Professor Peabody
07-30-2013, 05:15 PM
Govt. pays millions in benefits to dead farmers
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times Monday, July 29, 2013
The federal government is still paying out millions of dollars a year in subsidies to dead farmers, according to a new government audit released Monday that said the Agriculture Department doesn’t do routine checks required to make sure it is paying benefits to the right people.
The Government Accountability Office said that from 2008 to 2012 one agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, made $10.6 million payments on behalf of more than 1,100 people who’d been dead at least a year. Another branch, the Risk Management Agency, paid out $22 million to more than 3,400 policyholders who’d been dead at least two years.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/29/govt-pays-millions-benefits-dead-farmers/
To their credit they have brought the numbers down from the billions down to the millions $32.6 million. Considering Public Service workers are now making more than the private sector this is simply unacceptable. The easiest way to fix a lot of the waste, fraud and abuse in Government is to make the agencies and department managers responsible. If their department or agency hands out improper payments, they get the Donald Trump "YOU'RE FIRED!"
I think a lot wrong with our Government is the culture of irresponsibility that has permeated it. In private industry, if you were in charge of a division of a company that improperly handed out $10.6 million or $22 million dollars, how long do you think they would have a job? Not more than a few minutes after it was found out. Not so with our government. In private industry make that kind of mistake "YOU'RE FIRED", in Government it's "Oh WELL". That Oh well is with other peoples money, money as a government employee they have a fiduciary duty to handle properly, there is no "oh well" in handle properly.
If Government is ever to again gain the respect of the people they will need to do what Obama promised but failed miserably to deliver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72g7qmeP1dE
Where are the "you're fired's" for wasting billions Mr. President? Where are the "you're fired's" for Benghazi costing 4 American's lives Mr. President? Where are the "you're fired's" for 300 dead Mexican citizens and 2 American Law Enforcement Agents Mr. President? You pontificated very well about transparency being the "Touchstone" of your administration, your track record has shown the LACK of it will be the headstone of your legacy as President.
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times Monday, July 29, 2013
The federal government is still paying out millions of dollars a year in subsidies to dead farmers, according to a new government audit released Monday that said the Agriculture Department doesn’t do routine checks required to make sure it is paying benefits to the right people.
The Government Accountability Office said that from 2008 to 2012 one agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, made $10.6 million payments on behalf of more than 1,100 people who’d been dead at least a year. Another branch, the Risk Management Agency, paid out $22 million to more than 3,400 policyholders who’d been dead at least two years.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/29/govt-pays-millions-benefits-dead-farmers/
To their credit they have brought the numbers down from the billions down to the millions $32.6 million. Considering Public Service workers are now making more than the private sector this is simply unacceptable. The easiest way to fix a lot of the waste, fraud and abuse in Government is to make the agencies and department managers responsible. If their department or agency hands out improper payments, they get the Donald Trump "YOU'RE FIRED!"
I think a lot wrong with our Government is the culture of irresponsibility that has permeated it. In private industry, if you were in charge of a division of a company that improperly handed out $10.6 million or $22 million dollars, how long do you think they would have a job? Not more than a few minutes after it was found out. Not so with our government. In private industry make that kind of mistake "YOU'RE FIRED", in Government it's "Oh WELL". That Oh well is with other peoples money, money as a government employee they have a fiduciary duty to handle properly, there is no "oh well" in handle properly.
If Government is ever to again gain the respect of the people they will need to do what Obama promised but failed miserably to deliver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72g7qmeP1dE
Where are the "you're fired's" for wasting billions Mr. President? Where are the "you're fired's" for Benghazi costing 4 American's lives Mr. President? Where are the "you're fired's" for 300 dead Mexican citizens and 2 American Law Enforcement Agents Mr. President? You pontificated very well about transparency being the "Touchstone" of your administration, your track record has shown the LACK of it will be the headstone of your legacy as President.