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The Knowledge Problem from Beyond the Grave
October 7, 2010 Uncategorized

Well, at least is was “only” a few million dollars.

More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report.

That is not the howler. Indeed, I am surprised by how little ended up in the hands of dead people. The howler is the implied idea that with a little better monitoring and a little better communication and computing power, the planners in DC could ever get this right.

"3" Comments
  1. Wintercow nails it again!

  2. And we’re supposed to believe that they’ll get healthcare right, which is orders of magnitude larger?

  3. It looks like the politicians are buying fewer votes than normal.

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