judyd
Active Member
Absolutely! End the program because someone got caught scamming the system! Fuck the old! Fuck 'em and let them die on their own dime.Just another reason to end these programs. It's really shitty that people do this and what sucks more is I'd bet there are thousands more. I would like to add, and this is not to trash Obama but, finding these people and the claim of 250million is great but it's like a drop in the bucket being they want to save like 90billion to help pay for Obamacare. I do mean it in a nice way, it's great to catch these guys but I'd be willing to bet that most of them were the "bigger fish" that they could find and as smaller claims of fraud are out there in the thousands it would be near impossible to catch even most of them. I'd also like to see what the cost was to catch these people was, Government has a way of spending 100million to catch people that cause 50million in crimes. In this case maybe they saved more than it cost to stop them but as I said before I doubt they will find 250million to pin on 100 people, meaning a lot more money to follow up on 200 people, 700 people or 5,000 people.
Ending the program slowly would seem like the best option IMO.
Now to attack Obama being people want to give him credit Id bet you will find well over a billion (easy) wasted on his stimulus given out to fraud. Id guess if we had a trail of the money we could find 10s of billion of the stimulus wasted to fraud. Another program that should have never started, bailouts/stimulus
I have to agree with Ravi, ending the program so that the elderly suffer is not the way to go about cleaning this up.
Throw these people in jail and go after the next bunch. Pretty soon people are going to get the idea that this kind of crime does not pay.
Immie
I agree. The program has been vital to the elderly for years. Perhaps we need to do something about all of the illegal RUSSIANS in this country who are coming up with these scams to bilk the government. So many of you are focused on the Mexicans who are trying to make a living here, while the Russians seem to be able to go around freely with no fear of immigration laws.