Gogol's classic novel about Rusian landowners buying and selling "dead souls" or serfs for their own profit lives on - in America. According to this report 234 dead people in South Florida were still receiving agriculture subsidies in the form of pay cheques. If South Florida is typical of other places the bill for the welfare state of the dead could be huge http://bit.ly/rOhKkU
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