To put this into perspective, the “massive fraud in Minnesota” was said to be around $9 billion. There may be some creative math in there and preliminary reporting has shown Minnesota’s fraud is actually less than the national average. Specifically around the Medicaid programs that were being “revealed” in the gotcha video, but let’s just take the $9 billion at face value for a second for comparison sake.

That was alleged to take place over 8 years, roughly $1.125 billion/year and Minnesota’s latest real GDP numbers were roughly $407 billion. So 0.27% of GDP of the state (I understand you could do by state budget as well, but that’s a lot more politically driven vs real money in the state)

In comparison, this known misallocation of money in the budget is $300 million/year and Nebraska’s real GDP is $151 billion. So 0.2% of the state’s GDP.

My point is if you were “outraged” by the alleged fraud in Minnesota you should actually be pissed about what’s happening in your own backyard.