The Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Joe Thompson, has been waging a lonely battle against the fraud committed against federal taxpayers via Minnesota state government. The latest target of his office is a state-run program called Housing Stabilization Services.
Medicaid reimbursements for the federal Housing Stabilization Services program alone exceed $100 million. Thompson told KSTP the “vast majority” of that program is fraudulent.
Truth be told, this “groundbreaking” program was never designed to do anything useful.
Minnesota was the first state in the nation to offer this program through Medicaid. Rather than provide actual housing units to the homeless, the program paid unvetted vendors to offer “services” to Medicaid recipients, services which mostly consisted of counseling with bromides like pay your rent on time and you won’t be evicted.
Barriers to entry for new vendors were nonexistent, and state agencies just paid invoices, no questions asked.
Another example of the waste, fraud and abuse that’s been running rampant in not only the Federal government, but every state government - especially the ones controlled by democrats.
If pigs flew and all that fraud was eliminated, we could probably do away with taxes!
“Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe,” President Trump’s order observed.
“Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order,” the order added.
“Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.”
Another triumph of Trump’s common sense!
I’m sure every leftist will resist it, on the grounds that it violates the rights of the lunatics (!) but it is urgently needed and long overdue.
“Victor Davis Hanson - Trump is leading a Counter Revolution and the Left is furious because it’s succeeding”.
(Video and transcript at Gateway Pundit)
He points out that the left is going to become even more violent in its reactions to Trump in the days ahead. Of course - how dare he interfere with their power grab - it was going so well!
