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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.

-- 
Rhino