I delivered the newspaper in the mornings, and I'd read headlines about our job losses, right next to headlines about Wall Street's soaring profits. Communities across upstate New York were sold out. Corrupt politicians are in it for themselves, not you. Using your tax dollars to enrich and help their cronies. They cash checks from powerful special interests, the cable companies, drug companies, oil companies, the banks. And then they go off to Albany or Washington and they do what's best for their bottom lines, not yours. (01:28–01:37)
CLAIM
Asserts that corrupt politicians misuse tax dollars for personal gain and to benefit cronies.
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