Mother Jones Quotes
To Serve and Collect
This is a humorous takeoff on the serious police motto and oath, To Serve and Protect. In the case of the Afghanistan police during the Afghanistan War. 38 percent of the police who were on the payroll never could be verified as ding any work. Only 10,000 of 50,000 provided AK-47 guns were available for use. Worst, almost all police officers extorted bribes for offences real and imagined. One favorite of police assigned to protect roads, was for the police to stop all vehicles to collect “tolls” when there were no authorized tolls. Most of the roads had been built with US and Coalition donated money. So the police “collected
and were terrible at “protecting.”
Mother Jones, Title of Editorial on the Corruption of the Afghanistan Police, Mother Jones, May / June 2009
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There are many who would disagree with Presti’s description, while many others have this as a chief complaint. The agency tends to change from administration to administration as to its policies and collection methods. In the decades since this criticism, the agency has changed a good deal. However, there are great differences between IRS practices in different parts of the country, some of which are better than the others. One of the major problems of the IRS is the conflict between collecting taxes that should have been paid and were not and ruining the business or individual that committed the offense by taking current working capital. Congress has NEVER weighed in on this question preferring to let the Civil Servants take the heat.
Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 onwards, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
