This wasted $600 million of taxpayer money, being paid out to people who are no longer alive, is just a tiny drop in the overflowing sea of typical government corruption and waste.

It’s not their money, so none of the inept jackasses in our government care enough to stop the waste and crime, which some of them may have personally benefitted from.

The federal government has doled out more than $600 million in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says.

Such payments are meant for retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the checks keep going out even after the former employees pass away and the deaths are not reported, according to the report this week from the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general, Patrick McFarland.

In one case, the son of a beneficiary continued receiving payments for 37 years after his father’s death in 1971. The payments – totaling more than $515,000 – were only discovered when the son died in 2008.

The government has been aware of the problem since a