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 Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Buying the Votes of 10,000 Dead People

By Greg Perkins @ 12:01 AM

Apparently, President Obama's "stimulus" plan called for sending an extra $250 to ten thousand dead people. One 83-year-old fellow's mother died back in the 60's, and her check showed up at his place.
Social Security representatives said there is a good explanation. Of the about 52 million checks that have been mailed out, about 10,000 of those have been sent to people who are deceased.
On the bright side, maybe such errors will be helpful when He is running the health care industry.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 2:34:24 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: djr
E-mail: dan.rohr(at)yahoo.com

To a government that controls everything, 10,000 dead people is simply a rounding error.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 6:47:44 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Cheerwino

Hey, it worked in Chicago!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 7:49:13 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: C Andrew
E-mail: ca4papen(at)mindspring.com

I see dead people.... Getting welfare checks!!!! I guess that's the payoff for having them vote for you.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 12:45:56 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Johnathan Blaze

Oh noes! 10,000 people out of 52 million! Obama is such a dummyhead!!

Meanwhile, Greenspan adopts Ayn Rand's policies and destroys the entire economy, but you're willing to overlook all that.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 12:59:51 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: Andrew Dalton
E-mail: andrew.s.dalton(at)gmail.com
URL: http://witchdoctorrepellent.blogspot.com

"Meanwhile, Greenspan adopts Ayn Rand's policies"

What is your evidence of this?

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 17:36:46 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: djr
E-mail: dan.rohr(at)yahoo.com

Johnathan Blaze, please name a single Rand concept that Greenspan transformed into a concrete policy leading to this mess.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 19:30:10 mst
Comment ID: #7
Name: Mike Hardy
E-mail: hardy(at)math.umn.edu

Greg, "stimulus" is a Latin masculine noun, spelled accordingly.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 20:51:10 mst
Comment ID: #8
Name: Greg Perkins
E-mail: greg(at)eCosmos.com
URL: http://dianahsieh.com/blog

D'oh! Fixed now. Sorry, my fingers were on autopilot -- thanks for letting me know, Mike!

Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:57:48 mst
Comment ID: #9
Name: Not Joe Biden
E-mail: notjoebiden(at)aol.com

Here's one Rand idea that Greenspan implemented: Put the smartest guy in charge of running the economy.

Eh, maybe some of the details were different.

Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 8:19:36 mst
Comment ID: #10
Name: Johnathan Blaze
E-mail: j(at)blaze.orgn

http://www.wowowow.com/post/greenspan-shrugged-did-ayn-rand-cause-o ...

Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 10:10:55 mst
Comment ID: #11
Name: BrianS

LOL

'I am shocked - shocked I tell you - that, after the government interfered in the market by creating strong, artificial political and economic incentives for riskier loans, and strong, artificial political and economic disincentives against refraining from making such riskier loans, that bankers would *actually* make riskier loans!!! Who could have imagined such a thing was possible?!?!? I would have thought the bankers would "do something" to make the riskier loans work damn it! That is what all businessmen always do! That's the lesson I learned from Ayn Rand - especially from her character 'James Taggart'. For 40 years it worked. We kept steering and corralling the productive and the productive kept doing something to keep our schemes from causing financial ruin. But now we see the flaw in Miss Rand's philosophy. Producers will NOT always be able to make government schemes work. And looters WILL try to take advantage of the government schemes. It is too bad Miss Rand failed to grasp these facts - failed to even consider them, let alone address them (especially in that really long novel of hers!) Thus, I am forced to admit the *failure* of the market to fulfill the whims of government and society proves Rand's philosophy wrong. A longer leash doesn't make men grateful for the extra freedom it provides. It doesn't make them voluntarily conform to the will of the collective. So you are right, congressman - now is the time to yank that leash short and make those dogs heel. It is time they learn who is the master around here!'

Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 14:24:57 mst
Comment ID: #12
Name: Mike Hardy
E-mail: hardy(at)math.umn.edu

It's not too surprising that mistakes of this kind happen when you have 52 million names on a list. 10000 is about 2% of 1% of the whole list.

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