http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/05/1289834/-Bill-Maher-s-excellent-commentary-on-America-s-disappearing-middle-class?detail=email
Last night, Bill Maher had a great final New Rule on our disappearing middle class.
Maher has a way of pissing everyone off at some point in one show, but you have to give it to him he is spot on and there's no denying that although some of his right wing guess give it the old republican try and they fail like everything they've tried to push since 2008 before Pres. took office.50 years ago, America's biggest employer was General Motors, where workers made the modern equivalent of $50 dollars an hour. Today, America's biggest employer is Walmart, where the average wage is $8 dollars an hour. Which means you can share a room in a transient hotel with a drifter who cuts his toenails with a machete. (audience laughter)And Walmart released their annual report this month, and in it was the fact that most of what Walmart sells is food. And most of their customers need food stamps to pay for it. Meanwhile, Walmart's owners are so absurdly rich that one of them, Alice Walton, spent over a billion dollars building an art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, 500 miles away from the nearest person who ever would want to look at art.And she said about it, "For years I've been thinking about what we can do as a family that can really make a difference." How about giving your employees a raise, you deluded nitwit? (massive audience cheering and applause)
more of a message, more of the facts get through to more people by as little as one comic in a half hour than does the entire right wing party in 5 years, and notice you hear next to nothing as far as rebuttal of those comedic stories, but republicans daily almost hourly.
others like Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert are hilariously correct, it's more palpable if you can smile and laugh before the truth sets in but at least when it does you can look back at the comedy and laugh again.
