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Posted on 01/13/2026 7:33:12 AM PST by bitt
The headline probably has most of you saying to yourselves: Of course, I believe the amount of fraud taking place in federal 'safety net' programs. No matter what number you report, Moran, I've already imagined it.
I'd agree with you, except that the scale of the fraud, waste, and lax enforcement is beyond anything anyone ever imagined.
Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a contributing editor at Reason, has spent her entire career as a voice crying in the wilderness, trying to get Congress, opinion-makers, and citizens to pay attention to the extraordinarily lax oversight of most government spending.
Will the Minnesota Medicaid fraud scandal finally be the tipping point that will convince the parties to get serious about safeguarding the taxpayers' money? "The outrage is justified because Americans are finally getting a concrete look at what happens when pushing public money out the door matters more than verifying the eligibility of the recipients, confirming services were delivered, or, ultimately, being a good steward of taxpayers' money," writes de Rugy.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are suggesting that up to half the $18 billion spent on 14 Medicaid-funded Minnesota programs since 2018 may have been tied to fraud. Yes, that's nine billion dollars of "government" money. It's not real. "A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there, pretty soon, you're talking about real money," said former Illinois Sen. Everett Dirksen.
Ultimately, it is, in fact, "real money" because it goes into people's pockets and gets spent on everything from chewing gum to cancer treatments. We've become so inured, so numb to the gargantuan amount of government spending that goes out the door in Washington in our name that it just doesn't seem real.
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It would be interesting to trace how much the fraud ramped up during the Obama Administration. His administration’s goal was to use government funding of NGOs to advance a liberal agenda and Democrat political dominance. He used USAID. He used other government programs. And apparently, he set up a system that tolerated massive fraud in the transfer payment system to fund the imposition of radical liberalism on the US. And if some Dems and their Somali and other allies got rich in the process from the fraud, all the better.
Aren’t the congress members supposed to control and oversee government spending? I guess most are complicit (and/or their close family and friends are). What pathetic, unpatriotic, sociopathic criminals.
Except I have imagined it. And I’m not “shocked” at the announcements, either.
HAN SOLO: I don’t know, I can imagine quite a bit.
Watched a movie last evening about the food for oil program in Iraq before the second gulf war. 10B went through it and every tin pot dictator at the UN plus a bunch of companies and individuals all raked in millions from it. Same here.
Nearly ALL fraud for “safety net” programs are committed by democrats.
Filthy, dirty, corrupt scumbag Rats. For decades, on and on with nothing ever done about it, and no one going to prison for it. This must end, damn it.
What we need is a friggin “safety net” forbidding foreign maggots from having access to the U.S. treasury.
I’d be willing to bet good money that 60%+ of our $40 trillion in debt is there because of fraud, decades of fraud.
And that’s probably a conservative ‘low-ball’ estimate.
I’d take the over on that one
I don’t know. I’ve seen credible reports that our House Speaker is up to his neck in the fraud.
I watched that movie last week too.
I told my wife half way through the movie.
This guy is going to end up in some country with no extradition.
Crete, where all the international criminals retire.
We watched three movies in one week with Sir Ben Kingsley in them.
You misspelled "Communists"...
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