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honestly misbehavingArchive for July, 2009
Bill Maher: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit
I’ve been an avid Bill Maher fan for many years. I find him to be astute, fair and absolutely intolerant of intentional stupidity – much like me.
A few months ago, he started in on this idea that what’s really wrong with this country is that we don’t treat each other very well, and that we’re obsessed with money. The two feed into each other until we get to the point where we are, well, here.
The first time he really brought it forward publicly was in an interview with Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP. He talked about the recent return to usury in our society, and how we’re having to work too hard to convince lawmakers that it’s not okay for credit card companies to use dirty tricks to bury fellow Americans under mountains of debt.
In a later episode, he goes further to illustrate examples of how we’ll do just about anything to anyone for money: Soldiers in Iraq being electrocuted in the shower because of shoddy electrical work.
“How can one American kill another American to save a little money on wire?” he asks, and it’s a good question. Greed exists in every society; but only ours touts it as a virtue.
