TYT: How A (R) Senator Was Bribed Through His Wife

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 09:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLesN6LO0J8   Posted on YouTube: April 13, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 2709   Posted on DU: April 14, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1128

 
Summary: Cenk explains how Sen. Mitch McConnel's wife was repeatedly used to screw workers financially and on safety issues while protecting the profits of large corporations. You can http://www.kentucky.com/2006/10/20/11062/two-for-the-money.html|read about it here>. Also check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsSUCeRUXqA|Profits From The Death Of Coal Mine Workers>.

PS---Check out (and subscribe to) our new channel, . As the name suggests, it's all great interviews with the likes of Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Arianna Huffington, economist William K Black, Media Matters reps, various politicians, authors, journalists, reporters and much more.

[ejbr]

1. k & r n/t

[DeSwiss]

2. Corruption.

And it's always been this way. It's just that now they don't care about trying to hide it anymore. Because they know we won't complain or do anything.

- K&R

[midnight]

5. That's what I'm coming to understand too.

[Turborama]

3. In China they execute corrupt politicians and business leaders.

I'm not an advocate for the death penalty, just showing the vast difference between how it's dealt with in the world's other superpower.

See: "http://www.france24.com/en/20090122-china-tainted-milk-scandal-two-sentenced-death">Three sentenced to death in tainted milk scandal" & "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6699441.stm">Death penalty for China official".

[ScottLand]

4. They should be known by their sponsor names as well

as their own, for example, (R-PA, Kraft, Exxon), and be compelled to thank their sponsors when they make speeches, similar to NASCAR drivers.

[florida08]

6. absolutely

It's called http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376">neoliberalism. I never hear anyone talk about this but they should. It's what shifts income distribution away from the middle-class to the top. We have a 45-49% ratio of inequality in this country which makes us like China.