Over the weekend I ordered a couple of books from Amazon and both of them are from radio personalities. The first one is Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism- True Stories That Should Be Fiction by Michael Smerconish. This book is supposed to be both hilarious and frightening at the same time. It deals a heavy hand about political correctness and how it’s gone sour.

Here is what Bill O’Reilly had to say about Muzzled: “This brazen, furiously funny book is the antidote to today’s poison of political correctness. With humor and chutzpah, attorney, commentator, and popular radio host Michael Smerconish takes on today’s oversensitive culture with a collection of entertaining, outlandish anecdotes about PC gone wild-stories that are hilarious, horrifying, and unbelievably true.”

The second book shouldn’t come as a surprise. Most know me as a huge Glenn Beck fan. It’s gotten so bad that I actually created a Glenn Beck fansite called Glennpedia, which has been linked on GlennBeck.comalmost since the day of its inception. Despite be a devout sick freak I’ve never got around to reading Glenn’s book, The Real America: Messages From the Heart and Heartland.

What exactly is the Iowa Workforce Department and CIETC scandal?

Over the past couple of years top executives at IWD have been receiving salaries that are four times higher than other jobs comparable with the same position. The state may have funded over 1.8 million dollars to pay the yearly salaries of  CIETC CEO Ramona Cunningham (368,000/year) and CIETC COO John Bargman (360,000/year). Jane Barto, former Workforce Development deputy director resigned from her position on April 5th. On April 6th Jane Barto was spotted at the CIETC offices at 4 A.M dumping and destroying documents. Dave Neil, the interim director as appointed by Governor Vilsack on April 5th told reporters that Laurie Rieck was the one who was dumping documents.

From KCCI, “Neil said that Rieck told her what she was doing and that she couldn’t
sleep the night before. He said that law enforcement officials have
since taken over the building. He said Rieck has been put on
administrative leave and was acting alone.”

Now Iowa Senator’s Mary Lundby and Pat Ward want to cut all funding to CIETC and the Iowa Workforce Department. [letter] Can I discuss this among us conservatives. Getting rid of all government agencies at this point is virtually impossible. There are actually programs out there that are beneficial for the prosperity of individuals who an uneducated and need a job. CIETC helps people find jobs, they call it “Welfare-to-Work.” Their goal is to take people off of the Welfare institution and get them to a place where they are providing for theirselves. Isn’t that a good thing?

I’m back from my long vacation! Today I’m working on the CIETC story because it’s all the local news. Check back later today for my write up.