I'm a cypher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce. Also, my name is Kev and I own this here website.
I’m certainly not the first to rant about this, but I am the latest.
It is inexplicable to me that the person who is about to become the new Treasury Secretary, the person who will run the IRS, didn’t pay his taxes from 2001 to 2004. Timothy Geithner, Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, claims he was simply “careless” when he failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Despite his gaffe, Geithner is expected to be confirmed anyway.
That’s just wonderful.
Maybe I’m a dreamer, but shouldn’t failing to have paid your own taxes eliminate you from securing any IRS-related job — much less Treasury Secretary?
Seriously.
Could someone who had been arrested for drunk driving get to become president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
Could someone with anti-Semites and terrorists as friends be elected President? (Oh, wait…)
Could a convicted bank robber ever get a job as a security guard at Fort Knox?
Could someone who had infected a million people with food poisoning ever be hired as White House chef? (One could only hope…)
Could Joseph “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” Hazelwood ever get another job as captain of an oil tanker?
Could Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reubens ever get a job as a preschool teacher?
Could Paris Hilton tour high schools around the nation preaching the virtues of abstinence?
This, my friends, is insanity.
Can you think of any more analogies? Leave a comment below and (if it’s good and clean) I’ll add it to the list.
And the List Keeps Growing! Could someone who refused to hand over basic identification papers of their own be hired as FBI chief? *
Could someone who refused to exercise be hired as a personal trainer? *
Could someone who flunked basic algebra be handed a CPA license? *
Could Rosie O’Donnell be a runway model during Paris fashion week? Or any week for that matter? +
Thanks: Angi*, Audrey+
;-) 1.21.09 at 4:34 pm:
Could someone who refused to hand over basic identification papers of their own be hired as FBI chief?
Could someone who refused to exercise be hired as a personal trainer?
Could someone who flunked basic algebra be handed a CPA license?
I could go on…
;-) 1.21.09 at 6:39 pm:
@Angi: Great ones. I know what when I’m at the grocery store and see an individual roaming the bakery, I think to myself: “Self, you should hire this person as a personal trainer.”
It’s common sense, really.
;-) 1.21.09 at 7:37 pm:
Could Rosie O’Donnell be a runway model during Paris fashion week? Or any week for that matter?
;-) 1.22.09 at 7:53 am:
What’s the scariest thought in that sentiment, though? He was “CARELESS.”
Um, HELLO? IS ANYBODY IN THERE? Careless?
Being “careless” with $34,000 in TAXES (which is more than I earn in a year), that makes him the BEST candidate for the job? I know the pickins are slim, but GIVE ME A BREAK.
Change we need. Change we can believe in. Change we refuse to define.
;-) 1.22.09 at 12:25 pm:
Good one, Audrey!
Can someone who has a weakness for other men’s wives REALLY find work as a preacher of the gospel?
Can consumers as conspicuous as Hollyweird celebrities REALLY preach at the rest of us about our wasteful habits and their effects on the environment?
Can liberals REALLY yammer endlessly about “tolerance” while being singularly intolerant to anyone who takes a higher moral road than they?
Oh, wait … happens all the time! REALLY.
;-) 1.22.09 at 4:43 pm:
What we have here is a fox (Geithner) being given free run of the hen house. He will be going after crumbs left by Paulson since the Treasury has already been raided. Perhaps he can make 3 trillion disappear and set a new record.
;-) 1.22.09 at 4:51 pm:
@Audrey: Oh, gosh…I sure hope not! Can you imagine? I think I’m about to vomit…
@Angie: Yep, you’re exactly right. Is the fact he didn’t pay taxes due to carelessness any better than if he did it intentionally? Oh great, we have an absentminded, careless Treasury Secretary instead of one who deliberately breaks the rules. I feel SO much better…
@Jenny: Haha. Yep, sadly, those happen all the time!!
@Jim: Welcome to the site! I agree…it’s a scary idea knowing this guy is going to hold such an important job. No telling what he will be doing that none of us ever find out about.
;-) 1.23.09 at 11:48 am:
Careless? Ha! He’s just sayin’ that. He’s brilliant! If he got away with that and is now in charge of the Treasury, then that man knows how to make things work for him. I would enroll in his school in an instant! And possibly pay several years’ worth of tuition which he would carelessly “misplace”. Which would put him in charge of education AND the treasury. Again, brilliant, I say! Is he single? I like bad, rich boys. Hahaha!
;-) 1.23.09 at 12:23 pm:
As I understand his defense, He is not a cheater, he is just incompetent when it comes to law and numbers. Feel any better? I don’t get the process that points out all of his flaws, none of his value, and confirms him. But then again, I live in Illinois where our senators make our license plates.
;-) 1.23.09 at 12:50 pm:
Yea – I meant governors, not senators but if the jumpsuit fits…
;-) 1.23.09 at 9:39 pm:
Could a draft dodger be elected commander-in-chief (Clinton)?
Actually, I guess the answer to that one is “yes”.
;-) 2.2.09 at 10:55 am:
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;-) 2.10.09 at 5:32 pm:
Well now I’m kinda mad. I could have had that job. I don’t like paying my taxes and I’m sure I can work on being careless.