Real Time with Bill Maher: Affluenza and the Culture of Dependency (HBO) 

That's brilliant!!!

Hahaha good one!

Brilliant.

Thank you for this!

I tested negative for affluenzena too, but that's because I was raised to have common sense and brains, but I am poor though. I even grew up poor. My family was so poor, poor people talked about us.

It stands to reason that if bureaucratic organizations resemble pyramids, or mountains, not everybody is going to get promoted, but find themselves being shuffled around on the same level, to stave off the boredom.

And what if, like how some employ two sets of books, the organization chart shown, may not be the true one? "I work here, and I own this place. So, who's in charge?" The cons' piracy?

It is written that Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, but when it came to governing the people of Israel, it was father-in-law Jethro, who gave him 'the answer' : a top down command structure, where responsibilities are delegated in the context of a strong central government ... This sounds like most democratic nations, and the feudal kingdoms that preceded them... makes me wonder how bizarre the Egyptian government was that Moses could not, would not, use it as the basis for how to govern the Israelites.

Jethro warned that the only way that that government would, could function, would be if Moses could find men who hated covetousness to occupy those offices. But most US politicians seem to use politics to make themselves wealthy. Bernie Sanders may be an exception. But did he give back all that money he raised, or offer it to Hillary, when he dropped out of the race?

The peasants allow kings cause they dream of living in castles.

Some Strayan savage & i love it!👍

So true.

Hilarious .

can you explain what he means by that ? i guess i miss some cultural context or something

@@johngreen2468 Malaysia has VERY strict laws in regard to drugs including the soft drugs. For example possession of 200 g (cca seven ounces) or more cannabis is considered trafficking with mandatory sentence of death by hanging. They don´t care where are you from, or who your daddy is. Westerners (UK, Australia) have been hanged for drug trafficking in Malaysia. For smaller amounts you can get years or a lifetime in prison. Also in Malaysia they like to add caning in addition to any prison time..., it is referred to as "whipping", but they use rattan canes and it is pretty savage, they have specially trained officers for this job. In reality the Hilton family would be probably able to pull some serious ropes and use diplomatic routes to save their young heir from the worst, but the process would take some time and meanwhile that spoiled Hilton brat would have experienced things he only had seen in movies before.

Oh you're going to love this… so Couch got off under the condition that he is on a 10-year probation and couldn't drink...well apparently getting off with four counts of murder went to the asshole's head so he was caught drinking at a party and violating his probation… he then skipped town and failed to meet his parole officer, turns out his mom took him over the Mexican border to a resort, where they both were apprehended and sent back, he now is serving 2 years in prison…

@@mckenzie.latham91 Good! But not near enough!

@@mckenzie.latham91 2 years, are you fucking kidding me, je doesnt even gets assfucked at a Low sentence prison

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you don't really understand how the early US politicians envisioned government working if you think that they would have approved of a federal tax seizing what had been legally earned from being passed down after death

From the VERY FIRST google search result. why don't you do some research you lazy ignorant fuck. "If there was one thing the Revolutionary generation agreed on - and those guys who dress up like them at Tea Party conventions most definitely do not - it was the incompatibility of democracy and inherited wealth. With Thomas Jefferson taking the lead in the Virginia legislature in 1777, every Revolutionary state government abolished the laws of primogeniture and entail that had served to perpetuate the concentration of inherited property. Jefferson cited Adam Smith, the hero of free market capitalists everywhere, as the source of his conviction that (as Smith wrote, and Jefferson closely echoed in his own words), "A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural." Smith said: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death." The states left no doubt that in taking this step they were giving expression to a basic and widely shared philosophical belief that equality of citizenship was impossible in a nation where inequality of wealth remained the rule. North Carolina's 1784 statute explained that by keeping large estates together for succeeding generations, the old system had served "only to raise the wealth and importance of particular families and individuals, giving them an unequal and undue influence in a republic" and promoting "contention and injustice." Abolishing aristocratic forms of inheritance would by contrast "tend to promote that equality of property which is of the spirit and principle of a genuine republic." Others wanted to go much further; Thomas Paine, like Smith and Jefferson, made much of the idea that landed property itself was an affront to the natural right of each generation to the usufruct of the earth, and proposed a "ground rent" - in fact an inheritance tax - on property at the time it is conveyed at death, with the money so collected to be distributed to all citizens at age 21, "as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property." Even stalwart members of the latter-day Republican Party, the representatives of business and inherited wealth, often emphatically embraced these tenets of economic equality in a democracy. I've mentioned Herbert Hoover's disdain for the "idle rich" and his strong support for breaking up large fortunes. Theodore Roosevelt, who was the first president to propose a steeply graduated tax on inheritances, was another: he declared that the transmission of large wealth to young men "does not do them any real service and is of great and genuine detriment to the community at large.'' www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/10/estate_tax_and_founding_fathers

PaddyCollector The founding fathers: bunch of socialist commies. Seriously though, I'm surprised and disappointed Bill didn't bring this up in his monologue.

***** I hate you.

Superb defense and counter dude!

The irony is amazing too. The parents fail to teach the kid boundaries then the justice system fails to teach him boundaries. Something tells me the parents continued their boundless lifestyle and overreached it into the courthouse with money to judges and prosecutors alike.

It blows my mind too. If anything, coming from a very wealthy family and doing something that stupid is kind of worse in my opinion. You're rich, you have access to the best education available, and you still do something that reckless? You have absolutely no excuse. Why isn't there that argument for poor people? They grow up in a tough environment with statistically more crime, and they don't get access to as many opportunities as rich people.

How long before Republicans push for a Constitutional Amendment to make Affluenza a sacred and most-cherished American right? That's what Jesus would've wanted.

KillAllTheRednecks I am French and I can confirm this.

"Ignorance is bliss"

+Alexandro Rocca They fear it in name but love their socialist programs.

Bennett McCoy social security, medicare, medicaid, the military, ect

+Bennett McCoy Social Security, Farm Subsidies, Corporate Welfare, Healthcare, Transportation eg. Amtrak, Minimum wage, Food stamps, Disability, Uemployment, scholarships,

Decades of red baiting have ensured the achievements of liberals are now seen as socialist. Winston Churchill, an extremely anti-socialist politician, was a key figure in the implementing the first welfare programmes in the UK, would probably be a socialist in the eyes of the US right.

The definition of irony

Jose Luis Caceres wow! You truly are a piece of shit!

Conservative mentality seems to be just the thought of anyone or any “group” they don't like and or just in general taking any cent of money from them (even though they hate and often don't pay full taxes and cheat the system to pay even less) falsely to be enough reason to literally slash and do away with all programs and institutions that help people simply to sit ehe small percentage if even that of people who are scamming the system meanwhile they argue that you cannot hold all people of one class and or people of their groups accountable for the actions of a few.

Hear hear.

For every story like yours, how many stories are there of absolute abuse?

@@JustinStrife per every study done on that exact thing. Very little. The studies showed the VAST majority of ppl on public assistance need it and do not abuse it. I don't understand why that is always a response to helping others. There is exponentially way more legitimate taxes NOT being paid by the rich in this country than any sort of social program is being abused. Why do we disect, attack, and over police the pennies spent on our most vulnerable and ignore the ppl circumventing the law and doing the most damage? I don't understand this logic.

Benzene I miss George

William Chamberlain mann who doesn’t? At least he is just as relevant today. Although I would love to hear “current” material

@@happysmile6095 "They" took care of him, he was getting a little too close!

Profound! I miss George Carlin. He was an epic truth teller!

Except the poor do work. They work their fingers to the bone for shit wages. They work 2 or more shit jobs & are still broke & poor. But their fkn bills are paid.

But the lawyers wont go for that, their paydays will come to an end if we do that! :(

they tried but the case was dismissed

ha ha ha ha good one roomie4rent

***** - In that case I have an even better guaranteed cure for "Affluenza" - Mrs. Guillotine.

+A86 It's 'Madam' Guillotine. She's a lady, after all.

the fix is in

You Government Employees completely sat out the Down Sizing Fad after '08....Obama has done nothing but make the Federal Government Bigger and set Race relations back 60 years...

Harry Kuheim Wtf is in your head Alex Jones?

@@avinashreji60 or RUSH!

@jayk legendary Yeah. God forbid you do work despite a low wage because you think you're helping society.

Do true

+Emily Asgard so*

+Professicchio Thank you, US Government!

+Hellohithere Yep You're welcome, servant!

Professicchio Are you from the US Government?

And 199 years ago, there was the rise of new plutocrats

Jovan Mitrić Exactly!the good ol days when aristocracy was messy and you could slip poison into your shitty brothers soup and save the kingdom

Jovan Mitrić Just one good ass whipping. That's all.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. - George Bernard Shaw

Allow me to rephrase… Bill Maher does not “bring out the worst” in this country - he CALLS it out! And yes, I love it…

Yeah french revolution style

Time to bust out some pitchforks and torches…

Hannu Marijarvi "Wouldn't that solve the getting 100 million for free problem but still allow some savings to be passed on."Wouldn't simply taking all the money away from rich people solve a lot of problems? Hell, the US could fix its infrastructure by bullying other countries to give their money or else. The gov. could also force people to do the work, too. The question is would that be the right thing to do and the obvious anwer is "no, fuck off, it's not your money".

Rockownz5150 Well technically it is, seeing as how they print it and have faces of former leaders on them and all...just sayin.

Rockownz5150 Property rights are a useful heuristic for achieving individual well-being, it's a good like many others that we can sometimes trade off against other goods in certain tried and tested ways like taxes. Society is about priorities. What are your priorities: Would you rather have a hereditary aristocracy where inheritances are not taxed, because that's what happens without estate taxes, or would you rather have a more meritocratic society where inheritances are taxed so that people's lives are not so much determined by the amount of wealth they inherit? To me the answer to the question appears quite self-evident.

Hannu Marijarvi I can see the merit in it. I can also see the merit in breaking peoples knee caps to fund cancer research. Does that make it right, though? The money owned by, say, Warren Buffet, is neither yours, nor society's, it's his. He gets to decide what to do with it. I don't see why you deserve to get a cut on his decision. In any case, the rich will just find a way to go around the tax. As they should.

Rockownz5150 You can see the merit in breaking people's knee caps to fund cancer research??? People's right to bodily integrity is a much higher one than the right to receive unearned income in the form of inheritance. If you view property rights as something one is never in any way on a societal level allowed to trade off in favour of other goods that would mean you'd think it immoral to do anything to prevent the formation of an aristocracy and the death of meritocracy, a deeply confused view of morality. Freedom is one good among many, albeit an especially important one. In addition to freedom, we value things like happiness, health, prosperity, friends, family, love, knowledge, art, and justice. Sometimes we have to trade off one of these goods against another. For example, a witness who has seen her brother commit a crime may have to decide between family and justice when deciding whether to testify. A student who likes both music and biology may have to decide between art and knowledge when choosing a career. A food-lover who becomes overweight may have to decide between happiness and health when deciding whether to start a diet. People sometimes act as if there is some hierarchy to these goods, such that Good A always trumps Good B. But in practice people don't act this way. For example, someone might say "Friendship is worth more than any amount of money to me." But she might continue working a job to gain money, instead of quitting in order to spend more time with her friends. And if you offered her $10 million to miss a friend's birthday party, it's a rare person indeed who would say no. In reality, people value these goods the same way they value every good in a market economy: in comparison with other goods. If you get the option to spend more time with your friends at the cost of some amount of money, you'll either take it or leave it. We can then work backward from your choice to determine how much you really value friendship relative to money. Just as we can learn how much you value steel by learning how many tons of steel we can trade for how many barrels of oil, how many heads of cabbages, or (most commonly) how many dollars, so we can learn how much you value friendship by seeing when you prefer it to opportunities to make money, or see great works of art, or stay healthy, or become famous. Freedom is a good much like these other goods. Because it is so important to human happiness and virtue, we can expect people to value it very highly.

same,but not to go out and spend a fuckton and insults other people but to buy a place far away from anyone and never needing to work with them ever again

Brian J finally someone had the balls to admit what everyone is feeling and where everyone's discrimination comes from. Wish I had a millionaire dad or even a dad to begin with, but I don't hate.

Rukkiss OFFICIAL Not entirely. You can be jealous, but what pisses off is that inheritors often (like 99 percent of the time) feel like they ARE better than you, because they have the cash. When the matter of fact is that they are mostly such degraded, zero IQ fuck faces, that without their daddies the only thing they would be good for is collecting your trash in the mornings.

lol true

Your lying .

monokhem well actually, in 1st world countries except the US that isn't possible, because other countries don't have different laws from state to state. The only laws that differ are the small ones like how the school system should teach etc. If the US had the crazy laws from different states as a federal law. They wouldn't even be considered as a part of the democratic world.

monokhem Corruption of course is everywhere, but only in the US someone could get away with it publicly without consequence.

monokhem what is nakedly stupid? I live in Europe(Germany). And I was talking about 1st World Countries. And I have been to the US. Like I said Corruption is everywhere... ours is just not public, because you get in jail if you get caught. There are assholes here but they either get caught or they don't.

-.- in the 1st world... I said in the 1st.. again... and stop with the name calling. and again... I said publicly... that means that I see the corruption but it is not out in the open, understood? You don't know me. So don't just assume you know what I DO or DON'T do. Thank you very much and fyi: if you have the need to have a constructive debate with sm then don't start it this way. You seem to be one of those people that just comes into RU-vid to let some steam of. Go to therapy for that.

hhhhh... Russia... my dear, is NOT one of the 1st World Countries,.... And you called me "stupid" before and what does it matter if you had called me that now or earlier... you are still being childish in the way you are handling it. Please just stop for your own sake...

Jackson Valad well he did sue him for 5 million dollars so I can understand why he would do that

Yeah it's almost like Donald trump was known and considered a joke before 2015. apparently a lot of people in America were to stupid or lazy to use google.

Because Drumpf has always been an idiot. They difference now is that bigger spotlight he's always wanted.

Shouldn't that have been a red flag or at least a butt joke

Cappy guy, great president.

Oh you're going to love this… so Couch got off under the condition that he is on a 10-year probation and couldn't drink...well apparently getting off with four counts of murder went to the asshole's head so he was caught drinking at a party and violating his probation… he then skipped town and failed to meet his parole officer, turns out his mom took him over the Mexican border to a resort, where they both were apprehended and sent back, he now is serving 2 years in prison…

+xFirebird925x It was actually a "small loan" of over 200 million dollars AND all the real estate & banking connections his father had. The more you know about Trump, the less likely you will be able to keep from vomiting. Anyone who votes from him is either too lazy to do any research, or they deny facts. Believing any politician at face value is unwise, if not downright ignorant, but Trump is so beyond offensive and dishonest there really is no comparison. And since he has a strong dislike for anyone who threatens his overblown ego, who he picks for his Vice President ought to be a real trip. Sarah Palin would gladly blow him daily for that job!

Miura Mike Yea I know about the 200mil. I'm just saying 1 million because that was what Drumpf said in an interview.

over 200 million, as well as a lifetime of daddy co singing his loans and expenses as well as paying off his debts and leaving him an already functioning and established real estate empire. clearly a self made business genius.

Exactly, The estate tax exemption is 5.43 million$ per person. Meaning, your dad could leave your that much and it not be taxed and you mom could too. The rest is a sliding scale, withe highest rate being 40%. Very few small business, families, and or family farms in America are actually worth 5.43 million$. Meaning only those who can afford it/ make enough to be taxed will be affected. but then again peasants defend kings cause they dream of living in castles.

Rich people control government. The average person doesn't give two fucks coz they're miseducated and misdirected.

That sounds like something preached in the USSR (where are they now?)

The Kennedy's are filthy Rich Big Baws.....JFK was by far.... leaps and bounds.... THE RICHEST man ever Elected President....I wonder why the Kennedy's just don't give all that money away to the Poor people they are always trying to help?

Wrong, the Bush family.

"That sounds like something preached in the USSR (where are they now?)" in control of Russia sicne putin is an ex kgb colonel who said the greatest civilization was the USSR.

Joe Mutt Preach!

Khongor Shatar America is already socialist. What do you think taxes are? Its the redistribution of wealth.

w9j15g What? I think you misunderstood my comment.

w9j15g Again, I think you misinterpreted my original comment.

+Monochromicornicopia Capitalism is about redistribution of wealth. Socialism is about keeping wealth to those who makes it, the workers. Surplus value.

Ok, you don't have to rub salt in the wound.

Peter B Jordanson ... I’d like to move to Scandinavia, or to one of several nations in the EU. Once I figure out how, I’ll be gone in a flash. And I’ve felt this way for a long time, not just since a total dipshit became the US government’s chief executive.

CJusticeHappen21 “The Ugly American,” the title of a photograph snapped during the Batista regime of Cuba; the picture shows a vacationing US citizen in obscenely low cut shorts, pot belly hanging over, beaming at the camera as he hoists two bottles of liquor and chomps on a cigar. To Cuba’s impoverished people the picture came to symbolize their experience with the US-not as a role model or capitalist utopia, but as obnoxious and arrogant tourists who regarded Cuba as little more than a playground.

+Jessica Lynn Colter well, there are plenty of docus out there that show just that!

The middle class are probably the most down to earth of the three.

yeah except the trailer trash can't pay for the judges new yacht and or house so no dice.

They already are the ones who most likely end up in prison or murdered. The problem is that in large sections of the country unemployment rates are very high while getting into college is too expensive

***** yeah because you know tho rich assholes are so appreciative, its not rude of them to call people peasants and shittin on them. That's where the problem lies, those kids don't deserve shit.

yeah so how about an exponential increase in inheritance tax based on the total amount. taxing 100% of ALL inheritance is retarded.

Not quite preposterous, but impractical. Inheritance taxation can be evaded by making gifts before passing away. A 100% gift tax is nonsense since it in turn can be evaded by traded with inflated pricing, thus a 100% inheritance tax is impractical.

Jürgen Sven Fuchs different word same implication

Agreed, but 98% is doable.

Jim Davis 1) estate taxes do not impact 99.99% of Americans 2) 5 million dollars of the estate is 100% tax free 3) rich people already dodge estate taxes with phony trusts of all the things to bitch about.....how about tax cuts for the Americans who are alive? and do not have over 5 million to hand to their kids????

Your estate has to be over $5,250,000 million to even be taxed. Its for fuckface hilton, pal, not you.

You are equally fuckfaced as the fuckface konrad. You fuckfaced rabbit (jim davis) do not know a shit about estate tax and margy, Socialism has to be the mechanism to balance out the downsides of capitalism. Otherwise, chaos.

You aren't paying the estate tax, because you will be dead. The people who are inheriting your estate are paying the estate tax, because it's new income to them that they have not been taxed on. And, that's the way it should be. When ever anyone makes money in this country OUR government should get a cut, because it is our government that makes it possible to make that money. Comprehend?

There's always at least one numbskull in the crowd.