This post is from the RenounceUScitizenship blog.
RT @politicalpointsAfter term ends, US ambassador to Canada Jacobson to join BMO ctvnews.ca/business/after… – Advising 70 year old grandmas!
— U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) May 21, 2013
This is an incredible story. Ambassador Jacobson is best known for his amazing “70 year old Grandmas” speech in Ottawa on October 18, 2011.
“When I read all of this I was concerned. So last week I called the Commissioner of the United States Internal Revenue Service to see what we could do. I explained the problem to him.
The result is that both he and I are sympathetic to the concerns. We are going to work together to see if we can’t find a way to accommodate grandma — and others — here in Canada. But we have to figure out a way to do it without letting the person who is trying to evade taxes in the Cayman Islands off the hook.
My message on this one is to sit tight. We are not unreasonable. We are not unsympathetic. We are not irresponsible.”
David Jacobson – U.S. Ambassador to Canada – October 18, 2011
Does this suggest a coziness between the U.S. government and the Canadian banks at the beginning of the U.S. attempt to impose FATCA on the world. You know, to get the world to sing in perfect harmony?
Is there any impropriety here?
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Well, well, as the only commentator on the CTV site says, “Oh yes,could not get a Canadian for the job.”
Suppposedly, his “knowledge of U.S.-Canada relations make him qualified for the role” and “he’ll help build and strength relationships with the bank’s key customers.” And just who would that be? USC’s? And does it mean he’ll be paid in CDN funds? If so, hope he files that FUBAR.
Geez, why don’t we just ask BMO, et al, to bring Shulman up? Just nail us up in that coffin.
Although I’m not 70, I’m a Canadian grandma and I’m also a BMO customer. Why do I feel I’m being accommodated on a cattle car?
Maybe the fault here lies in the US constitution:
“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
It doesn’t state that innocent Americans living outside of US jurisdiction (Canada) may not be harmed by the US government when a stateside American evades taxes in the Cayman Islands.
Boycott BMO:
They choose a US mouthpiece for a top job at a Canadian bank. No Canadians available?
They choose someone who supports the IRS Obamacare tax on Canadians living and earning and banking on Canadian soil. Many who were born here in Canada.
They choose someone who supports the US unilateral imposition of an extraterritorial US law on a sovereign autonomous Canada.
Switch to a Canadian credit union.
Its not clear whether Jacobson will work in Canada. Jacobson is from Chicago and BMO has a big presence in Chicago by owning Harris Bank.
A new U.S. ambassador to Canada has yet to be announced, although a reported frontrunner is Bruce Heyman, a partner at the investment firm of Goldman Sachs and a major Obama fundraiser from Chicago
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/after-term-ends-u-s-ambassador-to-canada-david-jacobson-to-join-bmo-1.1290174#ixzz2Tx0wVggi
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Lawyers, Investment bankers, cronies, bagmen, friends of FATCA
Send them packing back to the US, it’s an insult to send them here.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/07/obama-ambassadors-political-contributors/2057931/
….”It’s a time-honored presidential tradition to reward political friends and campaign contributors with plum ambassadorships to Caribbean islands and glittering European capitals. The practice is getting fresh
attention as President Obama weighs second-term appointments for the donors and fundraisers who help collect more than a $1 billion for his re-election….”
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“……..Nearly 30% of Obama’s ambassadors have been political appointees – in line with his predecessors. Even so, Susan Johnson, the president of the American Foreign Service Association, said there is too much patronage. She said the system hurts the morale and professional development of career diplomats.
“You are reserving ambassadorships for the moneyed elite,” she said.
“Anybody who criticizes political appointees on a generalized basis doesn’t know what they are talking about,” said Louis Susman, a top fundraiser during Obama’s 2008 campaign. He returned to the United States last week after serving nearly four years as the United States’ top envoy to England, a position he called “the best job in the world.”
The appointments are “not only based on what they have done for President Obama, but on qualifications and expertise,” said Susman, a former Citigroup executive……..”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324539404578338181838313660.html
“…….Mr. Obama’s record shows that in his ambassadorial nominations, he has chosen about the same percentage of political appointees as his recent predecessors, according to data compiled by the American Foreign Service Association, a professional group and union representing foreign service officers.
About 31% of his ambassadors have been political appointees rather than career foreign service officers, the data show. The comparable figure under former President George W. Bush was 30%; under Bill Clinton, 28%; and under George H.W. Bush, 31%….”
@stan
That’s not cool. I don’t have much use for opinions of that nature.
Let me reword it for those who are slow. Check the last names of those involved. Google their affiliations. Think about why I could say Palestinian Palestinian Palestinian or Irish Irish Irish and have a less “hateful” connotation. If you are afraid you will be defeated without much of a fight.
@Stan;
I don’t agree with your comment.
There is sufficient basis to criticize Obama’s ambassadorial and other appointments as cronyism and patronage based on their career and political connections (lack of any related diplomatic or foreign affairs experience) and their star Democrat fundraiser status. It is those who bring in the most money and have the most useful connections that get paid off with the plum jobs.
@Dawid
What’s not cool is Israel and anything connected to it. But I cant say that. I could say “What’s not cool is North Korea and anything connected to it” or “…Iran and anything connected to it.”
Is that it Dawid?
And to others…this is not off topic. Canadian complicity with AIPAC influenced US policy is….expected. Your gentile hegemony is without defense also as long as eyes remain closed. Taxes are just part of it.
Wake up.
@badger
Research the US State department and the affiliations and lineage of it’s most influential members. Or continue, as Canadians do, to observe the world through rose colored glasses.
I actually have no idea what you don’t agree with. Your statement makes no sense in relation to my post.
@stan hudson
My husband’s Jewish. That hasn’t made him any less persecuted by the IRS, DOS than anyone else. What’s your point?
And so are all the expats in Israel who are getting shafted by citizenship-based taxation, FATCA and FBAR.
So what’s your point stan hudson?
stan hudson appeared on IBS a few days ago apparently to heckle and provoke. Here’s his first contribution:
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/03/26/what-fatca-will-do-to-canada-and-canadians-who-are-not-us-persons/comment-page-1/#comments
It would probably be best to ignore stan hudson.
@stan Hudson. Everyone is getting screwed by FATCA. FATCA doesn’t ignore specific ethnic groups. FATCA screws us all without even a kiss first. So keep your hate to yourself.
Stan Hudson is starting to sound like a familiar ex-poster here. I agree with Innocente’s view.
…and so do I, Animal and Innocente. I suggested his bad behaviour not be rewarded with our replies when he appeared here a few days ago. He serves no purpose for the discussion here.
Perhaps its high time that he join his fellow “ex-poster” in being an “ex-IBS’r”. In other news. After the Mike Duffy scandal. Stephen Harper had this to say: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151636247412110&set=a.410445882109.207942.9106562109&type=1 “Those who abuse the public trust are not welcome in the Conservative caucus. We have heard the outcry from Canadians and are committed to reforming the senate.”
I responded on his Facebook page and stated: “Then I trust you will do something about the 1 million+ Canadians who are under financial attack from the United States Government and FATCA instead of carrying the United States’ water for them and negotiating an IGA behind Canadians’ backs. “Those who abuse the public trust”…We are trusting you to do what’s best for Canada, Mr. Harper. I am and have always been a Conservative.” Harsh, but that’s how I feel right now about this Conservative government that I voted for.
Non of your comments address anything I wrote. And that’s more the point than anything else. Did no one research Jacobsen? Thin skinned illiterates simply cry “Hate…”
No research into the US State Departments demographics. No comments about the BOM power base. You all are doing exactly what they want you to.
Innocente and Animal are just that in the eyes of the very group they would defend. C’mon guys…do you speak other languages than Parrot?
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@calgary411. I hadn’t seen the postings you mentioned. Useless waste of time to read them and to reply. It’s like “deja vu all over again”.
You guys are like simpleton children. Not either or, but both.
Rangel, Baucus and Reid are so co-opted by “that nameless group woe be unto him that speaketh the name …a golem shall eat him” that they might as well move to Israel. The sponsors of this stupid bill are just playing the same game as most. If you, Animal. Small, Innocente, etc. really care about this issue instead of pretending to be liberal, fraternal fair well educated modern righteous people, were to start thinking and stop fearing, you’d do your far off generations away progeny a LOT more good. Limit yourselves to your provincial thinking and you put your genetic material at risk. That’s how it works. Study up on some science. maybe watch that Sat Night Live Episode where, at the end of a particular skit, Bill Murray says.”Me smart!”
Sometimes art can effectively communicate where simple explanation and reason cannot.