Posted on 01/08/2026 1:59:26 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Working out, we can see the all the local media "news" reports at the gym. Some network affiliated stations, some 'independent' ones.
Amazing that Minnesota has been the epicenter of fraud and took center stage on that and Florida media is silent.
Then the governor of the state, the handpicked running mate of the 'black' woman sidekick to Sleepy Joe, is forced to quit his attempt for re-election. Florida media again is silent.
But a moron driver tries to run over an ICE agent and the Miami media...goes all in on "eeeevil Trump!"
I don't watch any news, local or national, nor do I visit locations that air it.
I got to see how the sausage was made several years ago as a master control operator and it isn't very pretty.
Amazingly, the local media can ONLY FIND people on the street who HATE the enforcement of immigration law. The ONLY extended interview is with a woman who claims ICE murdered an innocent protester.
Local media cannot find ANYONE who supports ICE.
The Heritage Foundation
Originally appeared in Fox News
The failure of political leaders on many fronts bears some of the blame. But the main culprit is the massive federal welfare system that annually passes hundreds of billions of dollars down to states to dole out, with the philosophy that the more people on the rolls, the better.The structure of the U.S. welfare system creates incentives for states to expand the rolls—and little incentive for them to ensure that money is going to those who truly need it. As welfare rolls expand, programs receive more money. It’s a system based on the Democratic perspective that government should provide more support to more people. And the U.S. welfare system is massive. It consists of roughly 90 different programs that cost more than $1 trillion annually.
Because the majority of U.S. welfare funding comes from the federal government, states have reason to expand their rolls and little financial incentive to protect against waste and fraud. And massive fraud is what happened in Minnesota. The state’s welfare scandals went like this: non-profits, or alleged non-profits, claimed to be serving people in need. That enabled them to receive hundreds of millions in federal funding, or a mix of state and federal dollars. The scammers then took the money that was supposedly for the needy and pocketed it. Fraudsters used this playbook to steal money from a federal child nutrition program, a Medicaid housing program and a federal program for children with autism, to the tune of billions of dollars.
Over a few years—including the COVID years when government spent not only like drunken sailors, but drunken sailors on uppers—the number of “people” these Minnesota “non-profits” were serving skyrocketed, along with the taxpayer dollars they received to fund their “services.” Because the alleged rolls were growing for these programs, government provided more dollars. And the scammers made off like bandits. not that the blue state of Minnesota and its politicians are happy about the fraud that occurred or that they cheer welfare scammers. But when the mindset is that growing welfare rolls are a sign of success, and that people are entitled to benefits – and when welfare funding flows readily—the ground is fertile for exploitation.
Beyond the fraud and the unsustainable costs of the current U.S. welfare system, perhaps more tragic is that it fails to address the underlying causes of poverty. It is a system based on inputs rather than on promoting upward mobility. After 60 years of the war on poverty, taxpayers are spending an ever-increasing amount of money on welfare programs. Yet poverty—or more accurately, self-sufficiency—in the U.S. has remained flat. Government throws money at material poverty but fails to address deeper human needs that drive poverty, like lack of work and family breakdown. And sadly, the welfare system undermines or penalizes work and marriage, which are the greatest protectors against poverty.
The scandal in Minnesota should be a wake-up call on multiple fronts. One of the urgent calls should be the need for welfare reform. There are many ways the system should be reformed—work requirements for able-bodied adults, getting rid of marriage penalties and better prioritizing spending—but perhaps most relevant to the current scandal would be changing the funding structure and the way success is measured. First, to better protect against fraud, states should be required to fund more of the welfare system themselves. Passing down dollars from the federal government to states creates a lack of accountability and makes it easier for fraud to occur. But this isn’t the only change. After all, not all the money scammed away in Minnesota was federal funding.
Programs should also be funded based on whether they promote upward mobility, not based on the number of people they serve. Welfare reform in 1996 restructured the largest cash assistance program at the time, in part, by ending the structure of more money for larger welfare rolls. Instead, states were provided a fixed funding stream and rewarded if they helped move people into work and off the roles. The 1996 reform worked to decrease poverty, even among some of the most vulnerable populations. More welfare programs should be designed like this.
Another option would be a “pay-for-outcomes” structure, where programs are funded when they meet an agreed upon outcome: increasing graduation rates, boosting employment, raising participants’ income, etc. Rather than paying for inputs, a pay-for-outcomes model rewards a program after it proves itself. These are just a few recommendations. But they would be a good start toward turning the broken welfare system into what it should be—a system that helps people improve their lives. These reforms would also help make sure that what happened in Minnesota never, ever happens again.
The local media in the Twin Cities is pathetic. However, there is one place where you can get honest local news. alphanews.org
Good to know
The welfare system os based on the “wild-eyed Democratic perspective” that a
benevolent government should provide more tax dollars to more people, ad infinitum.
The Democrat-controlled US welfare system is massive.
Consisting of roughly 90 different programs costing more than $1 trillion annually........
that still don’t meet the needs of those it purports to benefit.
Side note: They have been radio silent about the riots in Iran as well. I can sort of understand that, but the national news has had a blackout on Iran, and THAT is quite peculiar as it should be in their wheelhouse.
“there is one place where you can get honest local news”
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1) The “Howie Carr Show” gives both direct, opinionated, and humorous news—weekday afternoons. (iHeart, WRKO-AM Boston).
2) Mornings, there is Jeff Kuhner (iHeart, WRKO-AM, Boston), and later, “Chris Plante Show” and the “Vince Show”. (iHeart, WMAL-FM, DC).
3) Prescient National and World insights:
Jesse Kelly (iHeart, WRKO-AM, Boston, many others).
Major US broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) largely avoided the Minnesota “Feeding Our Future” fraud story in their national evening newscasts for some time, particularly in their early coverage.
Here is a breakdown of the Limited National Broadcast Coverage:
Sources like Fox News and the Media Research Center indicate that major networks initially gave the story minimal attention, focusing instead on related political comments made by Trump.
Local and Independent Reporting: The story was covered by local Minnesota media outlets, and independent journalists and social media figures like Nick Shirley were instrumental in pushing the scandal into the national conversation.
Increased Coverage After Federal Action and Trump’s Comments: After federal indictments forced the scandal into the spotlight, and especially after President Trump’s comments on the Somali community in Minnesota, the story gained significantly more traction in national news outlets, including CNN and MSNBC.
Reasons for Hesitation: Some conservative reporters claimed that internal newsroom roadblocks, stemming from fears of being accused of racism, initially hindered early coverage of the scandal.
While national broadcast networks were slow to cover the story in depth, it was reported on by local and independent media, and has since become a major point of political debate and is widely covered.
The New York Times was among the first national outlets to report the details of the fraud.
Apparently some folks like that woman in Minnesota just don’t understand the situation. There was a federal official trying to uphold the law while she was determined that he would not uphold it.
.........that woman in Minnesota just didn’t understand the situation...........
<><> a federal official was trying to uphold the law
<><>she was determined that he would not uphold it.
Sums it up beautifully.
One of our local station had the venezuelans chanting USA, USA. We can’t have that can we
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