Tiffany Henyard vs Kamala Harris on No-Bid Contracts? NO CONTEST!
/WHO IS THE REAL QUEEN OF SET ASIDES?
Tiffany Henyard is all the rage in the news for constantly side-stepping the Dolton trustees doling out no-bid contracts, absolutely laughing in the face of proper procedures and greasing the palms of her favorite contractors. This has been her standard practice for years, and the amount of money spent, wasted, or stolen amounts in the millions of dollars. But is this a “drop in the bucket” when comparing to our Vice President?
While it IS outrageous watching the “supermayor” of Dolton running through record amounts of unauthorized expenditures on no-bid contracts, could it be that our attention is on the wrong person?
While Tiffany is driving the poor village of Dolton into a budget amounting to $9,000,000 and continues with reckless abandonment, there’s another financial fiasco that has been going on for the same amount of time, and it dwarfs what we have seen in South Chicago.
Enter Vice President Kamala Harris. While we protest the spending of Mayor Tiffany Henyard, in total disgust, our Vice President quietly commits a similar act on a much larger scale. Sadly, it isn’t talked about in any circles. It doesn’t even raise a single eyebrow. Why? Because it is a standard practice that has gone on since the beginning of time.
So what is the difference? It’s in name only.
When this is done on the federal level, we call it “set asides”. This is money that is set aside for specific groups without the permission of the citizens ability to vote for or against the money allotted to the recipients.
During her tenure, Kamala Harris has focused on assisting the AAPI, or Asian American & Pacific Islanders group in order to secure their support. In 2022, the total amount of money “set aside” for this group totaled $17 Billion.
In 2023, another $2.7 Billion was set aside for government contracts specifically for AAPI-owned small businesses. Add another $6.4 Billion later that year, and the total amount set aside for this group comes to $26.4 Billion dollars.
Let’s think about this…
While we rage watch Tiffany Henyard handing out her no-bid contracts at warp speed, the VP has rewarded her favorite group of people with so much money that it makes Tiffany Henyard’s illegal expenditures look like loose pocket change. Add up ALL of the money that Tiffany Henyard has run into a deficit, and it is only 0.03% (not 3%) of what Kamala Harris has set aside for her favorite insiders.
But how much do we hear this reported on the news? That’s right, exactly NEVER.
Now let’s be real… the damage Tiffany Henyard has done to a local community could put them into bankruptcy, and turn the village into a barren land of desolation. The damage caused by the vice president’s no-bid spending won’t even be noticeable.
But there’s a reason!
That’s because the federal government has the money printer, the Federal Reserve Bank. When the president or vice president wants to reward their favorite constituent groups, all they have to do is order the Federal Reserve to authorize new money that didn’t exist in the system previously. Local municipalities don’t have that luxury. They have to borrow money from banks and institutions.
The end result of the federal government pumping out new “free money” for their favorites is just inflation, due to the money supply increasing because nothing was really produced. So you and I pay for it in the end, at the gas pump and at the grocery store.
This is why we should remind ourselves that the politicians at the federal level need a bigger watchful eye than what we put on the local crooked politicians like Mayor Tiffany Henyard. But we fail to do that.
All in all, it’s just food for thought. Maybe we should consider this when we vote in the national elections. The example should be set from the top. Then maybe… just maybe, our local corrupt elected officials won’t think that it’s just a “free-for-all” when they get into office, like Tiffany Henyard.
Carlton Flowers
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