Obama Staff Colors “Fair Share” with Red Pen and Middle Finger

“Fair share” is this President’s favorite phrase. We hear it repeated in every speech; over, and over, and over again. It’s repeated so often that Obama’s teleprompter abbreviates it with a two-letter “FS” designation and he’s still able to remember what it stands for. Obama’s self-selected executive staff members have been rewarded with juicy taxpayer-funded salaries of up to $172,000 a year while they color his “fair share” playbook with a red pen.  While scribbling across his “pie-in-the-sky” rhetoric they wave their middle fingers at the middle class, at the IRS and at the preacher himself.

A new report released yesterday by the IRS revealed that 36 of President Obama’s executive staff members owe the IRS more than $833,970 in back taxes. LATimes.com reported in July, 2011 that, despite the recession being suffered by most of the country, Obama’s 454 White House aides made more than $37,121,463. At the time the unemployment rate in the country was 9.1%. The total earnings for White House staff were up nearly $4 million from 2008, Bush’s last year in office. One in three made more than $100,000 a year and 21 made the top-dollar salary of $172,000.

If that’s not enough to get your blood boiling, wtop.com reported that the IRS discovered that over $3.4 billion in unpaid taxes is owed by “active and retired federal employees and military personnel.” Postal workers owe more than $270 million in back taxes and Senate and House employees owe more than $10 million.

The sad fact is that only IRS employees can be fired for not paying their taxes. New legislation is now being considered by the House and the Senate as these shocking disclosures have hit the news wires. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has sponsored the Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2011 (H.R. 828). A similar bill (S. 376) was introduced in the Senate last year by Tom Coburn (R-OK). Both bills are languishing in committees since last year’s disclosures were made public. It is hoped that the report released yesterday will stimulate new action on the bills.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner had to pay $42,000 in back taxes before he was able to accept his appointment, but Geitner’s department has 1,181 employees who owe more than $9 million in back taxes. The Department of Justice has 2,069 employees who owe “nearly $17 million in back taxes.” Perhaps Eric Holder missed those emails and reports while he was busy covering up his ‘Fast and Furious’ involvement.

As ordinary American citizens struggle to pay their mortgages and their “fair share” of taxes, we should ignore Obama’s class warfare rhetoric. President Obama cannot sit in his lofty Oval Office and preach to us about each of us paying our “fair share” while he is surrounded by a bunch of self-selected thieving tax cheats who are paid handsomely by American taxpayers. Our “transparent” President does nothing to correct the situation. His spending has bathed this country in red ink while his staff scribbles more red ink across his “fair share” playbook.

Every time you hear “fair share’’ flow so smoothly from this President’s slippery lips a picture of his staff giving him, giving you, and giving me the red middle finger should flash across our monitors as our well-earned fair shares continue to disintegrate.

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.” 

—Herbert Hoover

. . . his failure to act upon his flowery words have shot too many holes in the socialidealism” of which he so proudly speaks!

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”

—Plato

 

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Obama, Holder Crushed by Supreme Court in GPS Privacy Decision

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder were handed a crushing defeat today by a Supreme Court who ruled unanimously against their arguments to allow unlimited GPS tracking of U.S citizens without a warrant. The GPS privacy decision handed down by the Court today in the United States v. Jones case leant strong legal support to the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. Obama and Holder had hoped for and had argued strongly to support the GPS tagging without warrants.

The defeat for the power hungry pair was a stunning blow to the egocentric duo who has attempted to extend Big Brother’s arm of control over America’s citizens. Justice Antonin Scalia was joined by the other eight justices in unanimously upholding an appeals court ruling which had previously thrown out the conviction of a Washington, D.C. nightclub owner and suspected drug trafficker.

Antoine Jones was convicted based upon evidence gained through the use of prolonged GPS monitoring of his movements. Police secretly installed a GPS tracking device on his Jeep Grand Cherokee while it was sitting in a public parking lot in Maryland. They tracked his movements for nearly a month as they gathered the evidence they needed to support their case. His “frequent trips to a stash house where drugs and nearly $1 million in cash were found” helped to nail his conviction. The Washington Post reported today that police had obtained a warrant for the GPS surveillance but that it had expired before the device was installed on Jones’ vehicle.

The majority opinion of the court, written by Scalia, and joined by Obama’s recent appointee to the court, Sonia Sotomayor, said that if the surveillance was achieved without having to physically trespass on Jones’ property it may have been “an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.” Sotomayor was not at all persuaded by administration arguments supporting its attack on the Fourth Amendment. Obama and Holder were no doubt expecting a “return on their investment” for having supported and pushed for her appointment to the highest court in the land.

Last November the Supreme Court heard an hour long argument against Big Brother’s attack on citizen privacy. Today’s world of satellites, drones, the Internet and new age surveillance has given live birth to George Orwell’s fictional 1984.” Big Brother is ever-present. We find cameras at almost every street corner. We have law enforcement drones invading crowded homeland skies to watch over cities and citizens. The Obama administration and Congress is pursuing new legislation (SOPA and PIPA) to censor the Internet under the guise of protecting copyrights and preventing online piracy.

Justice Sotomayor wrote, “I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.”

The House’s Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) bill and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) would add that information to each citizen’s data file.

Sotomayor praised Alito’s opinion that the long term GPS surveillance of Jones violated the Fourth Amendment and that his “incisively” written concurrence may not have gone far enough in the protection of our right to privacy.

A convicted drug dealer will be released from his life-in-prison sentence but the United States v. Jones case will long be remembered as the precedent setting case (No. 10-1259) that saved the Fourth Amendment and the Constitution. Obama and Holder will remember United States v. Jones much differently. They will remember the Jones ruling as the 2012 decision that “shackled” their brutish hands.

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The men and women “in black” have issued their “Warning” to the Obama administration and America has been issued a well deserved “reprieve.”

Let’s ring the Liberty Bell in November just as the Supreme Court did today.

Let’s give ourselves a full “pardon” in November from the thuggish hands of the power crazed duo.

As Gerald Ford so simply stated on September 8, 1974 when he pardoned President Nixon,

“America has suffered enough!”

 

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