Many of their missteps would actually be quite funny except for the fact that their ineptness almost always causes us to lose money, wealth, and freedom. Unfortunately, as witnessed by this being our sixth post just for this month, their insanity seems to be growing exponentially.
1) The first insanity from our politicians comes to us via an article by the Tea Party Patriots website. Now, some of my more liberal friends, family members, and readers might automatically discount the following insanity since it comes from a Tea Party source. That would be a mistake since this is purely a factual report from a variety of main stream news sources, no opinion, no political slant, just facts.
These facts are the best six excuses and lies that IRS executives have conjured up in front of Congress and America for why they could not find the incriminating emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS employees. These emails would be critical in proving that the Obama administration was directly involved in persecuting and squashing the First Amendment rights of Americans with different opinions of this administration.
While the IRS and the White House claimed that they did not exist for the longest time, recent news reports and Congressional testimony show that copies of them probably still exist. If true, there will likely by political, impeachment, criminal, and ethical problems for those involved in trying to deny they existed via the following seven excuses, excuses that now seem more pathetic than the classic, “the dog ate my homework:”
1. “We’re doing everything we can to find them.” The IRS withheld emails from Congressional investigators for a year before then claiming they were all lost in a computer crash
2. “The computer ate our emails.” In June, the IRS claimed a computer crash in 2011 had made it impossible to retrieve Lois Lerner’s emails.
3. “We’ve searched everywhere…” The IRS claimed its technicians tried, but failed to repair Lerner’s hard drive and produce the missing emails.
4. “We’ve already recycled those emails, because, like, they were irrelevant and taking up space.” The IRS also claimed it was impossible to produce the emails because officials had already “recycled” Lerner’s hard drive.
5. “We “recycled” the Lois Lerner Blackberry also.” No computer, no problem? Think again. The IRS also “recycled” Lerner’s blackberry. News reports are now indicating that “recycled” means destroyed, just after Congress began its investigation.
6. “We didn’t save our instant messaging conversations either!”
The IRS didn’t save its internal messaging system either. How incompetent are the IRS data people: emails lost, computers crash, Blackberries destroyed, instant messaging messages thrown out. It is amazing these people can dress themselves in the morning.
7. “It’s too hard to retrieve the lost emails in the backup system.” This is my favorite, what good is a backup system if you cannot get access to the backed up emails? Why go through the expense and effort to have a useless back up system?
My gosh, my dog could have come up with better excuses than these. Insanity that they think Congress and the American people are going to just say, shucks, too late to prove the criminal misdeeds. People need to go to jail for not only denying First Amendment rights but also for being just plain inept and stupid.
2) Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, is no longer going to do any more work for NBC News according to recent news reports. Apparently her title was “special correspondent,” according to a recent article by People magazine.
She must have been really, really special since it has been seven months since her last “journalistic” piece aired on NBC even though she was being paid an unbelievable $600,000 a year. This is about twelve times more than an average U.S. household earns in a year even though she is quite young and inexperienced and obviously not that busy if it has been seven months since she did anything worth airing.
Please do not tell me that the mainstream media is still independent in this country and is not in bed with the American political class. Not when there is this type of outrageous buddy system between well known politicians’ families and one of the largest news sources in the country.
3) Let’s go waste some taxpayer money for nothing in return. According to a recent report form the EPA’s Inspector General:
- Although the EPA’s Office of Environmental Information spent $2.2 million in 2011 in an attempt to reduce the agency's computing costs and speed up processing via a cloud processing system the agency, it never received the contracted work from two private contractors.
- Lockheed Martin was contracted to move the EPA email system to the cloud, something that later turned out to be impossible to do.
- According to the Inspector General findings: "In addition to paying the vendor full price for agreed-to services not performed as specified in the contract, the EPA is incurring additional costs for maintaining emails not migrated to the cloud."
- The EPA also paid for services from CGI Inc. to provide "infrastructure-as-a-service" access to EPA clients but the Inspector General’s investigation found that the EPA's information office failed to justify if the contract was even necessary and the contract, which did not meet Federal requirements, cost a little more than $74,000.
- As you may or may not know, CGI was the Canadian company that completely botched the Obama Care information systems development but still, obviously, can be hired by other Federal entities to botch their jobs also.
More money spent for nothing in return. In the real world, outside of the political class and the government, people’s careers are ended and their jobs lost for such incompetence. Want to bet that no ine lost their job within the EPA for such incompetence?
4) Some members of the political class, only Democrats, like to claim that the economy is healthy and robust and that the Obama administration is doing a great economic job. Of course, the reality is quite different. Latest estimates put the number of unemployed and under employed Americans at just under 20 million people. Economic growth since the last recession ended is historically anemic despite record low interest rates for a record length of time, an energy boom, and hundreds of billions spent on a failed stimulus program.
But probably the most telling and the saddest fact about how this administration and this Washington political class have no idea how to implement and operate effective economic policies is the disgraceful amount of Americans that are currently receiving government food assistance, food stamps. According to a recent article in the Fiscal Times, there are currently more Americans on food stamps than before or during the Great Recession. "Although the number is down from the historical high of 48 million Americans in 2012, “total [Federal food assistance] enrollment remains nearly triple the 17 million food stamp users in 2000. In 2009 nearly 39 million people were on food stamps, and the number rose to 44 million in 2010.”"
Four years after the recession ended, four years after Obama proclaimed he had lifted the economy out of the recession, tens of millions of Americans have not yet experienced that recovery and need help putting food on their family’s plate every day.
This is why Step 36 from “Love my Country, Loathe my Government” is so important. Step 36 would require every member of Congress and the White House to take and pass a course on economic theory and policy before starting their job.
We see the idiocy and ineffectiveness of their economic policies when they have no economic training. How much worse could it be if we made them learn a few economic principles before passing legislation and policies that affect the economic well being of Americans?
5) According to a recent Associated Press article by Elizabeth Harrington, Federal tax credits intended to stimulate the economies of low-income communities around America have instead gone to doggie day cares, sculptures, recording studios, and breweries. These were the findings from a report released by Senator Tom Coburn.
One billion dollars in tax credits are sold to private investors every year via the Federal New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program. The credits are intended to spur private investment and create jobs in low economic areas.
However, given the wide and ambiguous definition of what constitutes a “low income community,” past credits have been taken advantage of by Hollywood producers, Wall Street bankers, and major corporations. Coburn calls the program a “billionaire’s fantasy island.”
“The New Market Tax Credit is a reverse Robin Hood scheme paid for with the taxes collected from working Americans to provide pay outs to big banks and corporations in the hope that those it took the money from might benefit,” Coburn said in a statement. “When government picks winners and losers, the losers usually end up being taxpayers. Washington should reduce federal taxes on working Americans and all business owners who create jobs by eliminating tax earmarks, loopholes, and giveaways like the New Markets Tax Credit.”
Coburn’s report found that:
- The tax credit has subsidized almost 4,000 projects, including limousine services, eBay consignment selling services, churches, doggie day care and a dog grooming facility.
- Some of the tax credits went to major corporations like IHOP and Subway chain restaurants.
- Although ineligible to receive credits, hot tub facilities, golf courses and country clubs, and tanning salons investments actually did occur under the program.
- In one instance, a California wellness center also spent $65,000 of NMTC financing on a sculpture entitled, “Dancing on the Wind,” that features two figures “reaching toward the heavens.” Obviously, spending $65,000 on a statue is $65,000 that can not be spent on real economic development.
That will do it for today. Overpaid politicians’ daughters, over funded and ineffective government programs, an under-imaginative IRS, an empty handed-EPA, and economically deficient politicians, just from today's poltiical class insanity.
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