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The Michael Berry Show

Your Congressman Seemed Like A Fine Young Man When You Sent Him Off To DC

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The Michael Berry Show

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He seemed like such a good young man when he went off to Congress

0:09.0

Wore a coat and a tie and he wasn't like those layabouts and lazies and hippies and crazies and

0:17.2

he's a fine young man who cares about our country Maybe he served in the military.

0:25.0

Goes to church. Got a pretty wife, a couple of kids, they take a pretty picture.

0:35.0

He's done all the right things to look like what a congressman's supposed to look like.

0:40.0

And his resume is perfect.

0:45.0

It's almost as if being a congressman is its own career choice now.

0:52.0

Wasn't how the plan was supposed to work.

0:55.0

Representative Democracy did not mean professional politicians.

1:00.0

And why you may wonder why such an attraction to being a congressman?

1:10.0

What is it about being a congressman?

1:18.0

It's $174,000.

1:31.0

That's not a millionaire, but I bet most Americans would gladly take that paycheck, gladly take that paycheck. And then, unlike those of you who have a direct boss, you don't have a specific

1:41.7

time you have to show up to work. You have to stay to a particular time.

1:48.0

You know, a lot of you get 15 minutes to grab your sandwich, eat it, scarf it down, wolf it down, get back to work.

1:58.0

They don't have that problem.

2:06.0

You have to bring your lunch from home

2:10.0

or pay for your own lunch if you go out. That gets expensive fast.

2:11.0

They don't have that problem.

2:12.0

Lobbyists are always

2:13.6

happy to do that. You don't have access to you can't afford tickets to the game. They

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