Friday, March 22, 2013

$10,000 Per Minute

Wow.

The agency says the video, along with a training video that parodied the TV show “Gilligan’s Island,” cost about $60,000. The “Star Trek” video accounted for most of the money, the agency said.

The IRS said Friday it was a mistake for employees to make the six-minute video. It was shown at the opening of a 2010 training and leadership conference but does not appear to have any training value.

The video features an elaborate set depicting the control room, or bridge, of the spaceship featured in the hit TV show. IRS workers portray the characters, including one who plays Mr. Spock, complete with fake hair and pointed ears.

(7) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1919 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. This is what Obamaborg do.

    I can imagine the possible dialogue:

    “The taxpayer is not quite dead, Jim!” 

    “Bones, audit him until he is!”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 22, 2013 at 1944 hrs


  2. I clicked on the link to watch this.  Wow. Very high production values. 

    I’m guessing the guy in Captain Kirk’s chair is the employee who thought this up and authorized it. 

    I imagined all the taxes I have paid over the years going to pay for this piece of crap.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 22, 2013 at 2017 hrs


  3. Fight back.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 22, 2013 at 2059 hrs


  4. Hey, it’s just “other people’s money”, no biggie.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 23, 2013 at 1648 hrs


  5. Not enough money for White House tours and he lies about who ordered it, yet quietly…

    The United States has quietly unblocked almost $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority which had been frozen by Congress for months, a top US official said Friday.

    Not reported on ABC, CBS, CNN or NBC, or their comrade affiliates.

     

     

     

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 24, 2013 at 0931 hrs


  6. Yeah remind me again where those Iraqi WMD’s were and get back to me about wasteful government spending. Oh wait Haliburton.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 24, 2013 at 1414 hrs


  7. Nacho,

    At least the war in Iraq made us safer and decimated Al Qaeda.  That war did quite a bit to eliminate evil.

    This IRS video just makes everyone dumber…and poorer.  It shows we tolerate government being an awful stewart of resources.

    The solution is: cut the resources to government, not expand them…as you advocate.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 24, 2013 at 1635 hrs


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