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Get off Obama's back. It tough work writing and signing and mailing all those checks himself.
This Obama fellow has no clue what he is doing. Passing this crap gets more and more silly everyday. I should be pissed off but it's getting to the point you have to laugh.
http://www.businessinsider.com/thous...-checks-2009-5
Thousands Of Dead People Getting Stimulus Checks
John Carney|May. 15, 2009, 2:57 PM|17
PrintTags: Economy, Stimulus, Politics
What did you expect from a government run by a Cook County politician?
Fox Reports:
Thousands of Americans are receiving federal stimulus checks in the mail, this week. Only problem: many of them are deceased.
Recently, a Long Island, New York woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury -- but it wasn't for her.
Antoniette Santopadre of Valley Stream was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it, they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini, who died in Italy 34 years ago.
Romonini was a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the U.S. for a seven-month visit in 1969.
The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, said some of those checks mistakenly went to dead people because the agency had no record of their death. That amounts to between 8,000 and 10,000 checks for millions of dollars.
The feds blame a rushed schedule, because all the checks have to be cut by June. But strangely, some of the checks were made out to people -- like Romonini -- who were never even part of the Social Security system.
Get off Obama's back. It tough work writing and signing and mailing all those checks himself.
Yeah, right. Should not have done this package. This is what happens when you don't know what u are doing. When you don't read what you are signing. Just one small example.
Probably got the names from ACORN
Where did the legislation say dead people will get checks?
Isn't great that our leader, our President is making sure every cent is being spent responsibly?
To be fair some of these dead folks voted for Obama. They deserve some pay back. I wonder if the Disney charaters got checks as well as the dead people.
Where did the legislation say dead people will get checks?
Which votes by the deceased were do ented?
nice try, but as the chief executive, it is Obama's responsibility to oversee and enforce the laws that Congress passes. Its ultimately his responsibility to make sure things like this don't happen.
So if this was George W Bush you'd be calling him incompetent.
Those aren't answers.
It's not like Romolo Romonini can spend the money.
Not for this. Bush gave stimulus checks to dead people last year by design.So if this was George W Bush you'd be calling him incompetent.
Obama makes me chuckle. He promised to rid Washington of W Bush’s “culture of incompetence”.
At least they didn't vote.
Eh, if 99.9998% of the checks are going to the right people like the article claims, that's pretty good for a rush job.
Anecdote can trump statistics. You see it every day. Usage is king.
This is an outrage!!
Wow! I had never heard any story about a government check going to someone who was already dead before the OP.
What...next you'll tell me dead people get mailed bills too?
Probably got the names from ACORN
I vaugely remember something about that and line by line scrutiny, as well as turning water into wine.
"10,000 checks for millions" =0.0002% of the total stimulus????
Is that supposed to be comforting? or have we all become so battered and desensitized that we just accept the loss of a few million here and there...and here and there....and here and there....and here and there.
First off, anecdote may trump statistics, but it takes a special kind of moron to characterize a .0002% failure rate by the Social Security Administration as Obama, "having no clue," as to what he's doing. Welcome to the idiocy that is one jackoff sommerset.
And second, unless dead men start rising from the grave, there's not going to be a loss of a few million... here or there.or have we all become so battered and desensitized that we just accept the loss of a few million here and there...
It is systematic of a huge
bueracrtic goverment that has contempt for those who produce the wealth of the nation, and who take the wealth of the nation.
Of the checks.
RIF.
Tell me how Romolo Romonini can spend his stimulus check.
"Drop in the bucket. We're at war - pick a side! Why do you hate America. Blabity, Blabity..."
How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish
Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone
David Pallister
The Guardian, Thursday 8 February 2007
An armed guard poses beside pallets of $100 bills in Baghdad. Almost $12bn in cash was spent by the US-led authority
The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover...
This thread is hilarious.. jack and his intellectual dishonesty strikes again!
hey jack how are the dead people going to cash their checks?
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