Wednesday, April 23, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Today’s theme involves the agency that’s become what’s most likely the most corrupt in the nation’s history. The IRS.
 
And along the same lines, money underlies several other issues as well.
 
Fox News disclosed that a “report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that while for the most part the reward program for IRS workers complied with federal regulations, employees who had themselves failed to pay their federal taxes and had discipline problems were also rewarded.”
 
Additionally, “The watchdog found that in the period from October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2012 over 2,800 employees who had been disciplined for conduct problems, including issues with federal tax compliance, had received over $2.8 million in monetary awards and over 27,000 hours in time-off awards.”
 
So, here we have the agency responsible for overseeing and collecting taxes, empowered with immense latitude and scope, that cannot even control its own employees. And perhaps, doesn’t even want to. However, keeping people employed who themselves flout the laws they’re charged with upholding by not paying taxes themselves, while also rewarding bad behavior at taxpayer's expense, is so far beyond the realm of sanity there aren’t even any words to describe the magnitude of the hypocrisy.  
 
But then, the IRS isn’t the only agency managed irrationally. The Washington Examiner reports today that “Despite controversial delays in Obamacare and costly problems with its healthcare.gov website, most officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were paid more last year than the year before, newly released data show. …The total cost of the CMS payroll data released to the Examiner increased to more than $76 million, compared to $69 million in 2012.”
 
And then, while these stories of horrendous abuse of taxpayer’s funds were released, www.businessinsider.com notes that “On the first day of President Barack Obama's trip to Asia, he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dined at a legendary sushi restaurant made famous by a 2011 documentary.
 
Chef Jiro Ono, 87, is considered to be one of the top sushi chefs in the world. Ono prepares the sushi himself. His recommended special course — which features a rare, endangered species of bluefin tuna — starts at about $300. It includes more than a dozen courses served in about 20 minutes. Obama and Abe's dinner lasted about an hour and a half.”

"That's some good sushi right there," Obama told reporters as he left the restaurant.

And who else ate there too? “Obama and Abe were joined at dinner by the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, and White House national security adviser Susan Rice.”

So, I guess if you back up the incumbent with fables about the terrorist attack on Benghazi, calling it only a crowd upset by a movie, you get rewarded with a fully taxpayer funded trip to Japan and a few thousand bucks for meals that cash-strapped health care taxpayer’s couldn’t even afford in the first place. 

Then, in the most recent article about the Boss’s wife, the Washington Free Beacon reports that, “State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was unable to cite one accomplishment from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) Tuesday in a press conference.” 

Willy himself, though, stayed in step with his continual politics-over-all mantra by doing something truly incredible.
 
According to the NY Daily News: “Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing Rep. Charles Rangel, [D-N.Y.,] for re-election, giving the embattled Harlem lawmaker crucial support as he tries to fend off a stiff primary challenge. Clinton's endorsement will be announced Wednesday in a press release. Clinton also has agreed to record robocalls for Rangel and lend his name to e-mail fundraising appeals for the congressman.”
 
Which only goes to prove that slime is a substance that has very magnetic powers. All you need do is find one who’s slimy and then if you look around you’ll notice that others will come oozing out of the woodwork. And then, in time, they’ll all mass together and form an entire political party.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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