Government admits improper farm payments

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department on Wednesday acknowledged making improper payments to farmers worth more than $2.8 billion last year.

Officials explained that most of the payments involved missing or incomplete paperwork.

"We take this very seriously," said Chuck Christopherson, the department's chief financial officer. "We know this is something that we can address and that we can fix."

Federal law requires agencies to track erroneous payments, such as checks sent to farmers who were not eligible for a particular program, or payments for the wrong amount of money.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/farm_payments

[texpatriot2004]

1. These rat bastards in the * regime seem to lose alot of dough.

Just like they lose alot of records about where the money went too.

[Tellurian]

2. Not the Farmers with their hands in the cookie jar...

Look upstream closer to the 1600 mark..

[wholetruth00]

3. And black farmers get screwed once again. They can't even collect what

is legitimately owed to them.

[RC]

4. This is B.S. from 8 years ago. It wasn't true then either.

"FSA is pursuing a plan to consolidate more than 2,300 county offices in an effort to modernize a Depression-era network with too few trained employees and some computers so old they can't connect to the Internet."

[lonestarnot]

8. I would not discount this so readily.

Modernization of computers and additional staff does not make for ethical dispursement of funds. I do not claim to know the history. Maybe you could share your knowledge? :shrug:

[Gelliebeans]

5. Do you think

this had anything to do with repukes dragging their collective feet on the agro bill that the Dems were trying to bring to the floor?
:shrug:

[hang a left]

6. You are a frickin genious! nt

[Gelliebeans]

7. OH I wouldn't even

go that far :rofl: I do have a memory though