Total benefits: $15,000 to one worker; cost to government: $74 million

Associated Press ^ | 3-30-04 | NANCY ZUCKERBROD

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly four years after Congress passed a law to help ill nuclear weapons plant workers, the government has devoted $74 million to a compensation program that so far has sent only one check, worth $15,000, to one worker.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Pathetic.

[agitator]

Your tax dollars at work.

[Oztrich Boy]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly four years after Congress passed a law to help ill nuclear weapons plant workers, the government has devoted $74 million to a compensation program that so far has sent only one check, worth $15,000, to one worker.

Congratulations, you have won the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.

[kennedy]

Robert Card, the department's undersecretary, said the agency hopes to quicken the program's pace if Congress gives it another $33 million atop the roughly $26 million being spent on the program this year.

What the hell, it's only tax money. There's always plenty more where that came from.

[OneTimeLurker]

Good work Spencer

[eureka!]

Amazing, but not surprising. Right before tax time to boot. *sigh*