Drunken, Violent Cop Arrested Twice in Four Months. Keeps His Job and Gets Paid Vacation

?Go ahead, call the cops. They will believe me before you, because I?m a cop.?
By Matt Agorist

Chattagnooga, TN ? A Chatanooga police detective has been arrested, again, within a four month time frame and he?s still being paid.

David Catching, 34, was arrested in September for suspicion of driving under the influence. He was reported to?police for weaving in and out of cars, nearly striking many of them. Several beer bottles were found in his vehicle and he failed the field sobriety test.

The Times Free Press reported that Catchings tried to use his status as a cop to get out of the arrest.

?It should be noted during that during this entire incident, [his] mood changed from compliant to hostile,? the affidavit read. ?He advised several times that he was a cop and asked to try and work things out.?

?He advised we were brothers and I should be arresting bad guys,? the police officer present wrote in the affidavit. ?He stated his aunt signs my paycheck and advised I was a rookie and didn?t know anything about police work.?

Apparently ending up in jail again was humorous to Catching, as?his mugshot featured a smile.

On Wednesday, this stand-up?guy?landed in jail again but not for drinking and driving; this time it was drinking and beating, his mother-in-law.

According to the Times Free Press,?Janet Ashford, told police that she woke up to find Catchings drunk on her couch around 3 a.m. When she told him to leave, she said, Catchings struck her with an open hand across her face.

Catchings called her a liar when she threatened to call police and said, ?Go ahead, call the cops. They will believe me before you, because I?m a cop.?

Despite the threat, Ashford called the cops, and Catching was locked up, again.

The department has promised a ?second internal affairs investigation? into the violent drunken shenanigans of Catchings. Meanwhile Catchings gets to enjoy?his?$42,000-a-year salary, while he sits at home and puts back six-packs on the tax-payers? dime.

Ironically the police chief Fred Fletcher, said??I?m impressed with local law enforcement, that people are held to the same standards whether they are law enforcement or not.?

But he is not being held to the same standards.

Catchings job is to enforce the law.?However, he has been shown to be a failure at this, as he cannot even stop himself from breaking it. If he were employed in the private sector he would most assuredly have been fired by now.

If you are the fry cook at McDonald?s and instead of frying french fries, you fry hamburgers, you will be fired.

If you are the greeter at Wal-Mart and instead of greeting people as the walk in, you punch them in the face, you will be fire.

Neither McDonald?s, nor Wal-Mart would put you on paid vacation for doing the exact opposite of what you were hired to do.

However, if you are ?an officer of the law,? you get to enjoy being paid for a job that you do not have to do.

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Way to represent, Officer Catchings. You, sir, are yet another shining example of your noble and highly respected profession. Keep fighting the good fight, officer. We need more violent, abusive, dysfunctional, sociopathic, dangerous, self-centered assholes like you to protect and serve us.

Godspeed, sir. Godspeed.

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Obama's "Millionaire Tax" Collected Over Next Ten Years Will Plug 4 Months Worth Of Deficit

by Tyler Durden

In order to keep the ongoing class warfare waged by the administration in perspective, today the CBO was kind enough to score the revenue impact of the proposed and much debated Buffett Tax, now appearing in non-populist literature as "Surtax on Millionaires." According to the Budget Office, said tax which is the source of substantial consternation among the population, would generate, over the next decade, a grand total of... drum roll... $453 billion. Why the drum roll? Because as we pointed out a few days ago, the US closed the 2011 fiscal year having added $1.23 trillion in debt (a number which would have been $1.4 trillion absent some year end settlement gimmickry). In other words, last year the US government had on average a $100+ billion deficit each month. In yet more other words, the great populist gimmick that is the Buffett Tax will have the great benefit of generating, between 2011 and 2021 enough money to plug a debt hole, at the rate America currently spends money, of 4 months.

From the CBO:

Dear Mr. Leader:

As you requested, CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have estimated the budget impact of S. 1660, the American Jobs Act of 2011, as introduced in the Senate on October 5, 2011. CBO and JCT estimate that, in total, enacting S. 1660 would decrease deficits by about $6 billion over the 2012-2021 period (see enclosed table). That estimated deficit reduction of $6 billion over the coming decade is the net effect of $447 billion in additional spending and tax cuts in titles II through III and $453 billion in additional tax revenue from the surtax specified in title IV.

S. 1660 is similar to S. 1549, the American Jobs Act of 2011, as introduced in the Senate on September 13, 2011. Provisions in title I, II, and III related to both federal revenues and spending are identical for the two bills. The only difference between the bills is that S. 1660 replaces the provisions in title IV (Offsets) of S. 1549 with a surtax of 5.6 percent, starting in 2013, on a taxpayer's modified adjusted gross income in excess of $1 million (or $500,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return), indexed for inflation. JCT estimates that title IV of S. 1660 would increase revenues by $453 billion over the 2012-2021 period, whereas title IV of S. 1549 would increase revenues by $450 billion over that period.

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