Posted on 07/30/2013 12:09:01 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The federal government has paid as much as $35.9 million in farm subsidies to dead people, a watchdog agency claims.
The subsidies were part of the $20 billion a year effort to support farmers with crop insurance, conservation efforts and disaster assistance administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 2008 to 2012.
Two of the department’s agencies do “not have procedures in place consistent with federal internal control standards to prevent potentially improper subsidies on behalf of deceased individuals,” the Government Accountability Office said in a 25-page report released Monday.
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Hey! It’s not coming out of their pocket. The bureaucrats could care less. It’s not costing them anything.
So who cashed the checks?
That’s why I chuckle when people decry the “welfare” parts of the Farm Bill. The whole damn thing is welfare.
And over $18 billion to Blacks whose families had never farmed but whom Obama wanted to reward with taxpayer-funded reparations. No wonder so many more White people are poor.
Revenge of the Zombie Farmers
The ideal double-feature partner to Sharknado.
Less than $40 million. Hmmmph! That won’t even make a 10% down payment on the next Solyndra.
So buy a farm and cash in! Or are you just talking trash?
Check and see which company hold majority stock in Solindra and how that company is connected to 0s cracker side family. With a little research you understand why 0 does not want the pipeline open !
Anyone who’s ever witnessed government waste firsthand could never countenance Federal Health Care.
Unless one’s an islamodemocommucrat or a clinical idiot, that is.
Paid to dead people eh? At least the checks would not be cashed then. Or, perhaps it was fraud, and then there will be 36,000 arrests announced next week as the government for once does its job.
Not holding my breath.
Their job is to burn money, not dispense it cause someone is crashing the system for reasons of their own.
How many of those are going into political pockets?
Farmers don’t have next of kin and estates? Crops disappear when the owner dies? Contracts end with death? Who knew!
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphasis added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The Supremes later singled out 10A-protected intrastate agriculture as an example of a specific power which the states have never granted to Congress via the Constitution.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited. None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden. (emphasis added)"--Mr. Justice Roberts(?), United States v. Butler, 1936.
Too bad some whistle blower doesn’t leak the entire list of “farmers” getting subsidies and how much they have gotten over the years. I’m betting Ted Turner and other millionaires are collecting subsidies as well as people living in places like New York City who never saw a farm. Making that list public would create a firestorm to end these subsidies.
Well, if any of these payments were being paid to these dead folks to not grow food,then I’d have to say that the payments worked. The dead people didn’t grow any food. So what’s all the complaints about, anyway? Sounds to me like a successful Federal program.
If GAO found 36 million in farm subsidies paid to dead people, a competent accounting firm would have probably identified 3.6 billion.
I understand, it’s welfare that some people like. Just another aspect of human nature.
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