This was written for a subsection of Front Page Magazine, whose name I have forgotten. NLB are the initials apparently. It was rejected by a guy named David Swindle who has apparently moved on. He said I had not proven my case. You be the judge. I am a somewhat acrimonious, opinionated person, clearly. But this is because I do not compromise when it comes to the truth as I see it. There are plenty of people who have learned to see through other peoples eyes. Very few people are able to treat old things as new. I believe I am one of those people, rightly or wrongly, and thus value my independence greatly. It’s not a great way to get published, but hey I don’t want to have to whore myself out to an editor anyway.
Twenty
dollars is missing from your wallet. Go
ahead and look. See? You only have what you had yesterday.
In solving a
crime, Sherlock Holmes would no doubt agree that remembering to see what is not there is fully as important as
linking together what is there, and
much more difficult.
Quietly,
unobtrusively, 6.4 Billion dollars have gone missing that should have been put
into circulation. No one seems to have
sent out a search party, or moaned their loss, but dividing that number by some
300 million Americans gets you a bit more than $20.
This money
was wasted, certainly, and more likely stolen.
Those seem to be the only plausible explanations.
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You see, a 2
million dollar Stimulus check was written to, and cashed by, the 99th
Congressional district of North Dakota.
The problem with this is that that district doesn’t exist. It never has, and unless it gets double the
population of California, it never will.
In total,
according to the site responsible for monitoring the most massive outflow of
cash from the Federal Government in American history, some $6.4
Billion was given to some 440 Congressional Districts that have either never
existed, or were abolished decades ago.
According to
Ed Pound, director of communications for the Recovery
Accountability and Transparency Board, the Obama (link) Administration’s bureaucracy we
were told would track the money:
Recipients file their reports on a password-protected site. That information is
then relayed to officials who oversee the recovery.gov website to post, Pound
said. Unless an egregious error is noted, Pound said they post the information
exactly as it is received.
“Our job is data integrity, not data quality,” he said.
This would
seem to indicate a check—actual or virtual—is created by someone, deposited by
someone, then self-reported. You get the
money, then type in whatever information you want. That information is then duly relayed by the
RATB to the taxpayers, as if they had done their job.
This system,
quite obviously, is open to fraud. If
you are plugged in, you get money wired to you, your buddy Twitters you a
password, you log in, then you type in anything that sounds plausible. Can we not suppose that legitimate recipients
are cognisant of their district and zip code, meaning that errors of this
quantity cannot be random? We are
talking about amounts equal to the annual revenues of large multi-national
corporations.
And according
to their chief spokesperson, the very agency tasked with monitoring the money
is in essence saying that if people cheat, they will not be caught. Once the money is gone, it’s gone.
If you add
to this the fact that former Weatherman (link) Jeff Jones (link)—Bill Ayers pal
(link)—helped craft this thing as part of the Apollo Alliance (link), you
realize that maybe leaks were part of the plan all along. Consider what Jeff
Jones does: he “owns a consulting firm that helps grassroots leftist
organizations promote their agendas and fundraise successfully”. Does it seem unlikely that some of these
checks that no one seems to want to track will wind up funding political
activities?
Why wouldn’t
they?