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blackballed · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

back to stimulus $$ at work!! while passing through northestern pa, the towns are installing handicap ramps, while i dont have a problem with that they are also replacing 2 5 by 5 foot sidewalks at each ramp this is a waist of money the ramps could be installed by cuting out the curb,im hoping others will leave your comments about the work you encounter BB

blackballed · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:30 am Post subject:

Can someone tell me why this post was removed? I left a comment at 5.03 pm thursday, today its gone their are 4 other posts from thursday I started this post hoping others will keep an eye on all the stimulus monies..I know that posts are removed after a period of time, but not 14 hrs BB

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

I see a 4:03 pm post from Thursday that is still here. Don't remember any posts after that from you; I would have seen it because I was on at that time.
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blackballed · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:50 am Post subject:

I Posted a comment at 5.03 pm thursday,it was gone friday morning. their are other comments from thursday.i left a comment thursday, friday i asked what happened to it. you responded on friday, its right there top of page 3 BB

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Not sure I understand what you are asking. I'm just trying to help and tell you what I observed. Is the comment at the top of this page the one you thought was missing? Because if it is, you probably just missed that it had gone to the third page. You might have been looking for it at the bottom of page 2.
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blackballed · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

thanks for offering to help abomb,,yes my comments at the top of page three were gone friday morning,my question was why it was deleated so quick. its no big deal thanks again BB

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Maybe just a random occurrence. They are there now though, right?
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blackballed · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject:

yes . THANKS AGAIN BB

blackballed · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject:

C, YOU SAID YOU WOULD GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS ON ALL THE ROAD PROJECTS YOU ENCOUNTERED FROM YOUR TRIP, HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT TIME BB

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Yeah, I posted them, but not in this thread. In one of the threads in off-topic. I'll find it and bump it up for you.
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blackballed · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject:

JUST HEARD THAT PEOPLE IN JAIL RECEIVED STIMULUS CHECKS.OVER 1700 RECEIVED THE CHECKS WHICH AMOUNTED TO A HALF A MILLION $$$,HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? WHEN ONE IS IN JAIL ALL SSI,SSD CHECKS STOP, MORE WAIST ON PART OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION,I GUESS SOME OF THE ONES WHO WERE SIGNING UP VOTERS FOR OBAMA ARE GETTING PAID.BB

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Source please.
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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Full story:

"One day after the Herald reported some surprised Bay State inmates - including murderers and rapists - were cashing in $250 stimulus checks, federal officials revealed the same behind-bars bonus was mailed to nearly 4,000 cons nationwide.

A federal watchdog is now probing how the cons were cut the checks. The same cash also may have been sent to fugitive felons, people kicked out of the country and even individuals now deceased.

It’s all part of the massive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - and what is becoming an accounting nightmare for red-faced feds.

“President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill has done more to help convicted criminals than it has to actually boost our economy and create jobs,” said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Sara Sendek.

The Inspector General of Social Security is now tracing the checks that were mailed to 3,900 prisoners at a cost of nearly $1 million after yesterday’s report in the Herald.

Social Security Administration spokesman Stephen Richardson said yesterday none of the prisoner recipients receive monthly Social Security benefits, meaning they should not qualify for a stimulus check. Such benefits are generally cut off to the incarcerated.

The IG also is investigating whether any improper payments were made to dead beneficiaries, felons on the run from the law, individuals living overseas and recipients no longer legally authorized to live in the United States, said IG spokesman George Penn.

Among the 23 inmate recipients in Massachusetts mentioned in yesterday’s Herald are a prisoner convicted of first-degree murder, three prisoners jailed for second-degree murder and five convicted rapists, according to the state Department of Correction.

Richardson said five Bay State prisoners received the payments legitimately because they were legally on Social Security in a three-month period before they went to jail.

The remaining checks were sent to individuals who were not properly identified as prisoners in Social Security records or to people where inaccurate Social Security numbers have since been found.

Only five Massachusetts prisoners have enough cash left to pay the government back, the DOC said.

Nationally, about 2,200 inmates who were mailed checks are entitled to the payments because they were not in prison and lawfully collecting Social Security at some point between November 2008 and January, Richardson said.

The federal goverment is examining whether the payment was due to the remaining 1,700 inmates because they were not identified as prisoners in the Social Security system, Richardson said.

The U.S. Treasury Department began mailing the $250 checks to 54.4 million Social Security beneficiaries, veterans and federal railroad retirees in May as part of a $13 billion spending plan."

So who is responsible for reporting SS numbers to the government when someone goes to prison? They are to blame for this.
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