If the fraud rate is really as low as Democrats claim, why are they fighting so hard to hide the data? Why not just work with USDA to audit and validate where the money is going? Their resistance to us going after fraud is part of why these programs ballooned in the first place.
🚨48 Democrats voted against full transparency on Medicaid error reporting🚨
We passed it anyways.
HB 5813 require's MDHHS to regularly report the Medicaid improper payment rate so taxpayers know exactly where their hard-earned dollars are going.
Government mismanagement has left taxpayers footing the bill to pour more and more money into unsecure programs. We're getting to the bottom of waste, fraud, & abuse in Michigan and getting better value for your dollars.
@RepWoolford
Dr. Shiva exposes that up to 100,000 ballots were missing from the Massachusetts 2020 election, including the ballot images, with the secretary of state's office caught on tape saying that they didn't have them, which eliminates any type of audit.
Diebold software, that is implemented in today's election software since 2001, has a weighted vote feature that secretly shift votes from one candidate to another in real time with no obvious tampering required, which allows a vote to be worth more than 1 vote, per 1 person, introducing decimals.
New versions of election management systems were released around mid-2020, included options to disable or hide these manipulation tools, making audits nearly impossible.
More votes than voters recorded in multiple instances during the MA 2020 primary/election cycle and. This is why votes were found across the country with fractional vote tallies. Just another method of how our elections are stolen, especially in 2020.
Under the Whitmer administration, 70% of electricity rate increases have funded her green scam. Now, Consumers Energy has asked her flying monkeys at the MPSC for their largest rate hike in 20 years of $456M, after wasting ~$560M on unreliable solar and wind.
Good news out of Arkansas. Aaron Spencer, the man who saved his daughter from rapist who took her from her bedroom when he found the man with his daughter on the highway shot and shot him has had his murder charges dismissed. Story in the first comment.
Only 13 tetanus deaths in the US over the last decade. You can get the shot right after an injury if you actually need it.
Yet babies are still given 5 doses on the standard schedule. The risk of dying from tetanus sits around 1 in 154 million.
So why do we continue to push this on newborns?
Westland Was Named After Its Dead Mall
Given that the city took its name from where people bought their stuff, they should rename it Amazon, Michigan
By Jay Murray @Stainless31
Westland — Once the tentpole of the community, the Westland Mall now stands as a mostly hollow relic of western Wayne County’s once-vibrant consumer culture.
The mall predates the City of Westland, believe it or not. When ground broke on what would become known as one of the first malls in Michigan—constructed on the heels of Northland Mall in Southfield—Westland was a mostly rural township called Nankin.
Completed in 1965 by JL Hudson Corp., nearby Livonia saw the possibility of remarkable tax revenue from the newly minted Westland Mall and moved to annex the northern half of Nankin Township. Had this come to fruition, Livonia could have become the second-largest city in Michigan at the time, but the annexation failed and Nankin decided to finally incorporate.
As a f— you to Livonia, Nankin leaders decided to name the city after the object of Livonia’s desire: Westland Mall.
An economic boom followed as Westland Mall became the center for not just Westland but Livonia, Canton, Plymouth, and Garden City. With the Quo Vadis movie theater opening across the street a year later, the Wayne and Warren intersection was solidified as the hub of western Wayne County.
The world has changed mightily in the six decades since, and for Westland Mall and the immediate area, there are serious questions about the area’s future.
The obituary for Westland Mall was written years ago. The signs of decline were present as the name-brand businesses slowly were replaced by less stable businesses selling more low-grade urban wares.
It had became harder to find designer clothing and easier to find nine-button suits in pastel colors, but that shift was slow and virtually unnoticeable to most.
By the 2010s, the decline in foot traffic had become too striking to ignore, and desperation set in as several businesses began to renovate to chase a new generation of shoppers.
It was all for naught. Macy’s, the main front-facing anchor of the mall, closed in 2017, followed by Sears in 2021.
Since then, Westland Mall has faded from memory, but to the shock of most people I spoke with, it’s still open and riding out the last remnant of in-person shoppers.
Namdar Realty Group entered the picture in 2014. A real estate and property management conglomerate with a clear mission statement: Take advantage of the decline, manage it as cheaply as possible, and wait.
Namdar bought Westland Mall and added the property to a massive collection of declining malls it already owned throughout the nation. They allegedly purchased the mall for cash and instituted their tried-and-true plan of reducing maintenance expenditures and rents.
Some might call this smart investing by Namdar, but others have called it absentee land lording. Namdar has a national reputation, fairly or unfairly, as a slumlord.
A source within Westland City Hall with deep familiarity on the issue spoke bluntly: “Namdar’s making a profit on the property with Kohl’s and JCPenney’s still anchoring the east and west sides of the mall, but the foot traffic is gone.”
The lack of foot traffic gives an unsettling “Backrooms” vibe as you walk through Westland Mall. While walking the corridor of empty storefronts, two mall employees loitered by a counter, and the conversation was striking:
“The owners are trying to get a $10 million grant from the state to redevelop the mall while sitting on $4 billion in worth.”
“That’s crazy.”
That tidbit of information was hard to confirm, but sources within Westland City Hall confirmed the price of the sale price for Westland Mall was recently dropped to around $18 million from the previous asking price of $30 million.
Westland officials assured me the mall is top of mind, but local government is ill-suited to win wrestling matches with the free-market forces, and no level of municipal interference can suddenly fill residents with a burning desire to hang at the mall.
Westland isn’t alone in this struggle. Northland Mall is long gone, even if the dirty dirt still lingers in Metro Detroit. Eastland Mall is an industrial zone today. Fairlane Town Center is a ghost town. Laurel Park is being kept alive by the Phoenix Theater and a sports memorabilia merchant. All that remains of Livonia Mall is a homeless shelter once called Sears.
The community is mostly apathetic, but Namdar, in a brilliant ploy to placate and massage concerns, hired Toman & Co to come up with new ideas to save Westland Mall by “listening to the people.”
The average residents of Westland have more innovative ideas than experts working in property and business management, right?
The responses, according to Toman & Co, were mind-blowing, fresh, and exciting. Responders wanted more food and beverage, retail, and destination options housed in the mall.
Translation: Residents want back everything they originally stopped wanting, and still don’t want, because if they did, then the mall wouldn’t be dying.
More interestingly, Toman & Co noted that their social media polling on Westland Mall took place on Facebook. Not exactly the platform for determining the economic vibe of people under 30, which is the “tell” that Namdar doesn’t care about saving the mall, but rather managing its death as the last generation that cares ages.
Given that they named the town after the place where people bought there stuff, Westland should consider renaming itself Amazon.
"If" @SenatorSlotkin really owned and operated a 100-acre farm in Holly, why did a Michigan resident have to offer her a home to stay?
https://t.co/smiQ2oYtR9
NEW: @grahamformaine accused of crazed assault by former girlfriend in @NYTIMES:
"But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.
During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was 'calm.' Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.
'It hurt,' she said. But she added: 'It didn’t cause an injury, it didn’t break my arm.'
Mr. Platner 'strongly disputes' any claims of physical intimidation or altercations, his campaign said."
New: President Trump Announces Investigation into California’s Extremely Slow Vote Counts Just as Suspicious Late Drops Slash GOP Leads in Two Critical Races
READ: https://t.co/jZxdlCmlHZ
Does Rx Kids monitor what people spend the money on, just like other welfare programs?
No, security is "too expensive," so people get cash with no strings attached and no eligibility requirements 👎
Isn't it funny how Cassidy and Cornyn were BEGGING you to believe that they supported The President when their jobs were on the line, but the second they lost their primaries, they went full blown Mitt Romney on social media? Pathetic.
Breaking: An Oregon Latino man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for using social media platform Kik to solicit child s—x abuse material. He later shared child abuse content with others on it and said he had abused minors in a park in Eugene, Ore.