MnSpring
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Reprints, from 'news' outlets that are anti Trump.
"...Trump as usual cited no evidence to back his figures or his accusations against Omar—or explain why he was holding all Somalis responsible for the actions of a few scammers when he doesn’t do the same for, say, native Mississippians. It’s just one example of the dishonesty, hypocrisy, and immigrant-bashing he and his allies are spreading all over social media right now, and why it’s tempting—so, so tempting—to dismiss this whole saga in Minnesota as just another instance of MAGA hysteria.
But if you look past all that, you’ll find a genuinely troubling episode of government failure. And that matters because it’s tough to run public programs effectively—and to keep up public support—when grifters have an easy time stealing the funds...."
“...A really bad thing happened, and it demonstrated a real failure of public management that has to be addressed. And the scale of it was just incredible,” said Harold Pollack, a social sciences professor at the University of Chicago and longtime defender of safety net programs. “The Trump people are going to take this thing and they’re going to run with it so aggressively, it becomes a little bit easier for us to overlook the important substance here....”
"... Walz, meanwhile, has faced intense scrutiny from both inside and outside Minnesota over his administration's handling of the crisis. The governor has acknowledged in recent weeks that the fraud problem could stretch into the billions, but disputed the $9 billion figure cited by prosecutors...."
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Ben Franklin once said: "If you give up a freedom, for the sake of security, you will have neither". Which is More TRUE, today, than yesterday.('06, S-40, Stock) well, mostly .
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