Lol, Bullet train as violent rhetoric.
I must admit, the first thing that surprised me here is the reasonable tone, normally when one sees Glenn Beck, he's calling the hellfire down upon the unbelievers...but given what I've just watched I'd wager that that is a good example of unbiased selective editing.
Now, the subject...the IRS...I wager that's Inland Revenue in the states I guess? and Taxes...well...no-one likes Taxes, do they? From the rich to the poor, everyone hates taxes, but arguably, if it was left to private companies, could they be completely trusted with public services? Look at our rail network in the UK, privatised in the late 1990s and is only just recovering, train fares through the roof and rail maintenance run by a different company to the trains, which one can argue has lead to several fatal accidents in the past decade, but I digress. Private companies are generally only in it for one thing and that is to generate revenue, it's pretty simple, and perhaps the guy at the top makes a hideous amount, but so does any guy at any top, it's a fact of life.
Now, one could argue that public companies have a greater focus on service than on profit...perhaps this is true, however at the end of the day they will still focus heavily on generating revenue to meet the targets issued to them by their government body. There's corruption in both public and private companies, perhaps it's easier to hide in a public body because, due to its nature, it haemorrages funds at an alarming rate...but nevertheless, it still occurs at varying rates depending upon the nature of the management and of the directing council.
"Your tax dollars at work." Well, yes, that's understandable, and I imagine is covered by the corruption I've mentioned, doubtless some mayor or senator thinks that a High speed rail line will benefit his area and so has put some lobbying behind it, and thus the project is born...it's happened over here too, and in fact around every nation on the planet, independent of governmental style, independent of political leaning, human greed is human greed, short of divide intervention that's not going to change.
I think the crux of the matter though is that big elephant in the middle, government, and the way it diverts funds from the people into public companies, and yes that will always be a matter for great debate, however it will be debated by the right when the left is in power and by the left when the right is in power, we'll have misappropriated government funds in a Democratic government, and a corporate corruption scandal in a Republican government. So, really, what Glenn Beck says is well...nothing much...really, unless being an islander I've missed the point he's trying to make.
Still, one of the more reasonable things I've seen from Beck...aside from the 'violent rhetoric' jibe which, while amusing, was a bit unnecessary in the topic...but there you go. I've seen worse.
