Posted on 12/25/2014 1:51:40 PM PST by Steelfish
Little Noticed in Immigration Overhaul: A Government Hiring Rush By MICHAEL D. SHEAR DEC. 25, 2014
WASHINGTON — This is how a bureaucracy grows.
Only 10 days after President Obama announced in a prime-time address that millions of undocumented people would soon “be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation,” an electronic bulletin reached inboxes across Washington. In a crucial detail that Mr. Obama left out, the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency said it was immediately seeking 1,000 new employees to work in an office building to process “cases filed as a result of the executive actions on immigration.”
The likely cost: nearly $8 million a year in lease payments and more than $40 million for annual salaries.
The announcement of the new “operational center” among the chain restaurants and high-rises of Crystal City, a Northern Virginia neighborhood used for overflow from the federal agencies in Washington, offers a glimpse into how swiftly a president’s words can produce bigger government. It also demonstrates the bureaucracy’s ability to swing into action, even during an extended power struggle between the president and Congress.
“When you have an executive order, when you have a president saying, ‘I want you to do this,’ bureaucrats say, ‘O.K., let’s go do what the president says,'” said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former White House official who worked on Vice President Al Gore’s “reinventing government” initiative.
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It is also the stockholders money, but since many stockholders’ shares are managed and voted by universities, foundations, unions and pension plans, the individual stockholders are not aware of these pesky little details. If they were aware and raised hexx like the stockholders of Goldman Sachs in 2008, they could have an influence, and specifically help hold down the high cost of medicine and drugs.
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and didn’t they add 12,000 to the IRS to monitor Obamacare this year? Just hire the entire country and send paychecks. Write as many checks as needed and add to the national debt. One big party.
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