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Donna in MO's avatar

What is so amazing about all of this is that so many people are diverted by "Elon was not elected" and they refuse to acknowledge that all of this sunlight is a good thing. One woman demanded 'proof' of this wasteful USAID spending. And then when I showed her archived pages from the USAID site and links to USASpending.gov, she came back with "oh it's small amounts" and "it's wrong to take a sledgehammer to the detriment of millions of people"

At that point I gave up. Wish we could just send the bill to these people who are OK with all this fraud and abuse of our taxpayer dollars.

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PDG's avatar

Amen. I bet that person is vaxxed and boosted and continues to tell everyone that they have "done their part". Those people are hopeless.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yeah, I have mostly given up, but there is this FB group that is supposedly local, but arguments ensue about politics all the way from local to National. I couldn't resist and started posting facts with receipts. One of my friends commented, Donna, you can't be posting facts, you know that triggers them, lol. She was right, the hordes descended. Oh well it was a fun diversion for a few minutes anyway.

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PDG's avatar

Well done!

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Duct Tape's avatar

WARNING: BEGIN RANT

I will try to keep this brief. This is not about the dollars. This is about war. The goal of the enemy is to bring down the United States. Those who are conducting this war are using our own government to weaken our own economy while simultaneously taking overt actions funded by our economy. They are using our tax dollars against us.

USAID provided more than $1.4 million to NGOs to provide transportation to invaders from their native countries to our boarder with Mexico. These people then crossed the boarder with the express purpose to occupy and thus overthrow the United States. Everyone involved with this should be tried for treason. The invaders are not wearing uniforms, so they should be hung as spies.

All of the wasted, misappropriated tax dollars are being used to subvert our economy. Another example that we've all felt is the massive inflation caused directly by the COVID relief bills passed by Democrats. For those that didn't pay attention in Economics, inflation is caused by the government spending money it doesn't have. Printing money. (See the Wiemar Republic) The gigantic COVID bills were trillions of dollars, most of those dollars cannot be accounted for. So those that want us dead are making us borrow the money they will spend to destroy our country.

I expect the voices on the Left will only become more strident as their malfeasance is brought out into the light. I am taking note of people I know that are more distraught by the search for misconduct that the actual misconduct itself. Perhaps The Great Reset isn't going to be exactly what the Left thought it would be... An ambush can go either way. Just ask Custer. Remember, they want us dead.

END RANT

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Paving the Way's avatar

I think the COVID payouts were an attempt to get many more people on the recipient end of the criminal payola - as in a gang in which everyone is dirty, so nobody rats out anyone else. The gang holds sway because virtually everyone is part of it.

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Duct Tape's avatar

I agree the individual payouts were to cloud the waters and spread a feeling of complicity. "Hey, they spent TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE DON'T HAVE, but I'm not going to say anything because I got $1200." A good way to mute criticism. The individual payouts were a very tiny part of the massive COVID appropriation bills. (That got applied directly to the deficit thus creating the inflation we are still in the middle of.) The overarching goal was to further damage the US economy. Remember the first two campaign promises the Democratic Candidate made? Famine and complete economic meltdown. They want us dead.

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PDG's avatar

Meanwhile, the democrats are fighting this tooth and nail. The politicians that are loudest are the most corrupt. Maxine Waters is blowing her stack at all these audits. Funny how we are funding all these trans programs overseas. That is the democrat playbook here. Divide the populace and divert their attention from all the really bad shit they are doing. Did not work here and now they are being entirely exposed. The playbook of getting them on the government coffers and they will vote for us, is falling apart as we speak. Ironically, most people would still be voting for these democrats had COVID not woke them up. The corrupt actors got greedy and it cost them dearly. They will not recover from this in my lifetime.

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JWM_IN_VA's avatar

CMS will make USAID fraud pale in comparison. It's the proverbial motherlode of fraud.

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Sam's avatar

I remember the days when doctors were afraid of committing Medicare fraud. I was afraid of going to prison because I worked for a doctor who did unnecessary cataract and retinal surgery. I turned him into the medical board who did absolutely nothing to stop him. He went on to building a free standing outpatient surgical center. At least my conscious is clear. I’d whisper in people’s ears that they should get a second opinion. Many did. I walked out.

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Paving the Way's avatar

I was also a whistleblower way back when. I realized the government saw payments to recipients and providers as reparations, income redistribution and vote buying.

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Joe's avatar

Elon has found THEIR onion, and the screaming is only going to become more loud and shrill as he gets closer to their hearts.

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Sam's avatar

Hopefully they will look into Medicare advantage since it over bills the government by $140 billion every year by making doctors make their patients look sicker than they are.

MA is privatized Medicare and of course it’s full of fraud which the government damn well knows. Let’s see if one billionaire looks into what other billionaires are doing.

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Lianne hall's avatar

It has always been a fraud machine

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Jane's avatar

I was subject to two cases of fraud perpetrated against Medicare by a very large medical institution Grand Rapids, MI.

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Paving the Way's avatar

The waste is apparently intentional and money laundering, going to politicos and the CIA. People need to realize the US Government itself is fraudulent. It is a crime scene held together by illicit payments to the benefactors large and small. If you are taking any money for professional services from the US Government, you are part of the crime syndicate. Our only option is to help the government implode and start a new one. A lot of MAGA people are living a fantasy.

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