Reason.tv: Free* Government Money With Matthew Lesko!

June 3, 2009

Nobody knows more about getting free money from the government than ubiquitous TV pitchman Matthew Lesko.

And now he's cashing in on the biggest pile of government loot since the Treasury first started printing greenbacks.

"Who cares about hyperinflation, crippling debt, or a massive tax burden on your grandkids? It's all free!"*

*Some shipping & handling fees apply.

"Free Government Money" was written and produced by Reason.tv's Meredith Bragg and his brother Austin Bragg. Visit their site The Big Honkin'.

This video was entered into Right.org's anti-bailout video contest, where filmmakers are competing for a top prize of $25,799 (one person's bailout burden). For more anti-bailout video commercials, go here.

Comments

|6.3.09 @ 10:34AM|#

Holy crap. Scoring Matthew Lesko for that is quite a coup.

|6.3.09 @ 10:34AM|#

That'll be a tough one to beat.

MNG|6.3.09 @ 10:46AM|#

Doesn't the Riddler have quite the fucking trade-dress suit on this guy?

Abdul|6.3.09 @ 10:46AM|#

when a cogent argument against the bailout can be made despite dressing like the Riddler and shouting and gesticulating like an epipleptic, then maybe the bailout really is a bad idea.

|6.3.09 @ 10:50AM|#

That guy lives in my town. He literally walks around in public in the question mark suit. He also drives a mini painted with question marks.

|6.3.09 @ 10:55AM|#

Doesn't the Riddler have quite the fucking trade-dress suit on this guy?

Frank Gorshin is dead, dude. How can he sue?

Warty|6.3.09 @ 11:02AM|#

John, you should dress up in a Batman suit and slash his tires.

|6.3.09 @ 11:12AM|#

"John, you should dress up in a Batman suit and slash his tires."


LOL. Or just dress up in the suit and run up to him in public and hit him in the face with a pie or something. That would be really surreal.

Naga Sadow|6.3.09 @ 11:54AM|#

That would make a pretty good show. John would buy Lesko's book. But the book is so maddeningly mind boggling that like "The King in Yellow" it turns John into an paranoid schizophrenic. John turns vigilante and stalks Lesko for a refund. It would star John, Lesko, Lonewacko, and of course, Dick Cheney.

|6.3.09 @ 12:20PM|#

Meanwhile, I'm about to prepare a submission for the ARRA 2009-funded RC3 mechanism.

*sobs*

I'm sorry, guys.

|6.3.09 @ 1:05PM|#

No prob, Bron. You're just ahead of the curve. Soon, we will all have our hands out to Our Masters for our daily bread.

Sandy|6.3.09 @ 3:15PM|#

Brilliant. Doubleplus extra points for getting a guy described as "a libertarian's worst nightmare" to make the point.

Jeff P|6.3.09 @ 4:21PM|#

I've been a broadcaster for 20 years. I have seen and aired more Lesko than anyone should have to.
And the asian guy with the hot chicks on the lot.
And Robert Tilton.

Somewhere deep in space, these transmissions are reaching the antennae of a hostile race...

cgee|6.3.09 @ 6:19PM|#

Somewhere deep in space, these transmissions are reaching the antennae of a hostile race...

...intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

|6.3.09 @ 6:37PM|#

Sorry Matthew, Iggy talked Harper into giving out bailouts and now the deficit is up to $5 billion,

Alberta Libertarian|6.3.09 @ 9:15PM|#

Closer to $50 billion. The only bright spot is the budget deficits will only remain for a couple years. That's compared to the United States where their deficit will be around for the next two decades.

But we're also a hell of alot smarter in that we're not arguing that only 5% of the population will have to carry the burden while the rest of us can relax.

|6.3.09 @ 9:37PM|#

Sorry $50 billion and your right about the tax; I also worry that the Americans are not making the best use of their oil reserves as a source of revenue.

KaceyT|6.8.09 @ 6:02AM|#

That is so realistic…I learn a lot, as a human being we do our own life .We defend as well to the government, without them I think we cannit survive.But aside from that breaking news did you know that the American auto industry is in dire straits, and there is an initiative for automakers to make vehicles with better mileage. Part of the quest for better mileage is new auto policies, and the bar is set at an industry average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. It is expected to drive up prices, and therefore the size of personal loans for new cars. The average car gets 25 mpg. The average is computed by taking cars and also trucks into account, and this raises the bar to 39 mpg for a car and 30 mpg for a truck, which means we all will need bigger installment loans in the quest for better mileage.

Zeno Izen|6.10.09 @ 2:27PM|#

Oh, I forgot about Matthew Lesko. Probably because Billy Mays has been yelling at me so much lately.