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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: RobJohnson on July 30, 2013, 03:53:35 PM

Title: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: RobJohnson on July 30, 2013, 03:53:35 PM: The federal government is still paying out millions of dollars a year in subsidies to dead farmers, according to a new government audit released
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Monday that said the Agriculture Department doesnâ€™t do routine checks required to make sure it is paying benefits to the right people.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/07/29/govt-pays-millions-benefits-dead-farmers#ixzz2aZ3JQsKs
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: obumazombie on July 30, 2013, 07:24:59 PM: Who are the farmers in question voting for ?
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: CG6468 on July 30, 2013, 07:32:41 PM: Quote from: obumazombie on July 30, 2013, 07:24:59 PM
Who are the farmers in question voting for ?

Who do ya think?
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: obumazombie on July 30, 2013, 07:36:26 PM: Quote from: CG6468 on July 30, 2013, 07:32:41 PM
Who do ya think?
I think you and I are thinking the same thought. You go first.
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: Dori on July 30, 2013, 09:30:34 PM: This should be an outrage, but it just seems so status quo any more.
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: thundley4 on July 30, 2013, 09:39:40 PM: I'd rather payments go to dead American farmers than fraudulent tax refunds going to illegal immigrants.
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: biersmythe on July 30, 2013, 09:43:39 PM: How about the payments go back to the folks it was stolen from in the beginning. I think that would be the way to go.
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: chitownchica on July 31, 2013, 03:02:59 AM: Add this to the Pigford scandal that still hasn't gotten much air time. That vote buying scheme cost over 1 billion through fraudulent payments.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/how-did-progressive-journalists-get-pigford-so-wrong/275593/
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: CG6468 on July 31, 2013, 08:37:41 AM: Quote from: obumazombie on July 30, 2013, 07:36:26 PM
I think you and I are thinking the same thought. You go first.

Dumbocraps, of course.
Title: Re: Govt. Pays Millions in Benefits to Dead Farmers
Post by: obumazombie on July 31, 2013, 02:48:28 PM: Quote from: CG6468 on July 31, 2013, 08:37:41 AM
Dumbocraps, of course.
There was a farmer
Who had a dog
And BINGO was his name-o !