From this morning’s New London Day (via the AP):
Southington state Sen. Joe Markley is asking state auditors to review how the Connecticut Department of Social
Services handled the recent distribution of payments to needy people who sustained losses from Tropical Storm Irene.
The ranking Republican leader of the General Assembly’s Human Services Committee said he wants auditors to investigate claims of fraud. He said news reports indicated that the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was poorly handled.
Low-income residents who don’t already receive food stamps were eligible for one-time payments, issued through ATM-style debit card, to cover damages such as spoiled food, loss of income and shelter costs.
Last month, thousands turned up at DSS offices to receive the payments, forming lines that snaked through city neighborhoods. DSS had to deploy reinforcements to their offices.
It’s wondrous how upset Republicans get at the prospect that some poor person might be getting a dollar more in government benefits than they deserve, yet they can’t summon up a bit of moral fervor about the rich sucking us taxpayers dry. How many poor people have to commit this type of alleged fraud to equal the amount of money that the baks have siphoned from us all by a mixture of pure fraud plus greed? At least it has a stimulative effect, while the bankers drove us into recession and are now lecturing us against taking effective action to free ourselves from the mess they created? Where, I wonder, is Markley on all that?
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