by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:
Social programs, formally called welfare programs, administered in Minnesota under governor Tim Waltz, former Democrat candidate for vice president, indicate that Minnesota social programs are fraught with profits for companies formed in order to scam the welfare system. One scheme billed under the federal child nutrition program for serving meals to thousands of children each day when in fact few if any meals were served. Another scam took advantage of Minnesota’s autism program and billed for diagnosing and treating people with autism spectrum disorder. The number of providers of autism services increased 700% in a few years. The amount paid to providers during that time increased 3000% according to data provided by the Department of Human Services.
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Minnesota governor Tim Waltz faces a congressional subpoena for his refusal to respond with requested information to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee chaired by Rep.James Comer.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/house-chairman-says-tim-walz-political-career-over-will-subpoena-over-fraud-if?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
The scandal seems to involve the Somali immigrant-invaders, 80,000 of whom were dumped by the Biden regime on one Minnesota city alone– Minneapolis.
The organized looting of the federal and state budgets is not unique to Minnesota. It is generalized throughout the United States and in many cases federal agencies themselves are involved in the looting of the American taxpayer. For example, USAID spent millions of dollars of American taxpayers’ money funding LGBT activism in Guatemala and a Sesame Street show in Iraq. There are worse examples of the wastage of the substance of the American people.
The situation is so serious and out of control that even the presstitute media, Newsweek, has covered elements of the story. Fox 9 News in Minneapolis has led the charge in bringing facts of the scandals to the public. Estimates of the money stolen by fraudsters in Minnesota who game social service programs range from one billion to ten billion dollars.
https://www.fox9.com/news/fraud-minnesota-detailing-nearly-1-billion-schemes
Liberals mocked President Reagan for speaking about welfare queens, who received duplicate monthly welfare benefits. But now we have situations where large sums fund huge numbers of welfare payments made to people who do not exist and end up in the pockets of fraudsters. There are allegations that some of this money is being funneled to a terrorist organization abroad. There is no obvious reason why this could not be true.
Fraud is likely worse in New York City and California than in Minnesota. It is difficult for any Democrat governor to combat fraud. The social welfare programs are targeted to the Democrats’ constituency–inner city blacks, illegal aliens, and disadvantaged groups. To move against these programs appears as a move against the constituencies they are supposed to serve. This constraint gives fraudsters a wide opening and almost a free hand to exploit the social welfare budgets. Statements by people claiming to be members of the Minnesota social service bureaucracy say that political leadership in Minnesota was unwilling to take action against fraud, because it could be interpreted as action against blacks and could result in accusations from the left-wing against the Democrat political leadership.
Neither the liberal left nor conservatives understand that government budgets do not serve the public interest. Government budgets, and the programs of which they consist are sources of profits for politically connected business interests and for fraud. Many of the programs which have turned out to be little more than money laundering operations originated in good intentions. For example, many years ago New York City mayor Ed Koch saddled the city budget with the homeless right to shelter. This was long before immigrant invaders appeared on the scene. Now New York City finds itself responsible for housing approximately 120,000 immigrant invaders who have appeared on its streets. This assault on the city’s budget appears at the same time with numerous other similar assaults. Additionally, there is a movement on foot to extend the right of shelter as a responsibility of the entire state. Such rights and other entitlements eat into the incomes of the working class, making it difficult for them to make ends meet. In order to pay for others, millions of Americans now live on credit cards and, unable to make more than minimum payments, are accumulating a mountain of debt. Here we have yet another example of the good intentions of liberals turning into a catastrophe for working class Americans.
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