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How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch [NY Times]
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I read the article. It seems like some leftist organizations screwed the State by threatening to sue them and accuse them of racism if they didn’t approve the aid applications, so the State—not wanting to get sued, have bad press, and potentially alienate Democrats-supporting voters—approved the applications without thoroughly checking them, and thus allowing fraudulent applications to slip through.
There’s no Republican attack in there, it’s just facts. Now, it’s absolute gold to their Republican opponents, which is a shame in my view, but it’s no reason to deny the truth. Waltz and his government need to keep their goals the same but improve their implementation, and leftist organizations need to stop eating our own with frivolous, politically-motivated lawsuits.
We just gave Minnesota Republicans uranium-tipped bullets via our own fuck up. We need to stop doing that.
EDIT: And apparently voters in this sub prefer a ton of copium.
I got through about the first four paragraphs, and there were obvious bad-faith Republican attacks. To paraphrase and edit:
"This fraud's total potential revenue [over an unstated number of years] was greater than the state spent on prisons [for a single year]."
No objections to most of the rest of what you said, but this article is definitely a Republican slant pretending to be impartial.
If you check out the author’s bio, he doesn’t sound like a Republican sympathizer to me. You pick a tiny bit of incoherence in the article and dismiss it entirely? You’re the one who sounds like they’ve got a slant. You didn’t even finish the piece. You sound like you’re dismissing it simply because you don’t like what it’s saying. That’s bad information consumption.
I didnt dismiss it entirely. I merely noted that the part I read includes a solid example of the biggest complaint against the grey lady over the past several years : that they parrott Republican attacks without challenge or clarification.
The part I paraphrased wasn't "incoherence" -- it's an analogy specially chosen to outrage and motivate Republican voters, which was printed "above the fold" and may well have gone unchallenged in the whole rest of the article.
And while the bylined author presumably as you say a wholesome journalist who would never cause such distortion, they're also an employee and not responsible or empowered to edit, format, or headline their work.
You may have read the article, but the article doesn’t tell the whole story and only focuses on one of the groups. The others were in fact your run of the mill conservative grifters looting things.
Should they have vetted them more thoroughly? Yes, probably. But it was also Covid and they were responding to a food crisis.
NYT is shitting the bed on this one, and outside of some of our more rabid republicans in MN, no one is really buying it here. You know. The kind of republicans that think they’re putting litter boxes in elementary schools, for the students.