Posted by Tina
The House Appropriations Committee’s financial services subcommittee cut the IRS budget:
The House Appropriations Committee’s financial services subcommittee slashed the IRS appropriation for 2015 to $10.95 billion, $341 million below this year’s level and $1.5 billion below the White House’s request. The cut puts the agency at its 2008 spending level.
Congressional sources told IBD that the amount was set by the “top level” parameters of the Ryan-Murray budget, which determines what an agency needs to carry out its core mission and cuts out all the goodies that the bureaucrats had been hoping for.
This does not represent a line item on next years budget. This is an appropriation, the “direct money line to the agency.” It will have to be reconciled with a Senate appropriation.
Given the agencies misconduct, lawbreaking and obstruction this is an appropriate response since the agency continues to obstruct House investigations and since Eric Holder cannot be trusted or counted on to appoint a special prosecutor.
Months of investigations into the IRS targeting of private citizens has yielded sufficient testimony and evidence to show that the IRS inappropriately targeted conservatives and illegally revealed private donor information to the FBI. The only remedy open to the House at this time is the power of the purse. I applaud the move.
One way to get their attention,
Subpoena’s were given for the hard drives and other components of the IRS computers,but alas, they were thrown away. scheesh,
It’s about time the House started using its power of the purse to reign in this out of control administration.
Here’s something I got in the mail that made me smile.
Grey haired Geezers:
The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. If all of us old farts have all of the money, then let us try to elect someone who might be near honest and not be after feathering their own nests.
They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs.
Some of us are “Baby Boomers” getting ready to retire.
Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We have worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God and grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true.
But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.
In school we studied English, history, math, and science which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand
experience.
We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don’t know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.
We are probably considered old fashioned and outdated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam.
We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so.
We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn’t fight for the Socialist States of America; we fought for the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”
We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag. We know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, America , and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America.
Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us.
We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country and nobody is going to take it away from us.
We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.
It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress.
You fell for the “Hope and Change” which in reality was nothing but “Hype and Lies.”
You have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don’t like it after all.
You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or “Climbing the Social
Ladder” to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting.
Many of those who fell for the “Great Lie” in 2008 are now having buyer’s remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn’t have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the ‘Kool-Aid.’ Now you’re paying the price and complaining about it.
No jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom.
This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.
Well, don’t worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here, and in 2014 we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like but we get where we’re going, and in 2014 we’re going to the polls by the millions.
This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
It belongs to “We the People” and “We the People” plan to reclaim our land and our freedom. We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren.
So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, Stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the “Grey-Haired Brigade.”
Ineptocracy – (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy)
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves, or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
“Tax Invasion” video worth watching
http://aclj.org/tax-invasion/index.html
Great video Peggy! I sure wish we still had the capability to post them to our front page…thanks for sharing the link!
Good move. Now start subpoenaing lower-level employees all the way down to those “rogue” ones in Cincinnati.
White House Lawyer Summoned to Testify on Lois Lerner’s Missing Emails:
“Darrell Issa addressed his most recent summons to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Seeking more information about Lois Lerner’s lost emails, the House Oversight Committee chairman has asked White House counsel Jennifer O’Connor to testify on Tuesday.
Issa believes that O’Connor may have known about the missing emails long before lawmakers.
A veteran Washington legal strategist, O’Conner was brought on to provide special counsel to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. From May until November of last year, O’Conner helped “navigate the scandal over [the IRS’s] reviews of conservative organizations,” according to a Wall Street Journal article quoted by Issa.
Serving in this capacity, O’Connor had access to IRS correspondence relevant to the investigation. Testifying before the Oversight Committee last November, IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins referred to O’Connor specifically as “the key supervisor” responsible for processing the committee’s requests for material.
This position now places O’Connor in the thick of the committee’s investigation. In his letter, Issa wrote:
Given your prominent role in supervising the IRS’s document review and production processes, you likely knew or should have known that the IRS was missing a portion of e-mails sent or received by Ms. Lerner responsive to the Committee’s subpoena.
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