Government Workers steal aid
From the Patriot Post:
Government workers stole pandemic aid:
A felon who served time for identity theft was given a job in Massachusetts' Department of Unemployment Assistance, where, shockingly, she proceeded to engage in ID theft and stole upwards of $200,000 in pandemic relief aid.
Several U.S. Postal Service workers have been found guilty of stealing stimulus checks and unemployment checks out of the mail. In other cases, city employees billed for pandemic services they never fulfilled.
"It's a travesty that government employees took advantage of the gaps and weak spots to game the system for personal gain," lamented OpenTheBooks founder Adam Andrzejewski. "It tears, rips and shreds at the whole notion of public service when government employees are so sued to wasteful spending that they view vital aid like it's their own Monopoly money. Worse is the lack of empathy for the people truly meant to be assisted — those were fellow Americans trying to make their way through a crisis."
Andrzejewski pointed to the problem of government waste, such as 2.2 million stimulus checks that were mailed to dead people and
57,000 small-business loans that were sent to those listed on the Treasury Department's "Do Not Pay" list."
Rightfully or not, pandemic aid was rushed into the economy with little planning or safeguards," he observed. "Like most funding Congress allocates, it was plainly open to waste, fraud and corruption."
And many of those taking advantage of this lack of fiscal responsibility were the very government workers whose job it was to distribute the aid. The problem is that politicians love to make promises with other people's money, but they care little for fiscal restraint because freebies make them look good and generous while fiscal irresponsibility always ends up costing the taxpayer. Meanwhile, Biden and the Democrats are poised to throw billions more down this rathole.
Government workers stole pandemic aid:
A felon who served time for identity theft was given a job in Massachusetts' Department of Unemployment Assistance, where, shockingly, she proceeded to engage in ID theft and stole upwards of $200,000 in pandemic relief aid.
Several U.S. Postal Service workers have been found guilty of stealing stimulus checks and unemployment checks out of the mail. In other cases, city employees billed for pandemic services they never fulfilled.
"It's a travesty that government employees took advantage of the gaps and weak spots to game the system for personal gain," lamented OpenTheBooks founder Adam Andrzejewski. "It tears, rips and shreds at the whole notion of public service when government employees are so sued to wasteful spending that they view vital aid like it's their own Monopoly money. Worse is the lack of empathy for the people truly meant to be assisted — those were fellow Americans trying to make their way through a crisis."
Andrzejewski pointed to the problem of government waste, such as 2.2 million stimulus checks that were mailed to dead people and
57,000 small-business loans that were sent to those listed on the Treasury Department's "Do Not Pay" list."
Rightfully or not, pandemic aid was rushed into the economy with little planning or safeguards," he observed. "Like most funding Congress allocates, it was plainly open to waste, fraud and corruption."
And many of those taking advantage of this lack of fiscal responsibility were the very government workers whose job it was to distribute the aid. The problem is that politicians love to make promises with other people's money, but they care little for fiscal restraint because freebies make them look good and generous while fiscal irresponsibility always ends up costing the taxpayer. Meanwhile, Biden and the Democrats are poised to throw billions more down this rathole.
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