The video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNdZVG0GCo" author="HasanAbi" source="YouTube">America deserved this…</a> discusses the <iq>medical stupidity</iq> of Nick Shirley. I have not embedded the video because no-one should have to suffer through watching that much footage of this dope talking. So why write about the video at all? Well, it illustrates an interesting point: even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while, even when he doesn't know it. At one point, Shirley said that <iq>we should crack down on all types of fraud.</iq> This is the truffle. He just doesn't know what he might mean by <iq>all types of fraud</iq>. He's a desperately stupid racist, so he thinks that he's talking about fraud perpetrated by Blacks <i>and</i> Mexicans. However---and you can probably see where I'm going with this---I find myself agreeing with Nick: the U.S. should be cracking down on <i>all types</i> of fraud. The fraud he and his acolytes in Congress are laser-like focused on is, of course (and as ever) penny-ante fraud, often committed by the poor and the desperate. Some of these people do grow fat on their fraud, but most hustle for years and end up barely staying ahead of the game. So much fraud is committed by participants in an MLM, which seem to be ubiquitous. But let's stay focused on fraud that <i>directly</i> appropriates taxpayer money. <img attachment="dagobert_duck.webp" align="right" caption="Dagobert Duck">Instead of focusing on penny-ante fraud, I think we should root out and end high-level forms of government fraud, which is a million times worse. Literally. Where low-level fraudsters steal hundreds or thousands of dollars, the real criminals steal billions. There is no comparison. No-one in Congress is interested in talking about this fraud because they directly benefit from it. I am, of course, talking about military contractors, and most of the trillionaire-company tech industry. Those who steal billions are delighted when their loyal minions foreground people like Shirley. Their minions hope to lap up a few crumbs that spill from the high-powered schemes perpetrated by those who already have so much.