“Cash for Convicts” Goof: Obama-Gilligan, Screwing It Up Again with Taxpayers’ Money
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 25, 2009
Obama-Gilligan: 'What's the matter, little buddy? Lost more taxpayers' money? Keep looking, you'll find it...'
Another “rats, we screwed it up again” from the Obama administration. It’s like watching an episode of the old sitcom Gilligan’s Island, with Barack Obama as the hapless, bumbling clown Gilligan, who can never seem to get anything right: “What’s the matter, little buddy? You wasted taxpayers’ money AGAIN?”
“Cash For Convicts” has a nice alliterative ring to it, but I like the sound of “No Way Will You EVER Be in Charge of My Health Care” so much better. Not after this new government-waste debacle with Obama-Gilligan in charge.
From Boston Herald: Cons cash in on stimulus money
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates – and now red-faced feds want it back.
“Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running the asylum in Washington,” U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in a statement. “Now it appears they are being compensated for their efforts.”
Not only did the feds send the cash to incarcerated cons, but they failed to respond to state officials who sounded the alarm about the inmate windfall – now the subject of a national probe.
The state Department of Correction initially withheld stimulus checks mailed to 23 inmates because prison officials believed the convicts were not entitled to the cash, said DOC spokeswoman Diane Wiffin.
The DOC said it released the funds after the federal government ignored several requests for guidance.
“In the absence of a formal directive, DOC determined that it did not have grounds to continue to withhold the checks from the recipients,” Wiffin said in an e-mail.
The Herald learned yesterday the U.S. Social Security Administration is asking at least 14 of the Bay State prisoners to return the cash. Inmates are generally not allowed to receive Social Security benefits while incarcerated.
It’s not clear if the cons have already spent the money in the commissary or elsewhere, however.
“This just goes against all common sense,” said U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House minority whip and a stimulus plan critic. “It shows you the lack of oversight and then what follows is this incredibly nonsensical outcome. Where is the accountability?”
More “Cash For You Name It” links:
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Holy Mackerel… Cash for Appliances? Son of ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program Could Be Another Clunker and And the Wheels of the Clunker Go Thunk, Thunk, Thunk: “Cash for Clunkers” Ending… Again and The Galling, Appalling Waste of “Cash for Clunkers” and Glenn Beck Warns ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Website As Government Scam to Gain Access to Everything–Yes, EVERYTHING–on Your Computer and “Cash for Clunkers” Complicated, Money Running Out: Mark Levin Asks, “If This Simple Program Is So Complicated, What Will Happen with Government Running Health Care?”
Say Anything Blog: Less Than Half Of Cash For Clunkers Spending Actually Went To Dealers UPDATE: Corrected
The Underground Conservative: Cash For Convicts
Three Fish Limit: “Cash for?” — Ideas on how to spend “our” money
Michelle Malkin: And now: Cash for Convicts! and And now: Cash for Kitchen Appliances and Wait, it gets better: Cash for Coiffures! and Cash for Clunkers, R.I.P. – for now and Roll call vote: Senate rejects Cash-for-Clunkers aid to charities and poor and Obama lied, transparency died, Pt. 10,001: No Cash for Clunkers disclosure and Grass-roots revolt in Austin, TX: “Just say no!” to Obamacare; Pennsylvanians boo Sebelius & Specter, “How can you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash For Clunkers?”
Sister Toldjah: Great news: Cash for clunkers won’t have any real impact on the climate
Moderate in the Middle: Your Tax Dollars At Work: Beauty School dropouts get stimulus grants, but no degrees…
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Gird your loins for this fall – ‘Cash for Refrigerators’! and Your Stimulus tax dollars at work in New Hampshire – $37,000 for Coiffures and “Hair Ho”
The Pachyderms Are Annoyed: Because Cash for Clunkers Worked So Well….
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Did ‘Cash for Clunkers’ just put Obamacare on the junk heap? Update: House adds $2 billion more to re-start the program
Small Dead Animals: He’s Running America Like They Run Their Party
Cato @ Liberty: Cash for Clunkers: Dumbest Program Ever?
Billings Gazette: Survey: Cash for Clunkers is tapped out
Riehl World View: Buh Bye Cash For Clunkers – Program Crashes, Burns
Right Voices: Cash For Clunkers To Be Euthanized On Monday
The Patriot’s Mind: Getting Stiffed for Clunkers – Surprise! The Gov’t Doesn’t Pay Their Bills!
Poor Alan’s Almanack Blog: Because Cash for Clunkers Worked So Well….
The Nobama Blog: Cash For Clunkers is a Clunker
Hot Air: Good news: Feds pulling workers away from FAA to staff exploding Cash for Clunkers bureaucracy and Great news: Cash for Clunkers might be out of money again already
Axis of Right: Cash for Clunkers Headed to the Scrap Heap?
The Blaque Professor: “Cash for Clunkers” is a Potential Waste
P.J. Gladnick, NewsBusters: Cash for Clunkers Video Sparks Outrage Over Wasteful Government Programs
AOL News: A Clunker for Taxpayers?
Hot Air Green Room: Because when these cars are gone, …um, we’ll sell you some more!
FoxPolitics.net: What kind of country can afford to just wreck good stuff?
Radio Vice Online: Cash for clunkers breaks down
Hot Air: Just a reminder: Cash for Clunkers requires destroying perfectly usable cars and Glenn Beck: Cash For Clunkers may be a government scheme to take over your computer and The ObamaCare-CRA-TARP-Clunker lesson and Cash for clunkers runs out of money … after one week; Update: Feds scramble to save program
Ztower: Don’t worry Mr. President! You go on vacation and we’ll just take this little “FACT SHEET: MID-SESSION REVIEW, FY 2010″ and have it “EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:30 AM EDT, 25 AUGUST 2009″ and Support “Cash For Clunkers!” Give Each Member Of Congress $10,000,000 If They Agree To Retire At The End Of Their Current Term.
Wake Up Black America: If government can’t even run a simple automobile incentive program right, why should they be trusted with your healthcare?
Designated Conservative: GM to Public: Mercury Switches in GM Clunkers ‘Not Our Problem’ Anymore
Carpe Diem: Cash for Clunkers: 136 Pages of Rules and Regs; How Many Pages for Government Health Care?
The Patriot Room: That was fast: Cash for Clunkers junked
Innocent Bystanders: Cash for Clunkers Takes Effect. Maybe.
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