Spotlighting Minnesota's fraud factory

Now that Minnesota's fraud factory is getting highlighted by the national press, there's finally the opportunity to fix Minnesota's broken safety net program. There's a mood building within these programs and throughout Minnesota that isn't going away. Part of it is captured in Liz Collin's interview of Michele Bachmann. During the interview, Michele Bachmann told Liz Collin "This really was an open secret, people all across Minnesota, many of them knew about this. Before I went into state government, I had served as a federal tax litigation attorney. And even in my training as a tax litigation attorney, we were told about the fraud … So I was aware of it even back to that time … I’m very grateful that finally this is getting national attention."

I'm betting that the biggest reason why Michele Bachmann is "grateful" this story is "getting national attention" is because the Twin Cities corporate media has been burying this story for 10+ years. Minnesota's 'generosity' has been taken advantage of. It's time to tell the grifters that Minnesotans are generous until they see truly needy children and adults getting deprived of the help they need. The minute we see that, our attitude can change in a New York split-second. We won't turn violent (we're Minnesota Nice, remember?). Instead, we'll testify that you've stolen from the needy and tell the judge to lock you up. What these Somalis (and Aimee Bock) have done is unforgivable. I turn pretty cold-hearted when I see graft happening.

This is important:

“The fact is, a lot of this may have begun as compassion but what it quickly grew into was an industry — an industry that was fleecing the taxpayers — and ultimately it’s come to the point of being an outright scam and a fraud,” she said.

"Our state budget is a pass-through entity. It’s a financial funnel that goes from federal money, state money, to local money, but it goes through nonprofits," Bachmann added.

Bachmann pin-pointed it when she said "Our state budget is a pass-through entity." I've taken it a step further. The Minnesota budgeting process, especially with Human Services nad K-12 Education budgets, is about repleninshing slush funds, aka nonprofits and NGOs after they've spent money on political campaigns. The money is sent out in the form of grants. Where it goes from there is anyone's guess. Based on what's been reported thus far, that $$ might end up in the Maldives, into the grill of fast, expensive cars or on something else expensive.

“The Democrats set up a huge bureaucracy for the employers, a huge group of lawyers to go in and fine and shut down and take into court employers. I’ve never seen anything like this. What happened in that 2023 legislative session really is the basis of destroying the state of Minnesota. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but they put in place mechanisms to destroy small and big businesses,” Bachmann said.

The perils of one-party rule

"This all happened because we have completely unaccountable one-party rule and we need an audit. We are desperate for an audit in the state of Minnesota. We can’t trust the Democrats to police themselves," she added.

She also welcomed the involvement of federal authorities. "Almost every one of these programs has a federal hook in it — the money. So we’re going to see the federal government involvement for a long time," Bachmann said.

Tuesday, Walz complained that Trump was attacking Minnesota. What a blithering idiot. He's just enforcing the law, something that Tim isn't used to. That's his problem.