Ronald Kirkman said: Greetings;
I think this Administration is getting worse and worse. According to news reports a law was broken by the IRS. Lois Lerner still sticks to the Fifth Amendment. She does not fear the Attorney General, Eric Holder and she knows President Obama will do nothing.
This John Koskinen, the Commissioner of the IRS I find to be extremely arrogant. They lie and cheat and look you right in the eye. I am no doubt computer illiterate but no way can all these emails be lost and or destroyed - that is the important ones. If you have been following you know exactly what I mean.
Between 78 and 80% of the people believe the IRS is lying. This includes many Democrats as well as Independents.
Capt. Kirk
Retired Alien
Needham Golf Club
Needham, MA
I did catch the segment on this on Stewart the other night, and he mentioned that Koskinen said their storage capacity for e-mails is so small, heck a G-mail account has a ton of more storage than what the IRS does. Now if that is true, it sounds like the government has failed to spend the money to upgrade systems, similar to the VA issue when everything was still on paper. (I remember the Stewart segment on that where they showed the level app in someone's smart phone was used to measure the amount of lean on a table loaded with VA files and Stewart noting the phone probably had enough storage space to hold all those files) Of course that is all satire and not sure how much truth there is to it. And of course Stewart also showed the NSA buildings which were able to hold all our information.
While I agree some the IRS deal is troubling with lost e-mails (I still think they were doing their job and looked at both liberal and conservative groups trying to get tax exempt status), I want to know where the outrage was when the Bush administration had lost a bunch of e-mails. It is my opinion the outrage is all political. They spend so much time trying to create a political storm out of this issue and many others when they should find the truth the best they can and put in place new procedures to correct the issues moving forward. But I guess that doesn't sell ad space on all the talk TV and radio stations.
From my politicians I want consistent, compromise and cut out the BS politics, in my opinion work to get something done. I wonder if the Republicans had worked or made the effort with the president on things, instead of fighting about everything, maybe we would really find out if President Obama is really incompetent or not. But in my opinion, how can I tell?
Mel