Maher: Old People Having Crazy Sex on Taxpayer Dime, Why So Angry About Obamacare?

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO also here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-old-people-having-crazy-sex-on-taxpayer-dime-why-so-angry-about-obamacare/

Old people get money for treatments and such, far more than children do, so Bill Maher had just one question for them: “why are they the angriest people politically?” Maher got a bit too graphic in talking about the various ways these old folks are getting it on to make the point that the government pays for them to at least “go out with a bang.”
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[babylonsister]

1. Bwhahaha! I don't have HBO-miss Maher! Thanks! nt

[freshwest]

2. Thanks, TX, I'd never see these if they weren't posted! at DU

He makes a shocking point here on the difference in payments ofr $25K to $3K, but that may be misleading, as one may be all one has and the other is a supplement.

Nonetheless, it's wrong to short the kids. What is it all for, if we don't pay it forward?

And he's correct about voting. The old peeps vote and the young don't, then wonder why things don't go their way. It wasn't seniors who voted in Pell Grants, public jobs and other rights for workers - it was those old enough for college and young enough to work.

So those who refuse to vote or get involved will be ruled by the rest, it's always been that way and we're lucky that so many young people turned out in 2008 and 2012.

Apathy is a gift voters give the rich, and it enforces the worst of the status quo for the 1%. We know this from 2010. The results were too predictable.

[Tx4obama]

4. I think he was referring to the kids under the age of 18 that can't vote

... he said the Harpers article said: 'child'

So, that would mean more like head start, grade/high school, etc.

[freshwest]

5. Thanks true, too. Their parents may be disenfranchised voters, too. Was speaking generally. n/t

[progree]

8. Maybe. But also young adults (including parents of children) vote at much lower rates than seniors

And as an example of the political attitudes of voters by age, about 38% of 18-29 year old voters voted for Romney in 2012, compared to 57% of seniors (65+).

[Malteil]

13. That is a telling chart.

From what I see, when those 65 and over finally die, the republicans will never win an election again. And don't even get me started about the 45-64. in a hundred years they'll say, "The republiwho's?"

[progree]

14. I hope you're right. But sadly generations get more conservative as they age

E.g. the baby boomers were the peace and love liberal generation in their youth, but now they are age 50 to 64. According to that chart, they voted about 51% Romney - 48% Obama.

On the other hand, today's youth are less white than the boomers, and that won't change as they age! So that's the demographic hope.

Myself, I'm a bit of a "concern troll" I guess it is called around here. I think there will always be a viable butt-wipe party similar to the RepubliCONs, i.e. most likely the RepubliCONs will adapt their positions and their rhetoric somewhat. As for the near-term, I'm concerned that they dominate 36 state governments (I think that is the number) and the horrible policies they've enacted in many of them, and I'm worried (or "concerned&quot about losing the Senate in the upcoming midterm elections when so many of the "cool people" don't bother to vote.

[Malteil]

15. I don't know about the baby boomers being the liberal generation.

Of my moms three older brother one was a Navy SEAL, one was a grad student and one was a hippie type.

On my dads side, all three of my uncles were drafted. One made a career in the army, one became a truck driver and the other became an anti-war hippie type.

In my own experience, one in three were liberal. the graph bares that out.

[progree]

16. Compared to our parents and grandparents we were

The graph doesn't say what the politics of the baby boomers was in their youth 40 some years ago.

Oh, I was in the Navy too, not because I was a right-wing fascist, but because I didn't want to end up as a grunt in Vietnam. And I was a grad student too.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

[FredisDead]

6. You can view

the full episode here.

http://realtimewithbillmaher.blogspot.com/

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Maybe because they finally figured out that "Trickle Down" is a f/cking SCAM?!?!

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

9. Awwww, poor little S.E. Cupp

Did you see how nauseous she got at the mental image of older, non-gorgeous, non-Hollywood-approved (and possibly even non-Caucasian!) people getting busy?

I'd like to suggest an alternate title for this vid: "4 Adults, 1 Cupp."

[Merlot]

18. owww, isn't she just precious????

What lovely little theatrics - being all "grossed out" and letting the world know it. Like Totally! "Valley girl, she's a valley girl!" comes to mind.

Although the way she looked is pretty much how I feel when her ilk spew their over the top hyperbole regarding...well...just about everything.

[fasttense]

10. The disproportional expense for seniors is due to the overinflated costs of our medical system.

Children don't use or even need the medical system as much as the elderly do. The most expensive service in America is medical service.

That said, I think some seniors are angry because they see their children and grandchildren suffering from an out of control capitalist economic and political system.

[maddiemom]

11. You're probably right in your last statement.

Also, those seniors angry about the direction of the country are either lifelong Republicans who are freaked about Obama, even more than any Democrat in office; or old hippies who have a legitimate gripe about how things have been trending in the last couple of decades. You know, the ones who appreciate Jimmy Carter.

[valerief]

12. That was some funny shit!

Basically, it was his way of telling seniors to stop being cranky teabaggers.

[johnnyrocket]

17. The cognitive dissonance among Tea Party types about Obamacare and Medicare, to me is stunning.

[Tx4obama]

19. Bump :)

[Sky Masterson]

20. 69 is the new 70

Ha!