Last night's "Real Time With Bill Maher" saw Arianna Huffington and Andrew Ross Sorkin sit in as panel guests, and Oscar winning actor Sean Penn speak about his efforts in Haiti and his relationship with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
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Later Maher piped in filmmaker Michael Moore, who was planted outside Goldman Sachs. as he railed against the Wall Street titans who have stolen billions and trillions through shady trading practices and "inventions" that funnel real money out of the system legally. At times Moore sounded just like an angry Tea Party member fed up with Obama and his Wall Street cronies who had benefit greatly from the free bailouts and subsidies paid for by American taxpayers. A fact that was pointed out by guest Arianna Huffington.
Maher had sharp words too for the CBS effort "Undercover Boss" for its condescending look at the American worker from the eyes of an unrepentant boss.
Arianna argued the point that today's bosses are grossly rewarded in percentage to pay of their staff: "Thirty years ago, the CEOs that are in 'Undercover Boss' were making 30 times as much as their working people. Now, they're making 300 times as much! We're about to become Venezuela, or Brazil, you know where the people at the top are basically behind they're gates with guards to protect their kids from kidnapping. The middle class is crumbling and that's the country we're going to become... if we don't fundamentally change where we're going."
Moore appeared on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO to plug the DVD release of his Capitalism: A Love Story film.
Moore, a proud democrat and liberal, argued that his anger demanded that the military circle the tall skyscrapers in Manhattan that housed the criminals who continue to rape the system, one not regulated despite Obama's presidency.
Arianna noted Moore's rage was akin to any Tea Party leader's rage: "It's the anger about that fact that what is happening is not fair, that the fix is in, that the system is rigged, and that people who are working hard are not really getting rewarded. And the people at the top who brought us to the financial brink were actually bailed out by the taxpayers."
He noted that the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti underscored the need for regulations: Haiti, he argued, was a “Republican’s paradise,” as he noted, "Chile had an earthquake this past week that was 500 times greater than the earthquake in Haiti. But here's the big difference. In Chile, they have very serious regulations when it comes to building codes. So a thousand people died, sadly, but a thousand people died with a 500 times greater earthquake. And in Haiti, where there are no building codes, no regulations -- a Republican’s paradise -- a quarter of a million people died."
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