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  • It doesn't matter if they care about the people or not; what matters is if their power is limited, if they are regulated and if they get their job done. If they don't get their job done, get rid of them and put somebody else in their office. That simple.

  • I don't even like sushi

  • "It's Dick Cheney evil" : I love that line.

  • the problem is idiot news anchors who don't do their home work and contradict them selves several times in a 5 minute video, i know we all have free speech but if your going to broadcast your opinion maybe you should have an idea of what your going to say before you get on air uh uh uh uh. stuff. mmmm sushi and not all sushi has fish or seaweed or rice what kind of sushi was it, i bet i was good.

  • @joshuafoster23 so if it's really good sushi then he gets to take $20,000 from a health clinic fund to spend on it. I guess it's all right to ask people for money for a health clinic and then go on vacation in vegas because he had a lot of fun. why don't you get some people together who think like you and I'll ask you guys for $5 million to build a really nice orphanage but instead I'll spend the rest of my days on a beach. It's ok cause i would have a wonderful time and eat fresh fish.

  • I would seriously spend $20k on sushi- that stuff is gold :P

  • that sum bought Mr. Espada and his wife around 200 meals, delivered to their home in Mamaroneck, N.Y., from 2006 to 2009. Assuming a few bucks for tax and tip, that works out to about $40 per meal per person.

  • What a moron. If he had 20,000 Bucks he should have gone to Japan and had real Sushi. 

  • This was an Upright Citizens Brigade sketch..... wtf

  • Lets Kill him

  • obviously not sushi. In NYC it's pretty common for uber-expensive call-girl outfits to bill their services under many different things. Though you'd think they'd have thought of a better handle than sushi.

  • Must be damn nice sushi

  • Pedro espada also spends money on tons on beastlity pornography and Viagra also loves to give knob jobs to gays in the village a fuckin disgusting person

  • 1:42 Best face ever!!!

  • this might be the first video this guy was not kissing obama's ass. what a breath of fresh air i mean really.

  • He is trying to create jobs!

    Like republicans does best. Create jobs.

    Let him be.

    Money to that stupid clinic doesn't create jobs, you need an army of worker to make those delicious sushi, jobs! He is just part of the umbrella of job creation that produce one out of five jobs in America!

    suck it up!

  • @garytcw haha, "republican create jobs" made me lol

  • 20 grand of sushi would spoil if you bought it all at once sushi goes bad fast and 20000 bucks would get years worth of it

  • vote for pedro

  • @l3oss2u

    all this talking about suhi and corrupt politicans made me hungry

  • imaging how much pain and suffering could be prevented with that 20,000 for health clinics

  • imaging how much pain and suffering could be prevented with that 20,000 for health clinics

  • What the hell did he eat? A mermaid?

  • he probably had problems with the chinese mafia and used this as a pretext to pay them 20,000 dollars.

    sushi is chinese right? : I

  • that was either a fuckload of sushi or very amazing sushi. I hope he got food poisoning... "I can't make it to the office today; the sushi i bought last night isn't agreeing with me." LOL!

  • Btw i think he should be named "Pedro the Lightning'" instead of P. Estrada. With this guy switching sides quicker than a lightning i definately think it suits him better.

  • 20.000 $ on a sushi meal?!!! And i was cursing a minister of ours who had spent 28.000 euros for about 10 metres of curtain in his office! What can i say, the cost of living is so high these days.

  • @SpiritoGreco1

    At least the curtain lasts.

  • @GretzkyTheWonderDog ,for THIS amount of money, IT  BETTER BE LONG LASTING! :-)

  • @SpiritoGreco1

    Especially when the tax payer is paying for it.

    Oh you politicians and your antics.

  • This "public servant" should be shot after trial and his family ousted. I'm surprised the media hadn't picked up on this and he not run out of town on a rail.

  • thats fuckin expencive sushi..he better have gotten a naked asian hottie to go along with it while he ate... maybe some sex too.

  • I got your Bronx right here.

  • Pimping out his own people. Pimping poor blacks & Hispanics because their voice is too small to say something. Smfh

  • Shame on you, Pedro Espada! You are a pathetic example of why campaign finance reform is so critical in this time!

  • i'd spend a million dollars on sushi, np

  • He probably got his cock sucked by some japanese chick at the sushi bar, bought some expensive rounds of saké for his friends, and had a bunch of caviar with his sushi.

  • Holy crap I cannot believe this guy is for real. What a monumental ASSHOLE. I hope he sees serious prison time.

    Well said Cenk. This is exactly the kind of thing that turns the public away from trusting and even paying attention to their government. This cynicism becomes a downward spiral, letting the governing principles get even worse.

  • mmm expensive sushi

  • @leafnut420

    mmm forbidden expensive tax payer sushi. (drools)

    :P

  • @Joxman2k Lmaoo

  • True it's probably not as bad here but it's more than just the claiming of expenses, MPs can also claim for a second home and fiddle the system to that they get their main biggest one free. They can also employ family members and pay them a wage for doing nearly nothing. But I think it's being reformed pretty soon, it was a big issue when it arose but I suspect all the parties were just trying to use it a means of distracting peoples attention from the economy.

  • I'm never getting insurance from geico because of you google!!

  • "Thats a lot of fish"

    .....10 internets to whoever gets that refrence

  • @h3ct0r182 '98 Godzilla

  • this guys an idiot. He spent 20,000 dollars on raw fish wrapped in seaweed.

  • @paranormal17 but why what the fuck is wrong i can understand some rich guy spending £250 on sushi all you can eat thing for him and his friends but $20000 on what sounds like a single meal is just not right its fucked you know you can by your son a car as a birthday present for that or take the family out n a huge holiday or donate it to his actual cause

  • Cenk's really pissed off by this. So am I.

  • that sushi must have been made with gold fish skin and diamond rice lol

  • I'm not ignorant, sometimes I go from: X->Y->Z->X with some changes, in one or two days

  • @westaux999 Quit your job and see how easy it is to get another one. I've been looking since I got laid off. You obviously have no idea how hard it is right now to get a job in some areas.

  • Sushi don't cost that much unless home delivered by half a dozen naked Japanese chicks.

  • @fsxmantra I understand where he's coming from if that's the case.

  • Typical democrat, i mean republican, wait no democrat.

  • How many people ate that sushi? a thousand? I mean, I could feed sushi to a thousand people for that much...

    You know, that stuff is full of mercury because of mercury pollution from coal burning and dumping at sea...

  • Must have been some good sushi

  • @menthol5 Must have been fugu or something.

  • Until we make these politicians and public officials accountable and give them real punishment to will continue to rub out noses in their filth at will. We are saps and they know it.

  • "If you give politicians an inch, they will steal five million dollars." = Quote of the day

  • Wow... A politician can spend $20,000 on sushi for one dinner, but I'm $20,000 in debt because I lost my job last year. Thanks for helping me out, government.

  • lawl. get off your ass and get another job. FFS.

  • damn... what kind of sushi did he get...the kind that covers the naked women laying down with the sushi covering her body??

  • @hellokitty7654321 mmm thats good sushi.

  • Got a fealing that it was a little more then just the fish kinda sushi ;)

  • sushi is awesome!!!

  • dick cheney evil ftw, lol!

  • Please continue to put out the word on these crooks!

  • I would spend $20,000 on Sushi !

    Thats Stuff Tastes Good !

    With Saki !

  • Shocking Democrat Scandal!

  • I hope he gets his, I don't care what party he is in. Disgusting.

  • @disenchantedgrl apparently he doesn't care either ...

  • I think the $20K was some kind of political payoff. There is no way to eat $20k in Sushi.

  • @wrokenbrod whale

  • "you and i are not in the club"

    george carlin

  • this guy is the epitome of a skeezy self serving politician. I'd say publicly flog this motherfucker, and any other politician caught robbing the american people, and watch how many more robberies we will have.. NONE

  • they ought to turn this PROSTITICIAN into sushi.

  • How do you spend 20 g's on sushi?

  • If they didn't agree then why is the whitehouse pushing for us to have big oil start drilling from delawa to cuba? Why is the whitehouse having promoting the building of nuclear power plants cross the US like never before?

    It's a game of tag, Bush can't promote such things as his party plays the cards for things like No Child left behind, homland security. Big energy is handled by the dems.

    No they aren't 100% the same, 98% is probabley closer.

  • Don't agree? Do you think the WWF is real also?

    Ive said it 100 times, they are teh same team wearing different jerseys.

  • For the record: Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same. Out for themselves, and out for their parties, and out to help their contributors, and fuck the rest of us.

    I know you're an eternal optimist, Cenk, but with all your years of reportage, shouldn't the rose tint in your glasses have faded by now??

  • Imagine how many starving kids he could fed with that money? This is pure stupidity. This guy should be kicked off the board and his money should be taken and given to responsible actors.

  • Wake up America. You have guys like this running every business and public enterprise in America. You only get respect with enormous wealth in America and if your broke (meaning less than one million net worth), honest and hard working in America you a complete looser and are taxed to death to compensate for the billionaires who pay no tax.

  • I do not pay taxes so that politicians can eat expensive sushi!

  • @MasonsTurtle Yes you do!

  • basically

  • he's scum

  • And Cenk thinks the government can solve healthcare. Hahaha

  • good job

  • sushi for 20,000$, that guy is detached from reality. Mabye if it was the last suchi on earth and Jesus served it. Also eaten of ana kasparians naked body

  • Good work Young Turds fails to name he's a DEMOCRAT. Young Turds is pathetic...just look at their titles of the videos.

    P.S Young Turds, stop SPAMMING youtube.

  • @papavalium Um, they did say he was a Dem. Within the first minute of the video.

  • @GSSAGE7 Yeah, after saying he's now republican. Wow you just don't get it...Young Turds is so far left it's pathetic. Just look at the hatred for Palin and Republicans. It's so obvious...I could just tell something was fishy when they mentioned..."Corrupt Politician" I knew it was a Democrat...cause if it was a True republican, it would have been the title. You saying you really can't see the bias young turds has?

  • @papavalium I know they have a bias, but the point is, they did in fact say he was a dem. Then they said he was a republican, and then he was a democrat again. But of course, you have no bias at all, right?

  • @papavalium what the hell are you talking about?

  • @gurragreat Try looking at the right side...where they have the videos..then check the titles. They completely set up each video with a misleading title.

  • @papavalium that's what we call related videos, they tend to bring up videos with either similar topics or videos from the same channels. If you don't want to be around The Young Turks, don't go on their vids. I know you, considering the nature of your comment, have been told this a lot but seriously, repeating The Young Turds over and over on a comment of a video will not earn you respect.

  • @gurragreat

    How is the title misleading? It says "Corrupt Politician Spends $20,000 on Sushi" and that's what they talk about. And btw, EVERY political show has bias. It wouldn't be political analyzing if there wasn't some degree of bias, but if they were as left-wing biased as you claim then they wouldn't have given this story at all because the politician mentioned is a Democrat.

  • @gurragreat You might need to do some research on the Young Turds. Check out their videos and put your political glasses on. It's that easy folks, YounG turds are super left wing loonies.

  • @gurragreat Here's a few old video titles I found. If this doesn't show you what I meant nothing will. You obviously didn't get past high school in that case.

    1. "(R): Tea Party Should "Be The Militant Wing of the GOP"

    2. GOP Newsletter: Women Belong In The Kitchen

    3. Limbaugh Gushes Over Sarah Palin's Book

    4. Judge Napolitano Lies about Health Care Reform

    So wait Young Turds are right and Judge Napolitano lies...lmao

  • @papavalium just turn into your good ol' man Glenn Beck on Fox News and you'll be fine, you shouldn't be watching these liars as they're clearly decieving your good ol' America in every way, manipulating people, raising taxes, putting out misleading titles (zomg noone on youtube's ever done that), and slowly thrusting their poisonous corrupt ideas of equality and sense into the minds of the younger generations.

    The term "Young Turds" still baffles me. What are you? Five?

  • @gurragreat I love it Beck is a liar now? I get it dude, all Republicans are racists and liars....just like all Democrats are cowards and communists. I would rather go with the Republicans, at least they love America.

    "The term "Young Turds" still baffles me. What are you? Five?"

    Try listening to the video, you'll here Cenk actually tell some 5 year old jokes.

  • @papavalium Very true. For me though, i'v stopped caring. I just set back an watch the monkeys go back and forth. American politics is simply entertainment for me these days

  • @gurragreat I see you're still dodging the part about how Young Turds is beyong bias. They are a MSNBC spokesmouth. It's the only network that actually would put this dumbshit host on. To be on other networks, you actually have to have a real background and following.

  • @papavalium bias is inevitable and Cenk has been on MSNBC once from what I can recall and has on top of that been cited on CNN as "a very famous blogger". Note the lack of in- before famous.

    I'm sorry I ever bothered you, take this as a victory if you must but please try to not spew on about it for more than 2 comments, please. I can't say I feel like putting up with you any more. You will not hear anything more from me.

  • @gurragreat Good come back after college or when you see the real world..then you'll be a conservative.

  • @gurragreat Just keep watching Odormann and Mancow the tranny.

  • @papavalium What the hell are you talking about? He stated he was a Democrat for a long time 16 seconds into the video. Then they stated he flip flopped from Democrat to Republican then BACK to Democrat like 45 seconds in. Are you retarded? Serious question.

  • @solidc213 Dude you need to take a logic class, then read the titles of YOung Turds videos. Also look up the word Fallacy...it will give you a start on learning the enlish language again.

    If you haven't figured it out yet..heres a hint....Young Turds purposely leaves out the fack that he was a DEMOCRAT in the title...now look at all their other videos of, "Republican does this, republican does that, Palin does this palin does that."  It's pathetic dude.

  • @solidc213 It went over your head dude. It's you who's so slow, it's you who's retarded obviously. Cya

  • A little calculation.. my wife and I are sushi fiends and we have sushi at least once a week.. We live in an expensive part of southern california and are sushi isn't cheap to begin with. I just figured out it would take us close to 10 years to eat 20K in sushi.

  • goodluck getting the regulators to regulate themselfs

  • I'm just suprised he didn't eat the sushi off the naked body of a prostitute

  • Off with the head of that glutinous, greedy political whore!!

  • Geez. That's sick man.

    Even thought my fave food on the entire planet is Sushi!

  • someone should murder him

  • Sounds like a standard corrupt politician. Next stop - prison!

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    /▌ Copy and paste him.

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  • @msadoy Fuck Muhammad and all religion.

  • Off with his head!!!

  • ...and to think my mother worked with this asshole when he was here in the Bronx.

  • You can guarantee that $20 000 of sushi contains meat from endangered species.

  • How is it that most people haven't figured out that because the United States is so powerful in the world we have some of the most corrupt institutions in the world? Power is the ultimate corrupter of the human spirit and when you give mere apes the powers that we do of course they will abuse that power to their own ends. We continue to think we can hold this much power and contain it somehow... Just not gonna happen. This isn't fucking rocket science.

  • This stuff is more widespread than most people realize.

  • @PressForFreedom Great now there are about a dozen of us who get it.

  • DAMN SONS OF BITCHES!!!

  • I'll spend $20,000 for sushi made out of Nemo.

  • I love this man! (cenk)

  • The Dems made a mistake in taking that corrupt son-of-a-btich back. I have disliked Espada since I first read about him in that coup. Turns out for a damn good reason too.

    How the hell are you even able to rack up a $20,000 bill for ONE MEAL?! Say you're 20 people eating, that's still $1,000 per person! Fuckin' hell.

  • This kind of shit has been an issue in Britain too in our system, one guy used tax payers money to get his mote cleaned. Yes... his mote!

  • @GreenFont trust me what the british officials steal is peanuts compared to what the amis do.I saw many of the of the detailled expenses sheets.I mean in people were put on blast for spending 500 GBP, they were resigning of that.Its a proof that the brits are honest for the most part. I mean if you get busted for so little.

  • $20,000!!! I don't care if it's made out of free willy himself, NO sushi is worth that much.

  • They let an Espada into the freaking senate??? Why the hell would they let someone who served under the traitor of the Soul Society, Aizen, into the freaking senate?!

  • $20k is NOTHING! My former employer in Georgia (the country) spent over $95 MILLION on one painting by Picasso in 2006. Last year, the EBRD gave the bank that he owns (Cartu Bank) at least $20 MILLION in LOANS, with a project cost nearly double that, not to mention the additional $200 - $300 MIL earmarked for 'Georgian Railway'.

    FYI US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner serves on the Board of Governors of EBRD. EBRD wants to "strengthen" Cartu's capital base. US mass media won't go near this.

  • @usagoodbyeisayhello Picasso is one thing. Sushi is quite another.

  • @TheYou0Tuber You're missing the point. The point is that our elected officials are, by and large, totally corrupt. They do whatever they want, whether it's splashing out $20k on sushi or starting an illegal war in Iraq, and they get away with it. What makes our "leaders" behave this way? Are they incompetent? Are they sociopaths? Perhaps it's something deeper? Who do you think allows them to get away with this kind of thing? Like I said, $20k on sushi is nothing. Open your eyes.

  • @usagoodbyeisayhello I think some are sociopaths and megaolmaniacs. I have heard that one reasons some CEOs are paid so well is because they are sociopaths, not everyone can put financial gain ahead of public and enviromental good.

  • @SteelMartini I've often thought the same exact thing.

  • @usagoodbyeisayhello If you haven't already check out documentary The Corporation, makes same argument

  • Damn...I won't even spend 10 bucks on a sub at Quiznos

  • How do you funnel 15 million dollars over 5 years and have people just now realize what's going on?

  • it depends on wut kind of sushi...

  • that guy sounds like a total douche how did he make it to the top?

  • 20k on sushi...a person can only spend that kind of money without thinking is because it is stolen and corrupt money , it is easy to spend other people.

  • That must've been some great sushi.

  • $20,000 is 40,000lbs of rice or 800 50lb bags

  • if sushi cost 20k, it better be from actual mermaids

  • @nirvana2465 AND grant you immortality ala Mermaid Scare.

  • @nirvana2465 whatta you mean "actual"?

  • @nirvana2465 Lucy Liew

  • @nirvana2465 I think the sushi he ordered was named Ariel...probably ate that sushi all night.

  • @nirvana2465 But then it would be called "pushi."

  • this video made me hungry

  • Welcome to reality. This why the TEA PARTY people are coming on strong. Sadly misguided and co-opted by corporations, but their anger is real.

  • This is why we need a true democracy, not a republic.

  • @spinnersmetal

    We'll never be a democracy, no nation ever will. We're so much worse than we were, we're never going to fix anything in this country. I've accepted that.

  • @CharlesVariations Unions

  • Why is anyone surprised?

    The only difference between organized crime and government is that government isn't organized.

  • @forgetititititit amen brother, only thing I'd expand on that is, the people running our government (business and such) are organized, our government is like the little goombas running around with half a brain trying to please daddy money bags.

  • @forgetititititit I gave you a thumbs up, but if you think the government isn't organized, your eyes are only half open.

    the government has always been very organized, but we just haven't had access to this much information from this many people ever before and the government can't stop it.

  • Motherfucker spendin 20 grand on sushi while there are plenty of people who are starving around the wordl..What have we done to this world?? Look what we've done!!!

  • Wow, this guy makes nepotism an art form. Not a particularly subtle one, but an art form nonetheless :)

  • They might as well skip all the preamble and just start electing mobsters.

  • Like actual sushi or asian women?

  • @m22k3yt rofl! XD

  • I like Cenk's turkish side, close to his money and I love when he gets pissed about some expansive useless shit !!! :D

  • Someone really likes their sushi. You should bring me next time

  • the best part of this story is the fact that its a meal that isnt even cooked.

    at least hes not contributing to global warming (in this instance) =P

  • @cloudstrife0142002

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Nice.

  • $20,000 on sushi

    I guess it is a slight variance because every politician can be bought

  • 20k on fish wtf what kind of fish could cost that much....

  • Just by his name I knew hed be evil, Espada= bad guys from Bleach