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$60 Billion In COVID Fraud? Try $4 Trillion
Issues & Insights ^ | 30 Jan, 2023 | I&I Editorial Board

Posted on 01/30/2023 4:47:36 AM PST by MtnClimber

s auditors and congressional investigators try to figure out just how much federal COVID relief went to fraudsters, they are missing the trillions of dollars in fraud committed by the federal government itself in a war that we had no chance of winning.

Last week, the Government Accountability Office reported that fraudsters took in about $60 billion in unemployment checks. That’s on top of the tens of billions in fraudulent claims made through the Paycheck Protection Program, the tens of billions handed out through a Small Business Administration program, and on and on.

This Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing “to investigate rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in COVID relief programs.”

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the committee, said “we owe it to Americans to identify how hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars spent under the guise of pandemic relief were lost to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.”

That’s all well and good. But what we really need is an investigation into how the war against COVID wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars, imposed massive disruptions, handicapped millions of students, and probably didn’t save many, if any, lives.

That sort of investigation, if done honestly, would likely conclude that we would have been better off if we’d done nothing at all beyond asking people to wash their hands and stay home if they’re sick.

Shocking? Impossible to believe? Let’s review the evidence....

(Excerpt) Read more at issuesinsights.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; crime; fraud; looters

1 posted on 01/30/2023 4:47:36 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The Great Teardown before the Great Reset.


2 posted on 01/30/2023 4:47:47 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Thevelites, I believe, are stockpiling before they crash thevwprld’s economy.


3 posted on 01/30/2023 4:57:13 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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Thevelites?

Is that a portmanteau word for thieving elites? 😉


4 posted on 01/30/2023 5:19:27 AM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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...and probably didn’t save many, if any, lives.

It's absolutely maddening that after all this time they still can't get it right.

It's not about 'lives saved' (or not), it's about those they KILLED with their policies, without regard for the other, totally valid issue of jab dangers and that persistent threat.

It's just not a cogent argument when key factors are omitted, regardless of whether it's ignorance or otherwise and absolutely nothing will change until the TRUTH is addressed on ALL factors of this plandemic.

5 posted on 01/30/2023 5:24:48 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: skepsel

Autocarrect on phone.


6 posted on 01/30/2023 5:32:03 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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This Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing “to investigate rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in COVID relief programs.”

There's that word again. "Investigate" which means NOTHING will happen after the investigation. Another dog and pony show to waste even more of OUR money.

7 posted on 01/30/2023 5:43:27 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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A big rat connected law firm, and I forget which one, got a huge loan - as I recall about 10 million - it was “forgiven” and the firm gave 1 million to the DNC.

10% for the big guy.

Now why would a law firm that probably did not suffer in the least qualify for 10 million from us?


8 posted on 01/30/2023 5:58:53 AM PST by Aria
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Ahh..David Boise law firm

https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2020/12/02/the-seven-am-law-200-firms-that-received-10m-max-in-ppp-loans/?slreturn=20230030085951

And they weren’t the only ones


9 posted on 01/30/2023 6:02:08 AM PST by Aria
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To: MtnClimber

Cloward Piven in action!


10 posted on 01/30/2023 6:02:13 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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