"It’s time to modify Mark Twain’s line about Congress and the criminal class to make it more in tune with the times. “There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Democratic politicians.' ”
"One of the unanswered questions raised by Minnesota’s massive welfare scandal is how it could have gone on so long, given its scale and the fact that alarm bells had been clanging for years.
"The New York Times provided the answer, if inadvertently, when it quoted a former fraud investigator in the state attorney general’s office, who said that “There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc” for Democrats.
"That is it in a nutshell when it comes to government waste, fraud, and abuse.
"For today’s Democrats, these aren’t problems to be solved. They are cherished benefits that support their (and their friends’) lifestyles and keep them in office.
"How else to explain why they are so often caught with their hands in the till, and why they routinely try to thwart anti-fraud efforts?
We’re not just talking about Democrats ripping off government programs for their personal benefit – examples of which are legion – but the opportunities for fraud built into the programs they create.
"Take the federal food stamp program, which now goes by the euphemism SNAP and is riddled with fraud. Instead of trying to protect taxpayers, Democrats are actively thwarting a Trump administration effort to eliminate it." "Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that “We asked for all the states for the first time to turn over their data to the federal government to let the USDA partner with them to root out this fraud, to make sure that those who really need food stamps are getting them, but also to ensure that the American taxpayer is protected.” "Seems reasonable enough, and most states complied with the request. But 21 Democrat-controlled states are refusing to turn that data over to the Agriculture Department. And of those, more than half are known to have payment errors that exceed the national average, including California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts" . . .
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