Solomon and the Somalis-UnderDog Report #113
Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Biblical Measures
“To blatantly commit crimes and never get caught, you only have to pay off enough of the right people. Eventually, the honest ones will never be able to stop you.” UnderDog Report 2026
This is what is going on in America today: the left and the deep state are committing so much rampant fraud that it is now embedded in the system. It is almost impossible to find it, and when you do, because of the Deep State, you can’t stop it. Case in point, the U.S. Congress has only codified $9.4 billion of what DOGE claims as their total $215 billion in savings. Governors, District Attorneys, Judges, Congress, the Senate, the Media, Public Officials, and others all seem to work together to make what is clearly illegal appear legal. To make what is wrong, right, is to make what is evil, good.
Isaiah 5:20 NIV – Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Hopefully, the wheels of justice are turning and will stop this rampant fraud. The work of Nick Shirley regarding the rampant fraud in Minnesota appears to be a great start. After only a day and a half, his initial video garnered over 1.5 million views, while the media ignored the issue. One of the centers in question, which receives over $1M in government funding, actually spells Learning as “Learing.” The Quality Learing center where perhaps, they will lear at your children? Here is a short 90 second video of some of what they uncovered:
#EFIT (End Federal Income Tax)
American people are upset and saying, if there is so much rampant fraud, waste, and abuse, and the government is taxing every single thing we do, why should we pay income taxes? It appears a large percentage of all the government income is for wasted fraud or abuse, and people lining their pockets with our tax dollars.
Elon Musk estimates the YEARLY fraud numbers in the U.S. of about $700B! It’s time for Americans and Christians to speak up and stop this. It’s time to talk about this, repost this, and don’t let the media try to get you to not focus on this issue as they are presently attempting to do.
Even though the mainstream media is basically not reporting this, social media is and there is viral hash tag going around called #EFIT (End Federal Income Tax). People are questioning the onerous taxes we are charged and see the rampant fraud waste and abuse. Why should the American people put up with this? Where are the churches I ask?
Rep Chip Roy comes out and says sit, Congress is too corrupt to fix… “At some point people…we should get rid of all 435 members of the House and all 100 members of the Senate and start over: Congress is literally failing the American people”
Solomon and the Somalis
You might be surprised to find out a very similar thing also happened in the Bible thousands of years ago. I’m talking about Solomon. Did you know that, in today’s dollars, some estimates are that Solomon’s wealth was between $2 and $3 trillion. That would make him richer than the richest person EVER.
Let’s look at some of the abuse that went on with Solomon (Not Somalia).[1]
- Solomon Heavy Taxation and Forced Labor To support his grand building projects, including the Temple and his own palace (which he spent more time building that the Temple), Solomon imposed significant burdens on the Israelites.
1 Kings 5:13-14 Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of thirty thousand men from all Israel. He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand per month, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home.”
This was slave labor that placed a heavy burden on the people.
- Heavy taxes: To fund his projects, trade, and luxury, Solomon imposed heavy tribute and taxes (1 Kings 4:7–28; 10:23–25), a “grievous yoke” (1 Kings 12:4). This placed many to hardship, contrasting earlier prosperity where people lived “under their own vine and fig tree” (1 Kings 4:25).
And remember when the Queen of Sheba visited Solomon and gave him lavish gifts? Because of Solomon’s ego and the culture it was expected when anybody gave a king gifts, that the king would in turn give better and more expensive gifts back to the other person, which is ridiculous.
- Gold:120 talents of gold (about 4.5 tons $250 to $350 million at current gold prices)
- Spices: A very great quantity—Scripture says“never again was there such an abundance of spices”
- Precious stones
- Likely additional luxury goods fitting a royal caravan
He was funding foreign countries (Solomon to Somalia?)
1 Kings 10:14-15 : “The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents, not including the revenue from the merchants and traders, as well as all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.” (~$17 Billion)
2 Chronicles 9:12 (NIV) 12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; he gave her more than she had brought to him. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.
You see, he gave more back to Queen Sheba than she gave to him. He was funding a foreign country. Does that sound familiar?
3. Excessive Wealth and Extravagance Solomon’s wealth and his extravagant lifestyle oppressed the people. His wealth was at the expense of the common people, who bore the brunt of the economic strain.
Many people in America today also feel ecumenically well, that was a very long nap.
4. Idolatry, Spiritual Decline, Lavish lifestyle, and harem: His 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3) required enormous resources for maintenance, contributing to unsustainable expenses.
Solomon’s heart turned away from the LORD, leading to spiritual decline and idolatry.
1 Kings 11:4-6 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.”
God Hates Unjust Balances and Practices
Unequal Weights And Unequal Measures
The balancing the scales dates back to the goddess Maat, and was the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom, as the personification of the divine rightness of law. The sword represented authority in ancient times, and conveys the idea that justice should be swift and final.
Here is a depiction of Lady Justice . The snake on the bottom in modern day has come to mean satan and the books to mean knowledge and truth, and sometimes the U.S. Constitution. Lady Justice is standing on the Constitution and destroying evil in the process, dispensing swift justice with a sword blindly, without favoritism or unfair weights. I wish this were true in America today. All too often, judges are not blind and frequently rule based upon their ideology, not the Constitution, as it should be.
In Biblical times, corrupt merchants kept stones of different weights or had measuring cups of slightly different sizes they could tell apart. They purchased more than the correct amount since the weights were lighter; and then sold less since the weights were heavier. But that kind of dishonest dealing is an abomination to Yahweh.
The Abundance of Scripture on Fair Trade Practices and Rulings
Take a look at the nine scriptures below that outline God’s view of dishonesty. We in America need to read these verses and hold our elected officials to these standards; otherwise, we will not have a free nation soon.
Leviticus 19:35 (NIV)“‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity. 36 Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin (liquid measure).
Deuteronomy 25:13-16 (NIV) 13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light. 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.
Proverbs 11:1 (NIV) The LORD detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.
Proverbs 16:10-13 (NIV) 10 The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice. 11 Honest scales and balances belong to the LORD; all the weights in the bag are of his making.12 Kings detest wrongdoing, for a throne is established through righteousness. 13 Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks what is right.
I wish this were true today.
Proverbs 20:23 (NIV) The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him.
Ezekiel 45:9-10 (NIV) “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing (evicting) my people, declares the Sovereign LORD. 10 You are to use accurate scales, an accurate ephah and an accurate bath.
Hosea 12:6-7 (NIV) 6 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.7 The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.
Amos 8:4-6 (NIV) 4 Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land, 5 saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?” —skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, 6 buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Micah 6:9-12 (NIV) 9 Listen! The LORD is calling to the city— and to fear your name is wisdom—“Heed the rod and the One who appointed it. 10 Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed? 11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights? 12 Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars, and their tongues speak deceitfully.
[1] https://biblehub.com/topical/naves/r/rulers–wicked–solomon,_oppressing_the_people.htm
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May GOD BLESS Nick Shirley — as it was his reporting that finally caught the attention of the NATION regarding the egregious Somalian Fraud — however, for the past SEVERAL YEARS, there had already been substantial LOCAL MN reporting that was screaming out about this same massive waste, fraud, and abuse … but, to which, few, if any, paid even the slightest attention.
Thank you for the comment, but we must be vigilant as the media is trying to bury this story with the lady who got herself killed. Please don’t stop reposting and posting about the fraud in Minneapolis so people don’t get fooled.