Green Energy
As Midnight Rider can attest to, trying to deal with bureaucracy in these trying times, is trying. When you don't have
to worry about money, it's hard to truly understand those who actually do.
And as far as bureaucracy is concerned, you can't get much bigger than the IRS.
Due to changing financial circumstances, I felt it would be best to do what the IRS tells us to do, I called them.
I explained that I am unemployed, facing homelessness and do not have any money. All I want to do is cancel my payment agreement.
Talk about hoops and loops. Say, "I am facing homelessness and am not sure where I will be" and their next question is,
"How do we contact you?" Uh, considering I don't know where I will be, I can't tell you that.
Oh, um, studder, studder....
Ok, how about we lower your payment? I say, ma'am, I am not working and do not have any money. If you try to take the money out of my account, it will bounce and I will have even less money. I hope to be back on the plan soon, but I do have a refund coming that will more than cover the amount I owe.
That's when things got really interesting.
Them: So who set up the direct debit?
Me: I did. I filled out the paperwork and sent it in.
Them: Oh (sounding shocked)
[Who the hell else would set up the direct debit?]
Them: Ok, well I will have to send a referral over to our debit department to cancel the payments. (Sounding like this was too much work for her)
Me: (thinking) That's what I called about, you idiot.
Them: So this is your cellphone
Me: Yes it is.
Them: So this is the number we can contact you?
Me: Yes, for the time being as long as it is on.
Them: Big sigh
It continued on like that for 45 minutes. It didn't get better. She continued to talk to me like I was some kind of scum of the earth. The tone of her voice was awful.
Does the IRS read the news? Are they not aware that
the economy totally sucks right now and that there are many people in this country who are losing their jobs and homes?
Why have they not received training regarding phone calls like mine?
I felt down right dirty by the time I got off the phone.
Is this how us lifelong tax payers are being paid back?
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Green Energy
The government has no accountability to we the people
As Midnight Rider can attest to, trying to deal with bureaucracy in these trying times, is trying. When you don't have
to worry about money, it's hard to truly understand those who actually do.
And as far as bureaucracy is concerned, you can't get much bigger than the IRS.
Due to changing financial circumstances, I felt it would be best to do what the IRS tells us to do, I called them.
I explained that I am unemployed, facing homelessness and do not have any money. All I want to do is cancel my payment agreement.
Talk about hoops and loops. Say, "I am facing homelessness and am not sure where I will be" and their next question is,
"How do we contact you?" Uh, considering I don't know where I will be, I can't tell you that.
Oh, um, studder, studder....
Ok, how about we lower your payment? I say, ma'am, I am not working and do not have any money. If you try to take the money out of my account, it will bounce and I will have even less money. I hope to be back on the plan soon, but I do have a refund coming that will more than cover the amount I owe.
That's when things got really interesting.
Them: So who set up the direct debit?
Me: I did. I filled out the paperwork and sent it in.
Them: Oh (sounding shocked)
[Who the hell else would set up the direct debit?]
Them: Ok, well I will have to send a referral over to our debit department to cancel the payments. (Sounding like this was too much work for her)
Me: (thinking) That's what I called about, you idiot.
Them: So this is your cellphone
Me: Yes it is.
Them: So this is the number we can contact you?
Me: Yes, for the time being as long as it is on.
Them: Big sigh
It continued on like that for 45 minutes. It didn't get better. She continued to talk to me like I was some kind of scum of the earth. The tone of her voice was awful.
Does the IRS read the news? Are they not aware that
the economy totally sucks right now and that there are many people in this country who are losing their jobs and homes?
Why have they not received training regarding phone calls like mine?
I felt down right dirty by the time I got off the phone.
Is this how us lifelong tax payers are being paid back?
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Barack Obama just keeps making stupiderer and stupiderer arguments on the economy. My prediction; his next speech he'll tell us, "Well, at least I didn't give you AIDS when I butt-raped you." midnight rider adds: Dear Mr. President, Honorable...
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So I called Citibastards today after the post below. My mom, a 73 year old widow, was going to try to hit her home equity line of credit to help hold off the wolves a little longer. The woman told me that she didn't see anything that would indicate...
- Ace Of Spades On The Audacious Greed Of The Ows Mob
People are filled with vanity. Vanity defines people. People tell themselves pretty lies, to convince themselves they're superior to other people. Case in point: The first guy's contention that "There is a thing called greed." He offers this as...
- Too Big To Fail, Too
You have all patiently listened to me complain and bitch these last 14 months about the unemployment crisis in this country, especially as it pertains to me. So this is addressed as much to those about to be elected selected and sent for their turn in...
- Atlas Shrugged's Fiftieth Anniversary
The "Money Speech" from Atlas Shrugged: "So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced...