Why I am so Grateful to Tim Walz

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Of the $18 billion in federal funding that went to 14 Minnesota-run welfare programs since 2018, HALF of that total may have may have been complete and total fraud.

This scandal is a case study in government incompetence— over 90 people charged with bilking at least hundreds of millions from programs meant to feed low-income children, with much of the fraud centered in Minnesota’s Somali community.

And those are just the ones that were prosecuted.

Court records show defendants spent the money on lakefront property and luxury cars

And when some Minnesota officials finally tried to stop the fraud in 2021, one of the programs— “Feeding Our Future”— sued the state for racial discrimination.

A Leftist judge ordered the payments to resume and held the Department of Education in contempt— fining them $47,500.

Minnesota officials under Governor Tim Walz’s watch retaliated against the whistleblowers and attempted to hide it all from federal investigators.

And I am so grateful to Tim Walz for all of this.

Walz is such a corrupt buffoon, he thought people were too stupid or ambivalent to ever notice the massive fraud taking place… or to put the pieces together and realize how the Left has imported countless migrants into the country and showered them with taxpayer funds, all to keep their party in power.

But taxpayers did notice. And they do care.

The larger problem is that it’s not just Walz and Minnesota.

And that outright fraud may be the smaller issue.

“Legal graft” in America is a far bigger problem, completely dwarfing the outright fraud.

California, for example, has a state website listing thousands of government grants that have been awarded over the past few years totaling nearly $100 billion.

This is taxpayer money, most of it coming from the federal government. And, unsurprisingly, the majority of this money has been squandered or funneled to leftist political groups.

$25 billion was spent on programs for the homeless, averaging $133,629 per homeless person.

In theory that should have been enough to build each homeless person his/her own small, permanent dwelling. And yet California still has a massive homeless problem.

Keep in mind, this is just federal grants going to California’s homeless problem; the state spent additional funds on the problem, bringing the total even higher.

Another $33 billion was allocated on DEI, identity nonsense, climate fantasies, and intersectionality.

For example, $38 million of taxpayer money was allocated by California’s Department of Industrial Relations to change the demographic makeup of the construction workforce using equity and non-binary inclusion as metrics.

Among the program’s many generous benefits, each newly recruited non-binary construction apprentice can receive up to $10,000 in direct stipends for childcare costs. It’s shocking that any new construction workers wouldn’t identify as non-binary with that kind of incentive.

This is part of “Expanding Registered Apprenticeship in California,” or “ERiCA”—a $25 million initiative doling out grants to promote “equity, inclusion, and access” in the construction trades.

Organizations are given tax dollars to hire DEI consultants and host workshops; one grantee, for instance, received $493,000 to design “insight training” for workers—mandatory anti-harassment sessions to “dismantle barriers” and “foster belonging.”

Another group got paid to create “peer ambassador” programs— where people are hired to find more people to receive free taxpayer money.

Yes, tax dollars are funding some Californian’s job convincing non-binary individuals they belong in a construction apprenticeship. While other tax dollars are spent pulling the actual workers off jobs and into PowerPoints on microaggressions.

California’s Department of Public Health spent nearly $40 million to help queer and transgender people stop smoking. I guess heterosexuals should just choke on their tobacco and die.

Similarly, the same department spent $20 million on Alzheimer’s research— but only for LGBTQ cohorts.

The list literally goes on and on… and we haven’t even scratched the surface of state Medicaid boondoggles, like transgender breast augmentation and feminizing surgeries, courtesy of the taxpayer.

And yet every single one of these programs is completely legal. In fact, far from hiding in shame, California built a website to brag about how effectively they dole out this money.

In Minnesota, the Somalis had to go through the trouble of setting up fake daycare facilities and phony autism clinics to get their hands on those federal dollars. In California, the state gives the money away to anyone who claims to be non-binary.

But again, this isn’t just taking place just in California. Or Minnesota. Fraud and graft are everywhere.

And much of it is federally funded.

There is absolutely no way you could argue there isn’t room for 10% cuts to the federal government, across the board, including entitlements.

Think about it: $100 billion in federal tax dollars handed over to just one state— and that’s not even all the money California received— just the published grants.

Multiply that by 50 states. Then add the money that stays at the federal level: Medicare billing fraud, Social Security checks going to dead people, wasteful defense spending, rampant welfare and food stamp fraud.

I hope this gives DOGE a second wind. Maybe people will finally realize that Elon was right all along; he wasn’t exaggerating… if anything, he was understating the amount of fraud, waste, and abuse.

Given the very public fraud cases that are now front-and-center, combined with the absurd chorus of politicians who are closing ranks and defending that very fraud, it should be plainly obvious that the federal government could cut its annual budget by AT LEAST 10% without any loss of service.

Cutting 10% doesn’t mean you won’t be able to get a passport, or that the FBI can’t catch criminals, or that the military won’t be ready for war.

We’re talking about a slight reduction in fraud and legal graft that serves no purpose beyond enriching political allies and justifying bureaucratic empires.

To be fair, when the President hears about these things, he tries to shut down funding. And then he gets sued.

Ultimately solving this problem will come down to Congress. They have to be willing to do this. And for the most part, they aren’t. Too many of their constituents and donors make money off this graft, and a portion of the funds end up as campaign contributions.

If you’ve ever wondered why Congress— which has an approval rating of less than 15%— somehow maintains a 90%+ re-election rate for incumbents, this is why. It’s because of the fraud and the legal graft.

It’s not going to stop until the remaining legitimate voters make more responsible choices about who should be representing them in Congress.

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