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#21 Rogerdodger

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Posted 22 May 2010 - 11:44 AM

Join the Union in Yonkers.
Retire at 44 and get $101,333 annual retirement, exempt from state and local taxes!

Nine NY workers retired with $100k+ pensions -- in their 30s...

#22 Rogerdodger

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Posted 22 May 2010 - 11:58 AM

Although my million dollar baby sitter relative is doing nothing illegal as far as I know, the potential for fraud is off the charts:
Can you imagine how tempting it would be just to write down a name and get an extra $12,000 a year?

Head Start Fraud: It's Worse than You Think | The Foundry ...
May 20, 2010 ... "Fraud," "deceit," and "exploitation." Those words were used this week at a hearing about the Head Start program–the federal government's ...

GAO says Head Start fraud started with agency chiefs - JSOnline
May 19, 2010 ... Head Start agency bosses have pressured their front-line workers to fudge applicants' income in order to boost enrollment numbers and rake ...

Some Head Start workers commit fraud so kids qualify ...
May 19, 2010 ... Undercover investigators trying to enroll 15 fictitious kids in federally funded Head Start child care found workers lied in about half of ...

Editorial: Head Start fraud | CJOnline.com
May 21, 2010 ... Heads need to roll at Head Start. That much is obvious based on a government investigation that uncovered fraud in the program. ...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 22 May 2010 - 12:01 PM.


#23 Rogerdodger

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Posted 26 May 2010 - 11:17 PM

More government waste and fraud I'm paying for:

NYPOST: Two more Census workers become whistleblowers...
Here's a note from a Census worker -- this one from Manhattan:

"John: I am on my fourth rehire with the 2010 Census.

"I have been hired, trained for a week, given a few hours of work, then laid off. So my unemployed self now counts for four new jobs.

"I have been paid more to train all four times than I have been paid to actually produce results. These are my tax dollars and your tax dollars at work.

"A few months ago I was trained for three days and offered five hours of work counting the homeless. Now, I am knocking (on) doors trying to find the people that have not returned their Census forms. I worked the 2000 Census. It was a far more organized venture.

"Have to run and meet my crew leader, even though with this rain I did not work today. So I can put in a pay sheet for the hour or hour and a half this meeting will take. Sincerely, C.M."

And here's another:

"John: I worked for (Census) and I was paid $18.75 (an hour) just like Ms. Naomi Cohn from your article.

"I worked for about six weeks or so and I picked the hours I wanted to work. I was checking the work of others. While I was classifying addresses, another junior supervisor was checking my work.

"In short, we had a "checkers checking checkers" quality control. I was eventually let go and was told all the work was finished when, in fact, other people were being trained for the same assignment(s).

"I was re-hired about eight months later and was informed that I would have to go through one week of additional training.

"On the third day of training, I got sick and visited my doctor. I called my supervisor and asked how I can make up the class. She informed me that I was 'terminated.' She elaborated that she had to terminate three other people for being five minutes late to class.

"I did get two days' pay and I am sure the 'late people' got paid also. I think you would concur that this is an expensive way to attempt to control sickness plus lateness. I am totally convinced that the Census work could be very easily done by the US Postal Service.

"When I was trying to look for an address or had a question about a building, I would ask the postman on the beat. They knew the history of the route and can expand in detail who moved in or out etc. I have found it interesting that if someone works one hour, they are included in the labor statistics as a new job being full.

#24 diogenes227

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Posted 27 May 2010 - 01:36 AM

I knew I smelled a rat.
In recent correspondence with the Million Dollar baby sitter, she said:
"You would not believe all of the politics involved" in government program baby sitting.
She had just visited with a politician who can "authorize" who gets what money.
Do you wanna bet this politician can be "influenced" in who gets this additional government contract?
The Million Dollar baby sitter has become very politically involved as of late.
Her son was even an intern for a Washington congressman.

This is what happens when money is taken to Washington from taxpayers and then "redistributed."

If a baby sitter can rake in a million dollars annually, imagine what highway contractors can do. And imagine the "appreciation" shown to the politician who "redistributed" it.

They go to Washington to do good... and they do very well.
Now they will get to "redistribute" health care.
Bend over.
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Oh, no, the babysitter's back!

That would be a good name for a movie, although I suspect you'd prefer "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead", but that's already been done. Quite a testament to individual enterprise at that, although I suspect your babysitter looks nothing like Christina Applegate.

I missed the above post back in April. I am truly sad to hear your babysitter has son who was Congressional intern. I had an entirely different picture of her in my imagination (more like Christina Applegate) and I was hoping if she continued to thrive we might hook her up with one of my boys who've just graduated from college and have gone out into the current job market to grab jobs they could have had during summers in high school. That was quite an investment I made in their educations.

But speaking of tax money being "redistributed." I'm sometimes surprised at how much I actually agree with tax protesters. Ever since William Proxmire held up the 500-dollar hammer forty years ago the Pentagon could have bought for five dollars at the corner hardware store and nobody at the Pentagon got busted down to buck private, this country has had a cockeyed debate going on about taxes and government spending (the entire chain of command should have been busted that day and to indelibly make the point the busting should have taken place in an elaborate ceremony on the nightly news). No one ever seems to get riled up about the military babysitting tax dollars. Those guys have a history of government waste beyond anyone's imagination (we've spent nearly a trillion dollars (off budget, until recently) on our latest wars and then find out the kid next door didn't get body armor to fight it -- what is that?).

Anyway, the redistributing is just a different group now. Remember when John Stosil did that documentary on freeloaders and found the biggest freeloaders of all were sports-team owners and Archer Daniels Midland? The guys running the banks, oil companies, weapons firms, corporate farms (we have a tea-party candidate running in the Senate primary in my state who gets 250K in farm subsidies and he ain't giving that up) have long since ripped off so many tax-payer dollars the money this babysitter is getting isn't even lunch money -- it's a pack of gum.

Got an interesting chart today in my email, that's sure to tee off a ton of hypocrites, but it shows why I would like to see a flat tax despite the fact it is not progressive. It's pretty clear the "redistribution" with the guys like the guy on the right goes on upfront before the taxes are paid. Warren Buffett has railed rightly it's outrageous he pays less taxes than his "assistant" (I assume that's his secretary). Lay a flat tax on guys like that guy on the right to bring him in line with those valuable people on the left with no deductions, no loopholes, no tax-avoidance tricks (like the cap on Social Security contributions), just a flat percentage payment by everyone who makes more than a dime to keep the government running and we'll go a long way to finding fairness if not any agreement on how it's spent.

That's just my opinion. Thanks for giving me a chance to vent. Again.

By the way, does that babysitter have a daughter? :)


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#25 Rogerdodger

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 04:28 PM

The million dollar baby sitter is just the tip of the iceberg of waste and"kickbacks". Now every time I see a road crew, which is quite often, I wonder who's their million dollar employer. And who does he in turn "contribute" to to get that contract?

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 06:13 PM

Convenience and you get a show too --

Welfare cash dispensed at strip clubs

June 30, 2010 | 2:13 pm

California welfare recipients have been able to get taxpayer cash -- meant to feed and clothe needy families -- from ATM machines at strip clubs across the state, including some well-known gentlemen’s cabarets in Los Angeles.

More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was dispensed from the start of 2007 to the end of 2009 at clubs including Sam’s Hofbrau, Seventh Veil and Star Strip, according to officials at the Department of Social Services.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the department to remove the clubs from the official list of businesses where welfare recipients can withdraw benefits using state-issued ATM cards.

The move came a day after The Times asked the administration how much welfare cash had been withdrawn at 17 adult clubs in recent years and less than a week after The Times reported that more than half the casinos and state-licensed poker rooms in California appeared on an official website showing welfare recipients where they can access cash benefits.

Following that report, Schwarzenegger ordered the casinos struck from the state’s ATM network and directed the Department of Social Services to produce a plan to reduce “waste, fraud and abuse” in the welfare program.

“We'll take a wide-ranging look and apply some common sense to the list of outlets where cash assistance should not be withdrawn,” Department of Social Services spokeswoman Lizelda Lopez wrote in an e-mail to The Times on Tuesday evening, announcing that her department had “taken steps to deactivate ATMs in adult entertainment clubs.”

Strip-club managers seemed shocked that welfare benefits were accessible through their ATMs. In most cases, the machines were provided by a third party, the managers said, and they had no way of knowing their ATMs are part of the state system.

The state contracts with the Quest ATM network.

“If there’s a way that the ATM can reject their card if they’re on welfare, I’m really and truly all for that,” said Merle Matias, manager at Sam’s Hofbrau in downtown Los Angeles, where $2,159 had been withdrawn, according to Department of Social Services officials. “I don’t think it will affect us at all.”

Star Strip manager Joey Mancini said state officials must be wrong about the $1,265 they said had been withdrawn from his club’s ATM. The Quest symbol isn’t on the machine, he said, adding that he thought any system that allowed access to welfare benefits at a strip club should be reformed: “This is not what that money is for.”

A manager at Seventh Veil declined to comment.

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#27 Rogerdodger

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Posted 30 June 2010 - 11:30 PM

"ATM machines at strip clubs " I would never use an ATM machine at a strip club with my welfare card. Those machines never pay out in quarters, so I always have to get change for the tips. :angry:

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Posted 20 October 2010 - 09:41 AM

While business is vilified on a daily basis, the MASSIVE waste and fraud found in government is simply overlooked, almost expected.

Audit: NJ Turnpike Wasted Millions On Perks

Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010
BY LUKE FUNK

Auditors say the New Jersey Turnpike Authority wasted $43 million on unneeded perks and bonuses. In one case, an employee with a base salary of $73,469 earned $321,985 when all payouts and bonuses were included.
The audit says that toll dollars were spent on items ranging from an employee bowling league to employee bonuses for working on birthdays.
All this took place while tolls were being increased.
The biggest expense uncovered in the audit was $30 million in unjustified bonuses to employees and management in 2008 and 2009 without consideration of performance.
One example was paying employees overtime for removing snow and working holidays and then giving additional "snow removal bonuses" and "holiday bonuses."
The Comptroller's Office audit released Tuesday says taxpayers also paid $430,000 for free E-ZPass transponders and nearly $90,000 in scholarships for workers' kids.
http://www.myfoxny.c...es-20101019-apx


But eventually it will overwhelm the system and we start all over, wash and rinse, wash and rinse.

BROKE UK SLASHES 500,000 GOV'T JOBS

Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled the biggest UK spending cuts since World War II, with welfare, councils and police budgets all hit.
The pension age will rise sooner than expected, some incapacity benefits will be time limited and other money clawed back through changes to tax credits and housing benefit.
A new bank levy will also be brought in - with full details due on Thursday.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 20 October 2010 - 09:49 AM.


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Posted 21 October 2010 - 05:53 PM

I wonder if Michael Moore will expose the fraud at the Government version of GM?
Maybe they could call it "Rogerdodger and Me". :D

VOLT Fraud At GOV'T MOTORS...
Government Motors' all-electric car isn't all-electric and doesn't get near the touted hundreds of miles per gallon. Like "shovel-ready" jobs, maybe there's no such thing as "plug-ready" cars either.

GM Spends $17 Million Per Year on Viagra
GM executives estimate health care adds $1,500 to the price of each vehicle
http://www.consumera.../gm_viagra.html

Why Do GM workers caught smoking pot and drinking, drive away in Fords and Nissans?
http://detnews.com/a...lcohol-at-lunch

Edited by Rogerdodger, 21 October 2010 - 06:04 PM.


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Posted 21 October 2010 - 06:05 PM

Meanwhile with too few taxes, too much waste and too many wars:

THINGS FALL APART

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