Comments on: Politicians Respond To Stack Attack https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jamie https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-9196 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:30:23 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22114#comment-9196 Federal unions are a joke. Every federal employee pledges not to strike when they are sworn in. Salaries and raises are set by time in grade, not merit. The leaders of the unions often try to whip their membership into a frenzy about some perceived injustice the government is doing to them, but I suspect that behind closed doors the relationship between union and management is quite friendly.

]]> By: Myron Pauli in NH https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-9193 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:09:20 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22114#comment-9193 Stack and Kelley are more consistent in their beliefs than most Republicans. The typical Republican will claim to believe in BOTH a Balanced Budget Amendment and cutting taxes drastically while simultaneously vote to increase spending. If the Steven Kings of the world would start to fight to eliminate Fannie Mae, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I might consider their views to be serious.

]]> By: Jack Slater https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-9188 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:13:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22114#comment-9188 “especially odious federal parasite” I love that one.

The statement by Rep. King are to me a surprise in that a politician found the temerity to utter the truth about the IRS. Words which were not relevant to the presence or absence of human compassion. An arm of the federal machine which by force plunders and steals from the citizens is statutorily organized crime.

‘He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.’
T. Jefferson – 1775

]]> By: George Pal https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-9185 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:07:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22114#comment-9185 Union president Colleen Kelley has already, I’m assuming, made her pilgrimage to the site of the employee’s death, laid a wreath, lit a candle, and left a hand-scrawled personal message – or had an agent do it for her. Perhaps if Rep. King did likewise Ms. Kelley would be loosed from her myopic indignation at one comment to rage against that institution that has ruined lives, made de facto criminals of ordinary citizens, and made, by example, chaos a standard the rest of government seems to aspire to.

]]> By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-9184 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:08:15 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22114#comment-9184 “the IRS is unnecessary and abolishing the agency would mean ‘a happy day for America.” and “show an appalling lack of compassion over [Hunter’s] death, as well as a lack of respect for the lives of federal employees nationwide” Apples and Oranges again, but then we know where Ms. Kelley’s loyalty lies, don’t we.

]]> By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/politicians-respond-to-stack-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-9181 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:44:06 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22114#comment-9181 King is right. While we are jumping through our shorts and trying to kiss our elbows to reform a health system which doesn’t need reforming we ignore one of the biggest boils on our collective backsides which is IRS. A huge federal boondoggle which could be eliminated by a simple flat tax without deductions. We would save billions. Of course this will never happen because the IRS is one of big brothers most valuable weapons of control over the lives of the masses.

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