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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 775125" data-attributes="member: 1246">Re: ObamanomicsFrom D.C. Morning.....&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why we&#039;re angry, Pt. 735 -- Ever wonder why the Tea Party movement took off so quickly? Associated Press: &quot;More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report. The payments, which were part of last year&#039;s massive economic recovery package, were meant to increase consumer spending to help stimulate the economy. But about $18 million went to nearly 72,000 people who were dead, according to the report by the Social Security Administration&#039;s inspector general... The inspector general&#039;s report said that if similar payments are authorized in the future, prison inmates should be ineligible and the government should be able to recover payments made to dead people.&quot; Oh, ya think? Would that be alright? Is it okay if you don&#039;t take money out of our pockets and give it to dead people? The worst part is that $18 million is just a drop in the big-government bucket.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 775125, member: 1246"] [b]Re: Obamanomics[/b] [COLOR=teal]From D.C. Morning.....[/COLOR] [B][U][COLOR=#1d3b73]Why we're angry, Pt. 735[/COLOR][/U][/B] -- Ever wonder why the Tea Party movement took off so quickly? Associated Press: "More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report. The payments, which were part of last year's massive economic recovery package, were meant to increase consumer spending to help stimulate the economy. But about $18 million went to nearly 72,000 people who were dead, according to the report by the Social Security Administration's inspector general... The inspector general's report said that if similar payments are authorized in the future, prison inmates should be ineligible and the government should be able to recover payments made to dead people." Oh, ya think? Would that be alright? Is it okay if you don't take money out of our pockets and give it to dead people? The worst part is that $18 million is just a drop in the big-government bucket. [/QUOTE]

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