Political Vlog: Blagojevich Trial & Corruption & Ethics Reform!

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This month marks the start of the trial of the infamous Illinois Former Governor Rod Blagojevich (aka the guy who tried to sell Obama's empty senate seat).

To celebrate the lovely occasion, we question
what is corruption??
Is there a solution to it?
And what in the world can one informed individual do????


sources:
$8:$1 ratio (Big donors vs. Small donors):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/meg-whitman-spending-meg-_n_601328.html

"1/4 of 1% of Americans Give More than $200" chart:
http://www.publicampaign.org/node/38307

Fair Elections Now Act:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/ending-pay-play-politics



Media used:
"Pump It" by Black Eyed Peas

I do NOT own the copyrights to these song/video. They are used solely for educational and commentary purposes!

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[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

[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.

[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!

[cpufightclub]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.