Calif government fails 2025 state audits. Newsom probably regrets not following Trump's example, and disbanding the entire audit department . .

Photo above - this arsenal of illegal weapons was bought with fraudulently obtained pandemic grants. According to California police. But what the heck do those guys know?

If someone told you California failed 1/3rd of all statewide spending audits, you probably wouldn’t be surprised. Okay . . . okay . . . yes . . . the Pentagon has also failed every audit since . . . forever. And billions are missing. And they won’t tell us what’s going on at Area 51. And we can’t win any wars . . .

Okay, now that we have that thread hijacking out of the way, let’s get back to California. See link below.

The eye-catching phrase “pervasive failure” was used by auditor Linis Li. Referring specifically to unemployment benefits. If I had to guess, this might mean some people are collecting unemployment benefits while also working. Or collecting unemployment benefits while in America illegally (identity theft). Or collecting unemployment benefits under multiple identities. Of possibly all 3 at the same time. Stop laughing . . . that's what I might try, if I thought I could pull it off.

Someone in the back (a communist or anarchist, lol?) is screaming “So what!!! . . . that’s California. They can do what they want. It’s their money”. But it’s not their money. A huge chunk of those billions comes from the Federal Government.

Guess what Trump and Musk might do, right after holding a press conference to crow about more of California's waste, fraud and abuse being found? If you said “cut off their funding”, go to the head of the class. Which of course would put LEGITIMATE benefits and recipients at risk. Payments to someone actually medically disabled. Single moms with kids, unable to work. At risk now because the state claims that it can't distinguish between a liar and someone honestly in need.

Moving right along, the same audit found that (in a review of random population) 2/3rds of those who received Covid 19 pandemic money were ineligible. Holy cow – those pics if rappers driving Lambos might be true after all. And now we can see why housing prices keep skyrocketing in California. You could flip your pandemic grant - the one you got for that imaginary restaurant or nail salon - into an all-cash offer on a sweet crib. No wonder people love living in California.

California's unemployment fund alone runs a deficit of $2 billion a year. Geeze . . . you could buy a Northrop B21 hypersonic stealth bomber for that. My bad. I already admitted the pentagon failed its audit too. I’ll promise to stop.

Is there a way California can extricate itself from this mess? They have, in fact, found a way. If you (as a California resident) earn $46,000 a year (or more), you pay $42 in unemployment taxes. This can all be fixed by raising those taxes. How much? To $900. 20 times higher. Imagine the relief on the part of California voters, when they learn that they can be part of the solution, not the problem. Because, of course, it’s going to be almost impossible to stop fraud in state programs. The people making those crazy benefit authorizations don’t have the tools to decide who’s lying and who's (kind of) telling the truth. And even if they did have the tools, you’d be asking clerks to cut off benefits being paid to friends, relatives, neighbors, and even the people they buy their weed and fentanyl from. And that kind of change isn't likely to happen anytime soon, is it?

I’m just sayin’ . . .

CA fails audit of federal programs, 66% of COVID unemployment benefits in question