Re: Scott Walker Delivers Repeated Fact-Checks To CNN Anchor: ‘That's_Not_At_All_What_They_Said!’

On 2025-04-07 12:48 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 7, 2025 at 1:30:51 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

Walker went on to say that Musk and DOGE had looked at Social Security and
had found people who were on the list to be paid who were 120 years old and
obviously no longer living – and that the organization's goal was to root out
>
similar waste, fraud, and abuse in other departments as well.

 Somewhere in America, there’s a coven of 100+year-old vampires who were living
quietly off Social Security. Now that Elon has cut them off, there’s going to
be hell to pay.
 

I was shocked to discover that the last widow of a Civil War veteran died only a few years ago and, with her death, the US stopped paying out veteran's benefits for that war.
I have long known that the last actual Civil War veteran finally died in 1959 (NOT a typo!) but it was only many years later that I learned that a number of very old Civil War veterans married very young women late in their lives and that those widows continued to receive veteran's benefits until their own deaths.
I can't help but wonder what inspired a very young woman to marry a very old man. I assume it was a purely financial arrangement whereby an old man could gift a young woman - maybe a grand-niece or grandchild of a cousin - with a small but steady income for the rest of her life.
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Rhino