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Posted on 08/22/2026 5:26:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Thanks to the heroic efforts of Nick Shirley, James O’Keefe, Dr. Oz, and RFK Jr., Americans are beginning to get an idea of the horrifying scope of the money blown by federal, state, and municipal social services bureaucracies. Billions, possibly trillions, earmarked for daycare, elder care, medical treatments, hospices, pharmacies, addiction rehab, and sober living facilities funded lavish lifestyles and foreign terror organizations.
What made America vulnerable to this tsunami of fraud has its roots in the late 19th-early 20th century progressive movement. Somehow, for certain influential citizens, the American system didn’t seem to offer enough for the underclass.
In our country, no one’s opportunities were restricted because of being born in the wrong class. Our country had, at great expense in blood and treasure, ended slavery. In about a century, Americans had built homesteads and businesses stretching across the continent. We had a lot of upward mobility. We had built the Gilded Age. And, in the view of some of our powerful citizens, the Gilded Age was not enough.
The people would need more. Americans needed safety nets.
The first social programs in America operated out of settlement houses that offered recreation, education, and accommodations. Ironically, the same movement that introduced America to social programs also pushed for tenement reform and housing codes that destroyed such low-cost housing options as single-room occupancy and boarding houses. Because every household, even of one person, needs a kitchen, a stove, a minimum amount of square feet, and a bathroom that isn’t shared.
After a century and a half of ever-expanding tax-fueled largesse, according to the U.S. Treasury, Americans now pay more in taxes than for our housing, food, and clothing combined.
And those tax expenditures aren’t improving things for Americans these days.
The bureaucracies that ladled out cash weren’t monitoring where
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Yes, shut them all down. Let private charities ask for donations.
It seems the least charitable people are now in charge of the thousands of so called charitable organizations.
And I am going to guess that the IRS has been more lenient than it should be on those "charities". After all, who wants to be the bad person who determines that a "charity" is cheating and stealing money?
Those Learing Centers, and the Medicare/Medicaid frauds? That should all have been brought out with any reasonably competent audit even before the government files for recovery of the funds.
The auditors, the state agencies responsible for administering the federal grants, the IRS, there is a lot of icompotence or complicity involved.
DOGE should not sounded like magic. All of the fraud and waste shoulda woulda coulda been caught and made public a long long time ago.
We need to end the idea that it is the responsibility of the government to deliver social services. That is the job of churches and private charities, and most of all, responsible men who will take up the role of husbands and fathers. The role of the government is to provide justice and protection against foes, foreign and domestic.
BUMP!
Not Yours To Give.
“All of the fraud and waste shoulda woulda coulda been caught and made public a long long time ago.”
Absolutely, positively. And prison sentences for much of the uniparty Congress year after year who sends out $TRILLIONS with no oversight or long term planning, but that’s just me.
Per the Constitution it is the Congress/Legislative derelicts who spends the money and accumulates the $40 trillion debt, not the Executive or the Judicial. But today’s population would never know this, many of them can’t even read getting out of high school and are already paying the price. And us voters re-elect the same criminals over and over LOL.
Yes, shut them all down. Let private charities ask for donations.
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Yep.
Congress passed the laws establishing the various grift programs with fatal flaws.
Until Trump’s second term, the executive branch failed to administrate the programs in any meaningful way.
Congress failed to perform oversight of the programs they had created.
Are any of these incompetent or complicit actors likely to blame themselves?
What are the names of the Congressmen and Senators who sponsored and voted for the obviously flawed concepts (where States that benefitted from getting as much federal $ as possible were put in charge of managing the programs; and, money went out the door BEFORE proof of what is went for)?
What are the names of US government administrators who failed to notice billions running out the door to obvious crooks?
What are the names of the State officials who allowed massive grift while maing no real effort to police the programs?
All these perpetrators have names, yet no more than a handful are known to the public. It’s time for the Fourth Estate to do it’s job and identify these individuals. The “givernment” seems unlikely to.
“The first social programs in America operated out of settlement houses”
Ignorance of history .. colonial to current .. makes this article worthless.
Churches were the first
Fraternal Organizations were the second
Then City governments had social programs with no settlement houses.
The current system of welfare FRAUD can be traced directly to the massive expansion of welfare size and complexity under Obama.
Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System was designed in 2013-14 to be be INTENTIONAL FRAUD. The CIO of GA went to great lengths to try to get Deloitte to properly design and develop IES. Deloitte intentionally designed it to be FRAUD anyway.
Deloitte IES ENROLLS and MANAGES ELIGIBILITY for Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, WIC, TANF, Sec8, LIHEAP, etc in 25 states with Un-integrated parts of it in other states ... both RED & BLUE states CA TX FL GA TN KY IL WI MI PA NY etc.
Fraudsters = Taxpayer Blood Suckers
“In our country, no one’s opportunities were restricted because of being born in the wrong class. Our country had, at great expense in blood and treasure, ended slavery. In about a century, Americans had built homesteads and businesses stretching across the continent. We had a lot of upward mobility. We had built the Gilded Age. And, in the view of some of our powerful citizens, the Gilded Age was not enough.”
The author is sadly lacking in even basic knowledge of American history of that era. Any person here whose family arrived here in hopes of a better life certainly found it when compared to the pogroms, wars, famine, poverty, and crowding of other continents but they certainly faced other struggles here. The persons who most benefited from that Gilded Age are rightly termed “robber barons”. Great reforms came out of that era not because the Gilded Age swept everyone up in its path but because ordinary citizens took action against the corruption that was such a part of it.
Those reforms were not about “ Somehow, for certain influential citizens, the American system didn’t seem to offer enough for the underclass.” They were at the very heart about actually saving lives. It was about ending the spread of disease, ending child labor, improving sanitation,
establishing standards for food safety. These things did not just improve the lives of the underclass but of everyone. And I have news for her she would have been one of the underclass as would I.
One of the major groups that I suppose the author views as “progressive” was the Temperance Union.
“The first social programs in America operated out of settlement houses that offered recreation, education, and accommodations. Ironically, the same movement that introduced America to social programs also pushed for tenement reform and housing codes that destroyed such low-cost housing options as single-room occupancy and boarding houses.”
Again her ignorance is inexcusable. The main reason why it is hard ot find SRO and boarding houses is not because of social programs but because of fire and life safety codes which showed such dwellings were much more likely to have fires which resulted in large loss of life. Such occupancies are still legal but do have to meet those codes.
She might also bother to find out just what were the conditions of the tenement housing of that era.
Thank goodness someone else saw how ignorant she is.
“...the American system didn’t seem to offer enough for the underclass.”
Pretty sure this story’s alludes to “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathon Swift.
And NOW democrats want Medicare for All"? That would be so much graft kicked back to corrupt democrats that the country would be broke and democrat in a year. PS May every person who writes for the New York Times rot in hell ...
Ironically, the same movement that introduced America to social programs also pushed for tenement reform and housing codes that destroyed such low-cost housing options as single-room occupancy and boarding houses. Because every household, even of one person, needs a kitchen, a stove, a minimum amount of square feet, and a bathroom that isn’t shared.
I doubt the author is familiar with that piece.
They also need a minimum square footage of living space, egress windows, natural light, ventilation, and running water. Oh those selfish peasants!
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