As it turns out Rudd’s immense package didn’t just stimulate the economy of thousands of ordinary Australia’s, no, Rudd took it one step further and stimulated the dead. It is reported that the corpses responded by lying their, and taking it like a corpse.
Some have theorised that the dead, excited by the intense stimulation will rise from their crypts, in a Hollywood zombie flick sort of way, to take over shopping centres and boutique stores in their quest to increase consumption for the good of Australia. God bless ‘em.
The Australian government has admitted that cash hand-outs aimed at stimulating the economy have been sent to thousands of people who are dead.
The money was part of a multi-billion dollar package under which every tax-payer was entitled to a payment of up to A$900 ($700, £440).
About A$14m of the money went to dead people, ministers said, and A$25m to Australians living overseas.
Local media have dubbed the deceased recipients “the grateful dead”.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner said that the money would still help Australia’s economy.
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