Political Vlog: Blagojevich Trial & Corruption & Ethics Reform!

[iamMarcusPolk]

First of all, in the beginning when you first asked the question of the cause of corruption in governments, i knew it was corporations/donations to politicians. Second of all, that act being passed is total crap. It won't work. Either that, or if you wait a few months, a new act will come about providing a loophole to the former. Either that, or some way will be possible so that politicians become corrupted via corporations/donations. Basically put, corruption is inevitable.

[epiqism]

yo an asian dude doing politics videos. way to represent, my brother! keep doin what you doin, aint no one gonna bring us down!

[dwiggs77]

"if your politician volunteers" i hope that everyone would point out if a politician doesn't volunteer, that everyone calls them out on it and voters would vote against them.. you know,the wording "volunteer" just makes me think that they were not at all serious about the bill in the first place. a majority of corruption

[GarlicPudding]

Corruption sucks!!!

And I'm from LA, so I know exactly how much it sucks.

[cpufightclub]

@GarlicPudding You think LA is corrupt? Come to Illinois.

[klard]

I can tell you just looking at Blagojevich,  there had to be lots of corruption involved for him to even get elected Governor.

[Benjamin723]

Lol, funny video. I live in Indiana, but right by the border of Illinois, so I've been hearing TONS of stuff about the Blagojevich trial.

[FamousEdwin]

ANOTHER INFORMATIONALLY STUFFED VIDEO! THUmbz up

[AJSensei]

We have tried this before. They always leave loopholes.

[Calimantalkin]

This is great, but what about people like Romney, Whitman, etc that throw millions of their own cash into the pot, if you limit donations, how do we compete with the rich?

[DUY1337GUITAR]

RESEARCHHHHH haha.... I think I'm gonna yell that at my friends often starting now

[MrPoliticsGeek]

@DUY1337GUITAR lol, yayy for catchphrasessss~

[chattingcat]

Great job.

[TheAtheistAllegiance]

Nice video.

[CreepyPaleKid]

You have Blagojevich's "evil level" over Hitler's. Your video is CORRUPT with silly accusations.

[l3yanki]

@CreepyPaleKid its a joke :) calm down

[CreepyPaleKid]

@l3yanki I meant that in a sarcastic poking fun way. Forgot that doesn't transfer on the internet.

[MrPoliticsGeek]

@CreepyPaleKid haha, i appreciate the subtle humor

[darksean99]

The GLARING problem with that act is the word "volunteer". If you allow them to opt out then all you are doing it ensuring that the corrupt politicians will have more spending money over honest ones. The only way I see to fix the issue would be to abandon the philosophy that being able to give money to politicians is somehow related to free speech and simply have 100% publicly funded election, and at the same time bar any other groups from influencing elections i.e. RNC/DNC and the like.

[MrPoliticsGeek]

@darksean99 good point you have there, but more than that, i think the glaring problem is that ppl aren't informed about this act. IF ppl did know about this act, who wud vote for the politician who doesn't sign up for the FENA?

[darksean99]

@MrPoliticsGeek While I would like to believe that people wouldn't. Generally enough spin can misinform the general populous. With the amount of money that can flow though corrupt channels can in essence flood the ways the common people, who don't dig deeper than the surface, gather their information.

[darksean99]

@MrPoliticsGeek If all your reading in spin on how the candidate is a great guy that you wanna have a beer with, and one minor caveat about him accepting perfectly legal contributions it isn't going to dissuade enough of the voting populous.

[thejacobindemocrat]

Loving it, Monsieur. Keep up the good work, you're very charismatic and well read. :)

[MrPoliticsGeek]

@thejacobindemocrat hahah thanks graceee, i appreciate you keeping up w/ me~

[flowerchild1994]

Great video, the Pokemon reference was much needed.

[MrPoliticsGeek]

@flowerchild1994 the cruelty had to be voiced~ those poor pokemons

[rjpancerniCAUSA]

You are a racist. You hate Poles (that means Polish/ ethnic Poles.)

[goptwothemax]

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[goptwothemax]

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