vxbush 1/22/2026 6:42:24 AM

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Blue Lives Matter Says It Decoyed Anti-ICE Crazies

Oh, how I want to know more on this! 

vxbush 1/22/2026 6:56:30 AM

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We've talked about Somalian day care fraud. We've talked about COVID unemployment fraud. But have we talked about the states directly defrauding the government? 

State officials also engage in behavior that, while not technically fraudulent, is at least sketchy. Every year, 49 states (all but Alaska) use “provider taxes” to tap CMS for about $160 billion. Federal law says states should be raising this money themselves, but states use the “provider tax” loophole to evade this restriction. That’s one-sixth of total Medicaid spending. States can even divert some of the money to non-Medicaid purposes. Either way, each state that participates is effectively (if legally) stealing from taxpayers in other states. Further, when the federal government has repeatedly tried to constrain the provider-tax provision, states have created new workarounds and loopholes to keep the money flowing from the U.S. Treasury.

If you click the link that says "tap", it goes to the Paragon Health Institute, where it explains that the "federal government permits states to engage in money laundering tactics leading to massive increases in federal funding flowing into the states, much of which goes to higher Medicaid payments to providers." He describes the process as follows: 

In what amounts to legalized “money laundering,” health care providers send money to states via a tax “scam” (former President Biden’s term). States then use those funds to draw federal matching dollars and increase Medicaid spending. Providers—the original taxpayers—benefit from higher payments for Medicaid services. States support these schemes because they receive federal funds without true state contributions, repurposing the money for more Medicaid spending, other state uses, or tax cuts.

The federal government reimburses not only real but also artificial state spending. As a result, states, insurers, and providers have diverted hundreds of billions in federal funds over the past decade, often inflating payments far beyond what federal law calls “economical or efficient.”

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With the growth of state laundering and the ACA’s elevated match, the federal share of Medicaid rose from about 60 percent in fiscal year (FY) 1991 to about 75 percent in FY2023.

And ACA enhanced the reimbursement process! THAT'S why the Dems want ACA continued so badly. This process has been going on since the Reagan administration. 

Oh. So states are taking extra money from federal Medicaid funds and repurposing those monies. And where does this extra money go? Who wants to guess? Bueller?

It's all a scheme. And right now, it's legal. 

vxbush 1/22/2026 7:01:42 AM

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JCM 1/22/2026 7:37:29 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

The crazies are using a number of apps to organize. ICE supporting groups are trolling those apps with false sighting, reports and other info.

JCM 1/22/2026 7:42:12 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2

Crap like that goes on all over government. My "favorite" legal and scheme is EPA. Enviro whackos infest EPA, but are legally restricted from implementing their most outrageous regulations. So they give grant money to a Enviro NGO, that NGO uses the grant money to create a "study" showing xyz is bad for the environment. The EPA funded NGO then sues the EPA for not regulating the xyz. They then settle the case or judge shop to get a court order to implement the regulation.

JCM 1/22/2026 8:03:51 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

So Justice Brown, (choking on the honorific title), because Plessy v. Ferguson said Segregation was Constitutional, we can have a idiots only restroom in the Court buidling?

vxbush 1/22/2026 9:51:29 AM

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In #5 JCM said: Crap like that goes on all over government. My "favorite" legal and scheme is EPA. Enviro whackos infest EPA, but are legally restricted from implementing their most outrageous regulations. So they give grant money to a Enviro NGO, that NGO uses the grant money to create a "study" showing xyz is bad for the environment. The EPA funded NGO then sues the EPA for not regulating the xyz. They then settle the case or judge shop to get a court order to implement the regulation.

In some sense that is more pernicious, because it is unfairly wielding power against the public through cooperation. 

JCM 1/22/2026 10:31:53 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

USAID which supplied a gazzilion NGOs and target by DOGE was really good at that.

Things which Congress never approved or wouldn't approve because they didn't want their fingerprints on whatever the activity was, got done by grants through USAID and NGOs. And oversight was *wink*wink*.

It's the same stuff in MN. Hand out money...  *wink*wink*.

In MN it's daycares, in WA it the homeless industrial complex.

vxbush 1/22/2026 11:53:27 AM

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Reply to JCM in 8:

Last year Vance was saying that only 11% of funds sent out to help individuals actually ended up in the hands of those in need. Most of the money went to middle men, but the MSMedia worked hard to fight that assertion without actually providing necessary proof of the same.

buzzsawmonkey 1/22/2026 12:02:27 PM

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People who support communism in one of its many variant forms often excuse the spectacular failures of prior communist regimes by saying, "Well, that wasn't true communism. The proper implementation of true communism has never been tried." Or something of the sort.

It appears that the whole WEF/Davos thing was/is an attempt to "try true communism" by having it done/imposed by the (allegedly) smartest, most qualified people---i.e., the very select group composed of the world's most filthy-rich capitalists. And it, too, has failed.

JCM 1/22/2026 12:20:18 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 10:

I like Jordan Peterson's take. That saying communism hasn't been done "right", is implying that the speaker can do it right... and that is the height of arrogance to presume to be able to overcome human nature.

JCM 1/22/2026 12:21:41 PM

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California and Arizona Flight Schools Quietly Feed a Pipeline of Chinese Pilots Back to Beijing

Thousands of Chinese pilots are receiving flight training every year at American aviation schools in California and Arizona, a practice that investigative journalist Peter Schweizer describes as a systemic vulnerability in U.S. immigration and aviation oversight. In his book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, Schweizer details how the Chinese Communist Party has routed future pilots—many ultimately bound for state and military service—into the United States under the guise of civilian flight instruction.

JCM 1/22/2026 12:50:57 PM

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Reply to JCM in 12:

Linky Goodness

California and Arizona Flight Schools Quietly Feed a Pipeline of Chinese Pilots Back to Beijing

Kosh's Shadow 1/22/2026 1:06:39 PM

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In #11 JCM said: I like Jordan Peterson's take. That saying communism hasn't been done "right", is implying that the speaker can do it right... and that is the height of arrogance to presume to be able to overcome human nature.

The search for a workable system of redistributing wealth is the search for the Philosopher's Stone of Policital Alchemy.

It won't work.