare money floating around.
Here in MA no one knows who’s on the welfare rolls and how many. It’s a big secret.
Fraud money doesn’t just go to expensive real estate and bling, it funds Democrat/leftist organizing.
I’m really curious to see how well the midterms go for Democrats without such covert cash.
“The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis ”
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-hunger-industrial-complex-how-america-manufactured-a-food-insecurity-crisis/
Not exactly fraud per se, but this is a big “business,” and quite profitible for those connected to it.
It seems that much of the old “American Spirit” is dead. Creeping Socialism is making us a country with more takers than makers. Even Trump seems to be trying to bribe people with handouts left and right.
JFK said “… ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,” and he made a good point!
highly organized and widespread fraud. A state like Minnesota which for the longest time had a very high level of social trust along with an abundance of comparatively well-heeled bleeding hearts is a plum mark for such grift. When such grift can be grafted into the political machinery, or at least fits into a narrative where protecting the grift also protects the political machinery, well, $9b is just the down payment.
I agree with Kate, my guess would be look at the biggest state California.
I’m quite surprised at the….”surprise” on this. Anyone who has had detailed contact with the federal government is, or should be, aware of just how much money is sloshing around untethered.
As bad as Minnesota is I’m betting there are other states that are much, much worse – Cali at the top, followed by NY and IL, several others at mid-tier, and I very much doubt there’s any state that doesn’t have more fraud than we suspect. “Fraud” seems to be the default setting.
I think it is entirely likely many social service programs were designed specifically to be a way to launder taxpayer funds to voting blocs and politicians. If some of it gets scraped off in the process and ends up funding lakeside villas and expensive cars, well that’s just the cost of doing shady business. I think it’s also likely both political parties are involved, although one has worked harder at this fraud — and it is definitely a fraud perpetrated on the American taxpayer.
California says, “hold my beer”
Few years ago read a article on the demise of civilization and governments. It put us in that as the spiraling down the looting of the treasury period before collapse.
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Fraud money doesn’t just go to expensive real estate and bling, it funds Democrat/leftist organizing.
Which reminds me of what the DOGE audit of AID uncovered..Non-governmental orgainzations [NGOs] getting their funding from the government…
Defunding and destroying USAID was a crucial first step towards national recovery.
What is the average I.Q. in Somalia? There is some debate about this.
Here is one 2025 I.Q. ranking of each country in world, which does put Somalia’s average I.Q. at rank 173 from the top, way at the bottom of the rankings, at 67.67.*
If this is an accurate measurement, my question then becomes how could such a bunch of low I.Q. people have managed to rip off the state of Michigan for an estimated $8 billion–and counting–dollars?
The administrators of these programs are blinded by Leftist ideology, or even dumber?
P.S. You might remember this exploration by Dr. Jordan Peterson of the repercussions for a person if he or she has an I.Q. of less than 83.**
* See https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/average-iq-by-country
** https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=petersn+i.q.+of+83&mid=7D2A9CAF70F6012DAABC7D2A9CAF70F6012DAABC&FORM=VIRE
Remember that low IQ is a mean, and there are Somalis much smarter. Plus, IQ is not the same as social survival skills.
Apparently they do not train well as police. They have had to really lower standards to get them into the Minneapolis force, and Minneapolis is said to be unable to hire *anyone* at the former standards.
No one wants to be a cop in MN when the Attorney General literally hates cops, and will prosecute any cop on a whim. If you arrest a black person and they resist, and get hurt, your career can be destroyed even if a jury clears you.
Why bother? Come to Mesa, where pay and benefits are equivalent, the force is fully staffed, and the public supports cops. Not needing to own a snow shovel doesn’t hurt, either.
Up until around the 1970s U. S. Immigration criteria meant that certain classes of potential immigrants—for instance, those adhering to Communism or Anarchism—were just flat out denied entry into the U.S., on the grounds that they posed a threat to our country.
Then things were liberalized, and such prohibitions/ filters were dropped.
Time to reinstate a whole lot of filters to make sure that only people who are willing to adhere to our values, and who will be a net asset—and not a danger to our country, its way of life and our citizens, or be a public charge—are the only people we admit.
P.S.— Of course, one of the added benefits of the Left’s Gramscian march through the institutions/culture was the weakening and disruption of the work and effectiveness of the old, traditional “Iron Triangle” of Home-School-Church–which had pretty successfully transformed millions of immigrants into knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and loyal American citizens.
From the way things look today many churches—captured now by the Left—are not indoctrinating new immigrants into American patriotism as they used to do, but are just using them as very lucrative cash cows.
“Why bother? Come to Mesa, where pay and benefits are equivalent, the force is fully staffed, and the public supports cops. Not needing to own a snow shovel doesn’t hurt, either.”
But then there is summer in AZ – it can top 120°. At lest, it is mostly still a dry heat!
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