Minnesota’s child-care fraud fiasco: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Old audits exhibiting misappropriation of federal funds meant for youngster care facilities in Minnesota.
Minnesota’s child-care-fraud scandal is a tragic instance of what occurs when coercive authorities packages substitute voluntary, accountable options (“Decade of deceit,” Jan. 2).
Millions had been allegedly stolen, and the youngsters this system was meant to help had been those who had been harmed. If we would like systems that truly help households, they have to be voluntary, aggressive and clear. Minnesota’s scandal reveals what occurs after they aren’t.
Joseph Sanitate
Las Vegas, Nev.
Whoever, wherever or no matter you’re, whenever you open up a day take care of the only objective of defrauding the federal government, closing the business doesn’t insulate you from criminality and incarceration.
Mike Santavicca
Yonkers
Large authorities packages hardly ever start with dangerous intentions. They’re meant to help American households and are paid for by taxpayers with good intentions.
But when packages grow to be too advanced to simply audit or too distant from the people paying for them, greed finds alternative amongst the billions it takes to help the final population.
Without clear guidelines and outlined penalties, the noblest packages can quietly rot from the inside till the public trust that funded them is gone, and the associated fee is way better than money alone.
The money stolen in Minnesota from American taxpayers that was meant to help kids appears to have made its solution to organized fraudsters. Shame on us for permitting it to occur, not simply there, however all throughout our nation.
Tom Wilbur
Salina, Kan.
Looks prefer it’s time to reinstate DOGE throughout America.
Bob Carl
Boca Raton, Fla.
There’s actually nothing new about fraud, regardless of the state you’re in. No social program is proof against abuse; all it takes is greed and ingenuity — that are equipped to us advert nauseam by virtually each impoverished nation on the planet.
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I don’t see fraud in Minnesota as trigger for alarm, as a result of it occurs in all places. However, if I had been Gov. Tim Walz, I might concern how one thing so commonplace has the potential to take him down and destroy him.
Arthur Saginian
Santa Clarita, Calif.
The Issue: Vladimir Putin’s false declare to Pres. Trump that Ukrainians launched drones to assassinate him.
President Trump rolls out the crimson carpet for Vladimir Putin, then Putin sticks the center finger up at him by declaring that Ukraine attacked his palace (“Russia Is the Roadblock,” Editorial, Dec. 31).
The CIA discovered zero proof that this was true. How can the phrase of Putin ever be trusted? This battle is Putin’s and solely Putin’s.
M. Hilder
Weymouth, UK
I’d like to specific my honest gratitude for The Post’s constant, easy protection of the battle in Ukraine.
Every day, I see the associated fee of distorting actuality. That’s why it issues a lot to see an American publication that respects info, calls aggression what it’s and doesn’t substitute fact with handy wording.
Oleg Nefedov
Zhytomyr, Ukraine
War is a paradigm for Russia immediately. It can solely be pressured to finish the battle with Ukraine, not by negotiations, however by political and financial stress.
Putin is a former KGB officer who was educated to lie for the sake of intelligence companies and his personal profession. The bluff in regards to the Ukrainian drone assault on his residence clearly illustrates this. Lying over the telephone to the US president about an assassination attempt is past the pale.
Herman Obuhov
Kyiv, Ukraine
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