Sunday, August 17, 2014

Ramdom Accounts of Dishonesty, Unethical Behavior and Irresponsibility


The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner has apparently duplicated the IRS tactic of destroying evidence of wrongdoing. Quote:  "It has been widely reported that the latest Obama administration official to delete emails requested by congressional investigators is Marilyn Tavenner, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  Far less coverage, however, has been devoted to the ironic fact that Tavenner’s agency administers the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. The “Sunshine Act,” as it is generally known, is a provision of Obamacare meant to ensure that physicians conduct business transactions with complete transparency. In other words, the very bureaucrat whose emails have conveniently gone missing oversees the agency tasked with keeping your doctor and his business associates honest."     http://spectator.org/articles/60221/tavenner-transparency-thee-not-me   More.  Quote:  "According to veteran journalist Sharyl Attiksson, this revelation is “significant” for a number of reasons: "First, the email to be deleted included an exchange between key White House officials and CMS  officials. Second, the email was dated October 5, 2013, five days into the disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov. Third, federal law requires federal officials to retain copies of –not delete– email exchanges. And fourth, the document to be deleted is covered under Congressional subpoena as well as longstanding Freedom of Information requests made by members of the media (including me).""  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/15/top-obamacare-official-please-delete-this-email

The current administration actively blocks efforts of inspector generals charged with assuring the government is not committing crimes, fraud, waste and abuse.   Forty Seven of them have jointly filed a complaint registering their objections to the lack of cooperation with investigators doing their duties.   Quote:  "In a scathing letter released this morning, forty-seven inspectors general hammered the Obama administration, specifically singling out several bureaucratic agencies that have been less than forthcoming in ongoing investigations. The letter, addressed to several congressmen—including Darrell Issa, House Republicans’ chief watchdog as the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform—sums up what many were already thinking: the administration is stalling."   http://spectator.org/blog/60211/inspectors-general-obama-administration-blocks-investigations

This item discusses how as a block the liberals are against everything offered to help the government clean house, eliminate wasteful or duplicative programs, become more efficient, etc..  Quote: "The term [reactionary] is almost always applied to conservatives. Certainly there is a strain of conservatism that feels an undue nostalgia for a less tolerant, less diverse, 1950s-style America. But more and more often these days, “reactionary” would better apply to those ostensible liberals.   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385274/real-reactionaries-michael-tanner

Whether on purpose to deceive or simply an example of rank incompetence this item reflects poorly on the Administration's promise to be the most transparent ever.  Quote:  "A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found."   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/05/federal-spending-transparency-money-missing/13485581/  

The Homeland Security Department and the DOJ join the ranks of incompetents.  Quote:  "Comparing data from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the National Review Online is reporting that the Justice Department has no record for at least half of the Unaccompanied Alien Children who illegally crossed the U.S. border since 2013."   https://www.numbersusa.com/news/doj-missing-records-least-half-uacs-2013   They are here somewhere.  The government just does not know where.

This is what the EPA is trying to do.  Quote: "Few outrages perpetrated by President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency can match its proposed rule titled “Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ Under the Clean Water Act.” It would remove “navigable” from American water law and take federal command of all “waters of the United States,” or WOTUS. It redefines “waters” as nearly everything that could get wet, including most of the land in America."      http://www.cfact.org/2014/08/14/epa-in-hot-wotus-as-people-say-ditch-this-rule   The EPA's quest for power is out of control.   http://humanevents.com/2014/08/15/farmers-ranchers-oppose-epa-water-grab/

This agency is irresponsible and many within it appear to be as unethical as the day is long.  http://humanevents.com/2014/08/15/report-irs-puts-taxpayer-data-at-risk/

This item explains how the author believes our country has been turned into a fascist state.  Said another way how it has been quietly and slowly morphed into a benevolent totalitarian state.  Quote: "Most longtime readers know that I have often warned that our government has evolved into benevolent totalitarianism.  This is a gentle term for fascism. No, we don’t have the jack boots and the swastika. Our system is far advanced from that. Our fascism today is so advanced over Nazi Germany and fascist Italy of World War II that our system actually appears benevolent."    http://personalliberty.com/regime-uses-words-phrases-designed-bamboozle-us/
  
George Burns

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