Regular readers have likely heard about the grant to OUTnewcomers in Boston. News spread faster than a wildfire set by a California homeless person. Not nearly as much damage, but all parties have returned to their respective corners after throwing contradicting narratives.
OUTnewcomers claims to be a pro-LGBTQ+ Migrants advocacy group. If you are new to America and identify with any or all of the queer alphabet, they want to help you feel relaxed and welcome. All those colonialist bigots can be such a drain on your thing. Or maybe you’re just mentally stressed from not being able to figure out why you’d even come to an awful place like this, aside from all that messy liberty, the copious debt-driven government handouts, and happy hour (would you like some Ice with that?).
Anyway.
They (OUTnewcomers) applied for a grant with the city of Boston to launder other people’s money back into the community. Boston says the group “received a $7,500 grant through a city program to support mental health services,” and, after the story broke, that the grant money could not actually be used for any of OUTnewcomers’ advertised purposes.
I’d add that this is BS because no one in the City Government would have cared if it had never seen the light of day. OUTnewcomers would have spent the grant, and not one woke finger would have been lifted by the turgid Boston bureaucracy to audit it.
The OUTnewcomers wellness flyer suggests that support payments between $250-$500 were available to cover the cost of yoga & meditation, creative healing, peer support and gym memberships, but after the online right started asking questions, OUTnewcomers claimed this was misninformation and that the money was not taxpayer dollars and it was for $50 vouchers for, ‘limited wellness supports such as haircuts, acupuncture, or massage.”
But this is their flyer.
None of which, again, is what the City claims the grants were meant to fund, and which is contradicted by this.
Their own literature contradicts the misinformation melted snowflake flex, which makes alleged death threats and intimidation calls increasingly unbelievable. If there was outreach of this nature, I hope they forwarded it to a Boston PD hate crimes therapist so they can send someone to help with the obvious distress this has caused. No voucher needed, and taxpayers get to cover the cost of that, too.
All in all, this seems very much like some sort of toe-in-the-water future taxpayer-funded money-laundering scheme. The grant recipient is offering service with funds it claims are not tied to the grant funds that are, for things the Cist says can’t be funded with this grant. Did no one read the grant application or the grant itself, and how many larger grants fall into this same hole?
If it’s anything like Minnesota or California, most of them, absent any concern or oversight, unless someone catches it and makes it too public to denounce or ignore.
Pro-Tip: To avoid this, as well as much larger misuses and abuses, voters need to show up and vote in every election for people who will take less of your money but better care of what they do take. It may require you to pay attention to more than fashion trends, celebrities, influencers, food critics, and local sports teams, but you could save enough money to pay for some of the things influencers talk so much about, including your own wellness, if saving vast sums wasted on things the government has no business doing isn’t enough to calm your nerves.
And don’t worry. Kahn isn’t in any danger. Not to himself or of losing his grant, which he can spend on his own wellness and that of his staff.
Has anyone checked to see if they are filing Medicaid claims or have an adjacent learing center or hospice?
