The Polis administration has doled out $30 million in fake unemployment claims since the governor shut down the state in a pandemic panic.
But that’s good news, spins the Colorado Sun, because California by comparison blew $20 billion in fraudulent claims, which should be the real shocker.
And yet it’s not.
What they don’t remind is that California is the largest state of the union taking up nearly an entire coastline with about 40 million people. And, it’s a state rampant with fraud so of course they would out-criminalize our measly 5.7 million population, duh.
We didn’t realize it was a competition. Are we supposed to try harder next time to steal from taxpayers so we can be number one in bogus unemployment claims?
That way, maybe we won’t notice the thieves were motivated by the boosted payouts that were designed to keep Americans off the job and kill the economy, cause COVID.
But we digress. From the Sun:
The pandemic made it easy to get away with it. Oversight was postponed in order to get money out faster to those who needed it.
But Colorado may have been more of a target early on because it had one of the nation’s highest maximum unemployment pay of $618 per week, Daniel Chase, chief of staff at CDLE, told state lawmakers during a Joint Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday. It’s now $700.
Colorado hasn’t gotten around to attacking the problem at its core by prosecuting the criminals. They’ve only referred four cases for prosecution, but no decision’s been made to actually prosecute those cases.
In this respect, we’re exactly like California.
In their defense, the Polis administration claims they’ve been too busy trying to help nearly 8,000 Coloradans they locked out of their accounts because of fraud holds. And some of them still haven’t gotten their money.
So that’s their excuse — they suck, because they suck.
All told, this highly questionable national experiment of throwing folks onto welfare and killing jobs has so far resulted in the payout of $87 billion in fraudulent claims.
Just to put it in perspective, that’s more than the $80 billion proposed for Pell grant spending this year to send kids to college.