Welfare State Wastes Hundreds of $Billions on Overpayments

You wouldn’t put a Black Lives Matter mob in charge of a shopping mall. Why would you put liberal bureaucrats in charge of other people’s money? The inevitable result is the same: an orgiastic looting spree.

The New York Post reports:

The federal government overpaid welfare and social services recipients by a stunning $186 billion in fiscal year 2025, a startling surge of $24 billion from the previous year’s total.

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), 15 federal agencies made up the massive improper payments overage spanning 64 programs, with approximately 82% of the overages the result of overpayments.

This does not count the hundreds of $billions lost to straightforward fraud of the type Somali colonists multiculturally enrich us with.

JD Vance is heading a task force intended to address the fraud. These efforts will be abandoned the day Democrats retake the White House.

Overpayments included $57 billion from Medicare, $37 billion from Medicaid, $21 billion for unearned Earned Income Tax Credit, and $10 billion for food stamps. Some highly suspect programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families were not counted.

These numbers are dwarfed by the actual scale of the problem. It could be argued that every penny doled out by the welfare state is an overpayment. It is not the proper role of government to confiscate money from those it belongs to so as to hand it out to those it does not.

As the welfare state continues to feed on itself, the waste will become ever more extravagant until it collapses the entire economy, as per the Cloward-Piven strategy for imposing communism.

On a tip from patthedog.

Maserati Food Stamp Moochers

It is the nature of federal programs that hand out other people’s money to perpetually expand. Consequently, food stamps are not only for the poor anymore. The New York Post reports that even the well-to-do can ride the EBT gravy train thanks to Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility:

The Clinton administration manufactured this loophole, and the Obama administration supercharged it.

Currently, 43 states and Washington, DC, use BBCE to bypass federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility limits on income, assets or both.

Here’s how it works:

State welfare agencies print up a brochure about welfare programs, or set up an informational hotline, and deem it a “benefit” under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Anyone who touches that pamphlet or receives the phone number is then treated as being “categorically eligible” for food stamps — even millionaires.

Welfare fraud isn’t an accident. It is by design. The more of our money Democrats confiscate and cast to the four winds, the more power they achieve by enlisting an ever-larger army of freeloaders.

Many of these freeloaders live better than most of us. The Foundation for Government Accountability discovered that 14,000 EBT recipients bought new luxury vehicles — Maseratis, Ferraris, etc. — in a single state.

So as to facilitate fraud, SNAP does not require any serious confirmation of identity; a library card will suffice. As a result, many recipients claim benefits from other states. As determined by IP addresses, they often do it from other countries.

A foreign fraudster with a disposable email can sign up for welfare faster than you can get through to the IRS helpline.

No doubt it still counts as social justice so long as regular Americans get screwed.

On a tip from abcanc.

Britain Slits Its Own Wrists by Lifting Two-Child Welfare Cap

Liberals have thrown the eradication of English civilization into overdrive. Yesterday the two-child benefit cap officially ended, spelling demographic doom in the face of Islamic welfare colonization.

Via GB News:

Under the previous rules introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, parents could only claim universal credit or child tax credit for their first two children.

Eligible families may now receive around £300 monthly for each additional child, with the benefit worth £3,647 per child per year. …

Tory analysis has found a household of two unemployed adults and three children would receive a 20 per cent tax-funded pay rise of £6,400 a year.

This is expected to cost taxpayers £3.5 billion per year. As with all government largess, the actual cost will be much higher than its victims are told.

Good thing America pays for Britain’s defense, freeing up money for its pricey transformation into North Pakistan.

As their former home degenerates into an Islamic hellhole, the last Britons will escape Britain. But its nuclear arsenal will remain.

On a tip from RoCar.

Democrats Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Commit Welfare Fraud

To get an idea of how hostile the Democratic Party is to the American population, consider that the overwhelming majority of congressional Democrats voted against a bill to crack down on illegal immigrants who loot us via welfare fraud.

Via Fox News:

Lawmakers voted 231-186 to approve the Deporting Fraudsters Act, with 186 Democrats opposing the measure.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Taylor, R-Ohio, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to explicitly define fraud as a deportable offense.

As the war on ICE has made clear, Democrats oppose the deportation of the millions of illegal aliens they have allowed to invade and degrade the USA, as that would defeat the purpose of having let them in — i.e., to displace us at the ballot box.

It would seem obvious that any illegal alien should be deported. Yet Democrats would not deport them even after they get caught stealing from us. If the Democratic Party did not control the weak-minded via the media, illegal aliens would be the only ones to vote for it.

Tim Walz’s Minnesota may have inspired the bill:

The House Oversight Committee in December launched a probe into massive welfare fraud involving Minnesota’s social services programs. Federal prosecutors say as much as $9 billion in taxpayer money may have been stolen in various fraud schemes and have charged nearly 100 individuals, including many of Somali descent.

Although it overcame Democrat opposition in the House,

The bill is likely dead on arrival in the Senate given widespread opposition from Democrats. Under Senate rules, most legislation must overcome a 60-vote threshold to advance to a vote on final passage.

If they can’t even get the SAVE Act through the Senate, there is no chance of passing a bill that would deport illegal alien criminals, with whom Democrats aggressively side against their own country.

On tips from Bluto and abcanc.

Making Washington State Into a Housing Project

When moonbats bark that “Housing is a human right,” they mean it is to be provided at other people’s expense on a coercive basis. This is turn means reducing the entire country to a government housing project.

Washington State leads the way. Via KIRO:

House Bill 2266 requires cities across Washington to allow permanent supportive housing in any residential zone. Your neighborhood. The street where your kids ride bikes. Cities cannot zone it out. They cannot add a single operating condition stricter than what applies to a regular apartment. …

Permanent supportive housing is subsidized housing with no time limits, no treatment requirements, and no recovery expectations.

That is, the drug use that renders many people homeless is allowed.

The neighbors already know what comes next. Trespassing. Car prowls. Screaming in the streets. People trying front doors at night.

We have seen the future of America under liberal rule. It is called Cabrini-Green, a realm so nightmarish, they made a horror movie about it.

On a tip from DCGere.