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To: combjelly who wrote (589307)	10/8/2010 2:08:09 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574103

"Not that this will come as any surprise to you:" No. Like the lobbyist he picked that kicked money back to the state GOP. Perry operates on the DeLay model. And he's likely to win. Wonderful.

To: combjelly who wrote (589307)	10/8/2010 2:45:38 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574103

This is the dumbest, most incompetent administration in history. Dead People Receive Stimulus Checks "The Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people -- but almost half of them were returned, a new inspector-general's report has found. The agency was charged with distributing the one-time payments, worth about $13 billion in total, as part of the economic-stimulus package passed in February 2009. Most of the payments were made in May 2009. . . . There's a startling bright spot in the report: The inspector general estimates that about 41,000 of the payments were returned. It is illegal to spend social-security money issued to somebody else, but such actions are rarely prosecuted for small amounts. At least one person has been prosecuted for cashing a stimulus check not issued to them, in one of the few accusations of stimulus fraud to date. The downside: The SSA says that the stimulus package didn't include a provision allowing it to try to retrieve funds that were mistakenly sent out, so it can't try to retrieve the rest of the money. Money transferred electronically may be sitting untouched in bank accounts of dead people. The combined total of the mistaken payments is $22.3 million. About $12 million hasn't been returned."