Cutting Spending By Not Paying Dead People

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BigGovernment.com posted an article about Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)'s report titled, "Federal Programs to Die for: American Tax Dollars Send Six Feet Under" which shows that stopping checks to the dead is a means to save one billion of your tax dollars. 

According to the article:

"Delaware Republican candidate for Senate Christine O'Donnell was stopped from citing "waste, fraud and abuse" as a means to lower the estimated $13.6 trillion national debt during a debate aired on CNN.  According to a Daily News transcript published on October 14, 2010:

"Arguably the toughest moment for O'Donnell came when she was asked to outline what programs she would cut to slash government spending and reduce the national deficit, two major themes of the Tea Party platform.  Before she responded, Blitzer told her she could not simply say cut waste, fraud and abuse because "everybody says that.""

The way Christine O'Donnell has been treated by the media is a disgrace anyway, but that is for another story. 

The article details specific instances of government waste cited by Senator Coburn:

  • The Social Security Administration sent $18 million in Stimulus funds to dead people;
  • The Department of Health and Human Services doled out checks of $3.9 million in assistance to pay heating and cooling costs out of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to dead people. See GAO Report of June 2010;
  • The Department of Agriculture cranked out checks for $1.1 billion to deceased farmers. See GAO Report of July 24, 2007;
  • The Farm Services Agency (FSA) provided 171,801 deceased farmers subsidies;
  • The Department of Housing and Urban Development cut checks for $15.2 million in housing subsidies to the dead.  See HUD IG's Report of November 10, 2009;
  • Medicaid payments of over $700,000 in prescriptions for 1,800 dead patients and prescriptions for drugs written by 1,200 deceased doctors;
  • Medicare payments of $92 million in medical supplies prescribed by dead doctors and $8.2 million for medical supplies prescribed for non-living patients; and,
  • Congress has also mismanaged the HIV/AIDs funding distribution method that slows care to those in the most need.

It's time for a change in Washington, D. C.  We do have some good Senators--Tom Coburn is one of them--but those Senators and Representatives who are part of the problem rather than part of the solution need to be voted out of office.  If your Congressman does not support spending cuts and tax cuts, vote him out of office!

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