It Takes A Village of Somalis To Defraud Minnesota

<![CDATA[As a Californian, when it comes to fraud at the state level, whether it's disappearing federal money, state money, or local money, we stand at the summit. No matter which way you look, not one of the other 49 states in the Union comes close our eye level in wasting money in fraudulant fashion the way we do here in the Golden State. Let me give you just one example. In 1996, by way of a state initiative, the California Scam Tram, the Little Train That Couldn't, the Train From Nowhere To Nowhere got underway. Except it didn't. Originally plotted to be a high-speed rail that would take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2020, at a cost of $10 billion dollars, the train still doesn't exist. Nor does the track, the electrical lines, nor the infrastructure. After thirty years, all that can be said for it in the way of progress is a regular train track that's meant to be a supply line to the high-speed track that isn't there. In short, this project alone, (and mind you, California's various fraudulant programs are as ubiquitous as sunlight), has not laid a single mile of track to date, has spent well north of $15 billion dollars to not lay that track, now boasts a future cost of $128 billion when it's completed sometime in the mid 2030's, (which it won't), and it's ambitious L.A.-S.F. termination cities has been scaled back. You will ultimately, so long as the money and Democrats don't run out, be whisked away from Bakersfield, 113 miles north of the City of Angels, to Merced, which is 130 miles to the south of the City on the Bay. Keep in mind, it's only 383 miles if you drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and after four decades and $130 billion dollars, the high-speed rail will only get you a little over halfway. You're on your own for the rest of the distance. Whenever I see reports surface of fraud going on in another state, I typically scoff. But over the last couple of weeks, seeing the reports of the breadth and depth of fraud the Somali community has perpetrated on the state of Minnesota, and by extension the federal taxpayers, it's enough to make this cynical Californian stand up and applaud. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, allegedly vetted at one time by former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder as the best choice for Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party's emergency vice-presidential nominee in 2024, has been absolutely John Belushi-esque in delivering excuses for the fraud rampant in the Gopher State. In regards to the fraudulant Medicaid food, housing, autism support, a story that our friends Scott Johnson and John Hinderaker have owned from the beginning at Powerline Blog, totaling close to $9 billion dollars across 14 different programs thus far, Walz has had no shortage of people to blame. ]]>