“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)
And then we get this: IRS Rehires Hundreds of Employees Fired for Fraud, Theft, Abusing Taxpayer Data
The Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that under Commissioner John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service re-hired 212 employees it had previously fired for offenses including tax evasion, theft, and abuse of taxpayer data. The title of the report makes it clear that the IRS “continues to rehire former employees with conduct and performance issues.”
“Whether it is the rehiring of previously terminated employees or continuing to give bonuses to poorly performing executives who can’t be fired – the delinquency at the IRS must end,” Burr declared. “It’s exactly actions like this that erode the public’s trust in their government. The American people are sick and tired of Washington at its worst. We have Americans paying the salaries of IRS workers who have repeatedly cheated the very government they took an oath to serve, and a Commissioner who won’t fire bad actors. The time to put a stop to these atrocious practices is now.”
…Burr noted that one of the employees re-hired by IRS literally had “DO NOT REHIRE” stamped on his or her personnel file.
Another sign that overall morality of our society, including our “Political Class” is sinking and sinking fast. Why do we have “leaders” in government that would even THINK about hiring cheats, frauds, theives and liars back into positions from which they got canned?
And yet we keep hearing that government workers are better than the rest of us? Is this “whether it works” at its best?
(H/T: Big Government)
