Nick Shirley exposed some of the daycare and hospice fraud in California. How do we prevent this much outright fraud from happening? It's not with more laws.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. Thanks for being here to get the true story. Story of the day today. Nick Shirley, fraud in California. 

Nick Shirley, YouTuber, independent journalist coming out of minnesota his last greatest hit out of minnesota taking his talents to california where there are insane amounts of fraud if you're looking for fraud of course your next step is going to be california metacal spending has increased in california in five years from 108 billion dollars to 228 billion dollars more than double in five years but the population has stayed about the same. So why has Medi -Cal spending doubled? Medi -Cal is their Medicaid program in California for poor people. L . A. County, there's been a thousand percent increase in hospice care services. 

A thousand percent increase. One out of every ten dollars in home health care is spent in L . 

A. 

County. This Dick Shirley video is very good. That's 40 minutes. You should watch the whole thing. You can find it on my Twitter, Slater Radio. It is great. 

comically on the nose like if we weren't talking about tens of billions of dollars it'd be just funny but uh it's funny and sad but but there are parts that are so unbelievably you couldn't like there's a some foreigner runs a fraudulent daycare it's called a boo -boo daycare like what there's a scene where he's in an old motel that's been converted into offices and one of the guys one of the a bunch of the fraudsters they all start leaving as soon as he gets all their cars are in the center courtyard of the motel. And a lot of these offices are totally empty. So all the foreigners who are working there, they all get in their cars and they leave. And all the cars are like $100 ,000 cars. There's 150 ,000 BMW. 

One woman is driving a Maybach, $250 ,000. So he's trying to ask questions to this guy who, I guess, runs a hospice center in California. And the guy gets in his car, drives away, and the engine goes... It's this $150 ,000 BMW. And Nick Shirley gets behind the car and he goes, that's the sound of hospice care in Los Angeles. Like, oh, you couldn't write that. 

You could do 20 takes from that scene, of that scene, and you would never get it that perfect. as what happened in real life there. It's a total joke. So what's broken here? We can bring this in a lot of different directions. I'm going to pivot to a cultural discussion here because I believe this is the most important issue of our era that is protecting our culture. 

And first step is knowing that we have a culture. And part of knowing that we have a culture is knowing that there are different cultures. There are third world cultures too. And in third world countries, which is most of the world, it's all about what you can get away with. There's no such thing as guilt. If you can get away with it, it is good. 

That is the determining factor about whether or not something is good or bad. There is no good or bad. It's do you get away with it or do you do it or not? That's it. There's no moral question about anything. Did you get away with it? 

Well, then it's good. That's not how it works in our culture. Part of our culture is guilt. Teach your kids, we used to teach our kids George Washington chopping down the cherry tree. Who chopped down my cherry tree? Said George Washington's dad. 

And George said, young George said, I can't tell a lie. We don't realize how amazing this is about our culture because we live in it. But the rest of the world doesn't. They don't have that value. It's one major reason why they're a third world country. Oh yeah, can you give me like 10 minutes? 

It's one reason why they're a third world country. It's why we are a first world country because Johnny wanted to play piano because we are honest and we believe that God is watching everything we do. And the Ten Commandments say, thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not deal falsely. Thou shalt not lie to one another. 

The word deal falsely is a fun translation. The Hebrew word means lie or deceive, be untrue, to act deceptively. There's also a connotation here of feigning obedience. And I like that one because it's, it's not just about your actions. It's also about your heart. Proverbs 11 one says, dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord. 

But a just weight is his delight. So it's the flip side too. If you're, if you're honest and good and decent, it is to his delight. But an abomination, abomination, an abomination is a disgusting thing. An abomination, lying, being dishonest in your business. It's a disgusting thing to God. 

It shows how deeply God cares about being honest. You know, progressives or atheists, I repeat myself, they thought that they could just throw away God and the idea of God and leave. everything else just as it was. We could throw away God and also everyone will just be honest all the time. Proverbs 12 22 says, The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous will come through trouble. The wicked, they're ensnared by the transgression of their lips, ensnared in their lies. 

A lot of lying going on. but it's on paperwork. So, and you know, there's no one really hurt by it and who even cares? And there's a ton of money out there and it's just, I got away with it. They gave it to me. What am I supposed to do? 

Not take it? Let's go to the Bible. Psalm 15 says, he who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart, who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend and whose eyes a vile person is despised. The Bible story. that comes to mind is Joseph. The amazing story of Joseph, one of the all -time great stories. 

When Potiphar's wife comes on to him, he says, how could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? This used to be ingrained in American culture that when you sin, you're sinning against God. God sees everything and you're sinning against him. So even if no one catches you, even if you get away with it, you're on earth. Even if the state of California, will pay out the millions of dollars of fraudulent Medi -Cal payments. even if you can cash that money and then bring it to the local Maybach dealership and pay cash quarter of a million dollars and you drive off the lot, God sees everything. 

How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? Ananias and Sapphira, uh, Sapphira. They lied about the sale of their land to that was benefiting the church, but, and they dropped dead, but the drive was ax five, but they dropped dead because they lied. So don't lie. And if you have, which you have, repent like Zacchaeus did. Zacchaeus, a dishonest tax collector, but he repented with Jesus and then promised to repay fourfold everyone that he defrauded. 

A biblical based culture wouldn't have as much of this. There's always gonna be some sinners. There's always gonna be sin. There's always gonna be fraud, right? You can't get away with it entirely, but a true Christian culture would have much, much less of this. A proper Christian culture, if it did happen, would be met swiftly in a justice system and the fraudsters would be shamed. 

by society, and they would properly feel very guilty for what they did. When we import people who weren't raised with these values, and or if we stop raising kids to have these values, and we throw the Bible and God out of people's awareness, then don't be surprised when the fraud increases and when tens of billions of dollars are wasted. And then even worse, when God's wrath comes upon us for turning away from him. Shouldn't be surprised. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. 

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I went my entire life without ever hearing the true story of Patrick. And now the current President of Ireland today says the legacy of Patrick is to make way for Muslim migrants. Let's find out why she is wrong, in Patrick's own words.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so you can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every single day. They keep coming like the mail just keeps coming. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Today is St. Patrick's Day. 

Here is the president of Ireland celebrating this heroic brother in Christ. 

The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made and continue to make to the countries they now call home. 

I don't think that's the story of Patrick. Migrants? I don't think that's it. 

Sometimes even in the face of great adversity. Patrick's story speaks not only to the Ireland of the 5th century, but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labour and displacement today. As we recall the life of Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens. We stand in solidarity with those who find themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances. Patrick's story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement. Those fleeing their countries because of persecution or violence. 

Yikes. 

Global citizens? That is not the story of St. Patrick at all. So this is the section of our podcast we call What Really Happened. Now, if you asked me a couple of years ago anything about St. Patrick's Day, I would say nothing. Kiss me, I'm Irish. 

Green beer and leprechauns. That's my St. Patrick's knowledge. Spent my entire life, my entire childhood, every year in school, you know, you wear green. But no one ever told me the story, ever once in any way, ever told me the story of St. Patrick. Who was this guy? Here's the story. 

Around the 5th century, this guy's name was Mawin Secat. M -A -E -W -I -N. Mawin Secat. S -U -C -C -A -T. He lived in England. And when he was 16, he was captured by Irish pirates and was taken as a slave in Ireland. 

Now, I know it's a couple weird things happening here. She's like, wait, Irish pirates? I don't get that. And then white slaves? I'm confused about that. Friendly reminder, though, we actually talked about this on the radio show the other day. 

that more slaves were taken, more white people from Europe were taken as slaves into North Africa than Africans were brought into slavery in America. You just think about that one. North Africans took more white European slaves into Africa than Africans were sent to the United States. There's about 1 million, maybe 1 .5 million white Europeans were taken as slaves. out of Europe into North Africa. We fought two wars over this, the Barbary Wars, and only 400 ,000 Africans were sent to the United States of America during the transatlantic slave trade. 

12 million overall in the transatlantic slave trade, but they were sent to mostly Brazil and the Caribbean, only 400 ,000 to America. Anyway, back to the Irish pirates. So the Irish pirates take Mawin, 16 -year -old Mawin to be a slave. They bring him to pagan Ireland. Now Mawin's dad was a Christian. 

He was not. And he was held as a slave for six years. And he prayed every day for those six years. And during this slavery, he became closer to God. At a certain point, he said the Holy Spirit told him to escape and board a ship. The ship was 200 miles away, but he was able to escape and get there. 

And they didn't want to put him on the ship at first, but he prayed and they let him on board. So he's on the ship going back to England. They land in England and they're all in the wilderness starving. And I'm going to read from his own words. He wrote a book or a confession. It's called Confessio. 

How have I never read this thing? How have I never heard about this thing? Isn't that amazing? My whole life, I didn't even know that St. Patrick wrote a thing down, ever. And we have it right here. Here's what he said. 

After three days, we made it to land. And then for 28 days, we traveled through a wilderness. Food ran out and great hunger came over us. The captain turned to me and said, what about this Christian? You tell us that your God is great and all powerful. Why can't you pray for us? 

Since we're in a bad state of hunger. There's no sign of us finding a human being anywhere. Then I said to him with some confidence, Turn in faith with all your hearts to the Lord my God, because nothing is impossible for him, so that we may put food in your way, even enough to make you fully satisfied. He has an abundance everywhere. With the help of God, this is what actually happened. A herd of pigs appeared in the way before our eyes. 

They killed many of them. And there they remained for two nights and were fully restored. And the dogs too were filled. Many of them had grown weak and left half alive, by the way. After this, they gave plenty, excuse me, they gave the greatest of thanks to God. And I was honored in their eyes. 

From this day on, they had plenty of food. " So he finally makes it back home to England, back to his parents. A couple of years later, he had a vision, a dream of a man carrying a letter for him. He said, they, the people in this dream called out as it were one voice. And the voice said, we beg you, holy boy to come and walk again among us. Meaning in Ireland, go back to Ireland. 

He said, this touched my heart deeply. And I could not read any further. I woke up then. Thanks be to God. After many years, the Lord granted them what they were calling for. He went back to England. 

He went back to the place he was enslaved. He became a missionary. And it wasn't easy. It didn't go well for him. For a long time, he was thrown in jail a couple of times. One time he was beaten, robbed of everything he had, put in chains, possibly about to be executed. 

But long story short, Ireland is now a Christian nation, was a Christian nation because of Patrick. It wasn't about migrants. He was a slave and nothing in her message was about St. Patrick. So what's broken here in this story? First of all, We have a lot of Irish people in America, and I've even then I've gone my whole life without ever hearing a hint of this story. I didn't even know he was a Christian, even though I had the word saint in front of his name. 

He was the guy who drove the snakes away at best. Our culture is so broken, so broken, but it ties into so many things. If you missed yesterday's episode, we talked about England getting rid of people off of their money, replacing it with plants and animals. We talked about Harvard getting rid of any mention of John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at 1630, who said this place should be a shining city upon a hill. When we lose our history, this is what happens. 

It's so simple. They erase our history, and then they come in later and subtly say, well, you know, the real history of Patrick is that we need to let in more muslim migrants you know that's the real message of patrick's day what do you think for one second that saint patrick would have been for the invasion of muslims into ireland do you think or england or america what do you why could you possibly Well, you could only think that if you don't know the story. You can only think that if you've never read anything from St. Patrick, never any of his writings. If you've never read his writings, then yeah, that makes perfect sure. Yeah, he's a migrant from one place, came to another, and we love migrants. I get it. 

But you see how subtle the move is? I forget if I shared this one or not. I'm going to share it again real quick. Philadelphia School District. This is how they have, how Sharia law is infiltrated into the curriculum. So first of all, they talk about capitalism and how capitalism is based on greed. 

And they say, oh, greed's terrible. It's awful. Capitalism is terrible and awful. Man, if only there were another system. And this is what it says in the curriculum. Islamic finance principles guided by Sharia law prioritize equitable and ethical financial transactions prohibiting practices such as interest -based lending and speculative trading. 

These principles have informed economic systems in Muslim -majority countries and Islamic financial institutions worldwide. shaping approaches to economic development and wealth distribution. You see how that works? So after they've proven to kids that capitalism is great, and how bad it is, they're, you know, we need to be nice. And that whole Christianity, that Protestant work ethic led capitalism, oh, that's so terrible. 

Look how awful it is. We need to replace it with something nicer, something more fair and equitable and good. Well, you know, there is Sharia law, you know, based off ethical and equitable financial transactions. 

See the trick? 

They're doing that with every aspect of our culture that they can. All right, let's bring it to the Bible. So You can search online and find a nice version. It's very, very short of St. Patrick's Confession. Here's how it opens. It says, My name is Patrick. 

I am a sinner. No, it's not a good Irish accent at all. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpurnius. He was a deacon. 

His father was Potetus, a priest who lived at Bonavum Tabernaei. His home was was near there, and this is where I was taken prisoner. I was about 16 at the time. At that time, I did not know the true God. I was taken into captivity in Ireland, along with thousands of others. Here's the key. 

We deserved this because we had gone away from God and did not keep his commandments. We would not listen to our priests who advised us about how we could be saved. The Lord brought his strong anger upon us and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth. And it was among foreigners that I was seen how little I was. Little as in powerless compared to God. He later said, I see that already in this present age, the Lord has given me a greatness. 

The Lord has given me a greatness more than could be expected. I was not worthy of this, not the kind of person the Lord would do this for, since I know for certain that poverty and calamity are more my style than riches and enjoyment. But Christ the Lord became poor for us. I too am wretched and unhappy. Even if I were to wish for riches, I do not have them. 

I do not, I am not trying to judge myself since every day there is the chance that I would be killed or surrounded or taken into slavery or some other such happening. But I fear none of these things because of the promises of heaven. I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who is the ruler of all places. As the prophet says, cast your concerns on God and he will sustain you. I just want you to know that we're going to do a TV special just a couple of days here where we're going to expand more on the point that we deserve. What we get as a nation is based off of how much we either abandon or embrace God. 

I believe that's a biblical principle. I'll make the argument. We'll go to Psalm 917. Psalm 917 says, the wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. We'll do more of that on the TV show this week and we'll put that here on the podcast when we're done. But I'll end here with a final quote from Patrick. 

You know, the John the Baptist for Muslim migrants in Ireland. That's his real legacy. Just leading the way for Muslim migrants. He said, therefore, it is very right that we should cast our nets so that a great multitude and crowd will be taken for God. Also that there should be clerics to baptize and encourage the people in need and want. This is what the Lord says in his gospel. 

He warns and teaches in these words, Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all days, even to the end of the age. How is this happening in Ireland? Never before did they know of God, except to serve idols and unclean things. But now they have become people of the Lord and are called children of God. " That was true for a long time. 

Less true now, but we'll save the migrant analysis for the satellite show. I'll leave with one more. He goes on this story and he tells of people in Ireland that were baptized, who lost family members because they became Christian. He then said, I could wish to leave them to go to Britain. I would willingly do this and am prepared for this, as if to visit my home country and my parents. Not only that, but I would like to go to Gaul, France, to visit the brothers and see the faces of the saints of my Lord. 

God knows that I would dearly like to do this, but I am bound in the Spirit who assures me that if I were to do this, I would be held guilty. And I fear also to lose the work which I began, not so much I as Christ the Lord, who told me to come here and to be with these people for the rest of my life. May the Lord will it and protect me from every wrong path so that I do not sin before him. My suggestion. is that we in America, at least, make St. Patrick's Day a Christian holy day yet again. Politics by Faith on YouTube. 

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With multiple terrorist attacks across America committed by Muslims, we need a refresher on the differences between Islam and Christianity. One religion is the truth, the other is heresy, and violent at its core.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today is Old Dominion University attempted murders. As of now, it's attempted murder. 

Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. The murderer injured two people. We don't know the extent of those injuries yet. And the murderer would -be murderer is dead. Kash Patel said that the shooter, the murderer is dead, would -be murder, attempted murder, because, quote, a group of brave students stepped in and subdued him. Cannot wait to find out how that went down. 

Check out the backstory of this guy. Mohamed Jala, J -A -L -L -O -H, Mohamed Jala, a naturalized U . S. citizen. It was just the other day we talked about how we have a legal immigration problem in this country. Naturalized U . 

S. citizen from Sierra Leone. And not just any, like, that's enough. But it goes on. Convicted in 2017 of providing support to ISIS and was released December 2024. The DOJ said after his arrest in 2016 said Jalloh, J -A -L -L -O -H, Jalloh, praised the gunman who killed five US military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga in 2015 and stated that he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas. 

And here we are. Why in the world was this person not de -naturalized? You can become a US citizen, a naturalized US citizen, but when you then betray this country and provide support to the enemy, in this case ISIS, you can be denaturalized and you should then be deported. We also have the story of a man in Michigan who rammed his truck into the nation's biggest synagogue, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township outside of Detroit. We still are waiting more information on that. 

Okay. We have to talk some more and I intend to do this deeply. We've done a bunch of Muslim stuff this week already, but we have to talk about Islam and violence. First to draw the contrast, the Bible says, Matthew 5, 44, but I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Now we'll go to the Quran. Surah 9, 5. 

I'm going to do three different translations. First, kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit and wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer and give Zakah. Zakah is a tax, but it's more than a tax. It's a part of, it's proof of your conversion to Islam, right? You can't be a Christian and pay this tax. 

That's called something different, which we'll get to in a minute. Another translation of Surah 9, 5, fight and slay the pagans wherever you find them and seize them, beleaguer them and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war. And the third, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. So we have polytheists, pagans, and idolaters, and take them captive and besiege them and prepare them, prepare for them each ambush. Muhammad himself lived a life of violence, quite a contrast to Jesus. This comes from the top Sunni scholar in the eighth century. 

His name is al -Bukhari. He wrote of 199 different references to warfare against the non -believers. Some quotes from the I've been ordered to fight the people till they say none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and if they say so their blood and property will be sacred to us. Fight in the name of Allah against those who disbelieve in Allah. Invite them to Islam. 

If they respond, accept it. If they refuse, demand from them the Jizya. If they refuse that, fight them. That's the tax that the non -believers were in some places allowed to live if they paid it. We can keep going. We're going to do a lot more on this, but my work in conclusion at the moment is that a peaceful Muslim is only peaceful to the extent that they do not follow the teachings of Islam. 

Does that sentence make sense? Oh, but there's peaceful Muslims. Yeah, there are. They're not following the teachings of Islam. The amount of peaceful that they are is how far away they are from the actual teachings of Islam. If you are a true follower of Islam, then you will be violent. 

You will slay the idolaters and slice the neck of the unbelievers and wage war in every possible way. If you're a good Muslim, reading this from Caleb Gregson, he says, a better question to ask is whether or not there's a legitimate place for violence within Islam, Islamic tradition. The answer is yes. The primary means of determining this right in Islam is power. According to Islamic thinking, if you are in power and succeeding, then God is clearly blessing and supporting you. If you're not, then God has chosen not to bless you. 

Of the first four caliphs after Muhammad, three of them were violently murdered, either by assassination, mob, or in battle, all by fellow Muslims who supported other leaders. The first two Islamic dynasties came into power by slaughtering those who held power before them. Islam's history only gets bloodier from there. To the extent that more Muslims aren't violent yet is a part of God's common grace to us. It does not speak to the amount of peaceful Muslims that exist does not speak to the peacefulness of Islam. It speaks to God's common grace to us. 

Let's jump to the Bible. We're going to spend some time on the Crusades. We have a lot to do and I'm excited to do it. Let's focus on the Ottoman Empire. So during the Christian Reformation, the Turkish Ottoman Empire reached its height. This is the mid 15th century, both these things were happening at the same time. 

So whenever the people around the Reformation era were writing about Islam or Muslims, they called them the Turks. And they spoke, it's around the 1500s, they spoke of Islam as a heresy. Heresy means to pick and choose. So that more technically means to pick and choose. So a Christian heretic only picks and chooses what they want to believe and rejects what they don't. You must accept all of Christ's teachings and all of God's word. 

There's a lot of different heresy and the reformers thought that Islam was one of them. One of many different types of heresies. There's some things that are kind of ish similar, right? Like Islam is one God, Allah. It's not the same as the Christian God. In Islam, Jesus exists. 

He was a prophet. And they pick and choose some things from the Old and New Testament, but on the whole they deny the Trinity and reincarnation or incarnation of Jesus resurrection I should say of Jesus And they add a whole new prophet Mohammed and a whole new book the Quran so like that's heretical this is John of Damascus around the year 700 again Islam started around the year 600 and So this is John of Damascus in Syria around the year 700. He wrote a book called Concerning Heresy, and he wrote of Muhammad that this man, after having chanced upon the Old and New Testament, and likewise it seemed, having conversed with an Aryan heretical monk, devised his own heresy. And then he brought up a bunch of problems. One is that the revelation Muhammad claimed to receive was received without witnesses. 

Muslims allow men to take more than one wife, up to four, he wrote. And that also Islam allows men to divorce their wives very easily. That was in the year 700. John of Damascus noticed these problems. In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, he studied Islam. He wrote translations of Islam into Latin. 

He said that Islam was a Christian heresy, one that went so far as to approach paganism. And John Calvin said that Islam, in its violence, tore away about half of the church. So here's my main point that I think is really a starting point for our further study on Islam and its dangers in America and the world. Islam thrives today in places where they have left and stopped following the Bible and God. Some of these places were conquered by Muslims by force. Others abandoned God first and then Islam just walked in and filled the void, like in England and other places across Europe and increasingly America. 

We left Christianity, we left God, and then Islam came in and filled the void. This is God's judgment on us. John Calvin, in response to the rise of Islam, he said, and therefore let us mark well that we must hold ourselves to the pure religion. I'm reminded of Genesis 13 .10 when it comes to trusting God. Genesis 13 .10 says, and Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan. 

that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go towards Zoar. Lot chose this valley because it looked beautiful. It looked great. It looked lush, even though it was morally corrupted. Abraham, by contrast, trusted God's promise, went to Canaan, even though it wasn't the best looking land. It's what God wanted him to do. 

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