Federal Workers Pocket Fraudulent Social Security Disability Payments

Some 1,500 federal employees "have wrongly received benefits," according to The Government Accountability Office. So, we know that the real number is probably at least 6,000. It's been going on for a long time.

Federal Workers get Fraudulent Disability Payments

"Our case studies ... confirmed some examples in which individuals received SSA disability payments that they were not entitled to receive," the GAO said in a letter to Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del.; John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Some of the payments were attributed to fraud, others to "administrative error," according to the report. The GAO found that the Social Security Administration does not use its own automated system to flag workers who may be earning too much income to qualify for benefits.

"SSA's internal controls did not prevent improper and fraudulent payments," the GAO said.  The report also found thousands of commercial drivers and transportation business owners who may be skirting the law. It focused in part on federal , estimating that 1,500 workers were receiving about $1.7 million monthly. Of them, one-quarter were U.S. Postal Service employees and 16 percent were Defense Department civilians. 

Get this! Do we really think there is only one woman getting paid for "angst?"

According to the report, the TSA employee started receiving disability benefits in 1995 for "mood and anxiety disorders." But she started full-time work in 2003 and earned as much as $50,000; the income cap after which disability payments are supposed to stop was $940 per month in 2008. 

So what happens now? Can the taxpayers get their money back? 

DOJ Spends $5.6 BILLION Community Organizing: DOJ's Facist Santa

The Department of Justice (DOJ) spent $5.6 BILLION in grants for community organizing in 2009 to reduce crime and violence. According to the Government Office of Accounting (GAO), hundreds of millions were spent on children for dances, skateboarding, golfing, pool parties, rollercoaster rides and a flat screen TV - all in an effort to keep kids off the streets and away from crime. Then there's the film: Santa the Fascists Years.

Santa the Fascist

As expected, there is no documentation of the effectiveness of this Many-Billioned-Dollar program. The DOJ keeps lousy records and the GOA says they cannot verify what was spent for what.

At least $200,000 was spent for officials to attend conferences at golf resorts in Florida and Palm Springs, or a film festival featuring "Santa, The Fascist Years." 

The organization paid $30,000 for the development of the Santa the Fascist Years film, which "uncovers and explores Santa's flirtation with politics and greed." I have a short clip of the film below.

In the video, the kids don't like Santa's presents, in fact "Christmas Sucks." Santa has a new idea, making war toys, and since the clip is short, I can only guess where it goes from there, but I have an imagination, and I see Santa probably portrayed as an evil and greedy capitalist before the video ends.

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) issued a report on the program, titling it Party at the DOJ. He estimates over $100 million tax dollars have been spent on the party over the last 5 years. Coburn says someone is having way too much fun on the taxpayers dime [paraphrased].

Many of the grants are earmarked by Congress without the normal public review. Justice Department officials told the GAO that it makes them harder to scrutinize. So they rely on recipients to follow the rules: not all of them do. 

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens earmarked $1.7 million to a group run by a couple who were his friends. They were convicted of stealing $450,000 and spent some of it on a wedding reception for their son - who happened to work for Senator Stevens. 

Just last month, an Oklahoma City program was found to have misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal crime prevention funds on things like a giant flat screen TV, 40 pairs of binoculars and $200 Japanese-style swords. Police said most of the binoculars were never used and there was "no legitimate purpose" for the swords. 

Read Coburn's Party at the DOJ report here (pdf). Coburn said:

“Americans woke up to news of a car bomb in New York‘s Times Square and a national debt surpassing $13 trillion in May,” begins the report from Sen. Tom Coburn’s office. “At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was preparing for a ―Fun Day celebration in Texas, a luau in Tennessee, and other parties and fun activities across the country.

"Twelve other federal agencies and 99 programs fund similar community programs to keep kids out of trouble."

How do we expect these kids to grow up? We have a Marxist DOJ working with these children - teaching them what?  Organize your community, open an ACORN office, protect your friends from the law when they commit atrocities,  lie and cheat because you deserve better? Get out the vote and sign-up Hanna Montana. Grow up to intimidate at the polls - we'll protect you. You deserve to rule. Accuse...scream racism and and help us kill the greedy, capitalist, White Santa. [Disclaimer: Again, I haven't seen the entire clip. I'm making a guess where the story goes. If you have seen it, let me know what you think.] Others talking: Legal Times and The Daily Caller.






Santa, The Fascist Years (video)

Obama Transparency Website Found Not Transparent , Not Accurate, Not Reliable

The GAO found legislation written by then-senator Barack Obama to establish a website to track "the $1 trillion handed out in federal contracts," to be in compliance of being created, but not in compliance with being transparent. The problem: the information posted is "missing or unreliable." It is the job of the Obama White House to maintain the website, but hey, it's just a law, for which this presidency has no respect. We have a website, paid for with taxpayer dollars, that is not transparent, not accurate, and not reliable.

Not everything that should have been reported was reported, and that which was reported was not always accurate," David Powner, the GAO [Government Accounting Office] official who led the audit said in an interview.

The audit of  USAspending.gov  covered the period from June 2009 to March 2010. A total of nine federal agencies failed to report 15 government contracts, the audit showed.

The OMB [Office of Management and Budget] also did not include information on subcontracts, which was required under the bill advanced by then-senator Obama and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Nor does the OMB "have a plan or process in place" for including such information, the report said.

A spokesman for Senator Coburn said "It's clear the public's demand for transparency continues to exceed the government's ability to deliver transparency."