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  • original is better

  • There were just as many people lobbying for the healthcare bill as against it: unions who forced it down our throats who then immediately received wavers so the rules would not apply to them, for example. Could have been a good infomercial for people of all political stripes if it wasn't so fundamentally dishonest.

  • This was funny the first time i saw it on the Simpson's. Not so funny here.

  • i saw this in school cause we learning about it but today we took the test

  • surprise ending: the bill was SOPA!!! D:

  • Funny how whenever some

    form of corruption is exposed

    there's always some fool who

    jumps up to defend it.

    Even on youtube!

  • healthcare bill propaganda? not at all

    

  • You pretty much nailed it..

  • 700 mill$ for anti health care lobbying? that is hard to believe. but then, they successfully prevented any mention of two simple common sense ideas: for-profit health care is immoral as the profit motive only causes prevention of care not improved care, and the entire health insurance 'industry' serves no useful; function other than to impede care and make it more expensive, they dont train doctors or conduct medical research, they just get in the way and siphon off profit

  • If any of your senators or representatives take bribes and deals, kick em out. Find more Ron Paul guys. Ron Paul 2012!

  • sounds like a randy newman song

  • It's pretty good, but I wish it wasn't biased for the health care bill.

  • Great singer!

  • Capitalism, ho!

  • The comments here seem to imply that parodies aren't intended to tell the truth.

  • I love this song lol :)

  • This is NOT true... The idea that K street people have that much influence is just not true.

  • 1000x better than original.

  • Fighting from within the system, now that's funny.

  • WHAT IS THE COST IF WE DON'T?

  • i know right they got it backward they dont usually to stop bills from passing ,they lobby to get them to pass, like this ficking SOPA and PROTECT IP ACT that is being pushed by the riaa,mpaa the chamberof comerce and many other lobbies, please help to fight this as it could come for a vote after x-mas,we must stop thin internet blacklist, censorship bill, you tube may depend on it, demandprogress . org

  • fuck this. asshole parodying for more government power and robbery which caused the ills he is bitching about in the first place.

  • Lmao!

  • Everything is true except the voting part. That doesn't matter either.

  • the beat of the song goes the same as the seconds.

  • You know that they just cheat right? I mean the amount of information about fraudulent activities around the last few elections is staggering. When it comes to voting, the election was decided long before the people got in the booth.

  • @glowboy0014 There's an organization called "Watch the Vote" that is trying to organize people to stay and report their local counts so that we can catch them in the act. He talks about how he caught the Iowa GOP changing the vote in Dubuque back in the late 80's. It was the only city they monitored so it was probably statewide. They released an open letter to the GOP and the media letting them know we'll be watching. I'll be watching the count in the third bigggest city in Iowa.

  • this isn't a parody!!!

  • how is that a parody

    parodies should be funny like family guy

  • @4431kitkat one problem with your comment, you said family guy is funny

  • a bit to gruesome for kids XD

  • One problem with this video. You don't vote who gets in, the Electoral College does.

  • One problem. It doesn't matter if you push them out. The Rep you remove will get a sweet consulting gig, and the new guy will be just as on the take.

  • watch government can by tim hawkens

    so funny and mocks the government

  • Send this to the SOPA opposers they need to know the truth about how the supporters are gonna censor the internet.

  • I caught myself singing this in social studies class

  • Republivans r bad people

  • @StevenAteYourDogs anyone can be a "bad" person, not just republicans

  • @FlamingMolotov

    Infowars? Are you fucking serious? Get that conspiracy theorist bullshit outta here.

  • 0:23 Headshot.

  • this is not a parody it's just up to date

  • @webusecom So true. This may have been a really funny bit if YouTube were around 30 years ago.

  • @FlamingMolotov

    "Since nobody can see this happening there is little that I can do other than awaken people to the truth."

    If that's true, how come it's what everybody keeps talking about all the time?

  • you know how you can make a bigger difference, dont vote for the guys who take money from lobbyists. IMO, we dont need lobbyists. They were useful for in the past when they would compile information for politicians to seriously review, but we have the internet now and big business can have an accounting/payroll/development documenting dept with internet while the congressmen carry smartphones. We dont need these guys to bring briefcases of money to their desks.

  • i love this video it is a great way to learn well the real video is but i love this

  • Truth

  • Love it. And if strong public opinion doesn't work we'll use our 5th amendment rights to bring back the Republic!!!!

  • @dean07252000 2nd amendment*

  • They SHOULD have cut "obama-care" nighmare bill's throat!

    2012-SAVE THE REPUBLIC!

    NO more "resident" obama, moochelle "antionette" and the cabal of marxist czars!

    GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC!

  • @45gunner I agree... we have to save it from people like you.

  • i like the music(:

  • It's funny how hes only a small scroll. He should be a huge pile of 4000 pages because that is what the Obamacare bill was.

  • Just did a little math, your average American (according to UC Atlas) is approximately $4,500 per person, and many others estimate higher. Now, I want all of you to multiply that 45 hundred bucks by the 312 MILLION citizens in the nation and you get 1,404,000,000,000 a year, thats if we had complete universal healthcare. Now, even if we just subsidized healthcare the costs will add up enormously. Does that sound like something this nation can afford? Even from a moral standpoint that is insanity

  • @davedavedaveannoy1 That's not even the half of it. Your $4,500 is assuming services will be used as much as they are now. But anytime you offer a service for free more people will use it whether they really need it or not. At that point it's not about need it's about availability. The more a service is used the more money that has to be spent to provide it OR the less that service will be available. "Sorry John, we can't set your broken leg, we already filled our max quota."

  • @davedavedaveannoy1

    Oh that's nothing. We already spent trillions on the war.

    When you consider how much americans EARN, you'll realize that we'll be able to make it. Of course, the top 1% will have to pay their fair share...

  • @Mectrixctic Even though I am middle class I do not approve of taxation in regards to the 1%, however, I am grateful for your acknowledgement.

  • @davedavedaveannoy1

    So you're a borderline anarchist?

  • @Mectrixctic Nope, anarchy is sound in theory but it requires an extremely disciplined, intelligent, rational, and logical population bound to two ideals (that of respect for fellow individuals and their rights as well as the concept of natural rights and objective mutual gain) as the population has NONE of these traits and is unlikely to ever adopt them and abolish government anarchy like communism can function in theory only.I'm am what you could call a cross of objectivist and militarist.

  • @davedavedaveannoy1

    Eh, I'm against objectivism. Not everything that happens to someone is their fault. Also I think welfare and UHC could fall into payback, since it'll give more hardworking citizens.

  • @Mectrixctic No, not everything that happens to a person is their fault. The goal of objectivism economically is to minimize entitlement and the burden on government. By doing so taxes are severely reduced on the taxpayers giving society as a collective more financial ability and thus reducing stress on them, it will also give individuals more money that they could spend on private charities. Besides, can you really put a gun to someones head and coerce them into giving and call it moral?

  • @davedavedaveannoy1

    I don't think we can count on people to give to charity, and for the charity to give the money to the ones who need it. They need organization, and the people have to know them, so it seems like a Republic is a good form of government.

    If you're using the money for a good cause, then according to utilitarianism, yes it is moral.

    Taxes are used to build public areas, modes of transportation, and soon free health care, so the money could go back

  • @Mectrixctic You actually can, in fact, people in the United States gives more individual charity then any other nation on earth. And Utilitarianism would be enormously expensive and consume much of the government's resources. Objectivism doesn't abolish a republican form of government as it is the most stable and non-interventionist government structure in the world as well as providing ample checks and balances, it would simply objectify the laws and regulations on the government.

  • @davedavedaveannoy1 The USA's GNP is over 14 trillion. So maybe congress' paychecks are cut in half, I think they CAN afford it..

  • The Tea Party disliked this

  • Truth! I see that shitting Republinazi buttfucking corporate traitors don't like this video for some reason. :)

  • @FlamingMolotov Im a Republican... and a strong one, even I know fox news is fucked up... lol

  • wait.............what is this spose to be about frekin the public washigonton goverment or something and idk wut im talking about and this is spose to be a noob comment on purpose

  • sadly this is actual reality. We are a piano and the gov. is playing us and we cant do anything about it because it is already too far for it to stop. If we stopped it then america would collapse just like a building demolishion.

  • @TheGuilliesuitSniper It's opinions like this that are causing our country (The U.S.A.) to go from being a Participant Democracy, to being a Subject Democracy. A Subject Democracy is a democratic society in which people think that there is little hope for their Democratic system of government and just go through the motions of voting, thinking that their vote will have little consequence either way and that there is little hope for change. Let me make this perfectly clear, there is always hope!

  • I understand and agree with this video but it SUCKS. It could be a lot better

  • And WHY do the people allow the rich politicians and lawyers to get away with this? Because the people are more concerned with what celebrities ate for lunch.

    At the end of the day, it's Human stupidity and apathy(on both sides of the fence) that are what's really making things more difficult in the long run.

  • this is so school ish

  • @FlamingMolotov When didnt the money control anything? Its just fucking pices of paper and they are worth more than human lifes? Money was a bitch since the time of human race came.

  • @memen51 Currency is acctually a fairly recent invention in the grand scheme of things. At one point people would trade goods or services for other goods or services.

  • @GFedFan Tho its a bad invendtion. The big people just abuse it .... And if there were o money we would trade our own products for something different... And the poor people would be the politics and actors and such. It would be a better thing that currency. It just destroyed the world.... The greed in human is big.

  • this isnt gonna start any government arguments...

  • It's not a parody, it's the truth..

  • @maximdemeulemeester it's mostly true. the only part that is untrue is that we can change anything by voting.

  • Nice job. :) When I first saw 0:58 I thought it was going to be someone in bed with a lobbyist. Lol.

  • But instead of spending money lobbying you just made this video....

    Yes, -free- healthcare... yes... -free-...

  • @MrDannyGillz Alrighty then. I'm not sure how to respond to that regarding the fact that I have nothing to say.

  • ...Neato.

  • IM JUST A BILL

  • @FlamingMolotov family guy is on fox. u hate fox. family guy loves america. therefore u hate America! jk

  • I'm an amendment to be, yes, an amendment to be!

  • @FlamingMolotov don't watch any news. it's all fucking slanted.

  • I think people worry about politics to much. They are afraid we will end up like some awful hitler/ghadafi orgy or some shit like that. Yes we do need a good president. Yes we do need food and shelter. Yes we do have all of that, and probubly will for a LONG time. And to those people who are gunna say some people don't have food or shelter, the goverment that everybody hates so much provides halfway houses for those in need. THE END!

  • @poopypooppoop1000 "IF WE DUZENT WURRY AN LET TINGS GO LEIK DEM IZ WE WIL BE K. K?Tings doesn change at all lol so stop worrying cuz moar moneys will fall from sky if we dont care not no more kk"

    That is stupid.If I wanted to sit back and let the government fag around like your dad,I wouldn't be in america.I want to make my own choices and help the government!Stop being a faggot and make a difference.Faggot

  • @ubermonkey120 LMAO!! At first I thought you thought my father was a homosexual and I to be one as when but then I remembered you probubly just threw the word faggot into your sentence randomly.

  • @ubermonkey120 You're not very smart, you know that, right?

  • @bastardlybastard Bitch,GOD loves me more than you faggot.

  • Does anyone think the bill sounds like the singer on Toy Story 1-3?

  • @dawgalova randy newman is his name

  • @dawgalova randy newman?

    

  • Horrible. Ugh.

  • meh i like family gu's version better despite being 10 seconds

  • @FlamingMolotov it is only usa that is so stupid, the important countries have no problems with that.

    fuck usa! for usa is trolls, i'm just a real life man!

  • that was cute in the end, how people still think that we actually have any type of power, if its not ur current representative who isn't doing shit, it will be the other one.

  • screw every one who crosses my path.

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  • Damn straight.

  • MASS ANARCHY HERE I COME

  • @FlamingMolotov cant we overthrow the government then since hes not protecting our rights?

  • @2dittoz: Yeah. As Thomas Payne once wrote--and SHR sang (Fireworks)--"If a government won't give you your basic rights, you better get another government". This is what the people should be striving for. I understand how controversies occur (ex: Congress considering a Flag Desecration Act, in attempts to protect Old Glory as a freedom symbol, yet imposing it limits freedom of expression as per the 1st Amendment), but still, equality brings us back to the idealistic beliefs that founded the US.

  • "I'm just a Bill" Acoustic? lol

  • So lame

  • Let's make this a little more left wing, I could barely even tell

  • @Hankus18

    Yes, you're right, it IS accurate.

  • 0:54

    Politicians from TF2

  • This is soooooo true about government today.

  • bob marley should do a parody of this parody

  • @MrOmGuY I was thinking that the whole song.

  • this is great! :)

    But the original is catchier:P

  • this is great! :)

    But the original is catchier:)

  • i saw this before i saw the real video! LOL

  • i love schoolhouse rock! It is like an easy way to learn how to be a football player IN THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER.

  • this is stuck in my head...

  • sounds like bill clinton and the guy who sings in the toy story movies mixed together lol.

  • 14 people are lobbyists :(

  • Its more of an updated version than an actual parody

  • I like the tune.

  • EVERYTHING IZ THE DUMMY HEAD REPUBLINCANS FAULT THOSE LAME OLD POEPLE ARE DUM

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  • @Codelyokofanatic319 coming from a stupid biggoted republican christian who hates gays. go kill yurself your rining america

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  • @Codelyokofanatic319: If it's neither party's fault, then whose is it, because whenever problems arise, we always are apt to lay blame, as opposed to trying to fix what is wrong. Politicians are the most adept at this, construing phrases to suit whatever manipulative story they wish to tell to sway the general populace to their way of thinking.

  • @StevenAteYourDogs you're clearly uneducated and spew that sentence out whenever someone contradicts your ideas. You probably latch onto the liberal democrat ideals of people like Bill Mahr and Jon Stewart, and so do i. The difference is that you clearly have no scope of the problems facing the USA and just take famous right wing bashing ideals and regurgitate them, whereas he, and most intelligent people make their own ideas based off of facts. As an agnostic democrat, I say you are an idiot.

  • why would a person in their right mind make a parody of just a bill when children could watch it?!?!?! This is too inappropriate for children!?!? It is ridiculous

  • @hayhay0012porsh Lol your 15

  • @hayhay0012porsh: Inappropriate? Says whom? Children need to learn how the political system works, corrupt or not. Especially so if it is corrupt, just so they can combat it with changes in the future.

  • THE WORLD IS TOO DAMNED COMPLEX!!!! GIMME WINE!

  • if I do recall, people did vote for the guy who promised ti fight for the people and not the lobbyists, but then his balls dropped off 5 minutes after he got into office.

  • School House Rock should really replace this with the original. this is TRUTH

  • @alexandthomas

    I was shown the original in 8th grade civics. We really should have seen this one instead.

  • @Carybm Not to worry--I teach 8th grade Civics and show this clip after the original. Lobbyists and special interest groups are in the VA program of studies.

  • We did hold them responsible. Thats why we voted the bums out of office in November.

  • They should start showing this at schools.

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  • That's democracy for you: Lies, bribery and bullshit.

  • like the people can change anything in this country 

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  • @vivlevivle There are more than three hundred *million* people living in America and maybe twenty five thousand government employees. "The People" is the strongest social entity anywhere you look. Westerners are simply pacified with their gidgets and gizmos...and food. LOTS of food! If the people are satisfied (or distracted) enough, then they won't object to the upper echelons and their shady dealings.

    But you bet your bottom dollar the people can change things in America.

    Bet your boots.

  • @LordOfNothingreally yea, exept the lobbyist will always find someway of getting their voice through, no rep is immune from lobbyists

  • @LordOfNothingreally with some research i found out that there is more than 2 million gov employees, and how does gov employees have to do with this

  • @vivlevivle I was just guessing off the top of my head, and taking down the established authority (the government) is the easiest way to gain the power to dismantle the actual authority (the corporations, capitalism in general, and our own greed). However, if you want to add the entire upper echelons of power into the "us vs them" scenario thats fine. I just didn't know who to target or how many of them there are.

  • @LordOfNothingreally so you are saying that government employees are are enemies and the coperate capitalists arent

  • @vivlevivle No, not at all. I state how the corporations and capitalism are the true authorities that shackle us, which would be the most beneficial thing to rebel against (If we are on the same page when we're talking about "the people" making changes nationwide) and how I'd target them if only I knew exactly who I was targetting and how many of them there were. I target the government employees, because they're vulnerable to rebellion and because that would cripple corporate authority as well.

  • @LordOfNothingreally i glad where on the same ideological page, the only thing i dont get is how targeting the gov employyes would take down the business's domination

  • @vivlevivle All power of business and corporation is based on upholding the current laws. The government controls the elements, among many other things in society, that enforces the laws. Without the current U.S. Government, as a bureaucracy running the country, no corporation has any practical means of protecting themselves from citizens that have taken control. *Within* the capitalist system, however, the corporations are strongly protected by the law, money, and structure of the system itself

  • @LordOfNothingreally so what your saying is of the people take down the government then they can take down the bisuinesses who choke this country

  • @vivlevivle Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying

  • @LordOfNothingreally but without a government how would their be order

  • @vivlevivle There wouldn't be order, in the beginning. Citizens seizing and overthrowing the established government will always throw a nation into at least a brief spell of anarchy while those organized citizens that have taken control attempt to settle on the best new way to do things. It is during this period of re-establishing a new government, under the rebels, that corporate authority and capitalistic safeguards and guiderails can be safely removed.

  • @LordOfNothingreally how about the rebels form a constitution before the takeover, but what will this constitution be like

  • @vivlevivle Ya, well, if I'm going to lay out the plan for rebellion, then have to *write the new government and subsequent documents up*...then do I get to be LEADER of this new government? LoL!

  • @LordOfNothingreally hmm, okay but i get to be the speaker, anyway im interested in this plan so write it up.

  • 0:23 he shot himself and I don't blame him

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  • Why?

  • I liked the old version alot better than this shit!!!!!!

  • 7 Deadly Fictions: 1) I have "representation" in Congress. 2) The collective use of force is made moral by the size of the collective. 3) I'm free to hire anyone I want to give me medical help. 4) Most people who seek political office aren't sociopaths 5) Sociopaths are all axe murderers or rapists, like they are depicted in hollywood 6) Juries should "enforce the law", not act as a "citizen conscience" 7) Less Government, (more anarchy), would result in increasing disorder and chaos

  • So... if the people who DIS-like this video believe that the lobbyists and moneyed special interests do NOT have disproportionate influence on the legislative process... you've got a lot of learning to do. All the author did was update the old song from the '70s to reflect 21st century reality. If he writes a second verse, it should be about the abuse of the filibuster.

  • so retared

  • @anchitkolla100 I agree

  • congratulations. you have officially ruined one of the awesomest songs in the history of the universe.

  • ass

  • Misleading! The special interest group in the case of the Socialist Medicine Plan formally known as "health care" was the average person in america. We don't seem to have a very strong lobby.

  • lol they think voteing will help? i cant belive it, im laughing my ass off, the vid even said it that the lobeyists are on both sides to all politicans are in there pocket even the tea party elects