Ep. 1713 - The Somali Daycare Scam Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. The Truth Will Shock You
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You ve heard about rampant fraud by Somalis in Minnesota, but that s just the tip of a very large, very evil, and very expensive iceberg. The truth is that this kind of fraud is rampant across the U.S. on every level, and is actively harming you and costing you and your family lots of money. We ll talk about it. Also, Trump appears to be serious about acquiring Greenland. Is that a good idea?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, you've heard about the rampant fraud by Somalis in Minnesota,
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but that is just the tip of a very large, very evil, and very expensive iceberg.
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The truth is that this kind of fraud is rampant across the country on every level.
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It's actively harming you and costing you and your family lots of money.
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Also, Trump appears to be serious about acquiring Greenland.
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And a Democrat politician is asked to provide an example of a socialist country that is
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Now, usually I don't feel any desire really to play devil's advocate.
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I have no interest in looking for ways, just for the sake of argument, to defend bad people
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That's not to say that it's wrong to play devil's advocate or that people shouldn't do it.
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For example, if a certain group of people, say Somalis in Minnesota, are being dragged
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online by hundreds of millions of people, I feel no desire whatsoever to step in and ask
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an annoying contrarian questions such as, hey, what if these people actually aren't so bad?
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Now, all that said, at this point, I feel compelled to say one thing, just one thing that could be
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considered something of a defense of the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who are currently living in
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Minnesota and defrauding the American taxpayer.
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Now, you see, during yesterday's show, I pointed out that the average Somali has an IQ that approaches
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the level of mental retardation, in part because of rampant inbreeding that affects roughly half of the
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It happens to be true that the typical Somali has an IQ below 70.
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Now, on the left, they'll claim that the IQ analysis is illegitimate because Somalia is a war-torn
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hellscape where everybody is malnourished, so you can't possibly administer a valid IQ test for some reason.
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When you look at the state of Somalia, well, it looks an awful lot like a country run by people with an
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They don't have a functioning economy or system of government or anything that would indicate that
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they're capable of establishing or maintaining any kind of civilization.
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In any event, I'm not here to play devil's advocate on that particular question.
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The science is settled on the issue of Somali IQ.
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But I do think it's worth asking an important follow-up, which naturally follows from our
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If the typical Somali is indeed very dumb, then how exactly were they able to scam taxpayers
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out of hundreds of millions of dollars in Minnesota alone?
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Now, sure, their fraud schemes weren't exactly subtle.
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They spelled learning center as leering center.
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They went slack-jawed when a YouTuber with an iPhone knocked on their front door.
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And then when CNN shows up the next day, suddenly they had some woman standing out front insisting
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that indeed she does send her children to the daycare every day from 2 to 10 p.m., which
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just so happens to be the precise operating hours of the daycare.
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But none of this is particularly indicative of high IQs in the community.
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But at the same time, if their IQ is really hovering around 68, you'd think they wouldn't
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I mean, when your IQ is that low, you're not just putting up signs with obvious typos for
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That's more of a, you know, 80 to 85 IQ mistake.
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At 68 IQ, you're barely able to comprehend the idea of a business at all.
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I mean, at that rung of the IQ spectrum, you hear about laundering money and you throw your
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You hear about the importance of headhunting and you go and literally scalp your competition.
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And you certainly aren't navigating the bureaucracy of the state of Minnesota and filing lengthy
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We know they didn't commit all this fraud on their own.
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Which is the best defense I can muster for these people.
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And it requires us to figure out where did the help come from?
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Now, we know Democrats from Tim Walls on down were complicit in the fraud.
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They understood that they were getting scammed.
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But it still doesn't address the question of who specifically held the hands of these Somalis
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companies as they set up these fraudulent businesses.
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We know about a lot of people in government who knew that it was happening and allowed it
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But who are the people that facilitated, that helped them do it?
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Well, to figure out who did hold their hands, I went looking through various online resources
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for citizens of Minnesota who want to start their own daycare.
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And as it turns out, Blue Cross, which administers Medicaid in Minnesota, put out a video to that
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And here's a portion of the video from a foundation established by Blue Cross.
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We played the Somali language version of the video that Blue Cross uploaded.
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But here's the English language version, which they also provided, helpfully enough.
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Are you thinking of opening a family child care business here in Minnesota and would like
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We hope these videos will help answer some of the questions you may have and help you understand
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the process of family child care licensing in Minnesota and learn about the regulations
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Family child care is a care provided in a caregiver's home where no more than 10 children are cared
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for at any one time, of which no more than six of those children are under school age.
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Why become a licensed family child care provider?
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Opening a family child care can be a very rewarding career and comes with many benefits.
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You are opening your house to children while you are caring for your own children.
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Somali parents and guardians believe in keeping Somali culture and religion alive and embedded
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Parents and guardians expect that their child will receive quality care and stay in a safe
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and clean environment while reaching learning milestones.
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You, as a family child care provider, are in a unique position to provide quality child care
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and protect the health and safety of children in your care, while at the same time keeping
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While the process may seem overwhelming, remember that your county licensor will work with you
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in more detail in each part of the process and help you apply this information to your situation.
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Now, in case you're listening to the audio podcast, I need to point out that there is not a single
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white person in the entire video that Blue Cross put out.
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The closest we get to a white person is the woman at the end who works as county licensor,
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who will help the Somalis get their daycare so they can preserve their culture and their community.
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Now, all this is very strange if you think about it for a second.
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There's no obvious reason why Blue Cross, which is a health insurance company that manages
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Medicaid claims in Minnesota, would put out an instructional video specifically for Somalis
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who want to start daycares for other Somalis and no one else.
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I mean, there's no apparent reason why they'd want daycares to be established that exclude white children.
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There's no reason why they'd want to preserve Somali culture and only Somali culture.
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And there are no other videos like this on Blue Cross's nonprofit YouTube account.
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They went out of their way to target Somalis specifically and encourage them to start daycares.
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Even though, like, most of these people aren't working, they're on welfare.
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But even so, they went out of their way to make these videos specifically encouraging Somalis
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There's no video about white daycares that will preserve white culture, as you might imagine.
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But there's also no videos about Hispanic daycares or, you know, black daycares, Asian daycares.
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Why is Blue Cross so passionate about the establishment of non-white, all-Somali daycares in Minnesota?
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Now, if you're the optimistic type, you might say, well, you know, they want to ensure that a low-income,
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low-IQ immigrant population is aware of their options when it comes to establishing daycares and healthcare clinics.
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Blue Cross may simply be trying to help the Somalis out.
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did Blue Cross notice when Somalis began defrauding Medicaid on a massive scale?
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Did they notice that in many cases, this Medicaid fraud involved daycares,
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which received money under Medicaid when they treated patients with alleged disabilities like autism?
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Why did it take Chris Ruffo to tell us that Medicaid claims for autism in Minnesota
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somehow increased from $3 million to nearly $400 million in just a few years?
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Why did it take a YouTuber to point out that many of the daycares are empty?
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Why didn't they blow the whistle on the obvious fraud,
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which presumably they would have noticed very quickly since they were processing many of the claims?
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Why instead did they put out a video encouraging Somalis to set up even more daycares?
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Well, here's one theory, and it relates to how insurers like Blue Cross,
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Now, these are hypothetical numbers to illustrate the point.
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and Blue Cross pays autism treatment providers $100 million per year
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on claims for autism therapy, adult daycares, home health services, and so on.
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The state of Minnesota would then reimburse Blue Cross $100 million via Medicaid,
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plus give them a 15% bonus for profit as well as administrative expenses.
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After all, Blue Cross isn't going to process the claims for free.
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So 15% of $100 million amounts to $15 million in profit for Blue Cross in that scenario.
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Well, now imagine that there's $300 million in Medicaid expenses billed to Blue Cross,
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$200 million of which are from Somali fraudsters.
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Well, that means the total pie has now expanded significantly.
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15% of $300 million is $45 million in profit for Blue Cross.
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And in future years, Blue Cross will command a higher rate from the state for handling more claims.
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You can make the argument that more fraud means more money for Blue Cross in the long term,
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as long as that fraud is coming from Medicaid claims, which they'll be reimbursed for.
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And daycares, again, are ground zero for Somali fraud.
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That's where they ran the Feeding Our Future scam from.
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They said children were coming to the daycares and getting meals when they weren't.
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And many of these fraudulent autism services are also organized through daycares.
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Keep in mind, the convenient thing about autism is that there's no blood test.
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There's really no clear diagnostic criteria whatsoever.
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So if you're looking for a way to, you know, a type of disability to claim fraudulently, autism is a really good one.
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The Somalis could simply declare that children had autism and bam, the money started flowing.
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So with this in mind, is it possible that Blue Cross was not encouraging Somalis to set up race-based daycares out of the goodness of their own hearts?
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Maybe they were doing it because, like everyone else in Minnesota, they were in on the scam.
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You'd hate to think that might be a possibility, but it's the kind of thing that's clearly worth investigating.
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All this obvious fraud was going on, Blue Cross comes along and makes videos, some of which are in the Somali language, saying,
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Kind of thing that you should really investigate.
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Now, at a minimum, they're not paying much attention to the programs they're involved with, even as insurance claims grow exponentially.
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But whatever the case, they're not the only ones doing it.
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The State Leadership Initiative brought this video to my attention.
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It's from an organization called Child Care Wayfinder in Minnesota,
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which receives millions of dollars from the state in order to help Somalis establish daycares.
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They don't simply help the Somalis file the forms, they also fund the daycares directly.
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I'm the Child Care Aware Startup and Retention Coordinator with Child Care Wayfinder for 360 Communities.
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Wayfinder Navigators are available to accompany you through the licensing process.
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I received an inquiry email from some individuals who were looking to start a Somali Montessori school in Apple Valley.
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We have, me and my wife, opened Acacia Montessori,
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specifically for the Somali parents in the Apple Valley area.
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This funding is one of the most significant hurdles that most of my participants have had.
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Opening from the ground up can be very expensive.
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Wayfinder Navigators assist participants to find access to funding, professional development,
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resources such as marketing, tax accountants, and much, much more.
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When I first entered Acacia, I noticed that it had been a previous center.
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It's not enough to go after the Somali daycares themselves.
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Yeah, you go after them, but that's just the beginning, right?
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You have to look at who funded them, who helped to create them, and what were their incentives.
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And you need to determine what they knew about the legitimacy of the businesses that they were establishing.
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Now, I'm not saying that this particular NGO is fraudulent.
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But in general, when you have armies of NGOs flush with millions of taxpayer dollars,
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all setting up Somali daycares, many of which are indeed obviously fraudulent,
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then at some point, you need to start raiding the NGOs and conducting some investigations into what they knew or did not know.
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Just the other day, we learned that Amy Bach, the white woman who helped organize the massive Feeding Our Future scam for the Somalis,
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was also listed as the point of contact for 47 daycare centers in Minnesota.
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Now, Amy Bach was the ultimate middleman for Somali entrepreneurs, all of whom, strangely enough, wanted to start daycares.
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As a nonprofit director, she helped an awful lot of Somalis make an awful lot of profits.
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And then, when she was busted for a fraud scheme, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, the daycares dropped her.
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In other words, we can't pretend that Somalis are the only ones scamming us with fake claims of autism and other disabilities.
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Yes, it is righteous to arrest and deport every single one of these people, which we should.
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Yes, they should not be in this country in the first place.
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Americans are also committing an awful lot of fraud.
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In some cases, they're helping Somalis while lining their own pockets.
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In many other cases, they're simply helping themselves.
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So take, for example, the curious case of Graham Plattner,
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who's running for the Democrat Party's nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine.
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And Plattner is best known as the guy with the Nazi tattoo, who supposedly didn't realize it was a Nazi tattoo.
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But what's interesting about Plattner is not to tattoo.
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What's interesting about him is that, as of now, he has a disability rating of 100% from the Department of Veterans Affairs,
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which stems from his deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Now, publicly, Plattner has said that these benefits amount to roughly $5,000 a month or about $60,000 a year.
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How can someone who is 100% disabled to the point that they receive a substantial amount of cash every year from the taxpayer
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Because when I hear that, I think, oh, totally disabled.
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Which, on second thought, given the quality of our politicians, maybe is not so hard to believe.
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But for that matter, he also continues to work as an oyster farmer and harbormaster.
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Well, how does he do that if he's 100% disabled?
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He's 100% disabled, he's got a full-time job, and he's 100% disabled, he's got a full-time job, and he's running for Senate.
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Now, in response, you might point out that under our current laws,
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it's possible to receive $60,000 a year with 100% disability,
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while also working full-time in an extremely demanding job,
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I'm not an expert in disability law, but I can say with absolute confidence
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and if you're capable of working on a boat for a living,
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and you don't need $60,000 from the taxpayer on account of your disability.
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it doesn't matter if you're a good person or a bad person,
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100% disabled means you shouldn't be working on a boat every day.
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But Graham Plattner, of course, is just one example of a much, much larger trend.
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And it's extremely expensive, particularly when it comes to the VA.
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Something like 7% of our taxes go to VA benefits.
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And you have to wonder how much of that is unnecessary spending on men like Graham Plattner.
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How much money are we spending to sending to fraudsters at the VA
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instead of actual American service members who could use the money for their own legitimate medical care?
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Admittedly, from a political perspective, it's not as easy to go after fraudsters in the VA
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compared to, say, Somalis in Minnesota who can't even speak English.
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But it's arguably a lot more important to do so,
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especially since it's a more common and more expensive problem.
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And again, it's wasting resources that should be used to treat and assist veterans who actually need it.
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But apparently the VA basically operates on an honor system
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where if you say you're disabled, the money just starts flowing.
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No, I make $4,700 once a month, and he makes $3,600 twice a month.
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There is not a single veteran that has come on the show
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that does not just get endless money for the rest of their life with disability.
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So I've done a lot of hardworking stuff throughout the time.
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But even people that have just served for like three years
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Like, there has not been one single person on this entire show
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that doesn't get thousands of dollars for the rest of their life.
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Well, they serve their country, and they probably have earned it.
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But there's things that when you serve your country and you break your body
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I'm saying every single person that has ever been on this show
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who has literally just sat at a base and did nothing.
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Now, zoom out beyond the VA and the hundreds of billions of dollars
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we spend there, and the problem becomes substantially worse.
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How many food stamp recipients, if you had to guess,
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since under the law, if you're an able-bodied adult without dependents,
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it's supposed to be much harder to get food stamps.
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As an able-bodied adult, you can't get SNAP benefits easily
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unless you meet all kinds of work requirements.
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66% of SNAP recipients do not have children in their household.
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That's roughly 26 million people, since, incredibly enough,
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more than 40 million people are on food stamps.
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Now, we've already discussed on the show how absurd it is
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that 40 million people in this country need food stamps in the first place.
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But the really interesting question is that, you know,
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The laws are supposed to prevent food stamps from flowing
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You should be able to do that with, like, any job.
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is that tens of millions of people are pretending that they are not,
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In other words, we supposedly have around 20 million disabled people
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in this country who are so disabled that they cannot get food.
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They need us to buy their food and also pay for their disability benefits
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The scale of the fraud that's happening here is staggering.
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And everyone knows what's going on, by the way.
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Everyone knows, but no one is doing anything about it.
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People claim they have PTSD or a bad back or whatever.
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They make some claim of an ailment that cannot be proven.
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An ailment that cannot, that won't show up on any scan.
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And so the only way to determine whether someone has it,
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but the only way to know is if they say they have it.
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And then they have no problem finding a doctor to sign off on it,
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they might choose to keep working so that they can double-dim.
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I mean, at the highest levels of government and academia,
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it's become fashionable to make disability normal
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as part of a larger plot to normalize communism.
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This is a recent speech at Harvard's Public Health School,
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If we want to move the needle for people with disabilities
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we have to have public policy that looks at metrics
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around are we actually getting people included?
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How do we create a situation where for a disabled child
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in fact, they won't be the first disabled child
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we can move the needle on these specific challenges
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So they want to make something that, by definition,
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and turn it into something that we see all the time.
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Roughly a fifth of undergraduate students at Harvard
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an increase of more than 15% over the past decade,
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by the National Center for Education Statistics.
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The rise from roughly 3% in 2014 to 21% in 2024
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And then when these students go out into the real world,
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They're victims, and they're dependent on the system.
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They want a generation of professional victims.
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And disability fraud is one way they're doing it.
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Yes, swarm Minnesota with ICE and DHS and the FBI,
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who's defrauding the taxpayer by pretending to work
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of the tax dollars that we are forced to pay every year.
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I use the word expansionist not as a dirty word,
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U.S. President Donald Trump has been discussing
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including using the military, the White House said.
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The White House told the BBC that acquiring Greenland,
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a semi-autonomous region of fellow NATO member Denmark,
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issued a joint statement rallying behind Denmark,
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which has been pushing back against Trump's ambitions
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also told lawmakers
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at a classified briefing on Capitol Hill on Monday
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that the Trump administration did not plan to invade Greenland,
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but he mentioned instead buying the island from Denmark.
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And here is Trump on Air Force One talking about it.
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We need Greenland from a national security situation.
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We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.
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And Denmark is not going to be able to do it, I can tell you.
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What would the justification be for a claim to Greenland?
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We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security.
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Yes, clearly, if we can acquire Greenland, we should.
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And Trump focuses on the national defense advantages,
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Greenland is a crucial staging ground for missile defense,
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which are largely untapped, oil and gas, uranium,
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Greenland holds like 5% to 10% of the fresh water on Earth.
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And then there are the economic benefits beyond the resource,
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namely control over Arctic shipping lanes, very substantial.
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There's the strategic benefits, which are very clear, totally undeniable.
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And the people who laugh it off just don't know what the hell they're talking about.
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I mean, not knowing much about Greenland is not a character flaw.
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When the topic first came up of acquiring Greenland,
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And yet everyone thinks they have to have an opinion about it right away.
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And I don't pretend to be a Greenland expert myself.
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Trump administration talks about acquiring Greenland.
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Like if all those, you're laying out like obvious strategic
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But I also think there's another value that Greenland holds.
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There's another value in general to Trump's expansionism.
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when they first started talking about Greenland
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and they were talking about Panama and all of that.
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But not very many other people are tapping into this,
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And I understand that from a political perspective,
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the hope, the excitement that you bring to a nation
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who cares about just like the spiritual health of a nation?
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people would have instinctively understood this.