NGO fraud

DOGE was the latest attempt to reduce government spending and they were run out of town by the press, who promptly published reports on every one and every group that suffered, with the defunding of any program but they had one big success. They ended the US foreign aid (USAID) program. This was used to hand out $40 billion dollars per year to various NGO’s who in term distributed the funds to needy causes. Upon investigation it was discovered to be a kind of slush fund for different politicians. It was exposed when some of the programs were found to border on the ridiculous. To list just a few: $32,000 for transgender comic books in Peru, $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala and $20 million for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street. Later this method of waste and fraud was found in state government. In MN billions was siphoned off of Medicaid through the Minnesota Department of Education by way of various NGO’s. Fraudsters working through legitimate groups whose purpose was to provide food, childcare and homes for the poor, stole millions. Just as the strange programs of USAID should have been a warning, the fact that people were flying out of the Minneapolis Airport weekly, with suitcases full of cash did not alert any law enforcement agency of possible fraud. I am reminded of the song about the pool table in Fiddler on the Roof. Either you are unaware of the caliber of disaster represented by the presence of a pool table (fraud) or you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge. Another possibility is that the higher ups knew and were being rewarded in some way or another to look the other way.