Our crack Social
Security Administration has a problem with Over Payments to the Folks Back
Home...
Being sly, cunning and
alert I asked my Congressman to arrange for me to have a face to face meeting
with the SSA Big Guy. I drove to Washington
D.C. last Thursday and, as soon as I arrived, I was ushered into the Big Guy’s Spacious Office.
Did I just hear you
say to yourself, “Self, the Fella must
have a great Congressman!” I am shocked to hear you say that to yourself.
Don’t you know that all our Congressmen are ready, willing and able to do
whatever we ask of them? If you don’t know this, it can only mean you did not
listen to their Campaign Speeches when they last ran for office where they
promised that they were was ready, willing and able to do whatever we asked of
them. (Sometimes they will even accept a “contribution” so they can continue
doing things for us.)
After I saluted, I got
right to business by saying to him, “Mr.
Big Guy, why don’t you simply put into effect the procedures necessary to
Prevent Over Payments in the first place?”
It quickly became
apparent why he was the Big Guy when
he came right back at me and said, “If
we put in place the procedures necessary to prevent that $128.3 Million in over payments, it would cost the taxpayers
of the Good Ole USofA $423.7 Million. This means we save our Taxpayers $295.4
Million by not preventing the overpayment of a paltry $128.3 Million. We at the
SSA are always looking out for ways to save our Taxpayer’s Money. Simply stated
by being Inefficient we are Efficient. We are very proud of our Inadequacies.
We strive every day to maintain our efficient record of Inefficiency.”
Who can argue with
that?
I was about 80 miles
into my drive back home before my head stopped spinning.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Actually, I did start to argue with the Big Guy but all I got out was “Yea
but...” before I was ushered out of his Spacious Office. I was met at the door
by my smiling Congressman holding his hand out.
Lagniappe Another: There ought to be a Federal Law against using “paltry” in front of $128.3 Million.
4 comments:
Right.......who can argue with that!
Looks to me like you might have been mistaken. The illustration shows overpayment of the paltry $128.3 million, but at the bottom it says SOCIAL SECURITY ADMIN INSPECTOR GENERAL. So, it likely was Social Security that overpaid, not the IRS.
Since SS makes payments to old folks, like me, and such payments are to stop when an oldster passes from this glorious earth, it can happen that they are not informed in a timely manner of all such occurrences. That would lead to overpayments. Getting the dearly departed to refund such payments is a costly endeavor, heck, mail delivery might get caught in the flames, there in the afterlife, and singed beyond recognition. Besides, it would not take long for the newcomers there to adopt the customary "devil may care" attitude and roundly ignore dunning letters. So SS is obliged to send emissaries to retrieve such overpayments. Such trips to hell and back are no doubt costly.
I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO A HAVE SUCH A PALTY SUM TO LOSE...
Herr Ludwig,
I just found your comment stipulating my mistaking the SSA for the IRS. I fixed the blog posting. Now only you and I know I made the this mistake.
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