The Character of the IRS: Grown adults who desire to be 15-year-olds
I thought it was a joke when I saw the video of IRS workers practicing their dance moves for an upcoming training conference in Anaheim, which lasts just under three minutes, and comes out weeks after it was revealed that agency workers produced two other videos parodying the “Star Trek” and “Gilligan’s Island” TV shows.
The newest recording shown below costs about $1,600 and was produced to be shown at the end of a 2010 training and leadership conference held in California. Yet, the video is not a joke, it was done with serious intentions behind it with a mentality that is shockingly similar to the type of adolescent shenanigans that are common in most high schools. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Not only is the video an insult, but the behavior of the people is even more disturbing. The money spent is obviously ridiculous—the Star Trek and Gilligan Island videos cost roughly $60,000 to make. This latest one is just icing on the cake of utmost failure. But the culture shown in the video is much more disturbing to me. Have a look.
More: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/…
Video via the House Ways and Means Committee: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/
In the video at the link above where my local public school of Lakota was doing a large music video to raise money for Spina Bifda it doesn’t take much looking to see that the effort was driven by the adults of the school, in some bizarre attempt to be young again with their students. When it comes to acting silly, and being “crazy,” young people are allowed some behavior fluctuations as they are still growing. They’ve only been on earth for 15 to 18 years and have a lot to learn. But when adults crave with every essence of their bodies to be “young” again, there is a real problem when such people are put into positions of authority. There is a section of that Lakota video, shown below for review, where the school superintendent and the school board are seen dancing like a bunch of lunatics. The superintendent actually held up a sign saying something to the effect as “superintendents’ rock.”
If an adult has a desire to “re-live” their youth so they can enjoy the so-called best days of their life—there is something wrong with their minds. It wouldn’t take much effort to prove that those minds are suffering a varied degree of mental illness. These types of psychologically deficient people are often found running for school boards, chaperoning school dances, and hauling their children to every social event so they can be on the “inside” as much as possible with the lives of young people. The behavior really becomes a problem when it is considered that such neurosis is the root of millions of dollars of wasted money as such minds are incapable of proper management of their own lives, let alone guarding tax payer resources.
The IRS workers in the Anaheim training video is but a window into the world of the typical government worker—the undeveloped mind of the typical bureaucrat who craves desperately to return to the pubescent body of a 15-year-old child to be forever young. The workers thought their video was cool, and socially hip. Like a bunch of teenagers who have no value for money, or the worth of real life things, they saw no reason to avoid spending vast sums of money on a stupid video showing other IRS workers how cool they are, and how they can self-parody – which is the new cool.
The trend of a statist, collectivist oriented society is to declare to the world that one is imperfect and is in essence no better than the next person. The best way to do so is to perform public actions that display humility. This lets others know in a group that one does not take themselves too seriously, and are prone to self-sacrifice for the good of the many. This is the culture of government and why teenagers behave so badly in public after being taught by government schools for 10 years of their already short lives. They are taught by idiots to be idiots—so we shouldn’t expect anything less of them. But for years, the behavior was hidden from the outside world as only those who worked for such institutions saw what really went on. That was how life was before YouTube took away censorship, and put up honesty for all to see good and bad. That is what we can see in the IRS video, and the Lakota music video, government institutions who think they are doing good, that are actually displaying a gross desire to be simple teenagers.
The cost of the federal government as it is operated by these insufficient bureaucrats is incalculable. Leaving such people in charge of anything is similar to leaving teenagers alone at home while vacationing. As soon as any responsible party leaves the house, the teenagers want to have some kind of destructive party and the house gets trashed. These are the type of people who are running the government. They are grown adults who think like children, and they simply duplicate in their government offices replicas of their glory days in high school—the government institution that shaped their thoughts. The IRS officials saw no problem with their video production. They didn’t care what the cost was, because like teenagers, they have no value for such things. Their emphasis was completely on what’s “cool” and shows the greatest humility in a public setting.
I find the IRS video appalling. It’s not cool. It’s not cute. And the people dancing in the video look like idiots, I feel sorry for their kids who have been robbed of a proper role model—and given a tremendous disadvantage in life. The behavior points to how easily the culture of the IRS was able to turn the power and fury of the federal government toward conservative Tea Party groups as the odd balls in society just as children in a school are taught to identify children who are not “cool” as targets of social bullying, and peer pressure. The culture of complacency is in place by the very nature of the typical IRS worker, who is simply a grown teenager, and just as irresponsibly dangerous. Only those teenagers are given authority over our society in every context, and that is an abomination that needs to be revisited with a dedication to a flat tax that would allow us to dismantle the IRS as it is now so that taxpayers aren’t forced to pay for such silly employees with their hard-earned money. If there was ever a rally cry for such a need, the dancing training video done by the IRS is it!
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
