The End Of Privacy As We Know It

For whatever reason, the British newspapers do a much better job of reporting news in America than American newspapers. Yesterday the U.K. Mail posted a story stating that the Department of Health and Human Services has hired more than 1,600 new employees since May 2010.

The article reports:

A total of 1,684 of those positions were filled. An analysis by MailOnline shows that at 2010 federal government salary rates, the new employees’ salaries alone cost the U.S. at least $138.8 million every year.

Had the agency filled all its available jobs, that cost would have been a minimum of $159 million.

The hiring began in May 2010 and continued through June 2013, making the later hires eligible for higher salaries as a result of annual cost-of-living increases.

The difference between what HHS spent on new Obamacare-related employees and what it was authorized to spend is explained by its failure to hire most of the 261 ‘consumer safety officers’ it was authorized to bring aboard. Only two such employees were hired.

But while OPM authorized HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources Denise Carter — later renamed Denise Wells — to hire 50 criminal investigators, the agency increased that number to 86 on its own.

When I first heard the idea of refusing to fund ObamaCare, I thought it was a bit drastic. However, after seeing the detective force that is being formed to spy on Americans, I think Congress needs to stop ObamaCare any way it can. If ObamaCare is allowed to move forward, it will unleash a new dimension of spying on Americans.

 

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