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[jim birch]

On 24/07/07, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department sent $1.1
> billion in farm payments to more than 170,000
> dead people over a seven-year period.


Yes, but was it intentional?  US Farm Policy includes some pretty weird
stuff, like paying people to not produce things.  So if you are dead, you
can't produce the unwanted products so should be due for a permanent
payment.  Mind you, payments shouldn't be made in the earthly realm.
There's potential for fixing this minor problem; Bush believes that he talks
God through the White House phone system.  But according to the Onion, this
was just Chenney issuing instructions in a deep voice, spiced with some Old
Testament wording, "Thou shalt smite Iraq" type stuff.

Jim