{"id":18568,"date":"2013-04-29T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18568"},"modified":"2013-04-29T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:00:51","slug":"how-much-of-our-tax-dollars-goes-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18568","title":{"rendered":"How Much Of Our Tax Dollars Goes To Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/noel-sheppard\/2013\/04\/29\/us-spent-33-billion-fraudulent-unemployment-claims-2011-media-mum\">Newsbusters<\/a> posted a story today about numbers released by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"St. Louis\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.6272222222,-90.1977777778&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.6272222222,-90.1977777778 (St.%20Louis)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">St. Louis<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Reserve System\" href=\"http:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Federal Reserve<\/a> last week on unemployment fraud. Their research found $3.3 billion in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fraud\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fraudulent<\/a> unemployment claims in 2011.<\/p>\n<div>This is a chart from the article:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Scarier still, there were people in this country making in excess of $100,000 a year that received <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Unemployment benefits\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unemployment_benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">unemployment benefits<\/a> in 2011:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/fraudfig1small.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Considering the media&#8217;s panic over $85 billion in supposed sequestration cuts, you would think they&#8217;d be interested in this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The only media that covered this were the Wall Street Journal on Friday and a Huffington Post on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">It seems to me that this is something that American taxpayers might be interested in. Not only do we have a spending problem, we also have a dishonesty problem.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=c4139847-c0cc-431e-8da0-d937d0a2b0c0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbusters posted a story today about numbers released by the St. Louis Federal Reserve last week on unemployment fraud. Their research found $3.3 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims in 2011. This is a chart from the article: Scarier still, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5464,3951,4506,5462,5463,297,4390,285],"class_list":["post-18568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3-3-billion","tag-federal-reserve-system","tag-fraud","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-federal-reserve","tag-unemployment","tag-unemployment-benefits","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18575,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568\/revisions\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}