He will detail all this waste in an 800-page report that will show, among other things, that “Medicaid is a major issue, in that tens of millions of dollars in subsidies are going to income-ineligible Mississippians.” Even worse, “one state agency was spending nearly $6,000 each on televisions, which the similarly bloated feds pay about $2,000 for similar tech.” White commented: “So, if you think the federal government is inefficient, I promise you, your state governments around the country are likely even less efficient.”
White added that Mississippi was not exempt from the left’s craziness, for “when you dig into what they’re doing with all of this staff time and all of these resources, they were doing things like holding microaggression training sessions for engineers — I don’t know why we need to do that. They were handing out grants for social justice yoga for preschoolers. Just crazy stuff.” Even in Mississippi, the leftist forces of indoctrination have been hard at work, with “$11 million in taxpayer funding has gone to DEI at colleges alone.”
And while one in five Mississippians lives below the poverty line, White says that “we found dollars supposed to be going to poor folks going to pay for sponsorship of beauty pageants.