Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported that the Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people. The good news is that about 41,000 of the payments were returned.
The article reports:
"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."
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma summed up the situation rather well when he said, "This report highlights the broader problems with the Recovery Act itself. At a time like now, when nearly $350 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government annually has been reported and our national debt closing in on $13.5 trillion, these findings represent the epitome of congressional stupidity and a total disregard for accountability."
The American government is a very large organization that does not have to make a profit. There is no incentive to deal with waste, duplication of responsibility, or overspending. These are not the people that we want to put in charge of our healthcare, which currently works--not perfectly--but reasonably well. The government is not equipped to provide quality healthcare (or health insurance) to the entire population of America. To ask them to do that with their proven record of inefficiency is foolish at best. Vote Republican in November--that is a vote for defund, repeal and replace the healthcare bill!
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