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KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sun, 20 May 2012 03:48:38 +0000

Really? the administrator deleted my reply because i said i've filed a fraud report and told you where it can be reported easily??

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:50:02 +0000

And as far as your neighbor is concerned, if you did nothing to report it then you are an accessory to fraud, and part of the problem.

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 20:48:55 +0000

Listen, we are both conservatives, it seems, but what you ask calls for a massive expansion of manpower. Think on that for a minute. Why don't we just end payments to grandma altogether, kill medicare completely and stop all the fraud and abuse? Would that be ok with you?

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:53:54 +0000

Isn't it cool when you can just state something like a fact and just expect sheeple to follow you?

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:50:12 +0000

Social Security is not Medicare. Please don't use one federal agency to justify your straw man argument against another federal agency. Much of the Social Security agency is retirement age, and the positions are not being refilled as there has been a hiring freeze since the President was elected. With people complaining that disability cases take too long to decide, people complaining about waiting times in the lobby, and people complaining about waste, fraud and abuse of funds....where do you believe Social Security should place the highest priorities? Making sure your spouse dying of cancer is handled in a timely manner? Or preventing someone from getting a check who shouldn't. Because without more people you aren't going to get the same devotion to both.

KATU - Portland, OR : City request to extend Portland reservoir improvements denied | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portla

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:18:14 +0000

You are right, no problem here: http://southeastportland.katu.com/news/public-spa...

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:23:12 +0000

There are 52 million people on one form of OASDI or another, this includes the disabled, the retired and the survivors. Are you willing to pay the MASSIVE EXTRA TAXES it would take to fund the massive undertaking it would take to continuously update these records? The Social Security administration has manditory reporting procedures for funeral homes and state and federal agencies. If this covered 99.9% of every possible contingency that would still leave 52000 discrepancies. I think you have no idea of the scale of the program.

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:15:33 +0000

It was Social Security fraud, not SSI (Supplemental Security) fraud.

KATU - Portland, OR : Feds: Woman hid man\'s body, stole his Social Security for 15 years | Local & Regional | KATU.com -

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:13:13 +0000

Social Security is not welfare, its an earned benefit for people who have worked and paid FICA taxes.

KATU - Portland, OR : Global warming linked to decline in Pacific oysters | Outdoors | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, T

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Finally you get it.

KATU - Portland, OR : Global warming linked to decline in Pacific oysters | Outdoors | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, T

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:36:30 +0000

Ive seen it best said that Money is a resource that also must be used efficiently and wisely. Throwing it down the toilet does nobody any good.

KATU - Portland, OR : Global warming linked to decline in Pacific oysters | Outdoors | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, T

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:32:58 +0000

"Nature" selected the "Human" to be the top (unless you are religious and go that direction). So anything we do is perfectly natural. Now. At some time nature may very well select something else and we may fail to adapt and be removed from the gene pool. That is the very heart of how things "naturally" work.

KATU - Portland, OR : Global warming linked to decline in Pacific oysters | Outdoors | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, T

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:28:12 +0000

At one time nearly everyone in science said the earth was flat. Only time will tell if scientists of today are going to be suddenly thrown into the "flat earther fringe" category with the religious folks.

KATU - Portland, OR : Deputies: Woman sexually assaulted while hiking in Gorge | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland Ne

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:10:05 +0000

You don't happen to have a source for that statistic, do you?

KATU - Portland, OR : Family grounded after child disruptive on flight | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Spor

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:42:45 +0000

oh c'mon, this is Portland, they should have been told to bicycle to Vancouver BC. 8b

KATU - Portland, OR : Aide says Cheney had heart transplant | National & World News | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Tr

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:28:30 +0000

You can have health care, pay for it like I do and stop making me pay for you.

KATU - Portland, OR : More snow! Schools close, power goes out for thousands | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:46:26 +0000

You are one of those jerks in the AWD going 70 in a turn lane to get around slow people doing the speed limit, arent you?

KATU - Portland, OR : Woman feared husband would escalate his threats to Congress | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:28:16 +0000

Maybe most of us realize that turning someone you love in for a crime is probably harder to do than most people even want to think about. Not to mention the best way to encourage other people to turn in their loved ones is to show them that they will be charged with co-conspiracy if they don't act in a "timely manner".

KATU - Portland, OR : Woman feared husband would escalate his threats to Congress | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:25:38 +0000

The way to encourage people to turn in loved ones is definately to charge them with co-conspiracy. Absolutely. 8)

KATU - Portland, OR : Boy, 3, shoots and kills himself while sitting in parent\'s car | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Port

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:46:22 +0000

I would further add the original constitution did not address taxation until the 16th amendment, (i fail to see where you are going with this). Voting itself by the populace inst covered in the constitution for several years because we were and are a Republic and not a democracy. The 14th, 15th and 19th amendments changed this. but NOW they ARE part of the constitution by amendment. How can you possibly call me uninformed when you are so tragically ignorant of the subject you profess to lecture me on?