It's not just Gov Noisome, and it's not just California

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what a load of crap

Wait Until California Taxpayers Hear About yet Another Newsom Spending Debacle

Child advocates and lawmakers are furious with Gov. Gavin Newsom as California’s pediatric hearing aid program has spent tens of millions of dollars on administrative fees while delivering only a few hundred hearing aids.

Nearly five years after Newsom pushed lawmakers toward a state-run alternative instead of requiring private insurers to cover pediatric hearing aids, California’s Hearing Aid Coverage for Children Program had around 300 active enrolled members despite spending almost $23 million, according to a report delivered last month to a state Senate budget committee. That works out to about $76,000 per person.

That’s even more expensive than the 50-cent diapers the Governor’s wife’s “non-profit” is charging state taxpayers.

If you do the math, diapers at Walmart cost $.025 cents for Huggies, $0.27 for Pampers, $0.29 for Luvs, and $0.17 for the Value Brand.

Newsom is spending $20 million to distribute 40 million diapers to 100,000 babies. That's $0.50 per diaper, twice the more expensive store brands.

It’s nothing to the billions being wasted on his and his unions’ Railroad to Nowhere, but it’s still a shitty deal for taxpayers.

And as noted, this stuff is going on in every state:

Red-state auditor reports 'explosion' of fraud tips as he targets state employees 'racking up' taxpayer waste

Auditor Mike Foley says GPS tracking revealed state vehicles going to liquor stores and personal errands on taxpayer dime

Nebraska’s top auditor says fraud complaints are surging as waste, fraud, and abuse dominate the national conversation, telling Fox News Digital that his own crackdown has uncovered alleged misuse of taxpayer resources inside state government.

"It’s just extraordinary the explosion of phone calls and allegations and emails and so forth that are pouring into my office," Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley said as the fraud crackdown have become a national news story and the Trump administration, led by Vice President JD Vance, unleashed a task force to root out fraud. 

But here’s the key, here’s why none of this battle against fraud is doomed to fail:

"And as the media focuses on this more and more, it just makes the phone ring all the more, which is fine. We’re happy to receive those calls and try to filter through them and find out which ones are the most legitimate ones for us to pursue. But it’s clearly on the rise."

What the media covers one day, it forgets the next; and so will the public; by fall, the politicians, government employee unions, NGOs and just plain ’ol private-sector crooks will have returned to business as usual and will no longer even be trying to hide their thievery.