Honest, no lie, I am impressed, it is a good start.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...ZCg_Fabo&pos=9
I think this is the best thing he has done since he took office, I am ALL impressed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...ZCg_Fabo&pos=9
Quote:
| Obama Orders Use of ‘Do Not Pay List’ to Cut Fraud (Update1) June 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to create a uniform “do not pay list†to reduce some of the $110 billion in improper or erroneous payments made by the government last year. The list is intended to prevent benefit checks, grants or contract payments from being made to individuals or companies that aren’t qualified to receive them. “We have the weapons†to find waste and fraud, Vice President Joe Biden said at a news conference in Washington. “The more who know about this, the less inclined they are going to be†in trying to cheat the government. A government-wide database, still in development while being used for the $862 billion stimulus program, would screen contractors, subcontractors and businesses, or individuals who obtain federal contracts to see if they have been convicted of federal fraud, operate phony businesses, owe back taxes, or otherwise would be ineligible for government payments or benefits. Snip The effort to use government databases to prevent improper payments will first be applied to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which accounted for $65 billion of the $110 billion in improper payments, Biden said. Some government payments have been going out for “the wrong amount, the wrong person or for the wrong reason,†Biden said. Over the past three years, the government paid more than $180 million to about 20,000 people who were dead, and another $230 million to 14,000 fugitive felons, he said. |
for this.
