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May 15, 2009
Dems Pass Out Our Money to the Dead
If there's one constituency the Dems have sewn up, it's the dead. The deceased have been in the Democrat camp since JFK supporters rallied the cemeteries of Chicago against Nixon in 1960. Since then, ACORN has had great success in registering corpses to vote. Now comes a little payback:
This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island 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. He'd been a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the United States for a seven-month visit in 1969.
The Santopadres are not alone. The Social Security Administration, which sent out 52 million checks, says that 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.
At least the dead can be counted on not to spend our money any less wisely than the government has been doing.
Hat tip: The Blogprof.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 15, 2009 10:36 AM
Comments
First!
It's a payoff for voting Democrat for so long.
Posted by: Atomic Lib Smasher at May 15, 2009 10:54 AM
It does make sense in a strange way. At least half of Congress and more than half the Senate consists of brain dead things they elected.
Posted by: SnowSnake at May 15, 2009 10:59 AM
Giving stimulus checks to those long dead is just a reward for their vote for Obama in 2008.
Posted by: Darrel at May 15, 2009 2:12 PM
BARACK OBAMA,HILLARY CLINTON HENRY WAXMAN,in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DUMB
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 15, 2009 2:27 PM
There is NOTHING so broken that the Government can't make it worse! (Especially if it's a Democratic administration).
Posted by: TED at May 15, 2009 6:49 PM
Oh come on, it's payback to the dead Dems that friggin VOTED for the Unicorn in November.
I mean, "Let's not be thilly!"
Posted by: Corona at May 15, 2009 7:33 PM
