“Tea Party and conservative constitutional groups may be the new targets of the Internal Revenue Service, but former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld reveals in his new book out this week that outspoken businesses critical of the federal government are also singled out by the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission,” Paul Bedard reports for The Washington Examiner.
“In Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life, the former chairman of G.D. Searle & Co. said that business leaders often bite their tongue rather than criticize presidents out of fear the administration will retaliate,” Bedard reports. “In the book, written before news broke about the IRS targeting conservative groups prompted by the Tea Party movement, Rumsfeld suggests that the agency has a record of targeting critics.”
Bedard reports, “The book applauds the late Steve Jobs for standing up to President Obama and warning him that his policies were hurting American competitiveness. He urges other business leaders and politicians to follow suit, and not be afraid of government criticism or scrutiny. ‘America’s economy was built on fortitude, not fear.'”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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