On the recordApril 15, 2013
I'd like to harken back to the comments of President Obama on January 20, 2010. Make no mistake; the President was talking about delinquent contractors, not specifically about Federal workers. But I want you, as you listen to the President, in his own words, to wonder why should-- these, too, are families. Contractors are families; they're Americans; they're people. Some of them are bad apples. Most of them do a good job. But listen to the President as he's talking about contractors, and say: Should the same be true for Federal workers? Quote, from President Obama: All across this country, there are people who meet their obligation each and every day. You do your jobs; you support your families; you pay taxes you owe because it's a fundamental responsibility of citizenship. And yet, somehow, it's become standard practice in Washington to give contracts to companies that don't pay their taxes. Later on, the President said: The status quo, then, is inefficiency, and it's wasteful by the larger and more fundamental point that it is wrong. It is simply wrong for companies to take taxpayer dollars and not be taxpayers themselves. So we need to insist on the same sense of responsibility in Washington that so many of you strive to uphold in your own lives, in your own families and your own businesses. The same should be true for Federal workers.…
