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Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers and companies that don't follow Obamacare's
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 8/22/13 | David Martosko

Posted on 08/22/2013 9:12:51 AM PDT by ColdOne

full title.....EXCLUSIVE: Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers and companies that don't follow Obamacare's rules

More than 1,600 new employees hired by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources in the aftermath of Obamacare's passage include just two described as 'consumer safety' officers, but 86 tasked with 'criminal investigating' – indicating that the agency is building an army of detectives to sleuth out violations of a law that many in Congress who supported it still find confusing.

On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, HHS received authority from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to make as many as 1,814 new hires under an emergency 'Direct Hiring Authority' order.

The Obama administration ordered that employment expansion despite a government-wide hiring freeze.

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To: kabar

I am afraid you are right and the prospect of more minority ruled cities like Detroit is not a pleasant thought.

The damage being done at the Federal level is, IMO, irreversible.


21 posted on 08/22/2013 10:29:11 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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To: Wurlitzer

It will come, not today or tomorrow, but it will come, mark my words.


22 posted on 08/22/2013 10:57:21 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: kabar

Obama is staging a coup on white America using dumb idiot white liberals to assist him and they don’t even know it.


23 posted on 08/22/2013 11:11:31 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: ColdOne

All companies should simply stop providing health care benefits.


24 posted on 08/22/2013 11:41:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

> Sadly I don’t think he’s hurt just liberal black candidates. I don’t think ANY black candidate will be elected to this for a long, long time after his act.

Which is a shame as there are many talented and deserving individuals out there.

Allen West comes to mind...


25 posted on 08/22/2013 11:56:36 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: ColdOne

I thought that was why thousands of new IRS agents were hired?

CC


26 posted on 08/22/2013 4:52:57 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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