look, that stuff is abusive even if we re rolling in dough. it s a joke. when we re cutting programs, it s absolutely it s insulting. a happiness expert? in the midst of the recession. i ll give you happiness. votes? t.j.? t.j. s on my side. that s just not nice. you re not being happy right now. meanwhile on capitol hill. $11,000, governor? yeah. the new acting commissioner of the irs testified before lawmakers yesterday stressing the need to fix the many problems the agency is facing. appropriations committee chair hal rodgers said congress may impose conditions on irs funding. the agency, the irs has such power to ruin the lives of every american. we will not tolerate another political enemies list. we ve been there before.
inclusion expert, $11,000 for a so-called happiness expert. okay. very important. we need one of those around here. that s a euphemism for something. and $17,000 for an artist who created paintings of michael jordan, abraham lincoln, and u2 front man bono. they created pictures? paintings? paintings? we need to see those. i want those. is it like bono playing poker with dogs or something? i don t i boggles the entire mind. it s stunning, stunning. particularly in the time period. three years ago. when i was governor and the recession hit and i knew i was going to be cutting everything. travel requests from anybody in the government of 78,000 people have to be approved by someone in my office. and we restricted it because,
about infrastructure. i love infrastructure. seriously, what are you going to do? we have ed rendell and richard haass. there s so much foreign news to talk about. it is a sexy show. it is a sexy show. we don t need a happiness expert. we don t. in our first opening press conference when we founded america s future, described infrastructure, said his 8-year-old asked him what s infrastructure, daddy? and he said, what daddy blows up in the movies. that s a pretty good definition. some of ours needs to be. it s not as simple as people claim. just take the money away from these are we ve got very complex tax laws domestically and internationally. and we also want these companies to be as profitable as possible because that actually means more jobs at home. how is the balance going to be struck on capitol hill moving forward? this is a really, really