Posted on 05/16/2013 4:46:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The IRS?
It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the IRS. A union that not only endorsed President Obama for election and re-election, but a union whose current president, Colleen Kelly, was a 14-year IRS agent and now is both union president and Obama administration appointee (of which more in a moment).
It’s about 94% of NTEU union contributions going to Democrats in the Senate and House in 2012 — candidates who campaigned as vociferous opponents of the Tea Party.
And the recently released report from the Treasury Inspector General? You will not find a single reference to the NTEU. Whose members are both player and referee in the exploding controversy over the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
Which raises the obvious question: how many NTEU members were involved in the writing of the Inspector General’s report?
Even more to the point, what contact — what coordination — has the Obama White House had with their allies in the NTEU leadership as both the White House and the NTEU race to get on top of a scandal that is rapidly engulfing both?
Did I mention that the NTEU has no comment on all of this? And that when President Obama went in front of cameras to make his statement on the IRS scandal — he never once mentioned his very powerful union buddies that have the run of the IRS? Right down to the control of who gets a Blackberry? Literally.
Let’s first see how the IRS/NTEU game with the Tea Party and conservatives is played, shall we?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The IRS union started in 1938.
Get it out there.
http://www.nteu.org/PressKits/PressRelease/PressRelease.aspx?ID=1652
“As a small gathering of Tea Party activists outside the Capitol chanted “shut it down,”
“You have to be from Wonderland to believe that you can make severe cuts in government spending without sending the economy into a tailspin and cutting critical services Americans depend upon. It is time to put aside ideological stances and for Congress to agree on a budget that serves the American people”
“Yet a handful of ideologues and their political supporters gathered today to ignore the obvious negative effects and continue to push for unrealistic cuts that will result in a loss of vital services for all Americans”
“House Republican leaders must not kowtow to extreme elements”
This is stuff that has to be done at the local level, then to the state. Career politicians have to placate the unions—we don’t.
Making severe cuts in government spending and power would send the economy into the stratosphere.
KaBoom!
Because I couldn't find it in a few quick searches.
And I am not in the mood to play with Libertarians who think all taxes and all government and all religions are inherently evil.
What statement? Can you be specific.
Pretty sure Hayes writes for the Weekly Standard.
BUMP!
government employees should not be unionized. period.
IRS Inspector General Report on Tax-Exempt Scrutiny of Political Organizations
This is from the report:
Figure 3: Criteria for Potential Political Cases (June 2011)
Just added to the list is the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. They voted (only 30% yes votes required to pass) to be represented because some of them may have to share office space (with offices with really thin walls) during an upcoming renovation. WHAT! What’s next? Having to actually do your job. Sad bunch of wimpy book-keepers sounds like to me.
bump
“It’s also astonishing that the IRS is actually controlled by a liberal, Obama-loyal union, the NTEU...whose very president is, in a separate matter, an Obama appointee to a committee which decides the salaries of federal employees.”
Hopefully the next Republican administration will pull a Clinton and fire everyone. And when the media goes after them, audit every last person.
The NTEU represents most Federal Agencies (not the Dept of ED) and Obama and his henchmen have co-opted the management of the U.S. government through this back door.
This has all been part of the plan. And now his plan has been discovered.
This is the new front of this war that Obama and his henchmen are waging against America. And now we see his strategy...right out in the open for all to see.
Defang the unions...and defang Obama.
Or better yet...send Obama to jail!
bkmk
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