The government made improper payments to the tune of $98 billion this fiscal year.
The federal government made $98 billion in improper payments in fiscal 2009, and President Obama will issue an executive order in coming days to combat the problem, his budget director announced Tuesday.
The 2009 total for improper payments -- from outright fraud to misdirected reimbursements due to factors such as an illegible doctor's signature -- was a 37.5 percent increase over the $72 billion in 2008, according to figures provided by Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
For the record that is $327 per man, woman, and child who is a citizen of the U.S. It's quite a bit more if you only count taxpayers. And that isn't just the money we paid, that is simply the money we mis-paid, but we have a good habit of that.
Perhaps we should take a page from Google and find out how to make our money a positive thing.
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