The people who would use a disaster for their financial advantage are not very different from those who do the same from elected office. The latter has a police force, a flimsy claim to a popular mandate, and pays lip series to justice, but the criminality isn’t much different.
So, I was amused when I read this headline from the Bennington Banner: “State: Beware flood-related scams and frauds.”
The Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) warns consumers to be on alert for potential insurance-related and investment frauds and scams following the recent flood event in Vermont. Natural disasters like floods can give rise to financial scams because bad actors take advantage of times of vulnerability. Vermonters should be on the lookout for opportunistic financial scams and report any suspected or known fraud to DFR as soon as possible.
You should beware but don’t limit yourself to scams running outside the so-called halls of climate justice. Blue Vermont is top-heavy with Climat Cultists running scams at taxpayer expense. Millions are laundered out of working-class pockets by progressive politicians to replace affordable modernity with a subsistence lifestyle akin to second or third-world nations.
Their thievery knows no bounds, while their solutions create more problems and solve none unless the goal is theft of your labor, its fruits, mobility, and freedom. And you can kiss reliable heat, light, and comfort goodbye.
It is one of the biggest scams in human history.
Don’t get me wrong; you need to be aware and alert daily for dirty tricksters, but the best of them run for and get elected to public office, using natural cyclic events to advance a restrictive political agenda that is dangerous to your well-being and liberty.
It is the biggest scam of all.