Monday, March 09, 2009

Bill Maher asks, "How fucked are we?"

Interesting segment from Maher's show on Friday night...

4 comments:

Mr. Held Over said...

Yeah, we're fucked economically, but I'd sure like to get in that CNBC lady's panties. Yowza!

Anonymous said...

Literally the only reason I ordered HBO was to watch "Real Time" and then he is on 3mos and off 3mos. But I have no choice because his fucking website only posts the aftershow which is great but gotta have my every other 3mos fix!!! He has an uncanny ability (much as does Jon Stewart) to boil all the madness down to a few hilarious one liners!!!! BTW Mr. Held Over you are a pig!

Anonymous said...

That CNBC lady is a complete twit. Rich people paying 60% of taxes (which may or may not be true) is NOT the definition of a progressive tax system. A measure of how progressive a country's tax system is would be the proportion of their total income rich people pay in taxes...that % has fallen dramatically over the past 8 years. Weak that BM didn't call her on that.

I just love how when things were rosy, the rich just loved rub their money (much of which was monopoly money) in the face of those in the bottom and middle. But now when things are down, we're suddenly all in this together.

Fuck CNBC. All they exist for is to parrot the lines of major corporations, banks, mutual funds etc who buy advertising time. They are shitting themselves now that the average person is moving from equities to cash.

Anonymous said...

That CNBC lady is a complete twit. Rich people paying 60% of taxes (which may or may not be true) is NOT the definition of a progressive tax system. A measure of how progressive a country's tax system is would be the proportion of their total income rich people pay in taxes...that % has fallen dramatically over the past 8 years. Weak that BM didn't call her on that.

I just love how when things were rosy, the rich just loved rub their money (much of which was monopoly money) in the face of those in the bottom and middle. But now when things are down, we're suddenly all in this together.

Fuck CNBC. All they exist for is to parrot the lines of major corporations, banks, mutual funds etc who buy advertising time. They are shitting themselves now that the average person is moving from equities to cash.