Posted on 01/15/2015 12:10:54 PM PST by Starman417
Barack Obama is one mean, vindictive bastard. There is no other way to put it. During the last government "shutdown" Obama blockaded the WWII memorial, which is normally is open and ungated. He spent money on personnel and materials to prevent WWII vets from gaining access to their own shrine.
The vets requested access to the memorial but were refused by Obama and the Department of the Interior:
The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II memorial in Washington, the Mississippi Republican told The Daily Caller Tuesday.Palazzo helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service Tuesday, when the heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial. The veterans were visiting the memorial as part of Honor Flight, a non-profit that provides veterans free transport to the nation’s capital to visit the memorials to the wars they fought in.
“We got the heads up that they will be barricaded and specifically asked for an exception for these heroes,” Palazzo told TheDC. “We were denied and told, ‘It’s a government shutdown, what do you expect?’ when we contacted the liaison for the White House.”
He's punishing the elderly again, this time using the IRS:
In its annual Report to Congress today, the office of the National Taxpayer Advocate outlined a series of Internal Revenue Service failures. In the “Access to the IRS” section, the report details the trouble taxpayers face reaching the right person in order to meet their tax obligations:
"The IRS does not answer the phone at local offices and has even removed the option it once provided for taxpayers, including the elderly and disabled, to leave a message.”Until 2013, taxpayers — including the elderly and disabled — were allowed to leave a voicemail requesting an in-person appointment. But now, elderly and disabled taxpayers attempting to navigate the automated helpline maze are asked to email the IRS to set up an appointment. The automated message instructs as follows:
“If you are disabled or elderly and require special accommodations for service, please email us at…"But this leaves many taxpayers in the dark. As the report states:
"Demographic research data show only 57 percent of adults over age 65 use the Internet compared with 87 percent of all adults. According to 2010 Census data, only 41 percent of those with a non-severe disability use the Internet and only 22 percent of those with a severe disability age 65 and older use the Internet. For those without Internet access, the only viable ways to reach the IRS are by phone, or in person."On its helplines, the IRS is required to provide taxpayers the option to speak with a live person. But as the report states, the IRS won’t even answer questions about what lines are considered helplines:
"TAS [Taxpayer Advocate Service] twice inquired of the IRS in a formal information request whether it considers the 3709 lines to be ‘helplines' for the purpose of § 3705(d) of RRA 98, which would require them to have an option to speak with a live person. TAS also asked what lines the IRS does consider to be helplines. Twice, the IRS declined to answer these questions."
While Obama refused to allow WWII vets to use the WWII memorial park, he did allow an illegal alien rally:
A planned immigration reform rally will take place on the National Mall on Tuesday even though the site is closed due to the government shutdown.Organizers for the “Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform” were spotted Monday setting up a stage and equipment on the National Mall for the rally which will take place on Tuesday.
A few scattered barriers around the park have signs informing visitors that the area is closed as a result of the government shutdown.
Susana Flores, a spokesperson for the rally, confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group’s rights granted by the First Amendment.
Those who fought and sacrificed for their country were denied not only their First Amendment rights but the right to visit their own memorial while the demands of illegals were granted. Now Obama punishes the elderly in retribution for the IRS budget being cut. Obama is and has been determined to cause pain for the most vulnerable among us. He could divert money from enforcement. He could divert money from targeting conservatives.
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I’d say they should send the Secret Service home next time, but that might lead to bad results - like some crazy person jumping the fence and running all the way to an unlocked door and entering the White house without permission. We need the Secret Service on duty to prevent that sort of fiasco.
0 hates veterans, non-gay servicemen, Whites, Christians, Jews, and hard-working industrious people.
He loves street savages, bearded savages, and anyone else who is abnormal.
” Using the 110,000 employee strong agency called the IRS to SUPPRESS THE REPUBLICAN VOTE AHEAD OF THE 2012 ELECTION is probably the worst crime ever committed by any president.”
Oh he has done many equally treasonous things.
That memorial is just a sidewalk display of tablets. You can walk down there midnight tonight and it will be “Open”
Yep, like I said, he had to spend money to close it.
Obama is a Democrat. It was the Democrat Party that did these things. The Democrat Party is responsible.
Pretty much how I see it.
My local Eyeball News was all over this one. You won’t be able to get help from the IRS this tax season because EEEEEEEVIL Republicans SLASHED their budget.
Cruz is on the money about eliminating the IRS and he is the first and only
real candidate who has openly spoken about it. We need an Adult in DC not a bunch
of spoiled F-ing teenagers! Just Damn!
AND STAY OUT!
Hillary is even more vindictive.
Yeah, my boy and I were there that day alright.
FReegards!
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