Fraud in Minnesota has yet to be proven, at least on the scale depicted in Nick Shirley’s dubious video, yet WorldNetDaily columnists rushed to denounce it. Larry Elder huffed in a Jan. 8 column:
As for the estimated $8 billion in government (taxpayer) money stolen by crooks in Minnesota, people demand answers to many questions. But the 800-pound elephant/question goes unasked: Why is government in the business of welfare in the first place?
Where in the Constitution does it permit the federal government to extract money from taxpayers for charity?
[…]Government welfare represents what economist Milton Friedman called the least efficient, least effective and most wasteful spending: somebody else’s money on somebody else. Through most of our country’s history, charity was people to people – house of worship to people, nonprofit to people – not government to people.
[…]Private welfare, compared to public welfare, is less likely to create a sense of entitlement, will get a bigger bang for a buck and is less dependency-inducing than no-questions-asked public welfare.
The same day, Hanne Nabintu Herland blamed multiculturalism — i.e., non-white people — for the alleged fraud:
The British Christian commentator Katie Hopkins has excellently explained the failed U.K. multicultural experiment in a Jesse Lee Peterson podcast. Multiculturalism is the poisonous Marxist 1960s ideology that reiterates that one should not require that immigrants assimilate into the host cultures, but each ethnic group that moves into a Western nation should be allowed to retain their own cultural heritage, and thereby not integrate. The multicultural experiment assumed that the West would be populated by all cultures and that these would all happily embrace Western hedonist liberalism. An atheist, Marxist utopia would emerge – a new type of Western society without traditional values – and everyone would live happily ever after. Needless to say, this utopia never materialized.
[…]Katie Hopkin’s story also explains how the massive Somali fraud in Minnesotabecame possible, and why the media and Minnesotan politicians have allowed it to go on. Framed as the largest welfare fraud scheme in U.S. history, the massive increase in fraudulent Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) claims related to autism and housing stabilization services in Minnesota is largely attributed to Somali community actors. Significant amounts of U.S. welfare funds are funneled through fraud schemes and sent overseas, reportedly funding al-Shabaab terrorism in Somalia. The Somali community is described as a “crime racket,” using businesses as fronts, politicians as cover and policies to funnel taxpayer money into Somali pockets.
The numbers are horrible, suggesting systemic challenges in law enforcement and governance. 40% of Somali households receive remittances totaling $1.7 billion annually, exceeding Somalia’s entire government budget, according to recent reports. President Trump recently posted on X the immigrant welfare recipient rates by country of origin. For Somalis alone, a shocking 71.9% live on welfare benefits.
The problem is that Marxist multiculturalism has taught the rest of us Westerners to simply excuse criminal foreigners, as they come from terrible countries with massive corruption and fraud – places where nothing works and the population is chronically suffering at the hands of their incompetent leaders. Therefore, we should be nice and not demand accountability, but feel sorry for them. This is probably why CNN treated the self-styled journalist and MAGA YouTuber Nick Shirley with such contempt. As he investigated the allegation of Somali fraud on daycare sites, exposing billions of dollars in fraud, CNN showed up, trying to excuse the “poor victimized” Minnesota Somalis, while Shirley quickly was labeled racist,Islamophobe and other standard left-wing slurs the very instant he questioned crime committed by these Africans.
Multiculturalism effectively breaks down national sovereignty, cultural identity and the Christian heritage in Western societies, by moving millions from non-Western nations who do not share Western values to become welfare recipients in the West. The idea is that over decades, these new inhabitants will alter the cultural and religious fabric of Western societies, tearing down the classical Christian heritage, which is the end goal for Marxists in the first place. Domestic breakdown will make it easier to gain total Marxist control over society and permanently alter the West.
Marxist multiculturalism is inherently a racist ideology that automatically gives dark-skinned individuals the victim card. It breaks with the classical Western value of equality regardless of race, creed, social status and ethnic origin, introducing the very opposite. It separates citizens according to race and discriminates against the majority population in order to “help the weak and feeble” non-Western immigrants. With the current Somali fraud in Minnesota, it has become painfully clear that the Somalis are neither weak nor feeble, but perfectly capable of all sorts of fraud, lying, stealing and corruption in the scale of billions of dollars.
Laura Hollis blamed Barack Obama in her Jan. 17 column:
Just five days before the election of 2008 which would catapult him into the presidency, candidate Barack Obama gave a speech in which he made what is now one of his infamous statements: “We are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
In typical fashion, the press was too busy making goo-goo eyes at Obama to parse out what he meant by that statement, much less ask why a “fundamental transformation” of America would be necessary or desirable. Bestselling author and commentator Mark Levin asked what is perhaps the most salient question when he said, “Who wants to ‘fundamentally transform’ something they love?” Would anyone announce that they planned to “fundamentally transform” their betrothed days before their wedding? Do parents gleefully anticipate “fundamentally transforming” their child days before its birth?
In the eight years that followed, America got a taste of what Obama had in mind. His pernicious legacy includes inflamed racial hatreds, a disastrous rollout of kinda-sorta single-payer health care (preceded by a litany of lies and followed by de facto insolvency), an apology tour to the Middle East, the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans (including Ambassador Chris Stevens) and about which the administration lied to the public, and funding terrorism by sending $400 million in cash on pallets to Iran.
[…]So, it’s important to understand that the fraud being revealed in Minnesota (and, quite likely, in all 50 states) serves two important purposes in the ongoing “fundamental transformation” of America.
First, it is not inadvertent. It is not the result of incompetence or lack of oversight. It is deliberate. It is the beginnings of the redistribution of wealth from Americans to the Third World. The free education, free health care, free housing and guaranteed monthly income – all paid for by American taxpayers – is designed to take wealth from Americans – who leftists believe have “too much” – and transfer it to the world’s poor.
Second, cultivating a dependence upon government handouts ensures that today’s immigrants never become the successful entrepreneurs that their predecessors did. It’s no fluke that none of the “day care” or “autism centers” or “health transportation businesses” are real businesses. The American middle and upper-middle classes were built by entrepreneurs. They are the great bulwark against socialism and communism, because their very existence blows a hole in the “class-against-class” arguments that socialists love to use. Anyone can make it in America, and countless millions have.
But the Minnesota Somalis, among others, don’t know that, because their “businesses” are fake and their “business models” consist of raking in money from NGOs and social service agencies. That’s not entrepreneurship; it’s grift. As a result, they have no investment in preserving an economic or political system that rewards initiative, hard work, entrepreneurship, competition and customer service. They will be only too happy to vote for the socialists who are just waiting in the wings.
[…]Viewed in this light, the outrage at the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the raw panic at the exposure of statewide fraud in Minnesota (and elsewhere) should be explicable. End the weaponized “compassion” industry, end the fraud, and the plans for the socialist transformation of America become much more difficult.
Yep, that’s the way these people really think.