The Questions Resident In The Massive Minnesota Fraud

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

As the fraud onion in Minnesota continues to unpeel, layer by layer, many questions are raised.  Why Minnesota?  Is this happening on other states?  (YES! – at least California, Perhaps Ohio?  And then there are the more individual levels of deadly fraud.)  Why won’t the media cover it?  And a question I don’t think most people are considering – Did these programs benefit anyone in actual need?

Much of this fraud has been perpetrated under the cover of racism charges.  No one dare question persons of a protected class least the questioner be accused of racism.  Clearly there has been a preponderance of persons in protected classes applying for these benefits fraudulently obtained.  It is fascinating that no one sees the racism in the presumption that they need the assistance – or the reverse racism inherent in the presumption that other people don’t need it.  What about the people that did not apply, or were turned down because the programs were so clearly aimed at the protected classes?  What about the people that had to figure out how to solve their problems without benefit of government assistance?  What about the restaurants, small daycare centers, mom-and-pop retail, and thousands of others that went out of business during covid and had to figure out how to scrape a living together from scratch?

The fact of the matter is that while a small group of people were defrauding the government to suck at its teats, thousands and thousands of Americans were solving their problems on their own, or with the help of family and faith communities.  Some depleted retirement savings, even incurring tax penalties.  Go talk to a Wal-Mart greeter or that waitress that seems too old to be on her feet that much and see if covid has not made them extend their working life many years beyond the original plan.

We have turned the protected classes into the dependent classes.  The fraud blossoms because in such a situation either they do not have a clue how to make an honest living or they lack the pride to try.  And those people that struggled or are struggling are too proud to ask for government help – they do not want it.  Something is quite wrong in this nation when we reward the non-productive and punish the productive.

The fraud exists because we have turned our “safety nets” into support systems.  That’s heinous enough, but we have done so under the guise of fighting racism all the while offering that support on an implicitly racial basis.  The corruption revealed by this fraud runs much deeper than merely taking government money under false pretenses.  Much deeper.

ADDENDUM (a few hours later):  Another aspect of this mess that should not be overlooked is how much covid insanity contributed.  Remember, many of these grants and benefits started flowing during all that nonsense when people were working “remotely” (if they were working at all) severely restricting their ability to run the usual vetting for beneficiaries.  Secondarily, field operatives were not in the field, because of “the virus.”  There was no checking, no inspection, no enforcement.  There was no wisdom in the shutdown policies of covid.