You want hyperbole? The Star Trek parody video cost $60k, but look at the mileage the GOP has gotten out of it. Now the employee conferences were a real waste of tens of millions, but the Wall Street Journal reports they've cut costs there 87% the last two years, so it's only about $6MM annually now:
http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=...08a29ec01d
Bottom line is the computer problem is real and will cost much more than that waste you cited to fix. The IRS has had $300MM of IT improvements on hold because of budget issues. Most of the IRS is still using Windows XP, even though Microsoft is no longer supporting that OS as of this year:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9...aining_PCs
As for Benghazi, it doesn't take a State Department spokesperson to understand that if they had more money to hire more security personnel and equipment, it would have been harder for the Benghazi assailants to sack the consulate. Maybe they would have anyway, but lack of security at diplomatic outposts is a real problem at throughout the world and cutting their budgets like the GOP House has been doing is a terrible idea. A cousin of mine was a senior diplomat in the State Department under Rice and he told me of hiding in Iraq outposts with sidearms while crowds were outside chanting for American blood.
Quote:If you advocate voting to stop propping up rich ******* (why you would vote against job creators I"ll never know) then voting democrat isn't any different after all aren't Union bosses, Hollywood elites, and tech giants rich *******???
You need to stop thinking of the rich as "job creators." The real job creators are the middle and working class who buy the products which force the hand of the rich to hire. They hire in response to the demand, and unless and until you lift up the middle class the demand which had driven the post WWII economy in its best years won't replicate itself. If the demand isn't there for the products the rich will more or less sit on their wealth and output will be tragically low.
Union bosses are in an entirely different stratosphere from CEOs. The head of the National Production Workers Union made $591,346 last year. The CEO of Oracle made $78MM. There are 100 CEOs who make at least $18MM, and I don't think a single union boss cracks 7 figures.
If we raise all their taxes that will at least offset the few overpaid Dems like union bosses or those benefiting from ag subsidies. That sounds a lot better than letting them cut their taxes and rig the system just to jab at a few union bosses making in the high six figs.
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