36 Obama Aides Owe $833,000 In Back Taxes

[palehorse]

*sigh*.

Lo and behold Obama's aids are similar to every other politician currently in office.

If you were to go around and look at ANY politicians staff for the past 20 years, you will see evidence of this.

Is it right? No, but is it indicative somehow of Obama's fault or failure? No.

"change"...

 

[fskimospy]

"change"...

You were looking for change in the number of White House aides who had negotiated legal tax settlement plans with the IRS? That's pretty bizarre.

 

[Ninjahedge]

"change"...

"inertia".

F=MA

The greater the mass, the less acceleration. Same goes with politics, especially when you get deliberate dampers from opposing factions.

 

[dabuddha]

Your reading comprehension is crap. Why were we told that Obama's staff is larger than Bush's? If Bush isn't relevant here, why did the author of the article bring him up to make one statistical comparison but avoid another? I didn't bring Bush into this. The author did.

Because of common sense? You can bring up every single statistical comparison that exists between the two and I'm sure it'd take up millions of pages but the bottom line is that these cockroaches don't seem to practice what their boss preaches.

 

[Ninjahedge]

dabuddha... You need to pay attention.

According to the stats, his roaches are better behaved roaches than Bushes, the House of Reps, or the Senates.

It does not give the 36, yes 36 out of 1800 the RIGHT to do this, but it does put it in perspective

And, as mentioned, it only says that they owe back-taxes, not that they are not PAYING those back-taxes.

The only thing that is just stupid about this "news" is that, at least in the way it is presented here, it is trying to somehow criticize Obama for having 36 people on his staff that have not (yet) paid their taxes.

OOC stats are worthless. You need to know what you are starting with before you throw around numbers or all you are left with is nothing.