Stimulating the Dead

That's some stimulus. Not only has spending billions of dollars actually increased unemployment faster than President Obama's economic advisors projected, but it's raising the dead in Maryland:

Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president's stimulus plan -- including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago.

The woman's son, 83-year-old James Hagner, said he got the surprise when he checked his mailbox late last week.

"It shocked me and I laughed all at the same time," Hagner said. "I don't even expect to get one my own self, and I get one for my mother for 43 years ago?"

His mother, Rose, died on Memorial Day in 1967.

Here's a nifty chart prepared by the President's economists showing how the stimulus would lower unemployment rates. The two red triangles show what actually happened:
Hattip: Instapundit