1 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone LA Times ^ | 9/10/2010 | Andrew Malcom
Posted on Friday, September 10, 2010 10:26:53 AM by Qbert
Over the years a lot of suspicion has built up across the country about Washington and its population of opportunistic transients coming to see themselves as a special kind of person, somehow above average working Americans who don't work down in that former swamp.
Well, finally, an end to all those undocumented doubts. Thanks to some diligent digging by the Washington Post, those suspicions can at last be put to rest.
They're correct. Accurate. Dead-on. Laser-guided. On target. Bingo-bango. As clear as it's always seemed to those Americans who don't feel special entitlements and do meet their government obligations.
We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
As in, 1,000 times one million dollars. All this political jabber about giving middle-class ...
... Americans a tax cut. Thousands of feds have been giving themselves one all along -- unofficially. And these tax scofflaws include more than three dozen folks who work for the president with that newly decorated Oval Office.
The Post's T.W. Farnum did some research and found that out of the total sum, just 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. As in, overdue. The IRS gets stiffed by the legislative body that controls its budget. How Washington works.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows 60% of Americans still blame Bush for the economy. A combined 47% believe George W. Bush and his administration are “solely responsible” or “mainly responsible” for the current economy, just 34% in the poll say the same of Obama and his administration.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows 60% of Americans still blame Bush for the economy. A combined 47% believe George W. Bush and his administration are “solely responsible” or “mainly responsible” for the current economy, just 34% in the poll say the same of Obama and his administration.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
I guess Box missed the news conference with Deb Wasserman Shultz. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We own the economy’ By MOLLY BALL | 6/15/11 11:35 AM EDT
Democrats are ready to take responsibility for the state of the economy and they deserve credit for putting it on the right track, the party’s chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said on Wednesday.
“We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place,” Wasserman Schultz told Mike Allen at POLITICO’s ‘Playbook Breakfast.’
The economy, she said, “has turned around” since President Obama took office, with steady job growth evident even if the pace leaves something to be desired.
Republicans have ridiculed Democrats’ claims of economic success in the wake of disappointing jobs numbers and an uptick in the unemployment rate.
Wasserman Schultz said Democrats aren’t in need of a new story to tell about the economy because they’ve put the right policies in place. “I don’t think it’s about what we say, it’s about what we do.”
I guess Box missed the news conference with Deb Wasserman Shultz. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We own the economy’
YUP! Deb has her opinion, and the majority of America still blames George Worst Bush for the state of the economy.
Obama is finally starting to turn things around. If he doesn't before a year from now, then he'll probably not be reelected... (BTW) Have ya seen any Republican Jobs Bills??? Could the Republicans be hoping that if they do nothing to fix the economy, that Obama will get the blame???
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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