XPost: alt.fraud, alt.politics.trump, alt.politics.republicans   
   XPost: sac.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/02/12/opinion/fraud-a-feature-not-a-bug-in-   
   california/   
      
   The Trump administration is opening investigations into fraud in   
   California.   
      
   Not just voter fraud — and not just the high-profile cases that have   
   already been prosecuted.   
      
   Rather, the federal inquiry, led by Vice President JD Vance, is going to   
   look into fraud that has become a part of how California does business.   
      
   What does that mean?   
      
   It refers to the circle of self-enrichment through which political donors   
   and special interests bag cash from government spending — then kick some   
   of that cash back to politicians’ campaigns.   
      
   Often, tax dollars are spent on programs run by left-wing organizations   
   with political agendas. They don’t solve problems; they just get Democrats   
   elected to keep the cycle going and the money flowing.   
      
   That’s the only way to explain why the high-speed rail project persists in   
   the Central Valley, even though almost nobody wants it and nobody is even   
   pretending the state can afford it.   
      
   Fraud is also the only way to explain how California spends nearly half a   
   billion dollars on an overhaul of the 911 emergency system, only to find   
   that the project doesn’t work.   
      
   And when you double state spending in 10 years, without doubling — or even   
   improving — the quality of public services, you know that a good chunk of   
   that money is being wasted or being siphoned off somewhere.   
      
   We’re not necessarily talking about criminal fraud — though there is   
   plenty of that. We’re talking about systemic fraud. It’s a feature, not a   
   bug.   
      
   More than a century ago, the infamous Plunkitt of Tammany Hall explained   
   the difference between “honest” graft and the dishonest kind.   
      
   Dishonest graft, he said, was simple theft from the government. Only fools   
   did that, and they were usually caught.   
      
   “Honest” graft, he said, was taking advantage of information or political   
   clout to make investments alongside whatever the government was doing, and   
   becoming rich that way.   
      
   That was the kind of corruption baked into the system in New York City at   
   the turn of the 20th century. And it’s the kind of system that is the   
   foundation of Sacramento.   
      
   It’s like vote-by-mail and ballot harvesting — recognized the world over   
   as dangerously vulnerable to fraud, but legalized here in California.   
      
   The state legislature and the courts have refused to do much about it. So   
   it falls to the feds.   
      
   Let the investigations begin.   
      
      
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