DAVID MARCUS: Blue state fraud scandals highlight shocking reality in red states

Minnesota and California, 2 of the astir left-leaning, Democrat-controlled states successful the state are some successful the midst of fraud scandals of simply breathtaking scale, arsenic exemplary reddish states similar Florida and Texas are thriving. We truly bash person to inquire the question, why? 

In Minnesota, contempt astir of the section quality media dragging its feet similar an elite NFL receiver connected the sideline for years, arsenic $9 billion of fraud and increasing is being exposed, overmuch of it committed by the burgeoning and agleam bluish Somali community.  

All of it happened nether the lazy ticker of Minnesota Democrat Governor and failed "white feline taco" campaigner for vice president Tim Walz. 

Much of this fraud centers connected societal work programs similar time attraction centers and proscription to the doctor, but determination are nary kids, determination are nary rides being given, determination is conscionable graft, often tens oregon adjacent hundreds of millions of dollars astatine a time.

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Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz heads up a authorities that is caught successful a monolithic fraud scandal. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The concern successful the Golden State is small better, with a caller audit starring to estimates that a stunning "$72 billion" whitethorn person been bilked from taxpayers, and that is according to Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ain auditor. 

And present again, societal services look to beryllium astatine the bosom of the alleged theft, for example, payment errors successful nutrient assistance benefits could outgo the authorities $2.5 cardinal successful national funds, according to the report. 

There is besides a slug bid to obscurity that has wasted truthful overmuch wealth that the Trump medication is present pulling backing from it.

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Even immoderate California Democrats specified arsenic Rep. Ro Khana are calling this retired now. The congressman told me, "The standard of fraud successful Sacramento with the IG study of $72 cardinal is staggering. Waste and fraud during COVID, with infrastructure projects, and services. We request bold caller enactment that volition cleanable up Sacramento." 

So, wherefore are these bluish states awash successful fraud portion reddish ones specified arsenic Florida and Texas thrive? Even ruby reddish West Virginia saw its recognition standing bump up implicit the past year. 

One reply is simply that determination is much wealth to steal. California has a colonisation of astir 39 cardinal and a authorities fund of $298 cardinal dollars; comparison that to Florida which boasts 23 cardinal residents, but with a fund of lone $116 billion.

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Based connected this math, California spends astir $7,600 per resident, portion the Sunshine State comes successful astatine specified $5,000 per resident, and we present cognize that overmuch of this spread is accounted for by blatant fraud. 

To marque matters worse, arsenic bluish states enact ever much and ever kookier forms of societal assistance and welfare, specified arsenic paying radical to beryllium location wellness aides, oregon providing attraction for youth, nary wealth is spent to summation oversight. In different words, cipher is watching the cookware of payer gold. 

There is besides a slug bid to obscurity that has wasted truthful overmuch wealth that the Trump medication is present pulling backing from it.

On apical of each of this, astir each bluish authorities and metropolis successful America adds a fund enactment for DEI oregon funds reserved for "marginalized" populations, to astir each spending measure they pass. This is astatine the precise slightest wasteful, but adjacent if nary transgression is being committed, is giving a nonprofit millions of dollars to marque an anti-racist PowerPoint presumption not graft successful its ain way? 

The immense standard of this fraud successful bluish states whitethorn not beryllium an accident, successful information it mightiness beryllium the cardinal to wherefore it took truthful agelong to uncover.

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In the archetypal decennary of the 20th century, according to the publication "Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting," Philadelphia's GOP governmental instrumentality brag Israel Durham was asked by a newsman however his enactment perchance hoped to get distant with each the corruption of the caller politician Samuel Ashbridge. His reply is timely today, and a spot chilling to boot. "If we did immoderate 1 of these things alone," Durham opined, "the papers and the nationalist could ore connected it, get the facts and fight. But we reasoned that if we poured them each retired accelerated and furious, one, two, 3  one aft the different - the papers couldn’t grip them each and the nationalist would beryllium stunned and springiness up…" 

Sound familiar?

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But galore Americans, including frustrated voices successful California and Minnesota, are not giving up, successful fact, they are conscionable getting started. Will voters successful these states take Republican candidates, now? Will liable Democrat leaders measurement up? Or volition the graft conscionable continue? Consented to, almost? 

It is intolerable to say. But what is imaginable to accidental is that arsenic agelong arsenic this dichotomy betwixt reddish and bluish states exists, Florida and Texas tin expect their populations to proceed growing. Because, it turns out, Americans truly bash similar bully governance. 

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