Real Time w/ Bill Maher 3/20: Bernie Sanders - Obama Stimulus Puts Billions into Special Education

[Hissyspit]

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COMEDY CENTRAL Real Time w/ BILL MAHER - March 20, 2009: Andrew Sorkin, Bernie Sanders, Kerry Washington.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ..and good ol' Palin is refusing the portion that would aid special needs kids...

What a hypocrite..oh, wait...she's repuke. Nevermind.

[Tx4obama]

2. Who made the law

that said that people should be 18 years old in order to get married and have sex. This is an American 'thing'.
We wouldn't have as many out of wedlock pregnancies if the law allowed 16 and 17 year olds to marry.
The laws are discriminating against young people that fall in love and want to have a future together - it is un-natural to deny them of this HUMAN RIGHT of happiness.
I was fifteen years old when I first was with my soul-mate, he was 19.
In the 1970s we ran away together to California and lived together for almost a year until things got rough, due to no support from our families. I returned home - and then he was tossed into jail when he returned to our home town weeks later because of charges my mother filed - charges that I believe to be unconstitutional. All this did was RUIN his life and mine. We eventually split up and reunited 20 years later - that time with him was the best time of my life - he recently died of a heart attack.

There is much talk of gay rights and minority rights in the MSM ... I believe that the next issue on the agenda will be young people's rights.

It is a sad thing when people grow old and forget what it is like to be young.

[aquart]

3. I appreciate the tender belief that your parents should pay for your love nest.

Gay or straight, you do come across as frighteningly overprivileged and entitled.

Are you aware of how many couples have not married until they could afford an apartment? Until one or both had jobs that could support them and burden no one else?

You know what being young is for? It's for learning how to behave well when you find out what you cannot have. Something you'll need when you grow up. You skipped that part.

[Tx4obama]

4. You are totally wrong...

I grew up under the poverty level. I am neither over privleged or entitled.
I grew up with grandparents that were immigrants - my grandfather came to the USA from Italy in the early 1900s (he went to work in a glass factory when he was 9 years old) and my grandmother's mother from Poland. My grandfather's sister was married at the age of 14 in Illinois, in the 1920s, when it was still legal to do so and they were married for over 60 years before they passed away. My mother was married to my father (who left after one year) and she was in and out of mental hospitals all of her life until she died. I remember when I was ten years old trying to teach my grandmother how to use a checkbook and how to write a check (something I learned from a class in school). Neither of my grandparents drove a car - my grandfather rode his bicycle to town each day to sell Mason Shoes from a catalog after he retired (and that is how I got my school shoes from his coupon profits) and my grandmother would take a local taxi-cab to town once a month in order to go to the bank and then pay the monthly bills.
Now go ahead and tell me about being young and how someone should grow up and just WHO is responsible for me skipping the part of how to behave. There are THOUSANDS of people in America that do not grow up in privileged households. so your idea of how the world works does not apply to them. There are two Americas in the USA --- one of the poor and one of the rich.

[ihavenobias]

5. Interesting clip. n/t