Those Pink Pather show cartoons were actually not a Hanna-Barbarra act. Friz Freleng, had a studio that produced those.
Posted on 10/17/2015 8:39:21 AM PDT by Signalman
I defer to no one in my contempt for Bill Maher. He is an unfunny little crapweasel. However, of late, he’s beginning to show an alarming pattern of non-reflexive-leftwing opinions that probably spell the end of his career. First, there was his opinions of Islam which got ThinkProgress within a gnat’s whisker of calling him an Islamophobe.
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The latest episode is his encounter with Bernie Sanders and their discussion on the cost of the laundry list of free stuff Sanders promised America during the debate. Maher did everything but quote Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Via The Daily Beast. We start with Sanders:
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some times I wonder with bill Maher if you have a late blooming centrist rather then being liberal. he is not even close to being there but he has shown he is flexible in his thinking and unlike a lot of liberals he does not out right lie about something because it is good for his agenda. I don’t ever think he will be conservative because of his views on social issues but he does understand the whole Islam is evil and should be fought.
When Politically Incorrect was still on ABC, Maher was much more of a Centrist before he moved to HBO.
What ever you subsidize, will increase.
What ever you tax, will decrease.
If an Article V convention is called, a Balanced Budget Amendment and a Term Limits Amendment would pass in about 10 seconds.
( His imitation of Bernie Sanders sounds more like Gilbert Gottfried)
There could be a 10% wealth tax on all who have net worths of over $1 mil or over $1 thou and it might pay for it all one year but it could only be done once, and the expense continues year after year.
that is because HBO is ran by liberals that put documentaries on there channel and movies with agendas.
Well, there you have it. These plans are simply unaffordable. If you could somehow levy an accumulated wealth tax and still not pay for everything long term, then by definition, these plans are unaffordable.
I do worry about inflation long term. What if the government prints more money and puts in circulation, to try to pay for accumulated liabilities such as Social Security?
How far away are we from becoming Greece, is another discussion I wish we would have in political campaigns.
Candidate Obama was shocked that the national debt had reached about $9 trillion when Bush 43 was president. But President Obama and Dem. candidates for pres. now have nothing to say about a debt which is officially about $18 trillion and counting.
The reigning economic theory ore the 1600s and 1700s was mercantilism which today is reborn as fascism or crony capitalism. It makes a few rich at the expense of preventing the great majority of people from getting much beyond subsistence. In the 1800s England changed its operant philosophy to one of free trade and the industrial revolution and the trade revolution took off and poverty began its rapid decline in the English speaking world and eventually in Europe generally.
Inflation? Is that a new word for smaller packaging?
I didn’t read the book but I know this: whenever a federal government official or candidate starts talking about compassion, as in Bush’s “compassionate conservatism”, what they are really talking about is COMPASSIONATE TYRANNY, becasue the feds are legally bound to stay within it constitutional limits and ANYTHING the feds do outside its constitutionally-delegated powers, is by definition tyranny.
Compassionate tyranny is really an oxymoron, because government is inherently malevolent, not benevolent, and its interests are inherently opposed to the interests of the individual. The federal government hates individual freedom and the Constitution, its creator and limiter of its power. Those who love freedom hate any government that is not very limited government. Compassionate tyranny is just a way for government to weasel its way into exercising more power over you and stealing more of your money.
It’s much easier to turn government back at you doorstep than to evict them once they are inside. Government comes as a humble soul wanting to help you in your time of need. If it fools you with its disguise and gets in, the guise is ripped off and humble soul shows itself to be a raging dictator who wants to rule over you.
I don’t like the title of that book, because it is a lie to call unconstitutional socialist government dictatorship, “compassion”. But true American compassion coming from individuals and companies who freely engage in altruistic and benevolent activities, has always been a source of blessing and help for millions, especially in the 1800’s but has been evident throughout our history.
As sane and logical as that is, we can’t get the federal government to obey what’s in the Constitution now.
I don’t know how Bernie got all those college professors, administrators, and every employee at every state run college to agree to work for free.
They must REALLY believe in Bernie’s vision!
What, you mean they’re not working for free? That’s very greedy and self serving of them! How can something be “free” if somebody has to pay for it?
Mark
Great book.
I’ve long advocated term limits, but I now think they are inadequate. In addition, we should have (ironically) high salaries for congressmen, etc - and a minimum age requirement of 35 years for anyelected office. And no pension, at any level.I think it takes that much to obtain true public service, rather than the ersatz “public service” we are used to.
The ONLY thing that would bring is “We gotta raise taxes to balance the budget per the Amendment”
They don’t care the current budget consists of 99% illegal/unconstitutional pay-outs/programs/departments/etc.
Oh, I get the idea of FREE. What *I* don’t get is: if Socialism is so GREAT, why not move to any number of countries that HAVE Socialism.
Socialism here is antithesis to our Constitution (not that we don’t have a 50%+ mix ‘illegally’ already).
I don't think that a Balanced Budget Amendment (standing alone) could ever be passed. I think that the dirty little secret that lies beneath our budget problems is that most people want more government goodies than they want to pay for with taxes, but that if forced to choose, they would rather raise taxes than cut their government goodies.
Those Pink Pather show cartoons were actually not a Hanna-Barbarra act. Friz Freleng, had a studio that produced those.
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