Good Morning America presents this cautionary tale of Kathy Trant, who received 4.2 million dollars from the Federal Victim Compensation Fund, and then due to depression, survivor’s guilt, and compulsive shopping, turned it into, among other things, “a $500,000 shoe collection, gowns by Versace and Capelli that go for $5,000 each and Fendi and Judith Leiber handbags, also $5,000 per bag.”

Poor thing is down to her last $500,000. Hopefully the Federal Victim Compensation Fund will realize she is once again a victim, this time of a nutty government program that stuffs an absurd amount of money into grieving widows’ pockets when the real help they need can’t be measured in dollars. So that’s got to be worth another $1.2 to $1.5 mill.

Hat tip to e-mailer Kevin Orlin Johnson, Ph.D. (Hey, that’s how he signs it.)