Posted on 03/18/2026 7:15:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This has been pretty entertaining today. I've been catching a bunch of Nick's videos in between stories, and holy smokes - what he's finding doing his trademark wander around and knock on doors is, well, classic Shirley.
That sweet face and so innocent, pre-pubescent teenage boy's voice, 'If I open a hospice, can I get a brand new Maybach, too?'
The kid is a treasure.
This is where it all starts. He's at what looks like an old, rundown two-story motor inn. The kind you might remember from trips as a kid, where you drove through some sort of an arch into a courtyard sort of parking lot, and all the rooms faced inward.
The problem is that there are no guests, and, astonishingly enough, all the hotel rooms seem to be hospice businesses. There's, like, thirty of them in this one motor lodge.
There are also very many nice, shiny new cars.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
How peculiar.
If you'll remember, back at the end of January, Dr. Oz was loudly rebuked and condemned as a racist for going to a four-block area of Van Nuys, California, where he found forty-two hospices that had soaked taxpayers for some $16M already.
WHAT WERE THE ODDS?
It turns out that Shirley is the latest to discover the booming dying people business in California. A week ago, even CBS News decided that rather than call someone racist for looking, it was time they went looking themselves.
What they found blew some corporate minds.
CBS News
@CBSNews
CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FRAUD: There's a stretch in Los Angeles with 500 registered hospice companies within just three miles of each other. And 89 in a single building. But when we visited, we found empty offices, piled-up mail, and phone lines dead.
WHAT WERE THE ODDS?
This fellow was awfully cranky. And to be honest, were a loved one of mine in hospice, not exactly the comforting presence I envisage, you know?
He could at least take a bath or something.
And let me tell you - the fraud numbers we're talking about in greasy Gavin Newsom's California should make every American sick to their stomach.
Being the thorough sort of fellow Shirley is, he decided to find a business partner and go into the hospice business himself.
Of course, he wanted to do it correctly, and for that one needs advice from experts.
So he and Derrick, his partner, went to one of the businesses advertising themselves as 'hospice consultants' to see if they could get some tips on how to get started.
Wait a second - it's almost as if this 'consulting hospice business' didn't really have anything to do with hospice consulting.
The young girls seemed very nervous and confused for secretarial help.
How peculiar.
Undaunted, Nick finds a fellow back at the motor lodge who is willing to sit still for a little quizzing about how business is going.
DO YOU LIKE TAKING CARE OF OLD PEOPLE? ARE YOU THE ONE WHO GOES OUT TO VISIT THEM?
But all good things come to an end, and somehow, word got around to all the rooms...oh, excuse me. Hospice businesses. That the little guy in the parking lot was asking questions.
Suddenly, there was a rush for the expensive cars and the freeway.
Nice rides, though.
Shirley's whole forty-minute report is here when you have time. And blood pressure meds are close by......SNIP
He got old.
Many, many moons ago, a San Francisco (SF) democRAT admitted the truth. He said "If we don't win (elections), we don't eat."
The democRAT children and grandchildren of that SF democRAT have turned from basic eating to gluttony at the public trough.
We are only seeing the tips of the icebergs.
It's an inside - outside scheme where politically connected Democrat outsiders open up blatantly fraudulent operations and bill the state government with transparently fraudulent billing which the state government insiders look the other way and pay the billing without question.
The California State Assembly does it's part to enable the fraud by passing laws that completely forbid state government officials from even attempting to verify the identity of the people committing the fraud which allows the fraudsters to open multiple shell companies under multiple false identifies.
The government officials who administrate these programs are often actively involved in the fraud or are receiving kick backs and bribes from the fraudsters. anyone who tries to buck the system or expose the fraud is fired and/or intimidated into silence by the California Democrats thug enforcers.
This is literally business as usual in California and it has been open knowledge since the year 2000, if not earlier, that at least 50% of the California entitlement transfer payments in places like LA County are fraudulent .
It's safe to say that the fraud has only gotten worse since then so 50% is probably a very low ball estimate in today's California.
The California welfare fraud, health care fraud , workers comp fraud , unemployment fraud, insurance fraud and assorted other government funded fraud schemes are a many hundreds of billions of dollars a year industry that makes the Minnesota fraudsters look like girl scouts by comparison,
Good point
This needs to a bill board
The California State Assembly does it’s part to enable the fraud by passing laws that completely forbid state government officials from even attempting to verify the identity of the people committing the fraud which allows the fraudsters to open multiple shell companies under multiple false identifies.
-PJ
Yes.
Newsom is arrogant, dumb and has a God syndrome - especially after beating the recall election.
He believes he is smarter and more savvy than anyone else - which makes him look like the fool he is.
He has the media and Democrat machine behind him to bolster his sense of hubris.
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