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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Lol no.
Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Women ‘Don’t Want The Decisions Made In Washington’
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL): GOP must ‘step up’ for working women
Rove has always been the more practical chess-player (even if an evil bastard at it) and has actually not been a huge fan of the strident ideologue types. IIRC, his organization, Crossroads GPS, has had some disagreements with some of the more ideologically-oriented conservative groups, over strategy.
edited 2nd Jun '13 1:30:33 PM by GlennMagusHarvey
Representative John Dingell is soon set to break record: longest serving member of Congress.
I saw that article linked on Facebook by ThinkProgress and I commented to the effect that, if some women are against pay equality, then they should feel pleased to take crappy jobs that pay less than men, and let the women who want pay equality get it.
edited 2nd Jun '13 4:09:03 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"House Judiciary chairman ‘very concerned’ about possible Holder perjury
David Axelrod Dismisses IRS Scandal On NBC: Too ‘Stupid’ To Be Politically Motivated
I'm still perplexed that my mom votes Republican despite constantly complaining about how she's disadvantaged in pay and promotions because she's a woman. It seems to be one of her main issues but she doesn't care or doesn't acknowledge that the Republicans are largely the reason that stuff still happens.
Oh, and there's this graph
to trot out whenever you get some white Republican talking about moochers.
So my mom is wrong about two things. One of her other big issues is when people cheat the system and based on some of her comments she thinks most of them are hispanic or black.
edit: I don't know if this is accurate but if it is then it's also noteworthy.
edited 2nd Jun '13 4:46:48 PM by Kostya
nevermiond most people dont cheat the system and most of said "moochers" are white christian families.
and yeah. its accurate. The highest incident of Food stamp, welfare, unemployment, and any other sort of "social welfare" is in highly conservative states.
edited 2nd Jun '13 4:52:45 PM by Midgetsnowman
Representative Cummings: Issa claims against IRS ‘reckless’
Representative Blackburn: Eric Holder has lost the confidence of the American people
Senator Schumer (D-NY) believes Eric Holder’s ‘going to stay’
I'm confused, the American population is roughly 73% identified as white yet only ~60% of foodstamps are given to white household by that graph and yet theres only 13% that identify as African American/Black and yet ~25% of households that get foodstamps are black so doesn't that reinforce the moocher position since theres fewer whites taking it in and more African Americans/blacks as compared to their overall pop?
Overall pop taken from wikipedia so may not be entirely accurate but still...
edited 2nd Jun '13 6:14:33 PM by lordnyx
Report: Treasury finds IRS spent $50M on conferences in 3 years
Lordnyx said "compared to their overall pop".
The reason blacks receive a disproportionally large amount of food-stamps is mainly due to unemployment, poverty
, and a lack of proper education.
edited 2nd Jun '13 6:47:43 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016And how much do Apple and Exxon-Mobil spend on accommodations for their corporate shindigs? Context is critical - you can take any number and make it seem bad.
edited 2nd Jun '13 6:31:03 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"And how many of the conferences were important things like a) making sure employees are up on policy, b) solving efficiency problems, c) other things that make the IRS work better and more efficiently. With as many employees as the IRS has, of course it's going to spend a lot on conferences.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickEdit ninjaed...
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Read his point again. Say that the same % of people in each demographic takes food stamps. That would mean, in theory, 72% of food stamps would be going to whites and 13% would go to African Americans/Blacks. The point being made is that, assuming all the numbers are correct, whites take a lower amount (and African Americans/Blacks take a higher amount) of food stamps per population than an "even distribution" of food stamps would entail.
Now, there are all sorts of other aspects that should come into play in the discussion, but using just those two pieces of info you can come up with these two conclusions: whites use a greater % of the food stamps while African Americans/Blacks are more likely to use food stamps.
Especially these last couple years. The 2011 tax year (filed during 2012) was the fist year they used a new electronic processing system (and it caused multiple delays that year). Getting that up and running over the past three years must have been a nightmare. Add on what they must have gone through with figuring out possibilities/quick patches before the fiscal cliff deal passed... *shiver*
edited 2nd Jun '13 6:49:01 PM by Belian
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!Personally I think big expensive conferences like that are bullshit. It's much more cost effective to have trainers go to different offices to do 1 on 1 or group training rather than renting out an expensive conference room, having catering, et cetera.
What other companies spend doesn't matter, because those companies aren't spending tax dollars on those shindigs.
Hey everyone, The College Republican National Committee's
report on why it lost the youth vote is out.
Here are some highlights:
@Barkey has a point that comparing the IRS to corporations is a flawed. We should, however, compare them to other government agencies.
edited 2nd Jun '13 7:01:46 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

Has Issa any proof to back up this statement?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman