Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, February 4, 2014


O.K., folks... back to newsbiting!

I know... I know... I've been a bit lax lately. 

(*GRIN + WINK*)

I pissed off the owners of my gym (again!) yesterday by daring to complain that cancelling group classes when it snows is... "bull." (Yeah... "bull.") The folks in charge actually had one of the trainers call me to threaten me! (The inference was that if I didn't shut up - didn't stop "complaining" on FaceBook - that they'd cancel my membership.)

My response...? Well... as I told the trainer... I was heavily involved in Republican politics here in Orange country for 20 years and I'm still on a first name basis with... lots of folks. No business wants to have to deal with "regulatory compliance" issues... surprise health and safety inspections... perhaps local police or even country sheriff patrol officers noting - and responding to - the unsafe parking lot conditions with cars parked haphazardly, not in proper spaces. Heck... as unfair as it is, a business even has to worry about building code inspectors finding violations that might have previously been overlooked!

Folks... what can I tell ya... it positively infuriates me that even private enterprise is wimplified to the extent that more and more private employers close or limit operations in the event of... snow... in February... in New York.

At one point the trainer told me that, quote, "it's not like they've closed the gym". No... it was just that they weren't going to require the trainers to come in to teach their classes. Well... that's like ShopRight saying "we're staying open but closing down the deli." It's ridiculous! 

I don't ask anything of anyone I don't ask of myself! If I have a ride scheduled in a raging blizzard then off I go! Nor'Easter...? Been there, done that! Mary's car? SNOW TIRES! She'll get to work come hell or high water and I'll meet my professional responsibilities as well! All I'm asking of others is... the same.

Anyway... rant off.

(Hey... as predicted by moi... Seahawks uber alles! True... like everyone else I had predicted a close game - not the pathetic blow-out we witnessed - but I'll take the win as a win!)

Anyway... onward to newsbites! (Found within the Comments Page of this post!)


11 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101352868

A historically high number of people will be locked out of the workforce by 2021, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday.

* NO MORE "THE NON-PARTISAN" CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE...???

(*SNORT*)

President Barack Obama's signature health-care law...

* OBAMACARE...

...will contribute to this phenomenon, the CBO said...

* "CONTRIBUTE," HUH?

(*SMIRK*)

...citing new estimates that the Affordable Care Act will cause a larger-than-expected reduction in working hours—eliminating the equivalent of about 2.3 million workers in 2021.

* "NEW" ESTIMATES? (AS OPPOSED TO THE "OLD" ESTIMATES - THE LIES - THAT WERE USED TO GET OBAMACARE PASSED BACK IN 2010.)

In 2011, the CBO estimated the law would cause a reduction of about 800,000 full-time equivalent workers.

* SO... THEY ONLY "MISCALCULATED" BY WHAT... 300%?

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

"CBO estimates that the ACA will reduce the total number of hours worked, on net, by about 1.5% to 2% during the period from 2017 to 2024, almost entirely because workers will choose to supply less labor — given the new taxes and other incentives they will face and the financial benefits some will receive," said the report.

* "INCENTIVES..." "FINANCIAL BENEFITS..." (AND THE WELFARE STATE MARCHES ON!)

The CBO estimated last year that 7 million people would sign up for health insurance through ObamaCare in 2014, but computer problems have now lowered their estimate by a million, The Wall Street Journal reported.

* I'VE GOT A BETTER IDEA - LET'S WAIT TILL 2014 IS OVER AND THEN SEE WHAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER IS.

The CBO also estimated the deficit will fall to $514 billion in the fiscal 2014 year ending Sept. 30, down from its previous estimate of $560 billion and a fiscal 2013 deficit of $680 billion.

* WE'LL SEE! (MEANING EVEN IF THIS ESTIMATE TURNS OUT TO BE ACCURATE... THE DEMPUBLICANS WILL BE ADDING OVER A HALF-TRILLION DOLLARS TO THE NATIONAL DEBT IN 2014.)

The deficit will decline to $478 billion in fiscal 2015...

* AGAIN... BEST CASE... ACCURATE ESTIMATE... THE REPUBLICRATS WILL BE ADDING ALMOST HALF A TRILLION ADDITIONAL DOLLARS TO THE NATIONAL DEBT IN 2015.

...any reductions will be short-lived. It will start to grow thereafter as the economy continues to struggle with an unemployment rate that fails to fall below 6% until late 2016.

* FOLKS... BOTTOM LINE... WE'RE FUCKED.

Additionally, the CBO sharply cut its projections of U.S. GDP growth in 2015 by a full percentage point to 3.4%, where it also stays for 2016, down nearly a full point from the CBO's previous estimates.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

"CBO estimates that the economy will continue to have considerable unused labor and capital resources, or 'slack' for the next few years," the agency said in the report.

William R. Barker said...

http://freebeacon.com/the-belarusian-connection/

U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website...

(*HEADACHE... TURNING INTO A MIGRAINE*)

The software links the millions of Americans who signed up for ObamaCare to the federal government and more than 300 medical institutions and healthcare providers.

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)

Cyber security officials said the potential threat to the U.S. healthcare data is compounded by what they said was an Internet data “hijacking” last year involving Belarusian state-controlled networks. The month-long diversion covertly rerouted massive amounts of U.S. Internet traffic to Belarus...

* FOLKS... THIS IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!

“Belarusian President [Alexander] Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime is closely allied with Russia and is adversarial toward the United States,” the official added.

* WELL, HELL... SOME OF US BELIEVE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS "ADVERSARIAL TOWARD THE UNITED STATES!" (BUT I SUPPOSE OTHERS JUST CHALK THIS UP TO MERE INCOMPETENCE...)

HSS spokeswoman Dori Salcido referred questions about the matter to Richard A. Olague, spokesman for the HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Olague declined to discuss the software vulnerability.

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)

* FOLKS... AGAIN... STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE OUT OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!

He also would not say if CMS is conducting a search for malicious software emanating from Belarus.

(*SIGH*)

A spokeswoman for CGI Federal, the main federal contractor for the healthcare network, also had no immediate comment.

* REMIND ME... WASN'T THIS ONE OF THE SWEETHEART NO-BID CONTRACTS...?

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich) said he was surprised by media reports from Belarus indicating “some parts of Healthcare.gov or systems connected to it may have in fact been written overseas.” He called for an independent security review of the Obamacare website.

Rogers said he was especially concerned by the potential software vulnerability because a CGI executive, Vice President Cheryl Campbell, testified to Congress that all software work for the network had been done in the United States.

* LIES UPON LIES UPON LIES UPON LIES... (OR SO IT WOULD SEEM!)

Disclosure of cyber attack vulnerabilities follows months of software problems with the Healthcare.gov rollout that began Oct. 1. (The troublesome software cost the government more than $400 million.) The government spent several months attempting to repair the software. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that “glitches” with the ObamaCare website were expected but “I don’t think I anticipated or anybody anticipated the degree of the problems with the website.” “The good news is that right away we decided how we were going to fix it. It got fixed,” Obama said.

* DOES THIS SOUND LIKE "FIXED" TO YOU, FOLKS...???

William R. Barker said...

* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/02/04/republicans-to-the-rescue/

Some supporters of President Obama may be worried about how he and the Democrats are going to fare politically, as the problems of ObamaCare continue to escalate, and it looks like the Republicans have a chance to win a majority in the Senate.

But Democrats may not need to worry so much. Republicans may once again come to the rescue of the Democrats, by discrediting themselves and snatching defeat from the very jaws of victory.

* THAT'S MY BET!

The latest bright idea among Republicans inside the Beltway is a new version of amnesty that is virtually certain to lose votes among the Republican base and is unlikely to gain many votes among the Hispanics that the Republican leadership is courting.

* YEP...

One of the enduring political mysteries is how the Republicans can be so successful in winning governorships and control of state legislatures, while failing to make much headway in Washington.

* DEMOGRAPHICS... TIMING... AND HOW THE TWO ARE INTERRELATED.

(*WINK*)

Maybe there are just too many clever GOP consultants inside the Beltway.

* THAT TOO!

When it comes to national elections, just what principles do the Republicans stand for?

* NONE.

It is hard to think of any, other than their hoping to win elections by converting themselves into Democrats lite.

* YEP.

But voters who want what the Democrats offer can vote for the real thing, rather than Johnny-come-lately imitations.

Listening to discussions of immigration laws and proposals to reform them is like listening to something out of “Alice in Wonderland.” Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

* YEP...

* CALL ME CRAZY... BUT I WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR AMERICA AND AMERICANS! WITH CLOSE TO FIFTY-MILLION AMERICANS ON FOOD STAMPS AND THE NUMBER OF WORKING AMERICANS GOING DOWN RATHER THAN UP... WHY SHOULD WE BE IMPORTING COMPETITION FOR AMERICAN JOBS...??? WHY DO THE DEMOCRATS HATE BLACK AMERICAN...?!?! (CHECK OUT BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT... BLACK UNDEREMPLOYMENT... EVEN NATIVE HISPANIC-AMERICAN LABOR STATS... AND THEN EXPLAIN TO ME WHO WE SHOULD BE IMPORTING LOW OR NO SKILL LOW OR NO ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS WHO THEN CREATE NEW "CHAIN" IMMIGRATION IN THE FUTURE!

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

One of the big problems that those who are pushing “comprehensive immigration reform” want solved is how to help people who came here illegally and are now “living in the shadows” as a result.

What about embezzlers or burglars who are “living in the shadows” in fear that someone will discover their crimes? Why not “reform” the laws against embezzlement or burglary, so that such people can also come out of the shadows?

(*SNORT*) (*CHUCKLE*)

Almost everyone seems to think that we need to solve the problem of the children of illegal immigrants, because these children are here “through no fault of their own.” Do people who say that have any idea how many millions of children are living in dire poverty in India, Africa or other places “through no fault of their own,” and would be better off living in the United States?

(*NOD*)

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

More fundamentally, why do the American people not have a right to the protection that immigration laws provide people in other countries around the world — including Mexico, where illegal immigrants from other countries get no such special treatment as Mexico and its American supporters are demanding for illegal immigrants in the United States?

The very phrase “comprehensive” immigration reform is part of the bad faith that has surrounded immigration issues for decades. What “comprehensive” reform means is that border control and amnesty should be voted on together in Congress. Why? Because that would be politically convenient for members of Congress, who like to be on both sides of issues, so as to minimize the backlash from the voting public. But what “comprehensive” immigration reform has always meant in practice is amnesty up front and a promise to control the border later — promises that have never been kept.

* YEP... THAT'S THE HISTORY!

The new Republican proposal is to have some border control criteria whose fulfillment will automatically serve as a “trigger” to let the legalizing of illegal immigrants proceed. But why set up some automatic triggering device to signal that the borders are secure when the Obama administration is virtually guaranteed to game the system so that amnesty can proceed?

* GOOD QUESTION - NO? (AFTER ALL, THE FOX IS PRESENTLY GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE.)

What in the world is wrong with Congress taking up border security first, as a separate issue, and later taking responsibility in a Congressional vote on whether the border has become secure? Congress at least should come out of the shadows.

(*NOD*)

The Republican plan for granting legalization up front, while withholding citizenship, is too clever by half. It is like saying that you can slide halfway down a slippery slope.

Republicans may yet rescue the Democrats, while demoralizing their own supporters and utterly failing the country.

William R. Barker said...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/justice-antonin-scalia-says-world-war-ii-style-internment-camps-could-happen-again/article/2543424

Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights such as the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.

"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told the University of Hawaii law school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.

William R. Barker said...

* THREE-PARTER... (Part 1 of 3)

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370166/liberal-newcomers-phyllis-schlafly

People come to America because it is a remarkable oasis of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity. Conservatives recognize that the principal reason for our unique abundance is our constitutional restraint on the power of government. As Thomas Jefferson said, “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

* THESE CHAINS ARE LONG BROKEN...

(*SIGH*)

Maintaining this system requires the public to support limited government.

* THAT WAS THE OLD AMERICA...

In a new report, Eagle Forum details how immigration is fundamentally changing the electorate to one that is much more supportive of big government.

By itself, the annual flow of 1.1 million legal immigrants under the current system will create more than 5 million new potential voters by 2024 and more than 8 million by 2028. Congressional Budget Office projections indicate that under the Senate Gang of Eight’s S.744 bill, the total additional potential voters would rise to nearly 10 million by 2024 and 18 million by 2028. The influx of these new voters would reduce or eliminate Republicans’ ability to offer an alternative to big government, to increased government spending, to higher taxes, and to favorite liberal policies such as ObamaCare and gun control.

* YEP... THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND... DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY...

There is nothing controversial about the report’s conclusion that both Hispanics and Asians, who account for about three-fourth of today’s immigrants, generally agree with the Democrats’ big-government agenda.

* YES. ASIANS TOO.

It is for this reason that they vote two-to-one for Democrats.

* YES... ASIANS TOO!

The 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey found that 62% of immigrants prefer a single, government-run health-care system. The 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study found that 69% of immigrants support ObamaCare. Pew also found that 53% of Hispanics have a negative view of capitalism...

* FOLKS... I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE ON-TOPIC RESEARCH; BELIEVE ME, THIS IS NO JOKE... NO OUTLIER.

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 3)

The Pew Research Center has also found that 75% of Hispanics prefer a “bigger government providing more services,” and only 19% prefer a smaller government.

Pew also reported that 55% of Asians prefer “bigger government providing more services,” and only 36% prefer a smaller government. So it’s no surprise that in 2012, 71% of Hispanics and 73% of Asians voted for Obama.

Even Republican emphasis on patriotism and national sovereignty is likely to alienate many immigrants. A Harris poll found that 81% of native-born Americans believe our schools should teach students to be proud of being American, compared with only 50% of immigrants who had become naturalized U.S. citizens. Only 37% of naturalized citizens (compared with 67 percent of native-born citizens) think our Constitution is a higher legal authority than international law.

* PERHAPS YOU'RE ASKING YOURSELF HOW THESE PEOPLE BECAME NATURALIZED CITIZENS IN THE FIRST PLACE WHEN THEY BELIEVE THIS...

(*HEADACHE*)

* UNDERSTAND, FOLKS... AMERICA HAS BEEN DESTROYED FROM WITHIN.

While it seems that much of the Republican-party leadership has not actually looked at the policy preferences of immigrants, everyone else who has looked at the polls comes to the conclusion that significant majorities of immigrants and their children are big-government liberals.

* THUS... WE DON'T WANT THEM! (EVEN IF WE "NEEDED" THEM WE WOULDN'T WANT THEM!)

The New York Times’ Washington bureau chief admitted last year that “the two fastest-growing ethnic groups — Latinos and Asian-Americans — are decidedly liberal.”

* YEP...

(*SIGH*)

As University of Alabama political scientist George Hawley observes, “Immigrants are well to the Left of the American public on a number of key issues.”

He also makes clear that “liberalizing immigration will liberalize the U.S.”

Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute points out that it “is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic party, but the core Democratic principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation.”

Immigration in general — not race — is the issue. The limited data for other immigrants — including Europeans and Muslims — indicate that they, too, generally hold views well to the Left of the average American voter. In fact, as discussed in our new report, for reasons largely outside the control of conservatives, immigrants and their children gravitate to Left-wing parties in almost all Western countries.

The problem for conservatives is not race or ethnicity but immigration as such.

* MEANING THE PROBLEM FOR THE CONSTITUTION... THE PROBLEM FOR WESTERN VALUES... THE PROBLEM FOR OUR FOUNDERS' AMERICA BEQUEATHED TO US... IS IMMIGRATION.

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 3 of 3)

Another important conclusion of our report is that there is no evidence that amnesty or inviting more immigration will produce Republican votes and abundant evidence that it will produce more Democratic votes.

* ONLY RINOs DON'T SEEM TO "GET" THIS... (THE GOP TRULY IS "THE STUPID PARTY."

After Ronald Reagan signed the 1986 amnesty, George H. W. Bush received only 30% of the Latino vote in 1988, seven percentage points less than Reagan in 1984.

Those supporting a big increase in legal immigration point to the successful assimilation of Great Wave immigrants (roughly 1880 to 1920). But that wave was followed by a slowdown of immigration from the 1920s to the 1960s, which allowed newcomers to assimilate, learn our language, and adapt to our unique system of government. Also, Great Wave immigrants arrived before the rise of the grievance industry and identity politics. Moreover, it still took decades before a significant share of these immigrants moved into the Republican column. In the meantime, Great Wave immigrants and their children provided much of the political support necessary to pass and sustain both the New Deal and the Great Society.

It is also the case that the Republican party’s continued support of mass immigration, let alone the increases in the Gang of Eight bill, is contributing to alienating the Republican base - at least 4 million of whom stayed home in 2012.

* AGAIN... THE RINOs ARE BY FAR THE MORE DANGEROUS FOE WE FACE AS COMPARED TO THE DEMOCRATS.

Immigrants’ generally liberal views should not be trivialized as something that can be overcome by the right 30-second TV or radio ad or by running candidates with Asian or Hispanic backgrounds - the political values and preferences of the immigrant community are sincerely felt and not easily changed.

Conservatives should appeal to immigrants without sacrificing our principles. One way to do this is to argue that defeating the Gang of Eight bill, with its amnesty and doubling of legal immigration, would benefit the nearly 60 million American citizens (many of them immigrants) who are not working. If employers really are having trouble finding workers, the private-enterprise solution should be to raise the pay! A tight labor market is the best anti-poverty program. A reduction in immigration would also take pressure off our already overloaded health-care system and schools, and it would facilitate the assimilation of immigrants already here.

* BUT THE RINOs REJECT THIS COMMON SENSE ADVICE...

Our new report makes clear that for conservatives, there is no issue more important than reducing the number of immigrants allowed into the country each year. If legal immigration is not reduced, it will be nearly impossible for conservatives to be successful on the issues we care about.

* THE DEMOCRATS UNDERSTAND THIS.

If the Republican party is to remain a party that is conservative and nationally competitive, it must defeat amnesty and any proposed increases in legal immigration. Further, we must work to significantly reduce the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country from the current level of 1.1 million a year. There is nothing inevitable about immigration. The level and selection criteria can be changed by Congress.

Looking at the political motivation of the groups pushing higher immigration and amnesty, it’s obvious that the Democrats promote large-scale immigration because it produces more Democratic votes. If the Republican party is to remain conservative and nationally competitive, it must defeat amnesty and proposed increases in legal immigration.

William R. Barker said...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2014/02/04/kirsten-powers-benghazi-i-dont-understand-why-administration-cant-jus?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Marketing&utm_term=Facebook&utm_content=Facebook&utm_campaign=kirsten-meyer

Liberal columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers was apparently shocked that the Obama Administration would be stonewalling the public on what happened in Benghazi in 2012.

Appearing on Special Report w/ Bret Baier on Monday February 3, The Daily Beast columnist seemed perplexed as to “why the administration can't just tell the truth about this.”

Powers continued to express shock at Obama’s lack of transparency surrounding Benghazi especially because “they keep saying things…we know aren’t true.”

"He wants to blame Fox News for everything. It's not Fox News. You have reasonable people thinking that this is not what happened."

Ms. Powers seemed to miss the obvious reason as to why Obama “can’t just tell the truth” about Benghazi. If President Obama were to suddenly come out and admit that he had lied about Benghazi, it would expose his dishonesty and incompetence as well as threaten the credibility of the presidency.

Liberals like Power fail to see the serious repercussions that would arise if President Obama admitted to Bill O’Reilly or to any other member of the media that they lied about Benghazi. Instead, Powers would much rather play dumb and claim that there is this strange mystery behind President Obama’s refusal to directly answer questions surrounding a terrorist attack on an American embassy.

BRET BAIER: Let's bring in syndicated columnist George Will, Kirsten Powers USA Today columnist, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. George?

GEORGE WILL: Well, the president who talks incessantly, talks increasingly in a kind of rhetorical cotton candy, a flurry of adjectives that nullify the substance as when he said to Bill O'Reilly. If you look at the video of the attack on the compound, you will see that it was not a systematic, well-organized process. Well, if you look at any war, any episode, it doesn't look systematic and well organized, it looks like war and chaos. But as we have seen, we had a memo sent to all of us by James Rosen this afternoon saying if you look at the book written on this, under fire, the authors of that say the attackers knew the layout of the compound, knew where Ambassador Stevens was, knew where the gasoline was stored where they went to burn it down, and used military hand signals to direct their operations. In other words, it looked to them systematic and well organized.

BAIER: Kirsten, a lot of people push back and say to use a phrase, what difference does it make now? What about that thinking and the reporting on this?

KIRSTEN POWERS: Well, I thing the reporting is important. And I don't understand why the administration can't just tell the truth about this, and that they keep saying things, as George just pointed out, we know aren't true. And we know aren't true from sort of unbiased sources. I mean the Senate intelligence report is not Fox News. He wants to blame Fox News for everything. It's not Fox News. You have reasonable people thinking that this is not what happened. I also thought it was interesting that he's talking about, why couldn't he just answer Bill's question? You know, Bill kept asking him, what were you told? And he never really would answer the question, and then he turns around and says, well, we were just focused on getting people safe. Well, of course you were. But weren't you also a little curious if it was a terrorist attack? And so none of this really adds up. It's so frustrating every time we have to hear a rhetorical cotton candy, perfect way to describe it.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized//?print=1

* IF THE LINK DOESN'T WORK, TRY GOOGLING "MILITARIZED AMERICA IOWA BALKO"

* FRIGGIN' SCARY...

* KINDA IRONIC THAT THIS STORY APPEARS IN THE SAME NEWSBITES COLUMN WITH THE BLURB FROM SCALIA'S SPEECH...

William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/3/embattled-irs-plans-employees-bonuses-2013-work/

Citing "the need" to boost employee morale, the Internal Revenue Service’s new commissioner said Monday that he will pay out millions of dollars in bonuses to agency employees, reversing a decision his predecessor made to save money amid the sequester budget cuts and other belt-tightening last year.

* OBSCENE.

* FOLKS... YOU UNDERSTAND... MONEY HAS TO BE BORROWED TO PAY FOR THIS! DEBT HAS TO BE ADDED TO OUR CHILDREN'S AND GRANDCHILDREN'S SHOULDERS TO PAY FOR THIS!

Commissioner John Koskinen said...

* WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT HE SAYS! I SAY PUT THE BASTARD AGAINST A WALL AND SHOT HIM!

Agency officials said they will pay $43.4 million to employees represented by labor unions...

(*SMIRK*)

...and $19.1 million to other employees...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

...for a total of $62.5 million in bonuses for 2013.

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)