Radical Agenda
Written by SurrealPolitiks
“I was treated as if I was the worst criminal,” said Astrid Hurtado of her time in a Colombian prison, where she was sentenced to 7 and 1/2 years for money laundering charges. A fate that was most unexpected, considering the fact that she was only laundering money, because the IRS paid her upwards of…...
Written by SurrealPolitiks
As previously reported, due to the government shutdown, national parks and monuments have been coned off, not so much as a money saving maneuver, but rather as a temper tantrum by government agents. Well, I got put onto this by my facebook friend Adam Brisebois, a national “Move the Cones” protest. The idea is simple…...
Written by SurrealPolitiks
More than 85,000 IRS employees have been laid off during the ongoing partial shutdown of the United States Federal Government, leaving only about 9% of the workforce to do all the work. Don’t start celebrating yet, apparently the IRS can still extort hundreds of millions of people with less than 10% of it’s usual staffing…...
Written by SurrealPolitiks
Remember when sites like Wikipedia went dark, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)? Well, it seems the federal government is trying to mimic them, in protest of the partial shutdown of the federal government, due to Congress’ failure to pass a budget. The funny thing is, they aren’t saving any money, this…...