President’s Somali comments are wrong

By Jason Williams
Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

— Conservatives cried foul when Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters “deplorables”.

— Conservatives cried foul when President Biden called Trump supporters “garbage”.

— Now, what to make of when Trump appears to call Somali’s migrants “garbage”.

It’s bad.  It’s wrong.  All three are wrong.

In this assassination-age America (Trump, Kirk, ICE agents, Minnesota lawmakers, CEOs, etc.)  we need to drop the dehumanizing language.   This is a lesson for everybody.

Sadly, this Somali comment came on the heels of a mind-blowing monumental Medicaid scandal in Minnesota.   Instead of having a moment to debate the scandal and how people cheat and abuse government programs, the topic switched to labeling migrants.   We need to go back to the key point because tens of billions of fraud is occurring with our government hand-outs.

As someone who has served refugees around the world, from war-zone areas to natural disasters, I care about their plight and their future.

It is both unfair to America and to migrants themselves for America to take large populations out of a country in crisis and put them into a community that does not have people and resources to assimilate and mentor them, while at the same time, government unloads billions with no accountability and while criminals openly exploit the system (I say openly because the $1 billion Somali community scandals were exposed by whistleblowers).  In Oregon, people report welfare fraud and the State of Oregon does not respond.   In Oregon, the State refuses to share the data on who is receiving Food Stamps with the Federal government which is blocking them from auditing the program for waste, fraud and abuse.

Do not be surprised at who shows up to take advantage of free government money.  Just consider the COVID hand-outs which were routinely abused by all types of Americans, and of all nationalities, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.

We need to have our national debate on fraud — but instead it was too easily sidetracked by the same old name-calling.

I use this example as a cultural moment to bring unity from all political sides (which includes conservatives speaking one-on-one with other conservatives) to share common boundaries and human respect in the political sphere.  I have filled this blog with countless articles condemning liberals for for their dehumanizing words against police, ICE agents, Jews, Christians, Republicans, CEOs and Trump himself.  As an equal-opportunity critic I apply it to my side as well.

Civility was among the very first articles I wrote on this website some 20 years ago when it was created.  I still care about it today.

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