“Washington paid for dead people’s prescriptions and wheelchairs, subsidized their farms, helped pay their rent, and even chipped in for their heating and air conditioning bills,” Mr. Coburn’s report said.
Mr. Coburn also said Congress is to blame for rules that required dead farmers to receive benefits — more than $1 billion, sent to nearly 173,000 deceased farmers over seven years. Of that, nearly a fifth of the money went to farmers who had been dead at least seven years.
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I can just about guarantee, with some research, that some of that is also going to IDentity Thieves and/or illegal immigrants that work/ed on those farms.
See if you can follow my meandering thoughts.I am a Novice long-time Genealogist, dabbling in my family history research here and there. As an advocate in this IDentity Theft crisis, I beg to wonder with this crisis will our children and their children, doing family history research, be heard saying “Will the real Grandpa Terry Kohler please stand up?” Now, I wonder if we will be hearing “Will the Real America Please Stand Up?”Read the rest of this entry »
