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Learn more at child advocates.net. So, all right, let me play this scenario out here for you, okay?

Yeah. Then you tell me if I got this correct, all right?

Because you're the voice of reason.

Sure.

On this program.

I try to be.

All right.

So state invents quasi-government agency.

Quasi-government agency with somewhat decent premise expands over time,

balloons into some unrestrained monstrosity.

Most of the money spent, the public money spent,

is shrouded in mystery.

Yeah.

The governor then comes out and claims such alarm over the money spent and shrouded in

mystery and who benefited and how much that he orders a forensic audit.

Correct.

Of said shadow government agency.

Mm-hmm.

And then a couple days later appears in celebration at the biggest quote unquote purchase that shadow

government agency that he purports to be so concerned about has made to date.

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