In His Own Words - Rep. Trey Gowdy Addresses IRS Nonsense

 

We heard this man speak these profound words to the IRS - "A cultural, systemic, character, moral issue.  Training cannot fix a character issue.  There's not a webinar in the world that will fix it.  Start over - its allowed itself to be used as a political tool."

David Axelrod, Dreamweaver

Let's say your profession is message and media management.  Well known past professionals in this field include Karl Marx, Herman Goebbels, Tokyo Rose and Baghdad Bob.  Now, you may recognize the name of our title character - he founded AKPD Message and Media.  His number one client is our great leader under whose regime employment has plummeted, private sector income has precipitously dropped and debt has skyrocketed.  So, if you're David, you've got your work cut out for you.  Not to worry, David has done his job well and managed to pocket millions in the process of managing what the media choose to cover.  Possible topics include:

·         dropping income

·         skyrocketing debt

·         massive unemployment – a lot of Americans just don’t work anymore

·         devastating societal conditions in urban neighborhoods resembling 3rd world countries like Somalia and Ethiopia

·         rapidly rising health care costs previously promised to decline

·         current as well as looming city and state bankruptcies

·         or, none of the above.

So, what has the media covered?  None of the above.  Good job, David.

Here is what America's Hollywood media, led by two of America's key information sources - PBS and Comcast/NBC chose to cover -

• Claimed increases of cases of sexual assault in the military - see the happy faces below (Gee, General Odierno, don’t you just love those gal senators and all their brilliant ideas?)

A few years ago the fellow who would have been seated in the middle of this gathering of top military brass pondering the "claimed rise in sexual misconduct" uttered a comment that should have changed America's system of governance - literally turned it upside down.  His words are memorialized at the top of this page.  When he made the statement designating debt as our nation's top national security threat, on that day, the US government told us that it owed $13,375,222,710,985.08.  We don't know if that number even represents 10% of what we truly owe if you add all the obligations of all the cities and states as well as all the future commitments to do this and that - in Washington, in New York, California, Illinois and so forth.  What we do know is whatever the true debt number is, it is a lot higher today – even their own number above has risen to $16,738,778,336,691.59.  (Aside:  think about it – the treasury department adds the pennies to their debt number but they have no clue who told the Cincinnati IRS office to give the tea party and patriot folk a hard time.)

In other words, the threat to our national security has grown and these fellows are called in front of a group of pampered senators who cannot wait to do David Axelrod's bidding - deflect all attention away from real problems and substitute a contrived but media embraced issue. 

David now works for NBC which is owned by Comcast.  Just imagine where America is headed when a low quality, high priced, monopolistic outfit like Comcast not only controls the distribution of media, Internet and information into a large portion of America's homes but also controls the content and decides which issue(s) to favor and which issue(s) to disregard (see above list.)  All supported by corrupt government policies and bureaucracies.  All supported by the very senators and congressmen who want us to think about sexual misconduct in the military instead of anything of real consequence.

Congratulations David – job well done.  Your dreams have come true.

It's Not Just the IRS That is So Darn Politicized

The pattern just keeps repeating itself - over and over again.

 

The recent kerfuffle arising from petty bureaucrats favoring their personal political view over the opposing political view seems to shock some viewers, readers and other observers of the American governance system.

 

Baloney.

 

There is no such thing as a two party system when it comes to a bureaucracy and any such propaganda (just listen to David Axelrod spin this situation and, more importantly, just watch his nose extend as he does) to the contrary is simply bureaucratic hogwash.

 

Let's take a couple of bureaucracies:

 

1.  PBS - you know who they are - they beg for public money to bring their high level programming - their unbiased news stories and their constant caterwauling about global warming, homosexual marriage and the horrible behavior of the Catholic church.  When the minority party was suggesting some Washington DC belt tightening, how did PBS report and otherwise stay above the fray?  Well they used their publicly funded airwaves and publicly funded news rooms and their publicly funded propaganda machine to develop a publicly funded propaganda movement called, modestly, the 170 million movement or some such thing, to repeatedly tell us what a fine job they were doing for 170 million PBS loving Americans and it would be very un-American-like to cut even one penny of financing to this fine effort of theirs.  Now, in our world, that is a conflict of interest.  In any normal world it is politicization.  At the Corporation for Public Broadcasting it is business as usual.

 

2.  Department of agriculture.  This bureaucratic cesspool has a life, a purpose, a mission that can make the IRS seem to be a gathering of rational thinking workers.  The Department of agriculture - to be more exact, the tens of thousands of bureaucrats who get a paycheck, get a benefits package that would bring embarrassment to Marie Antoinette and pensions to match, have done something most bureaucrats dream of but few accomplish - they have taken a very limited concept of distributing America's excess agriculture production to a limited group of needy people; a program that started out with several thousand recipients in each state - to a virtual no restriction, electronic debit card usable on almost any manufactured food product in a grocery store, regardless of nutrition or lack thereof; regardless of cost and advertised it - yes, folks promoted it to where 25% of all Americans, 70 million Americans now use it to finance their trips to Kroger, Publix and Safeway.  Politicization - you gotta be kidding me - do you think even the lowest IQ Department of agriculture employee is going to vote for a Republican and admit it?

 

There are a few things one can learn even growing up in Chicago or Washington DC.  One of those things is that a bureaucracy is politics - through and through.  The top bureaucrat, be it a guy or gal, depends on politics for his/her job which means all reporting to her/him depend on politics for their jobs.  The only voice raised against this reality is that of the great leader - who tells us they operate independently because he says so.  Is he nuts or just lying?  Both?

 

Ultimate politicization is Chicago.  One party - no ifs ands or buts about it.  Drive around a Chicago neighborhood a few days before an election and count the front lawn signs that promote a Republican candidate and a Democrat candidate.  Make a bet with great leader - you will pay him a quarter for each Republican sign if he will pay you a dime for each Democrat sign.  You'd make money even if you settled for a nickel.

 

Can we track the movement of government employees from "independence" to leaning one way to complete politicization?  By complete, we mean IRS politicization - PBS politicization - Department of agriculture politicization?  Of course we can -  January 17, 1962, John F. Kennedy, by a stroke of the pen - his signature authorizing the unionization of federal government workers (see:  TheFundamentals, March 9, 2010.)   Political payback for votes?  What do you think?

 

There is no place in a republic form of democracy for the unionization of any government workers.  The US constitution guarantees that the form of government in America and each of its states shall be a republic - the people rule - not the bureaucrats - not one political party over another - and most certainly not some union boss/thug who runs the place the way the union boss/thugs run Chicago.

 

Here are the main culprits:   NAGE, AFSCME, NEA, NRLCA, AFGE, NALC, AFT, NTEU, AATU, IBPO, NAON, APWU, SEIU and NFFE. 

 

Words , even words flowing from the mouth of great leader, mean nothing.  If you want a government of, by and for the people, you must limit it just as our constitution limits it and that means limited employees and no unions.  If you want to depoliticize America's vast bureaucracies all you need do is one of two things:

 

1.  Limit the budget - i.e. drastically cut them back, or

2.  Get rid of the unions (most are listed above)  - i.e. undo JFK's signature on executive order #10988

 

We recommend #2.  In the meantime, just keep on kidding yourself - there is no politics at the IRS or PBS or the Department of ___________ (fill in the blank.)   And always keep repeating - they work for us.

 

Arrogance

Have you ever watched a little kid try to act like a big kid?  See them straighten their spine, look right at you, use adult words, deliver them with anger or a sneer or disgust or all of the above?  When this happens one can wonder, where did this kid learn this behavior?   Who taught the kid that the way to be an adult is to huff and puff and shout and act tough?

 

Well, this essay is about the people who teach kids how to deflect and depress fear.  Behind the kids actions is fear - very, very high levels of pure fear. 

 

What happens when you cover up fear - let it control you - instead of facing it?    Anger, sarcasm, secrecy, disdain, withdrawal, most of all, arrogance.  Examples, please.

 

The Daley boys in Chicago have mastered the art of letting fear control them.  Their successor, Emanuel, is getting there. 

 

In Washington DC, the last president was good at letting fear control all aspects of his behavior.  That character flaw in the Bush kid has cost America a lot - it has destroyed a lot of lives and families; perhaps more than any American since Lyndon B. Johnson.  Many of those lives and families are not Americans.  It also started us on the debt bandwagon.

 

if you watch politicians closely, you will see the consequence of suppressed fear - the one sure sign, the more they talk, the more fear they are suppressing.  Four senators immediately come to mind - McCain, Durbin, Graham and Schumer.  All they do is blather - about darn near anything and everything - as if they have a clue about everything and anything.  What they show us is their deep seated fear and how it controls their behavior.

 

We are witnessing the fear of bureaucrats - some have been caught in their know nothing - say nothing - be accountable for nothing way of life. Publicly caught.  Bureaucrats will do anything to not be exposed.  This way of life is fear based - there is no comfort in acting as if you are doing something worthwhile when you know you are useless and unneeded.  You could come clean - fess up - admit to whatever nonsense you have been doing or pretending to be doing - or you can get your back up - look your challengers right in the eye and say, "I did nothing wrong."  Reminds one of,  "I am not a crook."  Or, "I did not have sex with that woman."

 

Government bureaucrats are the most unneeded fear based fools we have and we have millions of them.  For the last four years they have been offered spectacular cover for their unneeded and damaging behavior by one person - Barack Obama.   Barack needs their unions to support him - heck, his entire political party depends on government union life support.

 

Barack Obama has not even attempted to manage the bureaucrats and the bureaucracies.  And he knows it.  But, as long as they vote for him and get the others to vote for him, he could care less what they do.  Just don't bring it to his doorstep.  For over four years, American media, what we call the Hollywood media, has provided cover for this corrupt man and his corrupt practices -  behavior that he learned watching those Daley boys cover up their fears.   The Daley boys have destroyed the financial condition of a city, a county and a state.  Most of us would be a bit spooked with that on our record.

 

Arrogance - be it Daley arrogance or Obama arrogance (really, Axelrod arrogance, Obama is a mouthpiece) - be it McCain or Schumer arrogance or the unneeded bureaucrats at the departments of justice, state and defense (or, for that matter, the IRS), it all comes down to this one simple connection - cover up of fear.

 

They do not know what they are doing - they are perched on the top of a house of cards - they don't want it to collapse on their watch - so they huff and puff and hope that we will think they are in charge.  That they are needed.  That they know what they are doing.

 

How would you like to live a life based on hiding out from your fears?  Would it make you act arrogantly?  Be secretive?  Huff and puff?  Act as if you know what you are doing when you don't?

Obama's "Chicago Way"

Please read:  http://nationalreview.com/article/349610/obamas-chicago-way-john-fund

Falling Bridges – Rising Pensions

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if the main issue in the next political campaign were this simply described?

Do you want your taxes to repair and rebuild the crumbling bridges and road beds in America, or

Do you want your taxes to pay salaries, benefits and pensions to public employees at levels two and three times higher than that which you, the average taxpayer, is paid?

No, you can’t have both – you have to pick one or the other.

Then the campaign would start.  Enter David Axelrod and his APKD propagandists.  Enter the public employee union “leaders” to tell us everything will collapse without the public servants.  You see, there is no effective propagandist to get the word out that there is only so much tax revenue available and if it is used for all those wages, benefits and pensions, there is not enough left over to pay for bridges and roads.

Now most of those political candidates who seek support from the public employees and their very highly paid union “leaders” will also tell you – raise the taxes – most certainly raise them on the rich – the well to do – make them all pay their fair share.

Have you heard this idea; this concept; this statement before?   Who have you heard it from? 

Well – let’s keep our answer simple and focused.  We hear it from Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden – we hear it from the 55 democrat senators in the senate and the 201 democrats in the house.  We hear it from democrat governors in 20 states and from the democrat controlled legislatures in 17 states. But there is one source – a fairly new source in terms of the life of the American republic – from whence we hear it 24/7 – 12 months a year – a constant never ending demand for more tax money to pay already the highest salaries, benefits and pensions in every one of our townships – our cities – our counties – our states and our federal government.

Who is the source of this constant wailing for more, more and even more?

NAGE, AFSCME, NEA, NRLCA, AFGE, NALC, AFT, NTEU, AATU, IBPO, NAON, APWU, SEIU and NFFE.  They got the bridge money and the road money – the park money and the school money.  They still want more.

There is no way any of us have enough money – not even if you tax 90% of every cent earned by the well to do –not even if you tax 50% of every cent earned by the middle class – not even if you just tax 5% of every cent earned by the lower earners – there is no way America can afford to pay the 22+ million government public employees at the rate we are paying them and providing them benefits and pensions that 80% of  Americans will ever dream possible much less attain.

So, if you want to repair and rebuild bridges and roads – all you need do is get rid of some of the public employees and their union masters who are taking the money collected to repair bridges and roads and actually use it to employ contractors who, in open bidding, offer their competitive services and their background and their accomplishments to get the job done.  If you take this simple step, in a matter of 9 or 10 years you will have rebuilt much of America’s crumbling infrastructure – roads and bridges as well as schools, water systems, sewage plants and parks.  If you so choose, we can also build high capacity broadband distribution systems to prepare America for a very competitive 21^st century.  In other words, we will actually be doing what other countries are doing right this minute – while we spend our resources on overstaffed – overpaid – over benefited – over pensioned public employees who don’t know a bridge from a bandwidth – don’t know a water main from a Wi-Fi signal; they are building their country.

Oh, one more thing.  Spending our tax revenues on these activities for which they are collected will do the following:

·       Create private sector jobs building things – not bureaucracies

·       These added private sector jobs will create more private sector jobs as the tax funds spent for the intended purposes rebound throughout the economy, and

·       This process – rebuilding and repair work plus the multiplier effect – both of which create private sector jobs – will then create even more private sector jobs as the economy picks up and business people, also in the private sector, add factories and distribution centers and buy more trucks and supplies and hire even more private sector employees to supply the products and services to meet the growing demand

·       Now all this will occur in the private sector. The unions listed above will not benefit.  The people will benefit.  The country will benefit.

·       So choose – bureaucracies or bridges – it’s just not all that complicated.

Presidential Integrity

What is integrity?

Mr. Webster, please:  “firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: "INCORRUPTIBILITY”

Especially moral or artistic values.  What are Mr. Obama’s moral values?  NBC (owned by Comcast) can address his artistic values.

What we know is what he occasionally reads to us or that we can find in a delivered speech and what he may say off the cuff in unscripted, not unpracticed, remarks.  And, of course, what he does.

So, we know his values include:

Spreading the wealth around

The rich should pay more (or, as he likes to say – their fair share)

Government spending is good

More government spending is even better

It is okay for his administration to incur debt to pursue their programs and activities

He will not permit Iran to have a nuclear weapon…

Syria had better not cross the red line of using poisonous gas, or else…

Government debt need not be repaid (he learned this in Illinois)

Big money must be removed from politics – well some sources of big money should be eliminated – not public employee union money or money from the bureaucrats who work for their public union masters

Tea party people are riling up the electorate and they should be squished – or at least examined by the IRS and other governmental agencies but you bureaucrats are on your own if you examine them too closely

It is not okay for his predecessor’s administration to incur debt to do pursue their programs and activities  - it's irresponsible and unpatriotic

Guns are good when in the hands of government employees and bad when in the hands of those for whom the government employees work  – the people

He works for the people – all the people – all the time – works hard

He has a self-acknowledged tendency to be lazy, and

His political values are those of Chicago, Cook County and Illinois

So, if you worked for this man’s government and you could do something based on his “values” and a republican opposition party organization came to you because your job was to approve their tax exempt status, what would you do?  (Before you answer, if you are an Obama voter, remember, you are already casting your vote for him and his party because he has promised you something coming from that money collected from the haves and you see yourself as not getting your fair share of the pie – i.e. you can justify anything if it helps you get your piece of the pie.)

Oh, one more of his values – if he is caught doing something he shouldn’t do or someone who works for him is caught doing something they shouldn’t do – act “outraged” – be firm – find someone to blame – stand up for your values – and by all means, call for an investigation. 

One last value – this one is a well-established  “Illinois” value  – unless you are in the inner circle he will toss you under the bus in the blink of an eye.  But don’t blame Illinois too much for this value – it was firmly established in his psyche when he got there.

Integrity?  It's his second middle name.  When it comes to values, he's a beauty.