Multiple employees flee California’s unemployment agency

I am genuinely stymied by the amount of people who would rather play a pointless partisan game than address the actual causes of a real problem. Instead they whine and complain and act as if it would all be fine if it were just done their way when the problem becomes unavoidable and begins to affect themselves.

The reaction to my comments here being a case in point. People with obviously no knowledge of the federal laws governing cyber crime are marking me down for pointing out that we need better and more cybersecurity than we had before it was defunded by the former president, not less. Because they prefer to play a partisan blame game rather than looking at the actions of the individual that helped create a massive problem for us by his choice of actions, which made no good sense at the time.

Currently, the enforcement of laws regarding cyber crime are the responsibility of the federal government. What would you do if those laws were not properly enforced and your department became overrun with fraud and you were stuck in the middle of it with no good way to make it stop? All happening at a time when there was a colossal mountain of new claims, many made by desperate people, many with families, who were unable to work? I know I would quit. In a hot minute.

So all of you so quick to mark me down, please ask yourself, if the objective was to protect our country from these sorts of crimes, why remove the budget? I would love to hear why you might think that was the right move for the greatness of America.

A thoughtful reading of the above information will make it abundantly clear that the bulk if the cybercrime has taken place due to international tampering. And all of the cybercrime fraud committed was of a Federal Crime nature. I fully expect most of the commenters on this site to slam the State for the fact this happened. However perhaps most of them are unaware that the executive in charge of the previous administration (hint: sat in the Oval Office), whose main apparent objective in said office was to deregulate everything possible and dispose of what he considered superfluous government agencies, not only did away with the Pandemic Response Team, but also defunded our cybersecurity sector just 2 days before the Russians hacked into EVERYTHING (coincidence?), and did not see his way clear to reinstate it, even when everything was forced online by the ensuing pandemic.

So, please bear these simple facts in mind when making ill informed comments about who is to blame for this mess. As in blaming the official who is being promoted for deciding to put the need of The People first or the Governor you don’t like, who was doing the same. It went all the way to the top of the Federal level, folks. Whether you choose to accept that or not.

In fact I am glad that an investigation is being called for. Because it is needed to make these facts clear. Without proper cybersecurity, which is an exponentially increasing need, individuals are at constantly increasing jeopardy, business, large and small cannot function, all State governments are (obviously) at risk and our National Security is forfeit.