Posted on 01/12/2026 4:39:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As the details of Minnesota’s widescale social services fraud blew up on social media over the Christmas holidays, it was hard to miss the contrast between the reaction of Republicans and Democrats. While Republicans were outraged, Democrats minimized and denied the very existence of the problem.
With each new revelation of systemic fraud against the American taxpayer, we’re seeing a common denominator. Fraud protections have been deliberately bypassed in the pursuit of progressive political goals. Whether by incompetence or design, Democratic policies have turned the federal treasury into a piggy bank for fraudsters.
American taxpayers have always been a fat target. But the industrial scale of the fraud that has been revealed in the last year is coming through programs apparently designed with glaring vulnerabilities that seem engineered for exploitation.
The scope of the theft is staggering. In Minnesota’s Medicaid and social services programs under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, an estimated $9 billion or more has been stolen – potentially half of the $18 billion administered. Politicians waived audits, ignored whistleblowers and relaxed verification rules in favor of equity-based distributions, effectively inviting "fraud tourists" from out of state to set up shell companies.
EMMER WARNS WALZ COULD END UP 'IN CUFFS' AMID MINNESOTA FRAUD CLAIMS
Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future scam alone saw $250 million vanish into fake meal programs for nonexistent kids, with funds laundered overseas or splurged on luxuries. That’s one state.
On the federal level, the COVID-19 relief bonanza under former President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan incentivized fraud to obscene levels, with an estimated $420 billion in waste, fraud and improper payments — far exceeding initial Trump-era outlays. Programs like expanded unemployment insurance and PPP loans saw billions claimed by dead people, duplicate filers or fake businesses,...
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And Republicans help
And folks that will vote Democrat or even give back to the party
For a cut....
It has been stated Democrat policy, that better to pay some fraudsters than to leave some deserving poor starve.
Very noble, but we really do NOT have money for this any more.
We are bankrupt!
This gives us an inkling just how the Democrats managed to raise a billion dollars for Kamala in such a short period of time after they annointed her to take Biden’s place.
Democrats taking our money and giving it to our replacements.
We know.
I guess that’s the “communist wiggle”.
Obviously.
Sheesh, Jason. Are you really such a brain dead idiot?
Yeah, the Neanderthalic moslimic primitive Somalis JUST HAPPENED to arrive in the USA and JUST HAPPENED to stumble on the keys to draining the Treasury and JUST HAPPENED to set up bogus "childcare," "transportation," "autism centers," and "translation services" and JUST HAPPENED to vote en-bloc for Democrats. p>Yeah, they just got lucky at all of that. Plain dumb beginners' luck for the new arrivals.
If only we had a federal body to ensure tax payer money was dispersed appropriately.
We do not hate Congress enough.
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