Another Example of Government Efficiency.

• tk421

  

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_stimulus_checks_dead_people
  
  The gist of the article is that the government in their wisdom rushed ahead with the "emergency" legislation and as a result 72,000 dead people received a stimulus payment. Man, I bet that money really helped stimulate the economy. Wow, way to go government. I can feel the efficiency from here.
  
  Also, note that apparently being in prison you can still receive a government bailout. I bet the illegal contraband black market got a big boost in the joint. Thank you government.
  

  Dead people were ineligible to get the payments. But, the report said, there is no provision in the law to recover payments incorrectly sent to dead people.

• BGFalcons82

  

  They are just paying off their dead voters, just like the unions, trial lawyers, and ACORN. It's just politics...what are so upset about? They've been doing these things for years and years...it's the way it is. Look the other way like we've been doing for decades, OK? :rolleyes:
• IggyPride00

  

  Is this really surprising?
  
  This is the same government that had the treasury secretary (Hank Paulson) show up on Capital hill with a 3 page bill asking for $700 Billion within a week or the world was going to end and they gave it to him.
  
  The idiocy of our government knows no bounds.
• QuakerOats

  Imagine health care in their hands.
  
  Change we can believe in ............
• believer

  

  If those dead people don't want the money they can sign their checks over payable to Believer.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  No way Believer! Ladies before gentlemen
  Besides, I'm going on a trip in 7 days... I need to bring home trinkets!
• Little Danny

  

  tk421;511430 wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_stimulus_checks_dead_people
  
  The gist of the article is that the government in their wisdom rushed ahead with the "emergency" legislation and as a result 72,000 dead people received a stimulus payment. Man, I bet that money really helped stimulate the economy. Wow, way to go government. I can feel the efficiency from here.
  
  Also, note that apparently being in prison you can still receive a government bailout. I bet the illegal contraband black market got a big boost in the joint. Thank you government.

  
  Why not--- the dead and the people in prison likely were registered and voted democrat anyway (Wink, wink).
• I Wear Pants

  Were they dead when the checks were written?
• believer

  

  I Wear Pants;512358 wrote:Were they dead when the checks were written?

  Oh I think it's possible 72,000 people died the day the checks were cut but do I think it's probable?
• tk421

  

  I Wear Pants;512358 wrote:Were they dead when the checks were written?

  
  Even if some of them did, don't you think a smart government would have thought about that and made a provision to get the money back? Wow, and these people are supposed to be the brightest in the country. Yeah, right.
• Thread Bomber

  

  We get bilked out of this much money every week by Haliburton....
• believer

  

  Thread Bomber;515891 wrote:We get bilked out of this much money every week by Haliburton....

  
  
  A. Waayyyyyyyyyyyy old....get with the program.
  B. So if Haliburton bilks us the Feds should too?
• CenterBHSFan

  

  believer;515923 wrote:A. Waayyyyyyyyyyyy old....get with the program.
  B. So if Haliburton bilks us the Feds should too?

  Two wrongs make it even
• Thread Bomber

  

  A: Still going on
  
  B: Yet another instance of not just government waste.....and incompetence.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  Bomber, so is your point adding to, or taking away, from government efficiency? I guess I'm just not understanding anything today lol
• Thread Bomber

  

  In the scheme of things....18 million aint squat. Collectively it's huge.