Functionality and IRS shenanigans

I got a new Jeep...at least it's new to me. I already took it someplace where my car could never have gone. It will also take me to places where I have already been, but should have left my car home. I have always valued functionality over style. As I get older, I am getting more pronounced in this view. So is my wife. She went out to get seat covers today. Some might say, "the seats are leather, why do you want to cover them?". Many of the places I go, I tend to get dirty, smelly, and damp. Seat covers can be cleaned where leather is much more difficult. Anyway, when she was buying the seat covers she was asked what color she wanted. Her answer? "It doesn't matter". There is a console between the front seats with a little lid on top that covers a storage compartment. I told her to forget about replacing the lid because it hold my water jug perfectly.

My Jeep is not going to win any prizes for acceleration, nor will I be taking it above 70 mph. So if you see an old green Jeep ahead of you, and it's driving too slow for your taste, you'd better think twice about flipping it off while you pass. It might be me.

I also figured out how to make the radio work. I happened upon Sean, or is it Shaun, or maybe it's Shawn, who cares....that Hannitty guy on the radio. Let me tell you something that I hate about talk radio. It tends to be extreme voices on both sides. While the conservatives tend to have me yelling back at the radio, the liberals make me fall asleep at the wheel. This Hannitty guy REALLY hates Obama. It's all he talks about. I've never heard him once agree with something the president has said or done. Obame could say that puppies are cute and the sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow and Hannitty would disagree. What was his latest bitch? The IRS giving a bunch of crap to 'Tea Party' groups and the notion that Obama is behind it all.

Did the IRS target these groups. Yes. Was it a right thing to do? I'm going to give a qualified 'yes' as an answer. I think anybody, regardless of political bent, who is going for tax-exempt status should face a challenge. The question that was advanced being, is Obama behind it all. While it is certainly possible, it is hardly the first time this has happened. What let say what I think happened by using allegory. Some of the people I work with, and a few patients also, say I have a knack for using simple examples to understand more complex issues.

Let's assume that there was a group of people that wanted to abolish pharmacists and pharmacies (and the proverbial 'Big Pharma" that the tin-foul hat wearers rail against) because we are all just a bunch of crooks who take money from people and do nothing that helps. If one of these bozos shows up at my Pharmacy, I will still get them their medications, at the proper price, at the same speed as everyone else, and I'll make sure to tell them what they need to know. In short...I will still do my job. I will not be friendly, or terribly empathetic however. It's not because my boss, or his boss, or his boss ordered me to do it. It's because they think I am a stupid crook that should be put out of business. I'd bet a week's that if these 'tea-party' groups would ratchet back the anti-IRS rhetoric that things will smooth over for them. Just because the IRS agents are government employees doesn't mean they are Obama toadies. The military being a classic example. It's a safe bet that a majority of people in the Armed Services voted for Romney, but they still do their job. For that I am grateful.