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Lois Lerner Mistakenly Received an Email to Senator Chuck Grassley Inviting Him to Speak at an Event. She Immediately Asked If She Should Refer Him For an Audit
Yes, you read it right.
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BY THE WAY, at this point, isn't it incumbent upon me to ask,
HOW THE FUCK DID LOIS LERNER ACCIDENTALLY RECEIVE AN EMAIL INTENDED FOR CHUCK GRASSLEY?
UPDATE - On December 3, 2012 (the day before Lerner fired off that email), Grassley gave a speech attacking Obama's budget, which included these words:
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Green Energy
Lois Lerner Mistakenly Received an Email to Senator Chuck Grassley Inviting Him to Speak at an Event. She Immediately Asked If She Should Refer Him For an Audit
Yes, you read it right.
Click on the title and read the whole thing.
BY THE WAY, at this point, isn't it incumbent upon me to ask,
HOW THE FUCK DID LOIS LERNER ACCIDENTALLY RECEIVE AN EMAIL INTENDED FOR CHUCK GRASSLEY?
UPDATE - On December 3, 2012 (the day before Lerner fired off that email), Grassley gave a speech attacking Obama's budget, which included these words:
Mr. President, this chart from the Congressional Budget Office details non-interest spending as a percentage of GDP. We already know the significant role health care spending plays in our budget. Over the next decade, the federal government will spend over $7 trillion on Medicare and $4.5 trillion on Medicaid.
Together these two programs account for one quarter of the entire federal government’s spending throughout the next ten years.
But look closely at the even longer term projections of our spending. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the middle graph--- Social Security, as a percentage of GDP, will remain relatively stable over the next 25 years.
Non-interest spending, the bottom graph, as a percentage of GDP will also remain relatively stable over the same period.
Now, look at the top graph. Over the next 25 years, spending on health care entitlements will basically double as a percentage of GDP. Mr. President, unless we take a serious look at health care spending, we aren’t genuinely acting to reduce our country’s debt.
Twenty-five years is not a lot of time. We need to be talking about health care spending now. Not sometime next year. Not just once we’ve discussed taxes. Mr. President, to me, the terms are irrelevant and the conclusion is undeniable. We must gain control of health care spending.
As we move forward in debt talks, I know a lot of attention will be devoted to taxes and revenue.
Those conversations are important and should conclude with tax policy that fosters economic growth. But conversations about the health care entitlements should not be postponed or relegated to second tier status. And they certainly should not be confined to cost-reduction exercises that ignore the fundamental cost drivers.
- "how Would You Feel If You Knew That Almost All Of The Money You Pay In Personal Income Tax Went To Pay Just One Bill, The Interest On The Debt?”
CNBC TodayChances are, you and millions of Americans would find that completely unacceptable and indeed they should.But that is where we may be heading.Thanks to the Fed, the interest rate paid on our national debt is at an historic low of 2.4 percent,...
-
Zero Hedge: Latest Congressional Budget Outlook For 2012-2022 Released, Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10% Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/31/2012 What do the NAR, Consumer Confidence and CBO forecasts have in common? If you said, "they are all completely...
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- Which Tax Breaks? Which Loopholes?
From the 2011 State of the Union Address:The bipartisan Fiscal Commission I created last year made this crystal clear. I don’t agree with all their proposals, but they made important progress. And their conclusion is that the only way to tackle our...
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Not as much as most of us think it is: ... an analysis that shows military spending as a historically low percentage of GDP, demonstrating how entitlements have outpaced defense allocations from the Lyndon Johnson era to the present. I recently had the...