New Audit Confirms Stimulus Payments went to Dead People

72,000 Dead People Received Stimulus Checks of $250. 

About 89,000 people who were either dead, or in prison, received stimulus checks of $250, according to an article in the Cincinnnati Enquirer today (8 Oct 2010, p. A-2).  The amount involved was about $18 million.  All of these people should have been ineligible to receive the funds, and almost 72,000 of them are dead.  The dead people were ineligible by law to receive the money, and it is doubtful that most of them even wanted it, as it is quite useless where they are.  It is only the American government that thinks dollars are a cure all problems.  There was no provision in the hastily enacted law under which the payments were made to recover checks sent incorrectly.  The report indicated that about half of the payments were returned, showing that the people are generally more honest than the government.  We consider this just another example of Obamanomics, and since he receives public housing, we wonder if he also received one of the checks.