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        <title><![CDATA[A congressman's dead constituents]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12105-80857]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It is called &quot;Posthumous Democracy&quot;, also widely practiced in Australia.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kwickset@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:50:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Death Files]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It seems to me that publishing the Death Files and making them completely available to all who register credit applications, or process voting records, etc, would eliminate the ruse of registering dead persons as new accounts or voting as a deceased person, or NEW VOTERS! This would make these practices unusable: ALL new (possibly even all OLD) accounts would be checked against this easily accessable list, and if someone were deceased, no NEW accounts, no NEW poll list entries, would be generated! The only drawback I see is that if someone still living were listed as dead (this HAS happened, by the way) he/she couldn't use their accounts! Therefore, safeguards against unauthorized data entry should be extremely stringent!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mogul264]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:46:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The SSA Spokesman Is an Idiot!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I used to work for a pension plan and every year we would purge dozens of pension recipients whose deaths were unreported.  And every year we would have to take legal action to recover payments made after death from various parties who &quot;forgot&quot; to report the deaths to us.  Multiply our dozens by a thousand (or more) and you can see that overpayments after death should be a major concern for the SSA administration and anybody worried about the financial health of the SSA.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JakeRader]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:11:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Okay, I'll bite.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/forum/discussions/1-12105-80847]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Exactly how can such data &quot;be socially manipulated to expand human population&quot;?And in case you haven't been paying attention, China's &quot;one child&quot; policy is having devastating social and political implications.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:41:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Too many people]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No.  Eliminate the death files.  As long as the record exists and can be used for so-called research, it is/can also be socially manipulated to expand human population.  And there are too many of us.It is time for us as a species, worldwide, to individually participate in reducing our numbers. How is a matter of interpretation, but it must occur. China's one-child-per-couple is a good start -- but only a start but takes too long to halt rapid Climate Change which threatens us all, even if it could ironically result in a sudden, unexpected Ice Age rather than the melting of the poles if the ocean conveyors reverse or collapse.No.  That death files should be eliminated.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudy Haugeneder]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:01:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We welcome the politically incorrect]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...so long as you back it up!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[andrew.nusca]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:07:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who should pay for research?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I realize that I am not being politically correct, but I don't believe that the Social Security Administration should be charged with assisting researchers.  They have enough to do and besides people should be allowed to die in peace.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rrwcm@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:44:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Duh - It ain't about the master file.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As usual congressional wing-nuts are making cost improvement unduly complicated. Death records are a matter of historical public record - go to any courthouse. The only question is whether the records will be accumulated in a central database that can be more readily accessed and used for several good reasons. That's just the sort of effort a bipartisan effort should support. But, there is an ulterior motive if you look below the surface - a common death data base could make it more difficult for a congressman's dead constituents to vote for them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jblowe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:09:43 -0700</pubDate>
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