Here are a few stories that are updates from previous blog entries that you may be interested in:
Subsidies to dead people
The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
In a selection of 181 cases from 1999 to 2005, the Government Accountability Office found that officials approved payments without any review 40 percent of the time.
Healthcare "reform" still looming
On Sunday, House Democrats said that they would unveil their bill in the next few days and that they expected to push it through the House next week, before Congress leaves town for a monthlong summer recess.
Under the bipartisan Senate plan, the federal government would increase spending on children's coverage by $35 billion over the next five years, for a total of $60 billion. House Democrats want to increase spending by $50 billion, which is 10 times the increase sought by Mr. Bush.
If dead people can still vote (Democratic) in my district, why shouldn't they be able to also collect benefits?
At least they are being consistent;-)
Dead people can be elected to the Senate in Missouri. Does this mean that they might be ineligible for congressional pensions? That would be an outrage! Better call in DAADA (Deceased-American Anti-Defamation Association)! Deceased-Americans have civil rights, too!
If dead people can still vote (Democratic) in my district, why shouldn't they be able to also collect benefits?
At least they are being consistent;-)
Posted by: tim crowley at July 24, 2007 02:05 PM