We have spent a lot of our recent posts about which state or city will go bankrupt first and the massive fraud that has been going on relative to government programs. But that does not mean that the potential class has been up to its traditional incompetence, insanity, and screw ups. So, let’s catch up with the shenanigans that continue to plague the country:
1)Consider the plight of some residents of the state of Minnesota:
About 8,000 homeless folks in the state.
About 1,000 drug overdoses victims every year in the state.
About 20% of all households in the state are living with food insecurity.
About 180 homicides every year in Minnesota.
Now consider what Minnesota politicians are spending residents’ tax money on:
According to the Post Millennial, taxpayer wealth is being used to create “transgender” paper dolls with removable genitalia for introduction into Minnesota schoolrooms.
Some of those schoolrooms are for kids as young as four years old.
These were developed out of research from the University of Minnesota Medical School.
The dolls have so-called “gender neutral” names such as Rory, Avery, Parker, etc.
They come with more than 100 interchangeable clothing pieces and are “designed to normalize radical gender ideology in front of very young children.”
According to the Post Millennial reporting, the taxpayer cost of these things is unknown to the public.
University officials openly state that their intention is to use the dolls to prompt young kids to talk about genitalia: “We were able to explore and brainstorm not just what our bodies are able to do now but what we want our bodies to do and look like in the future," Adjunct Assistant Professor Elizabeth Panetta said.
Of all the problems facing residents of Minnesota, this is how taxpayer dollars are being spent? How many homeless residents get shelter with this funding? How many meals for hungry Minnesotans could be provided? How many law enforcement resources could be hired to beat back crime? How many drug addiction treatments could be deployed to help the drug addicted in the state?
Horrible set of priorities with little positive impact on society. Pathetic.
2)Sometimes politicians talk and you wonder: are they that much out of touch with reality or do they think we are that stupid that we will believe whatever nonsense they tell us? Consider this piece of insanity and/or ignorance coming out of California:
No state in the union has probably had more wildfire disasters than California over recent years.
And these wildfires are not just up in the mountains or deep in the forests.
One of the most devastating wildfires recently has been within the city limits of Los Angeles.
And as always, the California political class and the government agencies they operate are not very proficient in preventing or putting out the fires, even as Governor Gavin Newsom recently bragged that his state is a global “model” in wildfire management.
He further bragged that other government entities study and copy his state’s approach to fighting fires: “I can say this with absolute conviction. We don’t imitate; we’re a model for others. We have people coming from all over the United States and around the globe to look at what California is doing in orbit, in the air, and on the ground.”
There are plenty of politicians, maybe most of them, that are out of touch with reality but this might be the best out of touch moment we have seen in a while.
Which gets us back to the original dilemma: does Newsom actually think that his state does a magnificent job in the wildfire management area (which is clearly not true given the history of wildfie mismanagement) or does he think we are that stupid to see this level of incompetence and will just take his word for it? A question for the ages.
3)New York City, like most liberal and Democratic controlled cities, has devastating problems with homeless residents of their states. It is horrible that a country as wealthy as ours cannot find adequate shelter for the homeless people that roam the streets.
But it is not like billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars have not been spent to fix the homelessness problem in these cities, those dollars have been spent but with little improvement in the situation. Which gets us back into a corruption and incompetence discussion, using New York City as an example of government failure:
Saritha Komatiredddy wants to be the next attorney general for New York.
She recently went after the current attorney general, Letitia James, for her alleged failure to properly monitor and audit nonprofit homeless shelter entities that receive billions of taxpayer dollars every year.
A recent report from the New York State Comptroller summarized the disaster that is the effort to shelter homeless residents.
The Comptroller found that the New York City government spends about $82,000 per unsheltered homeless person in the city every year.
Since 2019, the city spending on the homeless has tripled while at the same time the homeless population has risen a whopping 78%.
You have to be pretty incompetent or corrupt to spend three times more to correct a problem but see that problem get 78% worse.
Komatiredddy correctly described this disaster when she asserted that the government gets larger and larger off of taxpayer wealth while failing to accomplish anything of importance for those taxpayers: "So there really are questions about what has happened to that money and why that's happening. The person who should be asking those questions, the person who should be investigating, is the attorney general. But Letitia James has totally failed New Yorkers when it comes to holding homeless shelter nonprofits accountable so that they actually help the homeless."
She cites numerous investigations conducted by the New York City Department of Investigations, the New York State Comptroller, and Federal prosecutors that have uncovered widespread abuse of taxpayer funds including allegations of fraud, kickbacks, conflicts of interest, excessive executive compensation for nonprofit executives, sexual abuse of sheltered women, and weak government financial oversight.
A 2024 investigation by the Department of Investigation found that nepotism, lack of competitive bidding for city homeless shelter contracts, and high nonprofit salaries funded by taxpayers were prevalent across 51 city supported homeless shelter providers.
Some of those executives were receiving close to a million dollars a year in salary, probably higher than any city employees.
And yet despite all these findings, all of these warnings, all of these investigations, all of these blinking red crisis lights, apparently little has been done to make this process actually work efficiently and cost effectively and get homeless folks the shelter and support they need without wasting taxpayer money.
What a government disaster, spend and more and make the original situation worse. How can you spend the equivalent of $82,000 per person a year and get worse results? Insanity.
4)One last piece of political class insanity for today:
One would hope that any public servant is of the highest moral character and integrity.
But that hope is very often shattered in real life.
According to reporting by the Western Journal, a former state politician in Pennsylvania has been charged with possession of child prongraphy and receipt and distribution of pornography.
Jesse White was arrested after an FBI investigation allegedly found over 100 child pornography files across multiple laptops and hard drives owned by White.
Some of those files were pictures of girls as young as 7 years old.
Some of the pics depicted sex acts being performed by kids ranging in age from 7 to 15 years old.
Other pictures were just as discussing and I will not describe them here.
He had previously served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 2007 to 2015, making decisions that affected state residents during that time.
Another disappointing public serving official from a moral and ethical perspective. Disgusting.
That will do it for today: child pornography in Pennsylvania, wasting billions and billions of taxpayer dollars on a corrupt and broken homeless problem in New York City, a delusional governor in California, and wasting Minnesota tax dollars on genitalia themed dolls.
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