America Can No Longer Survive Liberal Policies
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.
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.
The true story of government budgets is that they are a gigantic rip off of the pocketbooks of those who work. Government budgets serve primarily those who know how to game government budgets and spending programs. This is the true story of the American welfare state. Many of the programs were established by liberals for the benefit of blacks. The unintended consequences, as Harvard professor and Democrat senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proved in the 1960s, was the destruction of the black family and children without fathers. To my knowledge no one ever successfully challenged Moynihan’s findings. They were simply shoved aside in order to protect the image of social programs addressing legitimate social needs. If the statement by members of the Minnesota welfare bureaucracy is correct that governor Waltz was afraid to take action against fraud because it could discredit the programs and himself as a conscientious liberal, we are reliving the attitude of Moynihan’s time that prevented any examination of the real consequences of the redistributive programs.
The hostility with which Elon Musk and DOGE were greeted suggest that the use of government budgets for the benefit of politically connected businesses and fraudsters will remain an unexamined problem that is oppressing the working class without serving the poor.
World War II destroyed all rivals to American economic power. In recent years, the folly of American policies, together with the rise of an independent world outside of American control, finds the United States with massive government and private debt at a time when interest in holding US Treasury debt as the reserves of the world banking system is in decline. We can no longer afford for liberals to protect their illusions about government budgets and the alleged good that they do when the consequence is the destruction of living standards of all Americans.