Bill Maher: America Is Greedy, Not Good
The "Real Time" host takes exception to American exceptionalism, the idea that Americans are unique and superior despite a penchant for poisoning, imprisoning and killing each other just to make a buck.The “Real Time” host takes exception to American exceptionalism, the idea that Americans are unique and superior despite a penchant for poisoning, imprisoning and killing each other just to make a buck.
“We do it all to each other — the killing and the keeping people sick and poor and in jail and destroying their habitat — because a generation ago Ronald Reagan and Gordon Gekko told us greed was good.”
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