New Rule: American Kleptocracy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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@Whimsy4fall 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah my mom is a small business owner and is still struggling, barely made ends meet, and had to get a second job, yet these huge businesses got even more money. Our leaders/government is disgusting.

@nw7629 2 жыл бұрын

The biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. The biggest fraud committed against the American people since the bailout of banks when housing bubble crashed. These happened under Democratic presidents and democratic controlled government. "This is something Trump would do!" And the audience laughs and claps. Very telling.

@jnb756 2 жыл бұрын

I'm right there with her.... it took a lot of time and effort to end up with a $6000 loan and to see someone like Kanye and Tom Brady get millions pisses me off to no end. Nothing against them but they have money and I don't think that they should be considered "small" businesses.

@KonohazFinest 2 жыл бұрын

Well at least your mom can hold her head up high knowing she's doing the right thing and I hope it turns around for mom. This is the kind of bullshit that really pisses me and the rest of America off. True hard working Americans like your mom get shafted while the rich get richer and couldn't give two fucks what happens to us.

@vagrxncy499 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a Troll to me...considering this was about stolen federal assistance.

@lpk6372 2 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you vote culture war be alike banning trans and CRT, gay existence or any of these things that are your own personal business.

@ProtectMyLiberty 2 жыл бұрын

If they had literally dropped the money out of helicopters, more of the people that needed it would have gotten it.

@michaelmorningstar8645 2 жыл бұрын

So stupid. This is how it works. Our only other option is to do nothing. This isn't a point. It's just ignorance.

@brianwall9592 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyboard lol excellent retort... >;]

@weaselworm8681 2 жыл бұрын

They should have dispersed it in 1000 dollar lots per month and made people go to the banks to sign for it. Real people in need would have hated doing that but they would have gone out of necessity. But a Donald Trump couldn’t steal enough in that fashion to make it worth his time. The super wealthy need to steal on an entirely different scale then the rest of could even conceive of.

@davidgoldman9820 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmorningstar8645 this is how government works, need lot less government

@davidgoldman9820 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyboard omg go get rich then

@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 2 жыл бұрын

2:41 "Defunding the police? Yes, that's a bad idea. But so is de-policing the funds." Best thing said all episode.

@Vyrus36 2 жыл бұрын

In all honesty, the defending the police thing should have been redone to mean the real intention. Alter/augment the police. I mean, defunding IS a part of it. But only to put that money into social psychological programs and to respond to minor threats. Save the real police for moments when we actually need them. Not to hassle the homeless guy who thinks he's got ants in his shoes.

@michaeldurrant8446 2 жыл бұрын

Except it's wholly wrong. Municipal police budgets and the national defense budget are really similar. - Requests for more money are rarely challenged - When they are, fear is used - "if you don't give us more money, you won't be safe" - More $$$ != more safety "Defund the police" sounds like we just stop paying police. It's taking a portion of the funds - you'd be shocked how fiscally irresponsible police departments are, imagine the usual waste of government except everyone is afraid to audit you because you're the police - and putting it into policies and people that will actually reduce crime.

@benc.3128 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldurrant8446 taking funds away from them is ridiculous. They should simply be encouraged to up investment of officer training, rather than taking that extra money away from them. The government has the money to do it

@michaeldurrant8446 2 жыл бұрын

@@benc.3128 They get a lot of money for training already and they don't do anything. These discussions don't work if people can't admit to the facts and the facts are police departments do not make us safer. Communities enforce morality, not the threat of incarceration.

@ralphpal 2 жыл бұрын

@@Vyrus36 you really think that is it How many people were shot, stores looted after the BLM riots

@davidgraham2673 2 жыл бұрын

I'm impressed. Bill Maher of all people has been calling out the absurdities we've been harping about for years. I know he didn't start yesterday, but it's good to see a headliner who views from the liberal side go against the grain. Hopefully the progressive leftists pay heed to him, and don't go into cancel mode.

@dridadbunkerphd6523 2 жыл бұрын

It is the Grumpy Old Pervs trying to control a woman's body who don't care that big corporations steal this money meant for the Public. Remember, Corporations are people, my friends. Except they aren't held accountable for their crimes - just like the pervs running Churches and "farmers" who don't work farms but were Congress critters who leased out farm land. Progressive do care and are trying to clean up the System. Get a clue!

@ndesdsadfd 2 жыл бұрын

They can cancel this 8===D These lunatics won't be able to 'cancel' shit. They're the minority in the whole wide world...

@dawnsstar5918 Жыл бұрын

All in all , no matter the division, we are all people of America, and yes, why aren't out representatives representing us?

@davidgraham2673 Жыл бұрын

@@dawnsstar5918 , I agree completely. Greed has overwhelmed our politicians, who look to office as a means of getting rich off their constituents. Both sides.

@lillierobinson1786 Жыл бұрын

How did you miss the fact that the graft wasn't done by a specific party. There are so called conservatives who are blatantly corrupt and plugged into these schemes

@lisbethbird8268 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for calling out the stealing on a massive scale, while many suffered, lost their livelihoods and homes.

@nomadicroadrat 2 жыл бұрын

and nothing will be done about it. There will be investigations and committees and testimonies and subpoenas and bupkis zip nothing zero nada

@mindsigh4 2 жыл бұрын

yeah,Bill, like Russell Brand are hitting it outta the park, calling hypocrisy wherever it slithers.

@wonderlizz 2 жыл бұрын

It is so sad to hear about all the fraud because it really helped a lot of us be able to stay in our home. Make the millionaire companies pay it back if they got it!

@pilonpatrick573 2 жыл бұрын

We had the very exact same problem, up here in Canada. Shameless peeps.

@Marijuanifornia 2 жыл бұрын

This is what our society is. Since the end of World War II, the American people have been inundated with advertisements for mass-produced garbage. We've been sold the idea since birth that buying things makes life better. The soul of the nation has suffered from this incorrect thinking for the last half-century. Numbers are infinite, and money rewards greed. No one can ever have "enough" money. All that life is now is a mad scramble for more money, consequences be damned. The entire system has been designed to direct as much money to the wealthy as possible. Everyone is struggling, miserable, and no one cares about each other while 24-hr television shows people smiling and wind-surfing and partying and "living the good life." The national ethos is "make money and buy shit." It's a hollow existence and everyone can feel it, which only amplifies the nation's hopelessness.

@CrypticFoxGaming 2 жыл бұрын

The stupid thing is the IRS already has information on every legal worker who has filed taxes. They could have just sent payments directly to people and cut out the company middlemen. Would have spent less and people would have gotten more. Would have helped minimize fraud too.

@paulybrunner9091 2 жыл бұрын

Except that the IRS has been defunded by the Republicans for years. They just don't have the staff power to do that kind of oversite. This blatant ripoff of money IS the future the Republicans have been voting for.

@CrypticFoxGaming 2 жыл бұрын

@@paulybrunner9091 Well that's sort of the issue isn't it. Employers submit information to the IRS about a person's earnings, so its not like they don't have that information, and the submissions are strongly encouraged to be electronic, so in theory the information is already present in their system. It's pretty crazy that they can't efficiently gather and process earnings data when every person earning a taxable income has a unique numerical identifier, every employer has to submit earnings data based on that unique identifier, and every taxpayer has to do the same. The computer should already be able to output the earnings of everyone who filed taxes and know what they should have received, and the process they used didn't have oversight either. I'm in Canada, but we had the same problem lol.

@JaesWasTaken 2 жыл бұрын

The IRS is criminally understaffed and underfunded (thanks Congress). It should be no surprise that so much of the COVID relief funds went into pockets that had no business receiving them in the first place. Congress will never accept that literally just giving money to citizen will solve problems. It'll always be siphoned through programs like like the PPP instead and the perpetual cycle of corruption will continue.

@hellstromcarbunkle8857 2 жыл бұрын

Republicans refused to sign off on that.

@pats4214 2 жыл бұрын

No Business's should of Closed at all. It was all Fake.

@cda133 2 жыл бұрын

I’m a conservative… and when your friend and your enemy are both telling you the same thing… it’s time to listen…

@ccar3y 2 жыл бұрын

Do you consider liberals to be the enemy?

@johnvilsysack2453 Жыл бұрын

@@ccar3y

@ryanjensen5897 Жыл бұрын

@@ccar3y Yeah that's that classic thing people do. Dividing a country may not be hard because people divide themselves already.

@rodneyskelly5960 Жыл бұрын

You don't have an enemy! You have a fellow American with a different viewpoint.However, the point you make is a good one.

@cda133 Жыл бұрын

@Brant Powell if we went by facts instead of opinions that would vastly improve the quality of life

@jessstuart7495 2 жыл бұрын

When the corruption runs so deep, only the corrupt can succeed, the system is broken and should be radically reformed.

@jakespivey3716 2 жыл бұрын

This is the breach of trust that makes us vulnerable to a failure of democracy. When politicians say to themselves look at all the good we can do even though we have to pay the rich off first in order to do it.

@DrJohnnyJ 2 жыл бұрын

Only constitutional amendments can save us. The Supreme court has been on the side of big money and bribery since Reagan.

@tylerfields2654 2 жыл бұрын

Yes but who do you trust not to be corrupted it's a terrible catch up 22

@j.dragon651 2 жыл бұрын

@@tylerfields2654 Start by voting for anyone without and R or D in front of their name.

@radwonderland1435 2 жыл бұрын

The whole Covid was an scam.

@elaineteut9579 2 жыл бұрын

We recently had our taxes done, we are middle class, it’s the same every year but they asked us if we were making any outside money, which we aren’t. The government spent trillions and we see absolutely nothing for accounting from them, yet they are terrified we might be making $500 they don’t know about. That Walgreens comparison was spot on.

@stepha5926 2 жыл бұрын

Yes not an American here, but your country is set up in the most extreme corrupt *right-wing* way possible. It's a complete joke. Not one developed country in the world takes the USA seriously anymore. Nobody took you seriously since Dubiya. So, over 20 years.

@stevewalkerph.d4961 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great point!

@darkprince56 2 жыл бұрын

Exaaaactly it’s total bs. I also maintain the attitude of “fook you, it’s none of your business” when the government wants to know about the money I earn.

@DK-tq8ql 2 жыл бұрын

Thats what Trump wanted to do. Pelosi and Schumer and the Democrats said No.

@joriskemper5392 2 жыл бұрын

In all honesty, these days I don't have a clue what middle class is anymore. The have not's are getting squeezed ever harder. The have's are being gifted more loopholes in tax system than Swiss cheese. With the energy crisis and inflation on top, I don't really think there is a thing like middle class for much longer - if it even still exists. Middle class will be some ancient term in history books about a time long forgotten, when there was a group of people, who weren't filthy rich, but didn't have to work 13 hours a day just to buy a piece of bread.

@Trevdawg48 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Bill. You are one of the few voices of reason on the Left right now. 5.7 trillion divided by the 330 million people in this country is over $17k per person. For me, with 7 people in my family, that is almost $120k. We got no where near that. I'm guessing most/all upper middle to poor people didn't get close to $17k per person in their household. Why did billionaires increase their wealth by 4 trillion while the middle class lost the same?

@larrybarnhouse9989 2 жыл бұрын

Your math is off! $1000 million in a billion dollars! $1000 billion in a trillion dollars! Each Americans would have gotten 100s of millions of dollars each with 5.7 Trillion dollars! Bill forgot to add the billions stolen by Trump and Jared!

@jaquanpowell4605 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine what 3.5 million enslaved people felt after America gave us empty promises. This pandemic was a lesson on how to be black in this country.

@noli.me.tangere 2 жыл бұрын

Because the billionaires who got richer are big tech, Amazon and the media. The ones who have been pushing the Covid narrative to begin with.

@jaquanpowell4605 2 жыл бұрын

@@noli.me.tangere Don't forget the investors who bought all the houses got rich and made another housing crisis.

@wcolautti 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaquanpowell4605 🙄

@jesswalczak9946 2 жыл бұрын

"Thank you one guy!" We should say that same thing to our one guy, Bill Maher.

@danielwalter5268 2 жыл бұрын

I completely disagreed with Bill most my life, now I find I’m almost always in agreement with him. What a strange world we live in.

@phillipedwardness9591 2 жыл бұрын

Did you change or did he

@danielwalter5268 2 жыл бұрын

@@phillipedwardness9591 a little bit of both. I think….

@phillipedwardness9591 2 жыл бұрын

@@danielwalter5268 world is very different than it was even 5 years ago. Crazy times!

@kantraxoikol6914 2 жыл бұрын

maybe you should have agreed with Bill more, we wouldn't be "here"

@MsTifalicious 2 жыл бұрын

Because the left is going so far left he had no choice but to stay in the middle where it's actually moving closer to the right

@jeremymenning56 2 жыл бұрын

The morally bankrupt are rich. The morally rich are bankrupt.

@TheN0odles 2 жыл бұрын

And this is all of governement. They pander false promises to their constituents.

@iamwell5654 2 жыл бұрын

Well put.

@AR-rn8ok 2 жыл бұрын

So anyone with money is bankrupt? Are you talking about a tech in silicone valley making $250,000 a year or a Hollywood actor making $150,000 a year. Or are you talking about a wallstreet hedge fund director making billions of dollars for doing absolutely nothing but lobbying politicians?

@jw6487 2 жыл бұрын

Where are the morally rich, though?

@RelentlessOhiox 2 жыл бұрын

At this point having morals doesn't seem to get you very far in life.

@ekrenz5268 2 жыл бұрын

There airlines were bailed out with no strings attached. They got money, fired a lot of their employees, and bought their stocks back.

@bhavpat514 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t just the airlines. It was everyday people and even those friendly mom and pop small businesses we all think of as innocent

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

@@bhavpat514 You guys would be pissed to know that in America this has been going on for over a hundred years and thousands of years across the world!!!! Welcome.

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

You should have been around for the banker bail out of 2008. Oh and 2001. And 87. And, and, and, and....... Welcome to the present.

@rockonmadonna 2 жыл бұрын

It's more like, "Welcome to Human Nature 101," even if they've never read a single serious history book in their lives, right? People are so naïve; I almost envy them.

@lpk6372 2 жыл бұрын

@@bhavpat514 everyday people weren't bailed out. Many didn't even get the money they were owed.

@xsentrik1107 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a staunch conservative I'm a white boy who grew up in the hood of Southwest Philly dropped out of school in the 7th grade and started working in junk yards for cash money so that I can help support my younger brothers and sisters now that I'm older I still don't have much of an education but I surrounded myself with smart people from every Walk of Life Republican Democrat poor and wealthy alike and I can tell you that the tribalism keeps us from doing the greater good we need to stop worrying about who's Republican and who's Democrat and we need to fix what's going on in government because at the end of the day we all believe the same thing basic fundamentals should be followed!

@fitupwitsamsword 2 жыл бұрын

We are a small, family-owned winery that needed PPP money to stay afloat, due to CA shutdowns and heavy restrictions on being able to operate due to the pandemic. I can say that the only reason we obtained PPP funds was because of my boss’ efforts to secure it right away, but many others didn’t because of several reasons: who they bank with, understanding and filling out forms, etc. There were plenty of companies that didn’t need these funds though, and took it from others that ended up having to shut down their business. There was no equal opportunity when it came to these funds

@andydixon8952 2 жыл бұрын

The ones that got it were profitable enough to have highly paid lawyers to file for them

@fitupwitsamsword 2 жыл бұрын

@Pot Kettle not as small as u

@fitupwitsamsword 2 жыл бұрын

@Pot Kettle hahaha, now that’s funny! 🤣

@gailwaters814 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not a Republican or Democrat, just a concerned American. From years of studying the way the media portrays issues it has become clear that 99% of America's "journalists" are simply propagandists for the Dem Party. That's how we got two of the most incompetent people on the planet as our president and VP. (The lib media won't show you this, but the number of idiotic statements by Biden and Harris are beyond belief.) This is because the umbrella corporation that controls the corporations that own America's media companies have actively replaced seasoned newsroom bosses with young, brainwashed liberals. The idea is to use the media to cause racial division in America, and to remove white Americans from all positions of power. South Africa has shown what happens next, but you probably don't know what happened in South Africa over the last 26 years because the liberal media do NOT want you to know what happens when race politics takes its natural course. South Africa is collapsing under the weight of extreme hyper-corruption by a one-party government that has destroyed every aspect of the economy and society -- joblessness is passing 50% and salaries can't keep up with the fast rising cost of living. The elites love this kind of chaos because they make immense profits from making deals with South Africa's hyper-corrupt government. The US is following the exact same pattern of racial politics and race-baiting. The result is one-party leadership by race-baiting racists like Lori Lightfoot, and the murderous chaos that is Chicago. But the reality is that once the Lori Lightfoots of the Dem Party are in control of all of the US, things will get a lot worse than Chicago's south side. The Dem propaganda machine controls 99% of America's media, and they are putting destructive, corrupt racists like Lori Lightfoot in charge of the US.

@jameslyninger1280 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, how .. tragic would it be to lose a precious outlet for alcohol? then we'd only have like, what, a million other ones left?

@reellivin9576 2 жыл бұрын

It’s awesome how he called out everyone for the stolen $, but it’s going to be hard to stomach seeing all those same people get away with it and nothing happens.

@natalyawoop4263 2 жыл бұрын

Similar thing happened in the Iraq war, private corporations brought in trillions. They're not big on taxes but they damn sure are big on taking public money.

@lizannewhitlow1085 2 жыл бұрын

Claw it all back, including profits made by the 1% due to the pandemic, and divvy it up to we the people in the 99%. 😡🤬👿

@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 2 жыл бұрын

Look on the BRIGHT side: Perhaps an extreme and potentially dangerous right wing BACKLASH will occur in REACTION to all this woke lunacy and corruption and "ol Billy" will still be employed to criticize it? (Pray the backlash doesn't get too far out of hand--Israel may actually have to turn even "ol Billy" ^^^ away should it actually go THAT far!!)

@philipnelson4525 2 жыл бұрын

1 trillion could have been used to beef up the regulatory agencies and the IRS. But Congress won't do that, making it that much easier to steal from the government, er, we taxpayers.

@gailwaters814 2 жыл бұрын

@jasonphair8478 2 жыл бұрын

For the record that money (7.8 trillion ) divided by the amount of people in America , equals almost 22 thousand to every American including children. That's the biggest scam of all.

@coryryder9070 2 жыл бұрын

and wallstreet too amc gme too the moon

@guynamedjames 2 жыл бұрын

56 thousand to each household in america

@h2beezy2 2 жыл бұрын

I got $0

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

@@h2beezy2 Not only did you not get zero, you're going to pay. Cool eh?

@AlexanderRay92 2 жыл бұрын

@@h2beezy2 Same, all this inflation and I didn't even get a check

@all_things_beautiful6905 2 жыл бұрын

A family-owned car dealership (they have a lot of locations) that makes millions, vacations all the time, owns a yacht, etc. got around 4 million in PPP money. Another locally owned construction company that is a multi-million dollar company also got several millions in PPP loans. They gave not one employee any money.

@Hollowsmith 2 жыл бұрын

Effing EXCELLENT segment. "Hole-To-Bucket Ratio" should be the metric people across the political spectrum monitor more.

@ericl447 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Yet he left out the easy meat for liberals, the deficit went down under Biden.

@reedy9333 2 жыл бұрын

Also, The bureaucracy is a skeleton of its former self. Monitoring and patching the bucket It's harder to do after the small government crowd gets done gutting department after department after department

@jimmym3352 2 жыл бұрын

Actually shooting money out of a cannon would actually be more efficient at getting money to needy people. That's how ineffective these programs are.

@QuantumTrading2023 2 жыл бұрын

What people don't understand is the government is printing these trillions that Bill Maher mentioned. This drives up inflation. They are literally printing trillions and giving to rich. Only 4 things can stop this madness: 1. Stop printing excessively and return dollar to a gold standard. 2. Cut size of government and government spending. 3. Dismantle federal reserve and return power of the currency back to the people. 4. Eliminate income tax and let people keep their earnings. Only sales tax is needed.

@topsykrett9171 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, great phrase. I will try to ad it to my repertoire.

@mrsmegz 2 жыл бұрын

I just did the math. That is $17,800 for every single breathing American, how many of us saw that?

@TheKrazysexykool 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't

@danburnes722 2 жыл бұрын

I got 0, and would be ok with it, if the money had gone to the right place.

@jordanbergman1387 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for covering this. I am a CPA and worked on many of these programs first hand. These programs, along with many other factors, are what has helped push inflation to where it is now.

@yuckyool 2 жыл бұрын

Ditto here. Floods of money. Hoping some of it was spent on restaurants and local/small businesses. Lots going into savings & investment accounts. More cash, printed by the Fed.Reserve . . . meanwhile, workers were encouraged to stay home and be unemployed. So fewer goods & services.

@thesun6211 2 жыл бұрын

@@yuckyool too many going to Fraudsters and Scammers; too little to Paycheck-to-Paycheck Service Industry folks to spend on food, housing, and utilities.

@artstrology 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, the lag time and newly staked living conditions tantalized the businesses to price gouge. most companies reduced quality as well especially food.

@wheelie642 2 жыл бұрын

Bill is not funny. I hate the fake laughs in the audience.

@hannagg9365 2 жыл бұрын

Yea bc the 1% has so much money… it’s become like funny money,,, little to no value!

@relicman 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bill for calling out everyone who deserves to be.

@ssstracener Жыл бұрын

He didn't call out biden, who has given trillions to foreign nazis and illegal immigrants as well as this covid ppp fiasco. and, now this administration has hired an army of irs auditors to collect more from the middle class to pay for this spending spree.

@relicman Жыл бұрын

@@ssstracener That's a good point, however, I was just trying to give him props for not being the typical Hollywood liberal.

@cpthornman 2 жыл бұрын

And this is why I am convinced this country will collapse in my lifetime. This level of corruption isn't sustainable.

@kt798 2 жыл бұрын

The sad part is the people who complain the most had their hands out too. Everybody's doing it seems to be the running excuse for corruption. Especially with the PPP funds.

@12345Micki 2 жыл бұрын

Everybody is too obsessed with political tribe and not paying attention to corruption.

@gailwaters814 2 жыл бұрын

@tonydeveyra4611 2 жыл бұрын

they should've just divied up the money and sent a check to everyone with a social security number.

@taco1212 2 жыл бұрын

Why do you hate undocumented immigrants? The thing they won't tell you is that almost all of this money was stolen by BIPOCs. Ever heard of disparate impact? Cracking down government benefit fraud is racist.

@dingusdingus2152 2 жыл бұрын

That would make too much sense. That's not how things work

@Trevdawg48 2 жыл бұрын

$17 grand for every single human in the US...

@italiannn16 2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA. Yeah great idea. People are so responsible and would invest and save that money for things they need. They wouldn't all spend it in a week on useless shit then cry about needing more from the government. 😂😂😂😂😂

@nite82hawk 2 жыл бұрын

But then you run the risk of a few illegals getting some of the money... according to Ted Cruz. Instead wealthy people like Kanye getting some... Which he did.

@petermatthews3729 2 жыл бұрын

The congressman isn't the security guard just standing there, the congressman helped the conman get the stock into the bag because he was paid his cut in donations.

@zeebest1004 2 жыл бұрын

He was McConnell, she was Nancy...

@oc6617 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, that wasn't even a security guard. She had a clearly visible TSA patch.

@Hirnlego999 2 жыл бұрын

Precisely, the congressman is bought by the corrupt system. And the congressman wants to be bought in order to enrich himself on tax money and not really doing fuck all for the people

@Time_to_Stop_Animal_Cruelty 2 жыл бұрын

@@zeebest1004 - Not Nancy, AOC.

@LeSyd1984 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... the congressman in this picture was the bicycle, lol! (helped him get away...)

@YoBroMan 2 жыл бұрын

I've always viewed Bill as entertaining, using his political show platforms to satirize the political landscape of the country. I've never really been a fan, except he did get laughs. Now, I can't believe he has become the voice of reason and his assessments are actually on the money, most of the time. When people like Bill Mahar are basically saying, "Wait a minute..." then you know something is really wrong.

@Dude101p Жыл бұрын

I know right? 🤣

@LeoTheComm Жыл бұрын

Let's not forget, Bill has matured just like we have. People's perceptions and beliefs change over time.

@phil5569 2 жыл бұрын

"Defunding the police, yeah that's a bad idea. But so is de-policing the funds." ~Bill Maher. BRILLIANT!

@thefactonista 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, one guy!

@Marijuanifornia 2 жыл бұрын

Defunding the police is a brilliant idea. In 1942 following the attack at Pearl Harbor, the US Federal government encouraged Americans to grow "Marihuana" to make equipment for the military during World War II. The permit to grow Cannabis that is shown in the 1942 US Department of Agriculture video, *Hemp For Victory,* reads in bold, black print: "Producer of Marihuana." The video was banned from history books and public broadcasts for almost 50 years after WWII in order to wage the war on drugs. This is why defunding the police is a great idea. If we can grow "Marihuana" to make equipment for the military in World War II, then we can grow "Marihuana" to make equipment for the militarized police in the war on drugs. With police protecting "Marihuana" fields like they did during World War II, billions of tax dollars will not need to be spent each year on surplus military hardware for state and local law enforcement agencies to use against the American people to keep "Marihuana" illegal.

@rorybitchell7702 2 жыл бұрын

The police perpetuate the system of crime. We need a better system. having a profit driven legal system run by power crazy pigs with guns has not been working in any sense of the word.

@ronblack7870 2 жыл бұрын

except all the " policers" are working from home doing fuck all.

@FakingANerve 2 жыл бұрын

@@Marijuanifornia Whoa, whoa, whooooaaaa! You're bringing up cannabis here too?!?! Where did you buy your shoehorn, and is it on sale on Black Friday?

@waynelust9431 2 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened in Canada. Large corporations that were totally unaffected by lockdowns, got millions, then gave their executives big bonuses.

@petert1692 2 жыл бұрын

Example?

@auturgicflosculator2183 2 жыл бұрын

@@petert1692 David MacDonald, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, could tell you more, if you care.

@Bonnah- 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when Trump wanted to send the money directly to the people n the speaker said no!!! It the speaker fault

@perniculous 2 жыл бұрын

I know that’s CRAZY! Here in the US the republicans who are critical of government spending and vilify anything remotely associated with “socialism” were the first in line with their hands out.

@michaelpreston233 2 жыл бұрын

Corruption all the way around Vote , I guess..smh.

@rsmith4339 2 жыл бұрын

It was worse than inefficient . All that cash floating around has actually harmed the most needy by driving inflation .

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I knew that in jr high.

@michaelcelani8325 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFinnmacool gee wizz..you sure is smart.....!!

@rnrtruestories 2 жыл бұрын

bill is so spot on. As someone whose worked with different levels of govt the hole to bucket ratio is astonishing.

@beardown6574 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill for shedding light on that. It's truly alarming and needed to be said.

@marcdiedrich4791 2 жыл бұрын

It's alarming that you just now heard of it.

@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 2 жыл бұрын

We were looking at lay-offs, the bookkeeper said don't worry, the boss had me apply for the PPP and it was approved, we took a sigh of relief, they got the check and fired us all! A friend of mine has a small biz and was taking a Major hit, she does both the production of the product and sales but relies on walk in retail sales and also does custom orders. She applied, she was told they were "too small" one by one each of her 3 employees were fired as a result and she eventually lost her brick and mortar, she runs it from home now, by herself and trying to bootstrap back into a location with her trade tools which take up considerable space. Meanwhile all the rich 🤡 cronies got cash by the bucket full

@mikemckay4256 2 жыл бұрын

I gotta say Bill. I’m a libertarian and I don’t typically agree with your views but it feels as though those of us closer to the center are starting to find commonality. It’s refreshing ! This discourse is long over due and I wish all folks on both sides nothing but well. We are all part of the same human family.

@joshuaphillips755 2 жыл бұрын

And Bill isn't a libertarian?

@terriej123 2 жыл бұрын

Ok but do you want to fix it so that the help starts getting to those who actually need it? Or do you just want to shut off the faucet altogether? I suspect you’d like to do the latter. Am I wrong?

@hassanabdaladl 2 жыл бұрын

You're a libertarian. The archetypal libertarian doesn't believe "we are part of the same human family." Libertarian ideology literally believes we should have the "liberty" (freedom) to do whatever the f we want, even at the detriment of others, and that society or "the free market" will "figure out a way" to take care of our most vulnerable and hold people to account. Your self-professed political position is, in fact, the exact opposite of "we are part of the same human family". Hopefully you open your eyes one day and just accept the fact that you don't really care about other humans, or that you do care about humans and you're not actually a libertarian. ✌️

@farvasstache6532 2 жыл бұрын

@@hassanabdaladl "Together, we are the Libertarian Party. The Libertarian Party (LP) is your representative in American politics. It is the only political party that respects you as a unique and responsible individual. Our slogan is that we are “The Party of Principle” because we stand firmly on our principles. Libertarians strongly oppose any government interference in your personal, family, and business decisions. Essentially, we believe all Americans should be free to live their lives and pursue their interests as they see fit as long as they do no harm to another."

@hassanabdaladl 2 жыл бұрын

@@farvasstache6532 lol "as long as they do no harm to each other" Well, clearly, you proved my first point about how there is no concept of a shared human family, in Libertarianism because...if you look closely (not really lol) at the statement, you'll see that there's no concept of taking care of each other or helping the most vulnerable in society lol. Usually, families try to take care of each other lol Secondly, you missed the point that required a tiny bit more thought than the first proof lol. When the website states "as long as they do no harm to each other" lol this sounds nice as a slogan, but not in reality. This is due to the fact that Libertarians can define "harm" however they want, and for the most part, historically, they've defined it as only literal direct physical harm. What do libertarians care about pharmaceutical companies releasing untested or dangerous drugs to the public, for example? Or pouring chemicals into a lake that supplies a community with drinking water? They don't...even though these are clearly "HARMS." They don't want the FDA or the EPA "interfering" in our lives or businesses lol. Libertarians believe that people can defend themselves against practices like these, done by huge chemical/pharma companies, in court lol. Who cares about preventing the harms from happening in the first place, right? What did we learn from this little exercise? We learned that Libertarians not only can't read very well, they also can't process anything that requires an additions 30 seconds of pragmatic thought.

@brent4209 2 жыл бұрын

The GOP voted repeatedly against ANY oversight for these funds and now you know why.

@mikebennet7697 10 ай бұрын

What a f'ing lie. Pelosi and the House Democrats porked up two "Covid relief" bills in 2020 with an extra $2.5 trillion. Republicans were completely shut out of these budget negotiations.

@mariakauffman8050 2 жыл бұрын

I had a small business that was considered "non-essential", so I was forced to close down to "flatten the curve". The weeks turned to months, with extensions of time to follow. When the PPP was announced I applied, and was DENIED! I received only the minimal amount that just covered the last pay period for my employees. I was forced to shutter my doors permanently. My only saving grace was I was able to sell my building a couple of months later when some of the restrictions started to lift. Unfortunately I didn't get as much as I had hoped I would in the sale, but at least I had a little money to pay the back bills for my home that I spent on the phone working out the best payment plans I could so not to have my utilities shut off. My husband had his hours cut in half, but thankfully not for too long. So between his paycheck, and the sale of my building we were able to get by in 2020. The government didn't give a rat's a$$ about the American people. They offer forgiveness for student loans, but not for mortgages. So many people lost their livelihoods, small businesses that were built from the ground up with blood sweat, and tears closed forever. But the government still wanted our tax money. The fallout from this pandemic made me lose what little faith I had left in out government. So I don't want to hear "Make America Great Again" or "Build Back Better". I'm tired of words, I want to see actions that our leaders actually care about it's citizens to make this country the place our Founding Fathers meant it to be.

@MrJimheeren 2 жыл бұрын

Well your founding fathers really likes slavery. So I guess you are just where Washington wanted you. Out and poor. Let only the rich landowners vote and everything will be fine. Oh sorry that’s not what you meant

@jeffreykamberos7524 2 жыл бұрын

The Founding Fathers were crooks too. America is working just like it's supposed to. You just didn't make the right connections. You still haven't grown up and you still believe in fairy tales.

@giantsr1eva 2 жыл бұрын

@Maria Kauffman Let’s start by not electing the same 2 parties who created the mess in the first place.

@kellysmith8858 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if this is what you are thinking when you mentioned student loan forgiveness (which hasn’t happened yet right, there was a freeze on paying back loans) but it’s a shame that we end up seeing this as an us versus them thing, home owners versus students. Home owners AND students should have been cut some slack. It’s such a symptom of the way things are in the US that we imagine everything as a zero sum game, that the corruption ends up turning us against each other when instead home owners AND students (and every other group that got short changed and screwed over) should be outraged together at the root cause, not pissed at each.

@ZlevelS 2 жыл бұрын

@@kellysmith8858 people paying back student loans aren't students anymore. Many of them have been professionals for years dragging their feet on a matter of personal accountability.

@kennyoconnor6564 2 жыл бұрын

As a public school employee, our hours were cut right above the threshold for extra help. They created a program for us, cut us above the threshold, and received no help. Scam goes both ways.

@robertstone9988 2 жыл бұрын

Probably would have had a little bit more money for the education budget if it wasn't wasted on stupid shit like bureaucratic waste and Welfare Queens

@jaelynn7575 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertstone9988 Ah, living in the 1980's I see.

@FakingANerve 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaelynn7575 Should we tell him about the Iran-Contra affair too, or just let him see it as it happens live in his timeline?

@a.m928 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertstone9988 the welfare Queen is a myth or boogeyman.

@radoraf 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertstone9988 Apparently the welfare queens are mostly business owners in this case

@reinforcedpenisstem 2 жыл бұрын

Same in Australia. Many nonviable "business" owners leeches false relief from the federal government. Useless.

@ishtiaqahmed-fh7sr 2 жыл бұрын

Same in the Uk,

@greenlime1997 2 жыл бұрын

still no where close to the sheer scale of corruption and greed the United States has. Your country doesn't have a corporate, profit-driven healthcare and pharmaceutical industry, America does. The United States is an oligarchic wage slave economy, Australia simply doesn't come anywhere close to that, as a matter of fact hardly any other developed country comes close to that lol....

@justinvschanel 2 жыл бұрын

Seems to happen everywhere, also in the Netherlands

@TGBurgerGaming 2 жыл бұрын

That's just the beginning. If we tried to house the homeless you'd see $900k per apartment. Plus travel costs and overtime and red tape and then it would be handed as a contract to an ex Lib-Lab owned company with two workers and technically stationed in Hong Kong to avoid tax.

@itookallthenames 2 жыл бұрын

True, and also millionaires like Harvey Norman cashed in

@romefox 2 жыл бұрын

It really was a windfall for business owners, I worked for a small business that was never shut down (essential), only 1 employee (me). I was at the desk where I found a letter stating 4k was granted for employees to the owner. This business was far from impacted from cvid and the owner openly said, "yeah I got money, every one did". Just one of many examples. Fyi, I didn't geta dime of that money, he even kept my tips lol.

@steffenjensen422 Жыл бұрын

how is that not illegal

@romefox Жыл бұрын

@@steffenjensen422 its not but the oversight for PPEs were basically non-existent.

@perfectsense3240 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best 9 minute segments in Bill’s show in years

@iggy-not-pop9875 2 жыл бұрын

Bill's Coming Around & is Very Courageous & True To His Values. It Shows The Truth Of: "If you're not liberal when you're Young, You Have No Heart, But If You're Not Conservative When You're Old, You Have No Brain!" Bill Is Finally Growing Up!

@gabeo9474 2 жыл бұрын

And here I am still waiting for over a year to have my *totally legitimate* claim processed with no payment whatsoever or even an update about why I'm still waiting. Now I'm homeless and living in my truck while these clowns have paid out $400,000,000,000 in false claims. I give up

@WalkerOne 2 жыл бұрын

God is the answer, not government.

@deadinside8781 2 жыл бұрын

@@WalkerOne God can't give him money or help him out of homelessness. Incredibly insensitive.

@janglandis773 2 жыл бұрын

@@deadinside8781 Exactly, the so called, all powerful, all knowing and wise god, seems to be asleep on the job. Somebody wake him up.

@dy6682 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry about ur situation, comrade. No words!

@laurab3441 2 жыл бұрын

Let's talk about corporate greed and how even during a global pandemic insane corporate profits are robbing us blind.

@JasbirSingh-zj1fg 2 жыл бұрын

It is probably because they know that there is no pandemic, or that it is not serious enough to worry. But they do want everyone else to believe in an ongoing "pandemic" and want everyone to take it seriously, because only if people take a "pandemic" seriously, would the corrupt be able to rob us blind.

@northwestrepair Жыл бұрын

Watched. Laughed. Went about my business like everyone else. They are counting on it.

@GiratinaofFury 2 жыл бұрын

We have it just as bad in the UK as well. Dodgy contracts drafted up to friends of politicians, usually delivering far less than was promised and with no repercussions. When Br'exit was starting up, the travel secretary set up a contract to help ease potential supply issues with a shipping company that had no ships. And their terms and conditions from their website? Literally taken from a takeaway menu. And yet, there were no calls to get that money back.

@TenFalconsMusic 2 жыл бұрын

UK politics is one, massive party... and we aren't invited.

@WinterSo1dier 2 жыл бұрын

We do it across the board and have never batted an eye. Having favorable (or inside) contractors/ auto repair techs writing false estimates for repairs happens for even the lowest on the totem pole everywhere. Accepting the old cliché “you don’t think the govt really spends $15k on a toilet do you?” as a joke throughout the decades. It all gets overlooked and added up. What was once “well an extra $100 for my troubles won’t hurt.” Has turned into “so that’s $10k to fix it, $10k for you and $10k extra for the repairman for fixing the bill.” Now that it’s spiraled completely out of control and there’s 0 accountability, even the most passive are starting to complain.

@tres311 2 жыл бұрын

It would be safe to say that government officials are gettin in on the takes. This should be a lesson for those that think the government can do ANYTHING AT ALL efficiently. It’s always interesting to meet someone over the age of 22 that’s still stupid enough to think “if we could only create a new bureaucracy to solve these problems” have you seen the people running our congress?! 1 guy thought Guam could capsize, even the admiral being asked the question couldn’t believe someone so stupid was in charge of writing our laws. When a Supreme Court justice can’t define what a woman is…

@Kiyoone 2 жыл бұрын

Lots of places in the world is in the same SHI* man.

@nonono9194 2 жыл бұрын

They need rounding up and something *interesting* happening to them, they're all mates with the MPs who are all in on it

@Blanco8x8 2 жыл бұрын

Rich people: Poor people don't deserve government handouts. Also rich people: I want my government handout.

@vavan100 2 жыл бұрын

Rich person: We Have 1 % of the vote. Poor person: We have all the votes lets vote to for Pedocrats and government corruption

@davidgoldman9820 2 жыл бұрын

total bs

@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 2 жыл бұрын

What EXACTLY is rich to you? Or WHO is rich to you?? No need to actually answer such questions since they are more of a RHETORICAL type. (But I'm sure your buddy "Billy" ^^^ would LOVE to take more OUT of HIS income so YOU personally can drive a more recent model BMW or Mercedes?? Or at least buy your girlfriend a REAL Gucci handbag?

@DTwxrisk 2 жыл бұрын

100% correct

@crickey__in__durham 2 жыл бұрын

Agree with everything you said except for trying to portray Manchin and Sinema as being motivated by genuine concern for waste, rather than concern for their donors' interests.

@urwrstntmre 2 жыл бұрын

Well if their corrupt interests align with the people's interests, i dont care. Politicians gonna be corrupt anyways

@crickey__in__durham 2 жыл бұрын

@@urwrstntmre "Well if their corrupt interests align with the people's interests, i dont care." Which is exactly why America is in the state that it is in.

@JeffreyGoddin 2 жыл бұрын

Bill is cultivating a new audience, he's been demonstrating faulty logic regularly for a while now...

@odigomez1787 2 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing. They voted for the corporate giveaway aka infrastructure bill but $25 insulin, seniors getting more benefits, lower the cost of medicine, more tax cuts for families… that’s too much smh

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

@@crickey__in__durham "Which is exactly why America is in the state that it is in." And which state is that? Ignorant citizens lead to a terrible country?

@Coouge 2 жыл бұрын

I'm liking Bill Maher more and more!

@grahamaddisonusnncisfmr.8835 2 жыл бұрын

Loving this! I'm a right wing conservative and I'm finally laughing again at intelligent wit Bill

@christinasuozzo 2 жыл бұрын

Finally Bill Maher is addressing how both sides suck not just the republicans

@bradleyrichard 2 жыл бұрын

“Hole-to-bucket ratio” is a term I’m going to insert into every conversation I have about politics until the 2024 election.

@j.c.5749 2 жыл бұрын

The ol' trickle down theory is "the bucket handle," now exposed as a deluge down on the rich that dries up to barely a dribble by the time it might get to the workers.

@christinasuozzo 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@patrickcoyne1960 2 жыл бұрын

The only thing missing in the security guard analogy at the end is the guard meeting the robber later to get their payoff for looking the other way and doing nothing.

@waggishsagacity7947 2 жыл бұрын

As we often realize, C. Northcote Parkinson was absolutely right: "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved." Thus, a committee [but could be the government] will spend 3 hours discussing the cost of, say $573 for bicycle shed , but only 17 1/2 minutes on allocating $10 million for building a nuclear reactor [in the 1960s]. In our case here, when it came to trillions to be spent on worthy causes, no one spent more than 20 minutes to prevent fraud. However, if 500 people committed unemployment compensation fraud of $187.39, each, the time spent on arresting and charging them exceeded 20 hours. See? Thanks, Bill Maher, for bringing this horror to our attention: It's OUR money, isn't it????

@davidgoldman9820 2 жыл бұрын

well said

@lizannewhitlow1085 2 жыл бұрын

OUR money is what the #GOP wants, the greedy pissants.

@JerzyFeliksKlein 2 жыл бұрын

To answer your question - no, but it will be your money/taxes to pay it off

@gailwaters814 2 жыл бұрын

@lizannewhitlow1085 2 жыл бұрын

@@gailwaters814 😂😂😂

@jjcproducer 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Corruption is corruption, regardless of political angle. Keep up the good work, Bill!

@redman27597 2 жыл бұрын

This will keep going on until we rise up as a people and hold all congressman ,presidents and mayors accountable. No matter what party they are from. We still have large segments of the population without internet, decent roads and bridges and not to mention the real important things like healthcare and decent pay. We can give billions to other countries to help with wars and our own people are in need and get looked over. I am tired of both parties at this point.

@lpk6372 2 жыл бұрын

Who voted these scammers in... If your polticans is screaming deregulation without context it means they were bought out and want to make some rich corporations or business persons life easy for abuse. We have more then enough money to help other countries and ourselves yet most of you fall for the weakest things. You rather vote in a politican that has been found to insider trade and collect bribes because he says they will ban trans or that they support unborn fetuses.

@independentsistah 2 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@jbarton1541 2 жыл бұрын

When PPP was passed Dems insisted on oversight but Trump. Mnuchin, and Republicans made sure that there was ZERO accountability. That was only one of the programs Trump and his buddies got ever richer on. Trump himself stole more than $500Million to keep his failing golf properties open.

@daddybender2739 2 жыл бұрын

Amen, vote gold.

@winninglifeyo 2 жыл бұрын

Oh come on politics as a spectator sport that you check in on to root for your favorite team is the best! What could go wrong?

@ag5576 2 жыл бұрын

So many people left supportive roles in the nursing field (LPNs, CNAs, techs, etc.) because they were only making half or a quarter of what others were being paid to be at home “protecting” us. When you’re making $500/week on the front line and your friend is a hairstylist, not working, making $1300/week it is hard to justify going in the work to quite literally risk yours and your families lives (or so we thought at the time). Horrible lawmakers, horrible policies.

@a24396 2 жыл бұрын

I wondered the whole time: if the spending worked out to roughly $17,500 per person and the MOST stimulus money a single person could have received was $3,200 - and many received less than that full amount. Sure, some of this went to the unemployment supplements, and some of it was sent to support the housing assistance programs... But those are state-run programs and almost none of the states spent what they received, never mind actually providing assistance to everyone that requested assistance or needed assistance. Meanwhile, anyone with a business that claimed it was "impacted" by COVID got to receive either "free" Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) or forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans to protect their business. A case in point: The Mcdonald's down the street from me got PPP money because they were "impacted" by COVID... Sure... Except "impacted" in this case was HELPED! They had MORE business and STRONGER sales because people still had to eat and in-person dining wasn't an option, so drive-through sales massively increased. And, because they kept their employees on staff (and hired more) they had their loan forgiven. And then they raised prices because there was less competition... And made more in profits... Ultimately that money ended up getting invested in real property (like houses) bought for cash and intended as investments against inflation. And then they massively raised the rents of their investment property. And ultimately the very wealthy managed to collect most of the stimulus money and then used that money to finance their accumulation of more assets that would let them accumulate even more money. And everyone else paid for it with the taxes we pay... Taxes the wealthy don't have to pay because they make enough that they can avoid having to pay. But I'm told that "CRT" or Transgender athletes are important issues to care about and the Republicans don't even have a platform other than "we're not Democrats" and the Democrat's platform seems to be so mixed up that I don't even know how they plan to do any of the things they claim to want to do...

@hellooutthere8956 2 жыл бұрын

Remember the thousands tht weren't eligible for unemployment.

@jakemac1396 2 жыл бұрын

It’s almost like it was planned! 😂

@arnabiarnab3037 2 жыл бұрын

Well said….. The two party system needs to be dismantled

@gailwaters814 2 жыл бұрын

@a24396 2 жыл бұрын

@@gailwaters814 Three things: Paragraphs would make your text wall a lot more readable. Claiming you aren't partisan and then repeating partisan talking points nearly word for word isn't a great way to convince anyone you aren't partisan. You're the one that brought up race... As a response to a complaint about the stimulus money turning into a giveaway to the already wealthy. Seems to me that maybe you're the one with racist issues.

@justistruth 2 жыл бұрын

All these years! Thank you Bill! I don’t always agree with you however your rants are good to hear!

@TheWorldOfSTEW 2 жыл бұрын

Spot on analysis. Bill, keep speaking truth. You’re one of the brave few who do.

@alicjaadamczyk1748 Ай бұрын

Hello mr. Maher, today I listened to you and instead laugh , I was tearful and frightened. I thank you for being there. My eyes are opening.

@DayTukErrJawbs 2 жыл бұрын

This totally pisses me off seeing it. But bill is right. Nothing in comparison to the crap people in higher places do

@genox3636 2 жыл бұрын

"As above, so below."

@canadianmistake2640 2 жыл бұрын

Bill will continue to vote for this same wasteful government waste

@verbalkint4258 2 жыл бұрын

@@canadianmistake2640 most of this happened under trump and the republican controlled senate

@TentaclePentacle 2 жыл бұрын

stop voting for dems, republicans are horrible too, but at least there is a sense of shame on the right and they curtail some of those excesses.

@TentaclePentacle 2 жыл бұрын

@Crack Shot trump has never lied about the important stuff, unlike previous presidents

@Stonedmonkey1x 2 жыл бұрын

My boss told me that our company got qualified for a million dollars in PPP loans. When he handed out the money it amounted to about $200 to each employee and there's about 20 of us when I questioned I thought we got a million dollars why is this solo he said oh that's because the million dollars got spread out between a multitude of businesses and that he really only got about $10,000 of that million dollars something sounds fishy to me especially since he was able to buy $180,000 cabin during covid. Where is the protection for us common workers?

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

Strangest story I ever read.

@JasbirSingh-zj1fg 2 жыл бұрын

If these were PPP "loans", don't the people have to pay them back??

@kevinc5533 2 жыл бұрын

@@JasbirSingh-zj1fg No, they were forgivable if the business could show a certain decline in revenue. We were able to show that easily based on the shutdowns. I know my business owners put a windfall of about 200,00 directly into their pockets. Even with the shutdown, our business was in no danger of being unable to fund paychecks

@pamelacass9642 2 жыл бұрын

What does $200 do?

@Stonedmonkey1x 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinc5533 yep and we are appliance repair we never shut down worked thru the whole pandemic

@maliksamarijones9304 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great year to not pay my taxes. 🤘

@AXG1981 2 жыл бұрын

Facts all around. As a Progressive I agree with you 100%.

@joebagodonuts8119 2 жыл бұрын

The $5.7 Trillion does NOT include the $3 Trillion that the Fed gave to Wall Street.

@motomikebuilder 2 жыл бұрын

PPE loan saved my SMALL business. 25 years of building homes, apartments, medical structures, commercial, remodeling saved. Many thanks. Paying every cent back as anyone should that can.

@Nesendrea 2 жыл бұрын

Andrew Yang likes to say, “The only thing the government is good at is writing lots of checks.” The problem is, he keeps leaving off the critical last four words: “To the wrong people.”

@esotericVideos 2 жыл бұрын

The only part of this that was effective was the direct cash payments to people. I believe that is the point of that statement. That when bureaucracy gets injected into it, it becomes a giant mess. Which I think is what Bill was pointing to as well.

@henrymiecz8566 2 жыл бұрын

Yang is the guy who wanted to give everyone money forever. You think Covid was bad what would inflation look like with that idiotic plan? Yang's credibility is totally shot at this point.

@billh.1940 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong the money goes to yang and his RE family! Watch this guy as they take over and remove you from you town! It will come when you put this guy in power!

@cocktailpost Жыл бұрын

I remember his first "call to reflexion" video about measures taken to "fight covid"... he knew this is going to happen, some of us did too

@bigdaddyjoe2819 2 жыл бұрын

Speak the truth Bill!!! Thanks for the reality check!!!

@nw7629 2 жыл бұрын

@kylestubbs8867 2 жыл бұрын

It’s the only kind of check a lot of people were able to get.

@jamespetkwitz8737 2 жыл бұрын

I love that Bill is now coming out and speaking about all this, the problem is that it is bout 4 decades late. The Hole to bucket ratio really hasn't changed much. It probably the same percentage stole as it always was, we are just now dealing with Trillions instead of Millions and Billions, so it's more and more apparent.

@litedawg 2 жыл бұрын

Why? He continues to blame and take shots at Republicans who are not in charge of anything right now. The Democrats are a disaster and yet he continues to take shots at everyone else except the ones who fucked all this up- the Democrats and the Biden Administration.

@nocturnalrecluse1216 2 жыл бұрын

Except when he tells you far left gumbas to get in line and vote, right? 🙄

@Raging.Geekazoid 2 жыл бұрын

It's worse now. Started 40 years ago, Clinton tightened the belt in his second term, but Dubya pissed all over that, and it's been ballooning exponentially ever since.

@ShawnLH88 2 жыл бұрын

it's called just now adding the numbers up you didn't know about it either at full scale. genius

@jake_ 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, he has talked about it in the past . A lot. Remember when he was comparing the cost of building.. well, anything, in the US? How much a mile of railway costs in America in relation to Europe? About how after WW2 the government built homes for the veterans at a fraction of the cost asked for housing homeless people today?(yes, accounting for inflation first) About money for various projects going to the pockets of lawyers and consultants and not to the people who actually build them? About gritters who pocket public money for projects that are then abandoned? Unfortunately, people truly have a very short memory. Six months from now, they will have forgotten this too.

@TracyAllenVideos 2 жыл бұрын

I am a solopreneur and I received a small amount of PPP which I used on my business and to keep a roof over my head since I work from home. I am so grateful to have received the help that I did. It’s disappointing to know that there were some people that thoroughly abused the money but I’m glad it did help some of us that really needed it.

@DWilliam1 2 жыл бұрын

So, you got to use the PPP to pay your mortgage?

@TracyAllenVideos 2 жыл бұрын

@@DWilliam1 PPP funds could have been used for 4 purposes: payroll, mortgage interest, rent/lease, and utilities.

@DWilliam1 2 жыл бұрын

@@TracyAllenVideos Well, you work from home, so it could be used for your mortgage and when you first get a mortgage most of your monthly payments are interest(unless you used mostly cash to buy). I’m well aware of what PPP is used for.

@mikehochburns8740 2 жыл бұрын

@@TracyAllenVideos that is not true. Those are the only expenses you can use to get forgiveness, but you can spend the money on whatever you want.

@stridertherangerwoof 2 жыл бұрын

WHO EVER HANDLED IT AFTER IT WAS GIVEN IS TO BLAME. IT HELPED MY FAMILY. IF SOMEONE GOT SOMTHING THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO AND THEY DID NOT RETURN IT. THAT IS ON THEM.

@thisbagisnotatoy9639 2 жыл бұрын

I had to close my business when the pandemic started. I got a $3,000 PPP loan (I actually underestimated my projected earnings because I didn’t want to take advantage and I don’t like accepting handouts) and went to work for an art gallery. The owners often bragged that they got $40,000 for each of their 3 locations. Even without PPP, 2020 and 2021 were their most profitable years ever and they were already very well established and profitable. It always amazed me how little shame they had over this.

@cheekypiper512 Жыл бұрын

Thebagisnotatoy: Sorry to hear about your struggles. What you described is absolutely not fair. The captain of your boat has a problem with its steering. I hope that there is a better outcome in the future for you and other small businesses.

@DeskieFam 2 жыл бұрын

You're telling me millionaires and billionaires got tons of money from the government? How is that different from regular legislation passed by Congress?

@olandir 2 жыл бұрын

Well normally, they at least put effort into making sure we don't know that the money isn't going to help normal people. This time it was like they couldn't even be bothered to do a proper cover-up. I mean, it's sad when your spouse cheats on you, but it's even worse when they don't even bother to hide it.

@AbcAbc-sp1od 2 жыл бұрын

@@olandir they don't need to hide it. They knew the mainstream media wouldn't report much on it

@GoldTop57 2 жыл бұрын

Yet every time a bloated bill comes along, Repubs get called out for not wanting to help people. These bills are always filled with wasteful spending even when the funds aren’t outright stolen.

@DeskieFam 2 жыл бұрын

@@GoldTop57 Because Republicans never want to help the common man. They only care about cutting taxes for their rich donors.

@justleon721 2 жыл бұрын

@@AbcAbc-sp1od No, that's not it. It's that they know the people aren't gonna do a damn thing other than complain about it.

@MsABee1 2 жыл бұрын

As an “essential worker” I didn’t qualify to receive a penny from all of the funds that were dished out! It’s very difficult to see how much of my tax dollars are constantly being wasted!!

@brookebyrne6615 2 жыл бұрын

That's because the PPP loans were to go to businesses to keep people employed, not to employees directly. You benefited from a whole slew of businesses being able to somewhat stay alive and not destroy the economy by mass bankruptcy. Those people who decided you were essential also decided that some businesses should die. My business was closed down for 13 months and l went from a thriving business with no debt to enough debt to buy a house in California if it was cash. I lost all my jobs in a day. Being considered essential would have been an economic savior for me.

@MsABee1 2 жыл бұрын

@@brookebyrne6615 I did not qualify for any stimulus money. All kinds of dollars were tossed out by the government. As a tax payer, I witnessed many people near and far waste the money. Sorry to hear about your business.

@MINGXI-r9b 2 жыл бұрын

@@MsABee1 If you were an illegal immigrant you would have gotten paid.

@12345Micki 2 жыл бұрын

I was a hardcore Democrat until about June 2020, all of the stolen money, "defund the police", school shut downs, and being attacked for pointing out how ridiculous this has gotten put me over the edge. Now officially independent, I'm just done watching my hard earned money being stolen and actively used to promote crap that is bad for my family.

@Pantsinabucket 2 жыл бұрын

@@12345Micki assuming you live in the suburbs, defunding the police is senseless as they aren’t excessively overfunded. Meanwhile inside major cities, police typically take up >50% of the budget. For example, I live in Chicago, where police got ~52% of the 2021 budget, along with over half the COVID relief funds as a bonus. Meanwhile in the suburb I was raised in, police received 20.44% of the town budget. When you are dealing with billions of dollars like a major city’s budget, investing money into those who do not prevent crime and rarely solve it is just downright wrong when you can invest that into community resources that will provide healthy alternatives to crime. I’ve never once witnessed cops or security on CTA, yet that’s where a disproportionately high amount of crimes are reported. However, living on a major street, I can’t walk half a mile without a cop car driving by on patrol despite being in one of the safest and richest neighborhoods in town.

@nerakar6562 2 жыл бұрын

Bill is the man, thank you for your honesty regardless of politics

@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah---"Billy" got himself a MONOPOLY on honesty (at least INTELLECTUAL honesty)😂😂

@micahmcgowan8007 2 жыл бұрын

Pure fire.

@jc9.537 2 жыл бұрын

“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?” Thomas Sowell.

@Turambar_499 2 жыл бұрын

For most of human history politicians were irrelevant because governments only existed to manage the land owned by a rich warlord. But Thomas wants to gloss over the part about rich people owning nations for their personal interest

@JPMadden 2 жыл бұрын

Bill might as well be reading my mind! I've been saying for years, mostly to myself, that the job of Congress is to maximize the amount of public dollars that are "redirected" to big business and the super-rich, which I think of as our "aristocracy without titles." This looting is of course occurring at the state and local levels (it's the primary objective of charter schools), but the biggest pile of money is federal.

@motomikebuilder 2 жыл бұрын

Oakland is the perfect example of overpaid city staff except the teachers. Buildings full of suits not doing much making 100K.

@JPMadden 2 жыл бұрын

@@motomikebuilder That's ordinary government waste, and it's benefitting ordinary people. I can live with a small amount of that. BTW, I couldn't agree more with your exception of teachers. But if the work of those overpaid public employees was to be privatized, any reductions in their wages would go to the company's shareholders, not the public treasury. And if the company bidding for the contract is politically connected, the privatization will likely cost even more. Recently in my state, a service previously done by state workers was privatized and two companies put in bids--a qualified company for $1.2 million and an unqualified one for $5.2 million. The high bid was chosen, until it was revealed that they were a campaign contributor to the governor. The mess is still tied up in litigation.

@DrCruel 2 жыл бұрын

Big business was yesterday's rich. Today's rich are part of the federal and state bureaucracy. Why hawk products or provide marketable services when you can just steal by government fiat? And can you imagine? CHARTER SCHOOLS are the ones who steal? Really? Not the public school monopoly?

@JeffreyGoddin 2 жыл бұрын

That gets to my complaint about this bit, at one point he claims that this is somehow new (and getting him in trouble with liberals for pointing it out), when if fact it's not. Something's off with Bill...

@JPMadden 2 жыл бұрын

@@DrCruel So, government bureaucrats who might be overpaid $20,000 or $30,000 annually are richer than companies getting millions or even billions in government money? Curious arithmetic. Regardless of whether charter schools are stealing government funds, how can public schools be doing it? Public schools are run by the government. Is one part of the government stealing money from another? If public school administrators are stealing public money, what are they doing with it? Burying it under the schools? And if you mean the teachers are overpaid, then you know nothing about how hard teachers work. Lastly, how can public schools have a monopoly, since you acknowledge other schools exist?

@garyha2650 2 жыл бұрын

Can a transcript of this be found somewhere? I want to send it to a friend who blindly despises Bill so bad he gets emotional at the mere mention of his name, but agrees with almost everything said. Will let him guess who said it

@captainchadapparelaccessor6556 2 жыл бұрын

Look at the description of the video and scroll to the bottom. It’ll say “show transcript”.

@magicmarker7047 2 жыл бұрын

Be side the like , dislike, share, etc. you will see 3 little dots- click on that and you will see "show transcript".

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't sound deceptive at all.

@garyha2650 2 жыл бұрын

@@magicmarker7047 Thanks the three dots thing, copy/paste, cleanup, sent. By the way Bill, the 2021 spending bill HR133 had more words than the Bible but is harder to read, notwithstanding the foregoing for example, deliberate obscurity. Only 200 billion was for our $600 checks, the rest was government handing out money to itself like candy, we have government of the government, by the government, for the government

@sunrisewolfy 2 жыл бұрын

@@magicmarker7047 “she used her convent cash to hire a hit man”. Ya the transcript is not shareable. Convent =/= Covid.

@alhara4843 Жыл бұрын

Bill just nailed it!

@jeffc1347 2 жыл бұрын

When the PPP was announced, my friend who is a CPA told me that almost every client he had with any kind of business at all (including shady ass LLC's that really didn't do any real business) called him and asked how they could get PPP money. When he would say that's really supposed to be for businesses who are impacted by the pandemic they would get pissed and say yea but the government is giving free money so I deserve it too. Most of these people were old white Republican men, the same people who always preach about how poor and black people scam welfare.

@wirebeam 2 жыл бұрын

I had plenty of black grifters in my city too. Look at the number of nail salons and caterers that were listed as occupations on PPP detective.

@cristianion2056 2 жыл бұрын

They just wanted to show you why limited government is better. You didn't trust them

@Patrick-jx1yo 2 жыл бұрын

I know a bunch of business owners who got PPP loans and they’re all rich progressives in Boulder, CO.

@anthonydavis9382 2 жыл бұрын

bs you lie.

@fabsmaster5309 2 жыл бұрын

People will justify anything. They probably think it’s payback for paying so many taxes over the years or think they’ll be at a disadvantage to competitors who grift from the PPP program.

@orwellhuxley6301 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bill for making plain and simple to understand.

@BayArea-bx7er 2 жыл бұрын

When I did lose my job during the pandemic and needed unemployment, I almost lost everything. It took over five months and a lawyer for me to get my intake interview. I eventually got money, a new job, and began paying my bills again. But I have not recovered yet... I have been paying on time for over a year and my credit score is still bad.

@lindadeal3344 2 жыл бұрын

True enough!!You speak truth!

@Opus313 2 жыл бұрын

The biggest thieves will face no punishment for their misdeeds...

@bhavpat514 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. They will show a few caught here and there to show like they are doing something

@marklo6283 2 жыл бұрын

This is true unfortunately

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

WRONG! God'll get 'em! Pfft.

@wrathofgrothendieck 2 жыл бұрын

When I’m in charge they will get the firing squad don’t worry, you are welcome to join me.

@TheLoveSignGuy 2 жыл бұрын

I volunteered during the pandemic for almost 2 years, brought in the least amount of money in 30 years and never took a dime from the government. To hear about American dishonesty and greed being the highest during a disaster make me feel sick. I guess I'll just chant USA a few times to feel better. We should be ashamed of ourselves. I'm not an American anymore, I'm just a human

@JohnBrown-vn2qw 2 жыл бұрын

Treasonous is what it is

@AyeCarumba221 2 жыл бұрын

Amen. I got no government money either because I felt like I didn’t really need it. But that sort of ethic must be virtually dead in this country. Grift and fraud are the order of the day. We should ALL be paying attention to Bills wisdom. But I doubt that many are. God help us.

@brininahoward5445 2 жыл бұрын

Get off your high horse, you didn't say anything when corporate America got a bailout and didn't do nothing. This is America, it happens ALL the time, look at Wall Street!!

@AyeCarumba221 2 жыл бұрын

@@brininahoward5445 yep. Fuckin corporate America too. An open sewer if ever there was. We’ve lost control of everything. Dead society.

@andrewcook1246 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the sentiment but its doesn't work like that. Burn that passport and move if thats the case cause simply declaring itnon the internet isnt it chief. Though I warn you; everywhere you go, there you'll be watching large scale corruption and classism. Except you still live in America and never wondered where your next meal comes from. Go buy the mansion in France where they had to lower the age of consent to 13 to juke statutory rape stats xD

@misspm8157 2 жыл бұрын

Remember when the Republicans wouldn't vote to pass the bill if the democrats insisted on having an oversight committee to watch where the money was going? I remember real well.

@benjaminandre9339 2 жыл бұрын

"Oversight". Lol.

@joellamas184 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry that’s a liberal talking point…you can cry about the Republicans all you want but the fact is 0 of them voted for the last $2T covid package (despite the fact that the pandemic was already over) which the Democrats passed completely with their majority alone and was easily the biggest BS out of all of them…biggest waste of money in American history and is basically responsible for our shitty economic situation thanks to the wonderful inflation it brought with it…that’s on the Democrats and everyone knows it (if you disagree ur delusional) and they’re going to get sloshed in the midterms because of it.

@carlsanders7824 2 жыл бұрын

But, ODDLY, I remember no oversight being requested for the trillions on Covid relief. Probably just an oversight---pun intended.

@gerardfoster2396 2 жыл бұрын

The chief inspector General was going to oversee the payments on a half a trillion slush fund and trump reassigned him Mancin, trump and the rest of his cohorts whacked it up. Dems. Accounted for every penny

@davidgoldman9820 2 жыл бұрын

how things have turned 180. remember dems always wanting more revenue so they can decide who gets it, that is the problem

@YuppiBum 2 жыл бұрын

Almost exactly the same shit happening here in Finland: the government supported the companies, not the people working for them.

@owenmersk4626 2 жыл бұрын

It's like capitalism is the root problem

@jjhammer31 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, it's taking the worst parts of socialism (government spending) and capitalism (corporate greed) and combining them to make sure working class people get fucked.

@jm-je4tl 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Wouldn't be expecting that in Finland. Is it as bad as the US?

@WakeUpAmerican000s 2 жыл бұрын

Does Finland permit unlimited anonymous donations to lobbyists and political campaigns such that Corporations are the main source of campaign funds? Since 2010, when republicans legalized money laundering and bribery in political campaigns in the USA, it has been an unmitigated disaster with the growth in corruption. The republicans threw out 100 year old laws that limited campaign donations and required disclosure. No more - and the Americans are paying a dear price now.

@Y3MINEM 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t live in the US anymore. But I visit friends and family once a year. I actually heard and saw people be so nonchalant about fleecing the system that it blew my mind. Meanwhile I’m paying 50% of my income in tax for social programs in Europe that I will never use.

@Arkbuck 2 жыл бұрын

That's where it's headed , but worse

@natrelacoustix 2 жыл бұрын

That you 'hope' you'll never use... It's there for unforseen circumstances that literally take your livelihood away. Accident or family tragedy. I truly hope you never need it, but many do. I don't begrudge it, it's called empathy.

@liveking12 2 жыл бұрын

@@natrelacoustix do you pay 50% of your income in taxes, because if I did my empathy would fall to zero and my cynicism would skyrocket.

@stevieanderson7348 2 жыл бұрын

@@liveking12 okay, but how good can you live from that 50%? Just a question bc I don't know what part of Europe you are from. Are You struggling to make ends meet?

@LL-yy6mn 2 жыл бұрын

Never say never.

@joshuafontenot2548 2 жыл бұрын

This feels like a "sorry, you were a good person and didn't capitalize on a ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance." I don't feel better having watched this.

@StillTheVoid 2 жыл бұрын

Money has no owners; just spenders.The good news is that anyone can come up with a business. But it takes wit and drive to make it successful. Its america, dawg.

@JnEricsonx 2 жыл бұрын

@@StillTheVoid Did you just quote The Wire?

@StillTheVoid 2 жыл бұрын

@@JnEricsonx Me...quoting the wire...on an HBO affiliated channel?!?! *Shieeeeeeet!*

@joshuafontenot2548 2 жыл бұрын

What about the bad news?

@rtd1791 2 жыл бұрын

My feeling exactly. Can’t win for losing. And really what did anyone expect? No one was held accountable for The Great Recession; War on Terror was basically graft too. No one with money is ever held accountable for any kind of wrongdoing. When I was a kid I’d hear older folks lament that we ought to be able to vote “none of the above” & start over. Sad to say how much I understand the feeling now. Any idealism I had left is completely gone. And no one even had the decency to pay for any sort of mourning ritual for those lost to Covid. Nobody rich enough died, I guess.

@johnnydxon3105 2 жыл бұрын

That's right brother. love you tell it like it is much Love ❤️

@drinny26 2 жыл бұрын

You just gave every reason why we need smaller government.

@dimitriosp7214 2 жыл бұрын

I live in Australia. I pay tax from my income, I pay tax on everything I spend my income on, I pay tax on the money I make from my side hustle. I have no children. I don't qualify for any government subsidy. I don't live in excess and yet I still live hand to mouth. But when my father was admitted to hospital with a life threatening condition he wasn't left in the street. I will probably go my entire life never having relied on the Australian government for anything more other than working traffic lights, and mandated public holidays (which I worked for years). But that's the price to pay to be in a country where I won't get shot for trying to leave the house or have to go broke buying asthma inhalers.

@lu-vly 2 жыл бұрын

Unless the Australian Government deems you unsafe to walk the streets without a shot. Go ahead...get another shot...get another booster. This time the shot will work...for reals this time...LOL.

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

It just sounds like everyone on Bill's channel needs some kind of economic or emotional counseling. What's going on around here?

@TheKrazysexykool 2 жыл бұрын

Great point

@jon3113 2 жыл бұрын

To be clear a single 40 ft steel shipping container that is already double walled converted into two tiny homes for two homeless people could not cost as much as the California LA grift claims. They are stackable and safe when outfitted correctly, humanely. And simple tiny homes dont cost so much. Its the BS getting in the way, Maher is pointing out right here.

@Marijuanifornia 2 жыл бұрын

There are videos on KZbin of housing materials made from weed. We have the technology right now to make 3D-printed single-family homes from hemp within 24 hours after a natural disaster.

@deterrumeversor8680 2 жыл бұрын

Americans lived in some of those in Iraq, and yeah, they were double stacked too...lol...

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

And if they got those homes who furnishes them? Who pays the water and electric and heating bill? Who pays the property, school and garbage removal tax. Eh? Ever owned a home? Had a job for more than 10 years? Just wondering.

@FakingANerve 2 жыл бұрын

@@Marijuanifornia Glad you could find us to play your one tune. 👍

@sunrisewolfy 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFinnmacool lol I mean california is expensive but most homes here cost $600k-1mil. Why would a shipping container cost the same amount. On a single suburban property ya could fit easily 12 stacked (6 spots total). $83,000 per “house” and we could just round it up to $150,000 each for payment of landlord, gas, furniture, water, a shared bathroom area perhaps. Corruption is the answer to why they’re $851,000 now.

@ronwallace7454 2 жыл бұрын

Lol, the whole to bucket ratio changed!!!! Is why i will always enjoy mr. Maher. 🙏👍

@Thunderball.Mcgillicutty 2 жыл бұрын

I wore combat boots and lost multiple battle buddies....for this bs 🖕 Thank you Bill for talking about the truth ❤

@stephenkohler3472 2 жыл бұрын

What the fuck does this have to do with Vietnam, Walter? What does anything have to do with Vietnam?!

@13mrservon 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenkohler3472 OVER THE LINE!!!

@thomasclarke6934 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenkohler3472 It's like what Lenin said - you look for the person who will benefit, and...

@rorybitchell7702 2 жыл бұрын

Your choice to sign up.

@michaelcelani8325 2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasclarke6934 ' I am the Walrus ' .....shut up', Donny .

@natenicholas9228 2 жыл бұрын

Many real businesses were denied the EIDL Grant of just $10,000 because they lived in what was described as "medium" or "high" income areas, even if you actually look around and don't live in nice areas. Congress did NOTHING to help real businesses, just helped people that did not want to work.

@TheFinnmacool 2 жыл бұрын

Businesses need to help themselves not CONgress.

@jammcguire1276 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, and I can prove that statement!

@sebastianaguirre1694 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFinnmacool what about taxes then, businesses that pay taxes should have resonable access to public help, otherwise how can politicians justify robbing them blind (im talking small businesses, not giant corporations with an army of 500 CPAs that bring their total tax below what their 100 janitors pay collectively in taxes)

@Happyshiningpeople12 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFinnmacool You realize that businesses employ you and I and without them, we'd be on the streets and people wouldn't have the necessities they need to survive, right? They pay taxes and should be represented, just like the rest of us.

@TeamVenture88 2 жыл бұрын

It was based on IRS mapping. It didn't mean that businesses weren't in low income neighborhoods...just not low enough if they weren't in those particular parameters. The EIDL did in fact help a f*ck ton of small businesses. But those who were declined love to rant about them "not helping small businesses"

@daitauloable 2 жыл бұрын

This is why every line in every bill should have authorship identified and sponsorship by an elected member of congress. Then we can hold specific people responsible for every bad idea that makes it into law.

@redmoondesignbeth9119 2 жыл бұрын

THAT is a very good idea. Maybe you should run for office.

@michaelmorningstar8645 2 жыл бұрын

This wasn't a bad idea.

@SwedishBlouse 2 жыл бұрын

Stop thinking the government exists at all.

@royster7170 2 жыл бұрын

The last part in Walgreens, was straight truth.

@ursaltydog 2 жыл бұрын

Scammers have been allowed to proliferate online and by phone... but yet, my cousin and her family of 5 had to fight for every nickel and dime of unemployment.. and at the end was ripped off and left without money to cover the bills. Where'd it go? The state cut everyone's off early. The rest of the money went into the budget.. along with all the state covid money given by the federal government.

@lpk6372 2 жыл бұрын

Remember when you couldn't get robo calls or scammers calling your phone... DEREGULATION happened... Any person who screams deregulation with no context and no plan THEY ARE FRAUDS

@ursaltydog 2 жыл бұрын

@@lpk6372 Preach it! And I believe it's a sin for me to be required to PAY to keep my number private.. and still others can pay to look it up for .99 cents..

@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou 2 жыл бұрын

Bill didn't even mention that all this spending is to thank for our current inflation.

@garyperry8376 2 жыл бұрын

This and the current O'Biden Administration's energy policy

@cheekypiper512 Жыл бұрын

Matt: It's not quite that simple, nor is it true.

@cheekypiper512 Жыл бұрын

@@garyperry8376 There are a number of factors involved. It's not that simple. It's a combination of events beginning with a recovering recession and Covid to mention the easy ones.

@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Жыл бұрын

@@cheekypiper512 All else equal, increasing the monetary supply decreases the per-unit value of that money. That's just a basic economic fact.