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Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. You ever wonder this? This is the easiest poll ever. I tell Bongino, but I don't even want to waste your time on this one. You ever wonder how these freaking politicians get so rich? They have no life skills. Their only life skills are they have connections to other politicians or their daddy or mommy was a politician.
They don't really know anything. They add no value. They didn't invent like some big, smart, super ridiculous AI tech company or send like a rocket into space. and yet they're really rich. There's this Doge account that put this out. Nancy Pelosi, annual salary, $223,000. Net worth, $202 million.
I'm always a little skeptical of these net worth figures because the ones about mine online are really off, and it's so easy to figure out if you just go to, like, the publicly traded companies. However, I think we can both agree it's worth a lot of money. Mitch McConnell says his annual salary, $200 million. Net worth, $95 million. Chuck Schumer, $75 million. Elizabeth Warren, $67 million.
Folks, divide these numbers by 10. Say they're not, just pretend for a second they're not even accurate. Say Pelosi's worth $20 million and McConnell's worth $9.5 and Elizabeth Warren's $6.7. Where the hell did they get this money, folks? That's actually not a bad point. I mean, I just watched Nosferatu. Should I? He's like, you know, we may have to.
Michael says if you do the math, he's a math major. Maybe she worked a thousand years. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. I mean, the United States isn't that old, but whatevs. Who knows? Reminds me of an interview with a vampire. Like, I want some more. Remember that? Who knows what she was up to? But I'm going to tell you how this works. You ready?
Some of you may have heard this segment before in a prior podcast, but if you haven't, you're making a big mistake if you don't listen again, because I want you to tattoo this on your brain, okay? I was running for office a while ago. This guy Chuck Ecker was the Howard County executive on a run in Maryland.
And we got in this conversation about how people in government get rich and why government just continues to grow despite the fact that everybody, sane person, hates big government. And he said, Dan, you got to understand, buddy, there is no power in yes. There is only power in government bureaucrats telling people no. And I said, I mean, I got what he was saying, but I said, explain.
I said, I want you to think about it. You're a, whatever, throw something simple out there. You're a building inspector in a place. You know, my dad was once, I'm not knocking him. If you have a tendency to corruption, there's no power in you approving everybody's building permits.
If you're corrupt, you want to say no a lot so that people have to slip you some money under the table to figure it out, right? There is no power in yes, ladies and gentlemen. There's only power in no.
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