Three items today, clearly illustrate the risks inherent when political ideology overrides rational decision making and plain old common sense.
To begin, Sara Sidner and Greg Botelho, wrote on CNN about the outbreak of measles in children in California. The outbreak itself is causing heated disagreement across the nation as to whether the government should have that authority to require vaccination of all citizens or not.
What stood out in the article, though, was a paragraph saying “While once widespread in the United States, cases dropped significantly thanks to vaccines. In 2000, health authorities declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States, which meant it was no longer native to the United States but continued to be brought in by international travelers.”
Therefore, what the situation demonstrates is that, aside from problems arising from those arriving here legally, other dangers now are extremely prevalent. Because, along with the potential of terrorists crossing our border unbridled, illegal aliens flooding the nation and the damage associated with lost jobs, depreciated wages, stolen taxpayer resources, and increased numbers of crimes, we now face the threat of other diseases entering the country unchecked. Which means that simply as a practical matter, illegal immigration is unbelievably idiotic.
In item two, Alexander Hendrie of Americans for Tax Reform, via Drudge, wrote yesterday that, “At a Senate Finance Committee Hearing today, IRS commissioner John Koskinen testified on IRS funding requests for the upcoming fiscal year. Koskinen admitted that the IRS is stuck in the past when it comes to technology: “Despite more than a decade of upgrades to the agency’s core business systems, we still have very old technology running alongside our more modern systems.”
Some of this software is so old that it is the same technology that was used in 1963, a full 52 years ago: “In regard to software, we still have applications that were running when John F. Kennedy was President.”
Mr. Hendrie opines that, 'Taxpayers should be outraged that the IRS is still using technology that is more than 50 years old. But, the IRS is also taking unnecessary risk by not updating their technology. As Commissioner Koskinen testified: “It is important to point out that the IRS is the world’s largest financial accounting institution, and that is a tremendously risky operation to run with outdated equipment and applications."
So, now we have a huge new tax that involves the health and well being of millions of citizens, to be administered by an agency that isn’t even equipped to handle the basic task it was created for. Another example of government overreaching into areas it cannot manage and never should have interfered with in the first place.
Lastly, is a short article claiming that the published unemployment rate is untrue. And once again, a salient point aside from the piece itself is the author, Jim Clifton, CEO of the polling organization Gallup. Which means that the writer is one who surely knows what he’s talking about.
Here’s a link to the story: http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx
That's it for today folks
Adios
No comments:
Post a Comment