WASHINGTON – A government investigator says 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison.

The Social Security Administration's inspector general said in a report Thursday that $18 million went to 72,000 people who were dead. The report estimates that a little more than half the payments were returned.

The report said $4.3 million went to a little more than 17,000 prison inmates.

The payments were part of the government's massive economic recovery package enacted in February 2009. Under the law, the $250 payments were sent to about 52 million Social Security recipients and federal retirees.

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Well, we can prove that they would have voted democratic if they had been alive or not in prison. What about all the raaacist dead Republicans out there oppressing the minorities and causing global warming and oil spills and higher taxes and carbon dioxide; which way do THEY vote? THAT's what should be investigated. We're forming a special ad-hoc de-jure congressional committee led by a blue-ribbon panel of academic assholes to investigate that very subject right before the elections.

all your nuts are belong to us