And So It Goes

Hello My Dear Friends! To be honest, after the captor's Mom passed away last week, I didn't know when I would be up to doing this again. Well, leave it to the government to get me too fired up to remain quiet! Let's start with our beloved IRS. Amid scandals of abusing their power to block conservative groups from gaining non-profit status and of hijacking millions of dollars in tax refunds from unsuspecting Americans, we now learn this! Between October 2010 and December 2012 over 2800 IRS employees, who had been disciplined for conduct problems, including but not limited to NOT PAYING THEIR TAXES, were awarded over $2.8 million in BONUSES and over 27,000 hours in bonus time off! That's right. IRS workers who failed to pay their own taxes were rewarded with your tax dollars! It boggles the mind. Of those "problem" employees, 1,100 of them split more than one million dollars and 10,000 hours in time-off awards. It gets better. In 2011, 70,000 IRS employees got cash bonuses totaling more than $92 million. In 2012, 68,000 IRS workers split more than $86 million. A 1998 law states that IRS employees who willfully fail to pay their taxes shall be removed from their positions. Instead, they're being rewarded with bonuses and added vacation time! Nice work if you can get it! Next, a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change says that Biofuels made from leftovers from harvested corn plants, in the short term, are actually worse for the environment than gasoline! The study concluded that Biofuels made with corn residue produce 7% more greenhouse gases than conventional gasoline. The White House says that isn't true. They say it's "flawed science" and that the study is wrong. So, who paid for this flawed study? Yup. You guessed it. The Federal Government. LOL! They just can't seem to get out of their own way.
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