How Politicians North of Richmond Got So Rich
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains the practical politics behind the hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond”. In addition, Florida Man wonders how a majority of congressmen are multimillionaires even though their yearly salary is $125,000.
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Written by Sean W. Malone and Lou Perez
Animated by LtAmazil, Adamdonk, and Emily Slatt
Voiced by Seamus Coughlin and nosoup4knowles
Layout by Jaime Velasquez, Trevor Smith
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
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“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.” ― Harry Truman
When you lie for money that's called, fraud. When you lie for power that's called, politics.
The Last politician who was a honest man. Left office with no fortune, but Congress approved a pension plan for him. He didn’t want to burden the people with a permanent salary for his small public service.
All politcians are paid with extorted money so they are all crooks period.
@@Irish381
Last President, perhaps, but not the last politician. Barry Goldwater was in the Senate until the 1980s... whereupon he was succeeded by John "I'd rather leave POWs to rot than let them tell on me" McCain.
Talk about night and day, eh?
@@1krani indeed a great contrast from the military veteran’s beloved president. To the McRage and Goldwater politicians.
Calling politicians public servants is beyond obscene.
They serve the public... to mega corporations... for bribe money.
Can't have corporatism without them.
they aren't anymore
@@sheilaolfieway1885they never were
@@tugalordthe earliest founders of this country were - but they expected the ones that followed them to serve a couple of terms and then go back home
"Insider Trading is Illegal!" "Except when it's done by Politicians!" #GovernmentPrivilege.
Also, Sandra hugging her son at the end is adorable. More family moments please!
It still is when done by politicians, they are just much more likely to get away with it. It's like saying (back in 20s chicago) "Murder is illegal! Unless you're Al Capone!". Oh yeah also insider trading is legal if it does not violate company policy, copyright laws, infringe on trade secrets etc.
Didn't notice that, but yes more of that plz
Funny how that works.
🤔
Mostly politicians from the left, that supposedly HATE capitalism! Ain't that a hoot?
@@USA_UNITED1776 the solution imho is prohibit them from holding stocks while in office. If this in dumb please tell me I thought that up in like 10 seconds max
All that and he somehow didn't mention the revolving door between political government offices and lobbyists.
If he covered all the corruption in DC, this would have been a *very* lengthy video - probably a whole series...
And kick-backs from pharmaceutical companies.
@@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever He should do exactly that: a series on all the corruption in DC.
you also forgot the politicians getting jobs at said companies afterward for a large sum of cash for their actions.
Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!
And don’t forget that every president gets an annual stipend until they die 🤷♀️
Exactly. And top tier health care.
I think this video is one of the very rare that is misleading because there’s a very dark world hidden that no one discusses in regards to perks…
And congress as well.
President stipend is only 50k a year, it's the benefits like secret service protection that are worth much more
@@USA_UNITED1776 Again, the former presidents have no value to anyone but themselves and the family. Not to the nation.
@@USA_UNITED1776 makes me wonder of trump donates his stipends to charity like he did his salary. certainly don't blame him for the secret service protection though. if anyone has to worry, it's him. both parties can't stand him and want nothing less than his very presence erased from the whole of the corrupted gov. we have.
Not to mention they get paid those salaries and are almost always on holiday. The average congressman is required to actually be present in congress fewer days of the year than school age children attend school.
Nice touch with how when that island was mentioned, the woman (I forgot her name) hugged her son because she's grateful that she's safe and sound with her.
Islands like those don't tend to emanate the sound of freedom.
You mean him?
@@mustang607rich slaves raping poor slaves:
13 And it came to pass that Akish gathered in unto the house of Jared all his kinsfolk, and said unto them: Will ye swear unto me that ye will be faithful unto me in the thing which I shall desire of you?
14 And it came to pass that they all sware unto him, by the God of heaven, and also by the heavens, and also by the earth, and by their heads, that whoso should vary from the assistance which Akish desired should lose his head; and whoso should divulge whatsoever thing Akish made known unto them, the same should lose his life.
15 And it came to pass that thus they did agree with Akish. And Akish did administer unto them the oaths which were given by them of old who also sought power, which had been handed down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning.
16 And they were kept up by the power of the devil to administer these oaths unto the people, to keep them in darkness, to help such as sought power to gain power, and to murder, and to plunder, and to lie, and to commit all manner of wickedness and whoredoms.
17 And it was the daughter of Jared who put it into his heart to search up these things of old; and Jared put it into the heart of Akish; wherefore, Akish administered it unto his kindred and friends, leading them away by fair promises to do whatsoever thing he desired.
18 And it came to pass that they formed a secret combination, even as they of old; which combination is most abominable and wicked above all, in the sight of God;
19 For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations, neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all things hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man.
20 And now I, Moroni, do not write the manner of their oaths and combinations, for it hath been made known unto me that they are had among all people, and they are had among the Lamanites.
21 And they have caused the destruction of this people of whom I am now speaking, and also the destruction of the people of Nephi.
22 And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not.
23 Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain-and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.
24 Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.
25 For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning.
26 Wherefore, I, Moroni, am commanded to write these things that evil may be done away, and that the time may come that Satan may have no power upon the hearts of the children of men, but that they may be persuaded to do good continually, that they may come unto the fountain of all righteousness and be saved.
-Excerpt is from Ether 8 in "The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ". If you want to read more, you can do so freely at the library portion of churchofjesuschrist dot org (text not linked because of filters)
Wow these instant gender reassignment surgeries are getting out of hand. Male at the beginning of the sentence and female at the end of same said sentence. Mind blowing.😂
@@ThePinkerton1776 It's all a result of the LIBERAL LEFTISTS . . .
"not the kind of island Oliver Anthony is singing about"
>Sarah turns around and hugs the baby
I saw that
i saw that too 😂
I feel for those in Virginia, as well as the rest of the United States of America.
Virginia is kinda on the up as of late, we got rid of ralph northam though the meat allergy ticks are booming in numbers apparently
Hey shut up. Putin is evil that is all you need to know.
I live in Virginia and voted against democrats every chance I’ve gotten. Seems like most people outside of Virginian cities are based. Like most “blue states,” we’re actually a red state being screwed over by blue cities.
I actually got bit by one of those dew years back. Luckily I didn't get the allergy so I can still eat red meat.
Notice how the mom grabs the baby after mentioning "that island".
It's like every day our politicians are becoming more like Kings and petty lords while we suffer like peasants. It's insane.
Huh, where have I heard this before, a wealthy elite ruling over a vast swath of regular hard working Americans.
Please, explain how this is different than the 99%/1% the socialists buy in to
"Which is better- to be ruled by one tyrant three-thousand miles away or by three-thousand tyrants not a mile away" Mather Byles
@@Cyricist001 Can this one tyrant be reasonable?
@@afrikasmith1049
Don't know how much you trust modern studies but one claimed that dictators take more care about the wishes of their people than republican elected leaders (because they don't wantb rebelions).
@@Cyricist001 That's something I won't deny. But I also think about how Yugoslavia fell because no one was able to replace the last tyrant.
A quid pro quo with foreign countries to get an undeserved salary through your son sure helps as well...
I was on that before said country became the current thing
You mean Israel?
@@somehowstillhere8766why not? And Ukraine, and Russia, and Venezuela, and China, did I mention China?
@@sinisterthoughts2896 all valid criticisms. But the test for someone who says they have an issue with US government officials having dealings with foreign countries is whether or not they ignore Israeli influence over the US or not.
@@somehowstillhere8766 ah, I see your angle. fair enough. rooting out possible hypocrisy.
Imagine calling a group of people, the poorest of whom is worth $30 million, a government "of the people".
It's important for politicians to be well paid so they're not easily bribed. No one likes to mention this fact because its not a very stick-it-to-the-man sentiment, but even the Founding Fathers realized this, hence why it was written in the Federalist Papers.
Excellent. I'm glad this has resulted in no bribery in Washington... waittt.
We aren't all stupid. We know the idea. We see it not working in real time thus the complaint.
@@Dennis-nc3vwexcept politicians are being bribed, it's called lobbying instead bribing.
I hope Florida man never leaves
Yeah that last minute island reference hits too hard...
That bite into Congress at the end, nice touch, and not the kind Congress engages in.
I was just explaining this to someone the other day. Get out of my head! Politicians also enrich each other by creating funding for stupid programs (like honey bees on cocaine) and naming one of their lackeys as head off the project. Their lackey gets a kush do-nothing job and absolutely nothing gets done.
Term limits and laws to PREVENT them getting rich should absolutely be in place. The system is completely broken as it is.
Unfortunately, the laws that need to be made are against the people making the laws.
If a politician ends a year with over double his yearly salary he should be fired.
Yeah but if he got fired by other politicians, or threatened with the boot, he'd just shove incriminating evidence their way too.
Federal politics is really just a smaller case of MAD, but a larger case of no honor among thieves
@@Heavenlyhounds96 so win win?
@@juniormint5065
Lose lose.
Out of a cannon?
@@Heavenlyhounds96 I'd be fine with that. Let it happen. Clean up the place.
The politicians, however, are not.
Bob's IQ rose by 200 in 4 years. That has to be a world record.
bob's entire arc is a teenager growing up and realizing everything around him, it's not his IQ that is raised but his information processing and filters that have gotten better, as (some) everybody (do)es
Thank "Bob's Journey to the Future" for that character growth.
"But not the kind of island Oliver Anthony is singing about." (Hugs child protectively). Yeah... yeah... there are some monsters in office.
Less we also forget about corporate payouts, book sales, speeking tours, foreign money, and the myriad of other ways politicians line their pockets at the expense of the American people.
It's not complicated, they really are just that corrupt.
And heavily involved in a billion-dollar/year trade as shown in Sound of Freedom
@@KingRandor82Based as heck movie. 👌🏻
"So you're gator would know" what a sentence
Isn't a bit concerning gator education seems to work better than a human one?
What's more, they can decide what businesses live or die based off laws. Looking at the state lockdowns specifically.
one critique: I think you could of spent a little more time on the insider trading and pointed out the peolsi stock returns.
Else-wise a great video as usual.
Dude there are whole social media pages, a massive Subreddit forum, and an entire community centered around whatever Pelosi’s portfolio looks like.
If she buys, so do they; if she sells, they do too. The crazy part? Those people REPEATEDLY make hella cash. Absolutely ridiculous.
Don't forget the extra salaries they get paid for sitting on committees...for things like testing how animals on cocaine act.
The title and the first 30 seconds of this video were giving me some 1861 vibes.
as my grandpa would say, america has the best politicians money can buy.
I like fudge rounds. Taxes are theft.
My favorite part about this song was how it repped the working class, and socialists thought it was their jam 😂
Until they remembered they actually hate the working class and the working class hates them
I'm right there with Florida Man, I've never heard of roch men north of Richmond either
Someone needs to make an app to track in real time Nanci Pelosis stock trades.
I think you could also interpret the song as against unchecked corporate greed and free trade policies that have hollowed out the manufacturing centers of America
Love it. Keep at it
Other than Flashgitz, this is the best animation on the tubes of you.
That song is pretty amazing. This cartoon is too.
1:51 such a magnificent beast. Well-read too. :D
#MakeHangingPoliticiansGreatAgain
Spicy
I don’t agree on Politicians dying but definitely rid them of corruption! 👌🏻
OMG! I was tuned out for the last 3rd until the very last line, and I busted out laughing. I am multi-half-tasking which is why I was tuned out not due to topic or quality.
poliotians was suppose to be a burden not a benifit.
"Which is better- to be ruled by one tyrant three-thousand miles away or by three-thousand tyrants not a mile away" Mather Byles
I love how Florida Man (with his gator) are portrayed like dumb hicks... but are actually quite book learned.
Dude done did payed attention in that thar law school.
Our state rep makes less than minimum wage. Like his salary is roughly $14K a year. He is wealthy because he owned a jewelry business beforehand. Come to think of it, the low salary is kind of restrictive to potentially new legislators. Almost makes you wonder if the salary was kept low to keep anyone who isn't already wealthy from running for the office. "We keep the pay low to keep the poors from wanting the job." kind of logic.
Very informative
Getting rich in Washington. Reminds me of an Eddie Murphy movie from the 90s called The Distinguished Gentleman.
That last line about islands... that garnered a big laugh. damn Seamus, feeling a bit down like you want to go on a fishing trip in some remote area after being associated with a certain family from Arkansas?
I laughed so hard at that "island" line, that I choked on my coffee!
“not the kind of island oliver anthony is talking about” 🗿🗿🗿
And the cartoon didn't even mention the really big corruption via payments from big pharma, the MIC, and foreign governments and "businesses". Some politicians are businessmen who actually earned their money before going into government, but very many politicians made their fortunes after going into government.
if there was ever a time to defund the government....
Damn that island joke is great.
Thank yall for what yall do
The IRS...turns their back to this...YEP.
#TaxationIsTheft
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, but I'm all out of gum.
You’d think congress would do it for free since they’re rich already, get everything else paid for etc. but they need their pocket change for the off the books island visits and black mail money.
The thing I find hilarious is the fee for insider trading on capital hill is a flat fee. Y’know the kind that’s not even worth peanuts compared to the dough you get with a first mover advantage.
OA wrote the protest song of our generation.
Good video, but I think there are even more reasons than just insider trading that could've also been explained
".....but if we really were in congress we just might."
I think politicians understood what public servant really meant. In that they think the public are their servants.
Thank you
I think this video would have benefited from mentioning the revolving door, lobbying, and the various forms of bribery too.
Love the pool full of ketchup.
Don't forget about Favoritism, Kick backs and abuse of Discretionary powers. A lot of these politicians have control over things such as government contracts and who they go to.
That's such a good song
Clever very clever ❤ Truth is easy.
I spotted a mistake. At 1:04, Turtle Man is portrayed as being able to speak.
Politicians shouldn't use their office to get richer, but it is important to pay politicians well so they're not easily bribed.
Lot of layers to that song, and it's well written and performed, too.
I would totally buy an island, and live on it.
The salaries for politicians would absolutely be reasonable. If that’s what they were being paid. I have or have had probably half a dozen family members who earned more than the president on a yearly basis. None of them had six mansions in the Hamptons. Uncle John had a lovely house on the central California coast, with a Corvette and a Mercedes S-class. But he owned a plumbing business and earned over a million a year. And that was 20 years ago before we lost him in a plane crash. We need to start questioning, no, arresting these politicians who make tens of millions off of bribes.
Goes back to the old saying- the problem isn't a millionaire becoming President it's a President becoming a millionaire.
its very much like 16 tons what do you get we really are repeating the late 1920s to 1930s
And that legal loophole for bribery known as "lobbying."
Revolution
Isn’t just a word
"We might"? Ayo? 2:26
Are we really surprised the black Democrat mayor trans ones are the ones to get the most damn money from the taxpayers😂
why you gotta bring their race and gender identity into it?
@@GameyRaccoonbecause it matters
Blue states CARRY red states. Try again
@@somehowstillhere8766Yeah… even though it’s not supposed to.
@@Erik_Ochoa013 why shouldn't it matter?
I'd not mind running for mayor
Interesting.
The only thing worse than a politician is a bureaucrat.
We really should lobby in our individual states to outlaw insider trading from our state's representatives.
It's so weird how different things are at the national level and the state level. I know one guy very well who was a state rep for 2 terms (4 years), and the salary was $7200 and it was considered a part-time job. The people who showed up during session (6 months every 2 years) were going home and working in real estate, manufacturing, oil, law, law enforcement, really anything. I could be wrong but I think even a couple were housewives. Very different from national politics.
Sometimes I wonder if we could make national politics work more like state politics, because again, state reps are way more in touch with the reality of life for everyday Americans, since in their regular jobs they interact with regular people everyday, and in fact they spend more time in the real world than they do in office. But I guess running a country is a lot more complicated than running a state, so they have to be in office year-round.
But on top of all this, it is important to remember that we can complain all we want, but being a U.S. Congressman is a horrible job. That state rep I mentioned used to be like everyone in the comment section, saying that all national politicians are corrupt, there for the ego trip, or whatever, until he actually met one and worked with him some, and realized "Oh, crap, this guy's life is miserable." The U.S. rep was constantly travelling all over the place, going from his home district to D.C. and back, always in either session mode or campaign mode, very difficult to have any kind of happy or fulfilling life. Anyone who says that these people are all a bunch of corrupt bastards doesn't know what they're talking about. A lot are, but there are many good people who sacrifice any kind of personal life to represent their districts. Even in D.C.
And when you consider it the presidential salary is not actually competitive compared to your executive salary in a private company those guys are making millions perhaps even billions presidents used to practically become poor after office and are not just running one company they're running the entire country
State legislators in AZ only make 20k.
It has often occurred to me that paying people $175k and putting them in charge of managing trillions was just asking for trouble. CEOs that have enough power to ruin billion dollar enterprises for personal gain are generally paid enough to discourage them from doing so.
And while these salaries may be more than our current crop of politicians are worth, they are less that what the people who are actually capable of doing a decent job are worth.
Know what? Approval pools should play a roll!
How about expected officials only get a percentage of the set amount they're supposed to get paid based on approval?
So if President is supposed to be paid $400k a year, but approval is at 37% than he only gets 37% of that money.
You mine 16 tons, and what do you get?
Another day older, and deeper in debt.
AOC looking up angrily at the people making more than her😂 😙👌
How does this only jabe 7 thumbs up
You left out "selling state secrets"
You're welcome
The politicians aren't going to pass laws that prevent their own criminality.
Dude, you should have gone all the way and just made Mitch McConnell look like a full on Koopa Troopa. Woulda been hilarious!
It won't stop until you hold them accountable.
References to this song are popping up all over the place. "I want to go Home" has got to be doing OK as well. Be interesting to see what he's got coming up.
OOF
So? That "insider trading" that politicians have been doing & I have been ranting about for years is LEGAL?
I thought it was just being "ignored"!
I'm not sure WHICH way is WORSE.
"Learn something new every day! (That you watch a Common sense Soapbox video)"
I don't blame politicians that are or were businessman, aka rich before getting the station. They do it totally legal and work themselves.
Rick Scott, like Donald Trump, was already very rich before getting into politics. Scott largely self-funds his campaigns, so being in politics is probably a net expense for him.
I do not mind people who were rich before politics going into politics. That is very different from someone like Joe Biden who inexplicably got extremely rich while in politics, far richer than his salary and perks would explain.
Just to clarify, the president didn't take a salary. The pretender in chief right now does.
“Politics is a rich man’s game” in most cases unfortunately
I can't even make 40,000 a year