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Doing the Wash

Wake up, America

By Alexandra GrantPublished about 15 hours ago 3 min read
Doing the Wash
Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash

Congress. An entity of our government that is supposed to be working for us, is just a money laundering criminal endeavor. If you aren't paying attention to what our government does, then you are part of the problem.Money laundering is a crime, and we are funding it.

Looking up, what ridiculous grants and funding by our government, I almost fell out of my chair, and then I got angry. What we permit our government to get away with is crime, pure and simple.

In just minutes I was shocked by hundreds of grants and funding, being funneled to dozens of other countries, American dollars, to grants for projects that not only don’t make sense, but that have no quantifiable results or provable benefits. Aside from the lack of results, there is no proof that any of the projects that we, citizens, are paying for, can document who is actually getting the money. There is no paper trail for any of it.

As Americans, we pay our government’s salaries to do the nation’s work. We assume, unwisely, that in congress for the benefit, interests and safety of our people. Wrong. They are laundering money to fraud, likely supporting criminal activity abroad to subvert other governments, or projects that continually manipulate us into either ideology or into compliance. The 535 members of our congress, are paid $93 million a year to do the job of running an efficient nation, in the best interest of its people . That is $360,747.66 per congressman. I know the majority of us don’t earn that kind of money, but if we did, I can assure you we would spend more wisely, than our elected officials.

People of America, you are paying for stupid projects and grants that don’t exist. Phantom expenditures, billions of dollars, yes BILLIONS, are being sucked out of our wallets to pay for things like $3 million, for girl-centered climate action in Brazil, $4.8 million to Ukrainian influencers to influence, who knows what, $454,000 for alcohol for homeless people, $22.6 billion for illegal alien support in resettlement IN our country, which included homes and cars, for them, $54 million for a train to nowhere, $300,000 to promote LGBTQ acceptance in Botswana, and most recently, earmarks to the tune of $15.5 billion for over 8,271 pet projects in congressional spending.

This is ludicrous! It is private entities, political and otherwise, and our government creating fictitious, causes to take our money and repurpose it, for nefarious purposes. We have no clue where this money is going. I am willing to bet the farm, that much of it is going into, their own pockets, or to fund illegal government activities in other countries.

As citizens, we should know exactly where every nickel is spent. We should have verifiable proof in un-redacted black and white, of where each penny went and who received it, and we should be provided the results of the expenditures, meaning that what we paid for, actually did something useful to us. Americans.

More importantly, we should not be funding anything, in other countries or for citizens of other countries. They should have their own governments to work for them. If they don’t, that that is on them. We fought for our system of governing. They should do likewise, if they want freedom to govern themselves. That is called seeking independence, from tyranny.

Calculating the funding of just a few, of the ridiculous money laundering projects our great elected officials have spent our money on, amounts to $900,000,000.000/year. This amount equates to $25,075.00 per impoverished American, 10% of our nation.

None of us are paying attention? We have ten percent of our own people in poverty, and we are sending money to criminals stealing money, needed by our own. No one is policing this or stopping it.

Our citizens have their heads in the sand. We are complicit in crime.

We would rather watch some idiot family’s life on television, then tune into, the butt numbing CNN channel. We would rather watch some useless celebrity, prostitute themselves for money on television, than take time to keep a watchful eye on the government that should be doing work we pay for.

It’s hard to believe, that we permit this waste and fraud. Our inaction is being laundered to fund fraud. The people who elect congress’s members need to vet every dollar spent. It is our responsibility. If congress persists in crime, they need to be ousted. But first, we need to wake up.

#everyone #americans #politics

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About the Creator

Alexandra Grant

Wife, mother of one son, living in Kansas. An amateur artist and writer of poetry and prose. Follow me on Instagram, Tiktok, X, Telegram, lemon8, Facebook , https://patreon.com/AlexandraGrant639, https://substack.com/@alexandragrant273684

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