The big story is the fraud among Somalis in Minnesota. There are countless daycare and health centers that have received millions to billions in government funding, yet they are shown to provide no services. Clearly, this is bad. Obviously, the Somalis receiving the money are aware that they are skirting the rules of the program. Absolutely, they should be prosecuted and/or deported. However, there is another facet to this. Who approved all of these daycares and health centers? Though the saying goes not to blame malice when incompetence could be to blame, that doesn't hold water here. It's too big. This level of incompetence is too obvious to continue long term. Indeed, if some random YouTuber was able to uncover massive fraud in a couple of days, how did the agencies overseeing these programs not notice? Some of those overseers need to be prosecuted too, if only to encourage other overseers to do the job.
On a related issue, many of these bogus daycares and health centers made political donations to... Democrats. Huh. Probably not a quid pro quo, right? Blame aside, this is why government should be as limited as possible. Larger government inevitably leads to greater corruption and waste.
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