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I gotta say it....

Being a shit4brains libtard snowflake and crying over a gangster moll like HDK (Hildabeast Dindu KKKlintler) is bad enough for somebody 18 or 23 years old who hasn't been out in the real world long enough to grow out of the kind of indoctrination which permeates our present miseducation system.

But the 50, 60, and 70-year-old snowflakes who post on forums like this one have no such excuse. In those cases, I have to assume that we are looking at some kind of a genetic problem which no amount of logic or deprogramming or anything like that could ever fix...

As Jonathan Cohn puts it, the ACA “has shifted the expectations of what government should do ― and of what a decent society looks like.” There are zero indications that Trump and GOP leaders are capable of acknowledging this possibility.

But President Trump, who believes that his success in real estate shows he can do anything, hasn’t given up on the idea that when you want to accomplish something in government, what you need is people who know nothing about government. So before he gets to his next complicated and tricky legislative priority — tax reform — he’s doing this:

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President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.

The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements

My favorite line from the article is this: “Kushner proudly notes that most of the members of his team have little-to-no political experience, hailing instead from the world of business.” Proudly! I guess the reason government often doesn’t work as well as it should is that no previous president has thought to put his inexperienced son-in-law in charge of things.

...the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.

“The mere words “socialism” and “communism” draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice-drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” (George Orwell, 1937)

I don't know yet what if anything to make of this:
JUST IN: All 8 Supreme Court Justices Stand In Solidarity Against Trump SCOTUS Pick
http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/03/26/just-in-all-8-supreme-court-justices-stand-in-solidarity-against-trump-scotus-pick/

Talk about fake news.

As more and more deportations occur and the number of illegals lessens we should be able to compile some very interesting statistics. Let's see if the deportations make a difference.

So you cut the number of auditors who look for that fraud? Thast mskes no sense.

So you cut the number of auditors who look for that fraud? Thast mskes no sense.

The IRS has failed to spend taxpayer resources wisely--the IRS has proven time and time again that it cannot be trusted to wisely spend taxpayer dollars.

This has not stopped agency officials from complaining, or from making further poor spending decisions. The IRS has also been caught wasting over 500,000 hours, or $23.5 million a year on union activities, and gave 57 contracts worth a total of $18.8 million to corporations that had federal tax debt or a felony conviction.

The IRS also made the costly (and perhaps illegal) decision to hire a litigation-only white shoe law firm for over $1,000 an hour over an audit of Microsoft. As noted by Congressional investigators, the agency has 40,000 employees dedicated to enforcement efforts and access to the IRS office of Chief Counsel or a Department of Justice attorney for audits. Instead the agency chose to hire an expensive law firm for at least $2.2 million.

President’s Trump’s first budget outline makes it clear. He is governing as Reagan did. Tax cuts. De-Regulation. Spending restraint and reduction.

Diverting resources from antiquated operations that are still reliant on paper-based review in the era of electronic tax filing would achieve significant savings, a funding reduction of $239 million from the 2017 annualized level.

"Sauron's wrath will be terrible, his retribution swift." Brace yourselves!