Posted on 06/06/2013 5:10:59 AM PDT by grundle
In 2010, the Internal Revenue Service dropped $4 million on a swanky conference in Anaheim, California where IRS employees learned, among other things, how to be “direct and honest, open and transparent” when speaking with taxpayers.
The IRS employees learned from a “pioneer in the field of eliminating defensiveness” how to stop communicating using the “rules of war.”
The pricey event included lavish hotel rooms for IRS officials at the Anaheim Marriott and elsewhere, according to a report by the Treasury Department Inspector General.
Ellison was paid $7,000 by the IRS for conducting four 90-minute workshops, according to the Inspector General report.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Maybe they can get their money back. The conference was obviously a failure.
Lipstick on a pig.
What kind of gutter trash does the IRS hire, anyway?
Wait! Don't answer that! I already know: Obama supporters...
I guess it didn’t take
Whatever can make it through the "affirmative action" filters.
People tend to think other people are exactly like them
That is why honest people never seem to question other people's honesty, and are always getting screwed.
And why liars and thieves always think others are liars and thieves.
The worst contractors I ever had to deal with were the ones who stated “you can trust me” . It never occurred to me NOT to trust them , until they said that.
It’s all a facade!
Evasive, dishonorable, sneaky and secretive— that’s the 0bama way!
... while emailing each other in secret with phantom foia-proof emails.
What BS. The government and participating employees hate taxpayers.
A government of people by the people for the people is an idea that can not coexist with the rise of this new omnipotent enemy to freedom of the people.
By wasting taxpayer funds. Words fail me.
Is that the one with footage of the Achy Breaky line dance I keep seeing on cable news?
Executive Branch employees travel first class and stay in aristocratic hotel suites. The citizens cannot do this. The aristocracy has to be brought to sanity quickly.
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