a tax code and adopt a fla tax and you know, that way we could abolish the bureaucracy that is so buren system and eensive and engaging in ridiculous antics today in the irs. it would allow sledgehammering of cony capitalism and also corruption within. the tax cheats and all of that scenario. and would give us great reason to make more sense of the cofferes thatre filled by the american's plic fruft their labors. >> the i gaves a comment that said on the screen. regardg the 70 million in bonus. the irs is under a legal obligationo cply with the collective bargaining agreement whh specifies the terms by which awards are paid to the employees. >> and that is not just drive you crazy? >> it drives me crazy. you can anticipate that the obama administration will not even push back on what this union is demanding for its employees. it is a shame here. theba administration will kowtow to the frids who are ion thugs and the leadership of the unions are thugs and they will not push back. unfortunately cause i gives a bad name to the brothers and sisters in the union who want to produce well for

for most of the time that president van buren lived here. here in the dining room, angelica would have served as hostess. he had many social eevepbletses an equal number of political events and during those times angelica if she was here would be the hostess. she was quite refined being that she was so wealthy and she had all the appropriate social graces for the time. so much so that even the ambassador from france who was typically critical of m manners and social graces complimented her. martin van buren purchased the home in 1839 during the second year of his presidency along with 130 acres. later he added 100 acres. here in the green room one of two par lors on the first floor, typically the women of the house would engage in a variety of activities, polite conversation, they would read or recite from memory to one another. they would oftentimes play par legislator games in here. angelica was trained in philadelphia on the harp. we have a harp here. there were occasions where she would have played the harp for the other female guests he

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