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-- Barack Obama, April 2, 2008

► Obama Care and What the Senators never discussed

I called the Senators and e-mailed them about the abuse and fraud documented in the very first social program, in their own records from 1854.

NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN 155 YEARS!

Not to mention in my XMAS2009 card on quislings.org I pointed out how far they had gone from the wise wisdom of President Franklin Pierce.

I know FRAUD is accounting for $50-$60 billion a year going by Congress's own records, which I will point out later. Please notice the last line of the last paragraph.

Please note that some words may appear not to be spelled correctly - it is typed into this document as it appears. Words change over time in their spelling, you have what was written. I have done my best to give you nothing more, nothing less, then the truth, of YOUR records. Example: the word "practised". Though I have added blank lines (returns) to make it more readable on a computer screen.

Senate Document

Message and Documents 1854-55

Part 1

From Pages 32-33 Report of the Secretary of the Interior

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The great inequalities exists in the pension laws, and in their operation. The evil is of so absurd a character and in many instances, as to be exceedingly annoying and mortifying, as well as unjust. Of those that might be induced, it is presumed that a single one will be sufficient to attract proper attention to the subject. A seaman, a marine, and a private solider of the army, maybe be engaged in the same battle, and all alike totally disabled. The seaman, by existing laws, will receive three dollars, the marine six dollars, and the solider eight dollars per month. The disability and all the attending circumstances being the same, there should be no such gross disparity.

There has been, within a few years past, a large increase in the aggregate amount of pensions paid, much of which is owning to the departure from the original design of the pension policy. The intention of its first projectors was to relieve the wants of those who, having served their country faithfully, and hazarded their lives and fortunes for its freedom and happiness, were destitute. Now it has become general, and has been more enlarged every year, until it has grown into a stupendous system. At an early period of our history, it was considered derogatory for any one, however meritorious, to accept gratuity, even when tendered by the government, unless in needy or indigent circumstances. A different sentiment, however, has now obtained, and the purest, best, and most honorable of our citizens do not refuse it.

There can be no well founded objections to this, as long as the law remains as it is. But considering the small pittance (often, under existing laws, only one dollar and fifty cents or two dollars per month) doled out to the indigent solider, his widow or minor children, it is a question worthy of consideration, whether humanity does not demand that the system be so modified as to at least approximate the principles established by its founders, to increase the amount bestowed upon those whose merits and circumstances entitle them to aid, and to give to them, if nothing more, such substantial relief as sound policy will permit. By adopting such plan, and cutting off all arrearages of pensions, the great evil of the system may be remedied.

The Third Auditor of the Treasury executes several acts of Congress giving half-pay, for five years, to widows and orphans of officers of the army. Those acts being of the same general character as others executed by the Commissioner of Pensions, and the same principles of construction applying to both, there is a manifest propriety in conferring the whole power upon the Pension Bureau, and thereby preserving uniformity in the decisions.

A biannual examination of invalid pensioners, to detect fraud and prevent imposition, was recommend to the consideration of Congress, but not authorized. It is a remarkably striking fact, that of the large and entire number on the invalid pension roll, with recently two honorable exceptions, there appears never to have been any diminution of the disability, but frequently an increase. Besides, the Pension Bureau, crippled as it is for means, has discovered many instances in which palpable fraud has been perpetrated, and gross deception practised. As the imputation of guilt may fall upon the innocent as well as the guilty, it does seem proper that authority should be given the Commissioner of Pensions, on satisfactory proof of the commission of such offense, to reduce the pension where the disability has decreased, and to strike the name of the pensioner from the list where it has ceased. The Commissioners may safely be clothed with this power; for, besides subserving the interests of the public, it will protect from unjust aspersion the honest and worth pensioner.

The department would again earnestly recommend a modification of the act of Congress limiting to two years prosecutions for perjury and forgery committed in pension and land warrant cases. Why should the criminal escape, when the offence, owing to the ingenuity of the criminal escape, when the offence, owing to the ingenuity of the offender, is concealed until the time for his prosecution has elapsed? With all possible vigilance this can not be avoided. The cunning and publicity of the persons engaged in the commission of such offenses is wonderful; still, many have been detected through the watchfulness of the Pension Bureau. Up to the 30th of September last, thirty have been indicted; of whom eleven have been convicted, nine fled and forfeited their recognizances, one died, one committed suicide, two have eluded the officers, and six await trial. Others have not been prosecuted, owing to the limitation referred to, and in several aggravated cases the statute has been successfully pleaded. The pertinacity and success of the Pension Bureau in pursuing the offenders has perceptibly diminished the offence, and with enlarged power it may probably to totally checked. The limitation operates as an incentive, and is in effect a bounty to the ingenuity and cunning of the felon.

By examining the reports of the able and efficient chief of the Pension Bureau, the necessity of a through revision of the pension laws will be apparent. Justice to those entitled to pensions, as well as sound policy and true economy, demand it. With a judicious, well-arranged system, the government could diminish the expenditure, give more satisfaction, and do a vast deal more good, then is now practicable.

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