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Submit your OVERTIME question now for Bill and his roundtable guests, and selected questions will be answered on the HBO.com website, immediately following the Friday premiere of Real Time on 10/16/09.
Please be aware that concise, single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected.
Refresh the Bill Maher homepage right before midnight if you do not see the "Watch Overtime" video link.
Please note: Video is optimized for use with Windows Media Player. Mac users will need Flip4Mac to view the stream.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 5:06 PM
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shouldn't the "trigger" that is being proposed be to the "single payer" health care system? This way the forbidden solution to our health care problems will kick in without a political debate......either that or just regulate the industry so the rates can't go up every year.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 5:05 PM
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what about health care. will it pass or is it over
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Oct 16, 2009 5:03 PM
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So Bill, when you sit around the bong at night do you ever think of reasons to be optimistic about the future?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 5:01 PM
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mr matthews why are the bilderbergers never discussed,just kid in balloons and letterman sex life who cares?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:59 PM
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in my yet to be written book "the obselete american" [how middle class america outlived it usefulness] i wonder why mainstream. or any stream media for that matter never deals with the issue of bilderbergers shaping our [political ,economic , military agenda along with the tri-laterals and the council on foreign affairs. great panel including my gov.just once somebody tell me what's up?concise version will immediatley follow.
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:56 PM
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First of all, I hope President Obama watches Real Time.
I want to know why everyone is so afraid of a public option. I know why the "Right Wingers" don't want it. It won't make them any money.
People are in a world of hurt right now. I am disabled, after being a working RN and volunteer Emergency Medical Technician since 1983. I feel very lucky to be on Medicare at the tender age of 54.
I have a congenital heart condition and KNOW that I'd never be able to get adequate health care without help from my Country, the U. S.
I just don't understand why some people can't realize that a healthier Nation would promote a more financially stable USA.
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Oct 16, 2009 4:55 PM
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I keep hearing about all the corrupt official's in the 2 part's of the WORLD we are currently at WAR with.
What about the mother fucker's in this country who hold elected office and make money off these WAR'S.we probally have the most corrupt CONGRESS and SENATE anywhere.and if they were not when they got ELECTED they sure the FUCK are when they leave to become LOBBIST.
Can anyone say CARLISE GROUP.and GE has become the HALIBURTON for this President.
TERM LIMIT'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:54 PM
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Dear Bill,
Don't you think that it would be a good idea for the American government to purchase a Snuggie for each American citizen (man, woman, and child)? This way America as a whole could cut down on its heating costs this winter. And we would also be doing our part to cut down on global warming.
Grady Henry
Casa Grande, Arizona
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Oct 16, 2009 4:53 PM
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I favor Single Payer Insurance. In lieu of that, a Public Option is essential. However, I am very afraid that congress is going to pass a bill that will end up making us worse off than before, as they did with Medicare Part D (which is a nightmare). What do you think the odds are that we'll end up worse off?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:52 PM
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Who spends more time on his hair every day, Garry Shandling or Bill Maher?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:52 PM
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Why can't we just have a payroll deduction for healthcare like our taxes. Or raise the tax rate to include healthcare ?
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Oct 16, 2009 4:52 PM
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Bill,
As I'm sure you're aware, RNC chairman Michael Steele started a blog on their website. He named it "What UP? One day later, he took it down. If anything speaks to how far out of touch the Republican party is, I can't think of a better example. If it weren't so damned offensve, it would be funny. It is what I would expect from Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck.
Any comments?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:50 PM
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Why do the Insurance companies believe that they shouldn't have any competition? Why are we letting the Insurance companies be a Monopoly?
If the Citizens of The United States were to vote in a referendum for or against a Public Option or Universal Health Care - I truly believe Universal Health Care and Public Option would be their 1 and 2nd choices.
We need competition to reduce costs!
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:48 PM
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During these tough economic times, we are continually asked to "make sacrifices". The poor and middle-class are the hardest-hit, yet they are asked to give and give and give a little more. When companies lay off, it's the poorest and middle-class workers that typically feel it first. When is it going to be time for the wealthy and the mega-corporations to give a little bit more? Where is the sacrifice when the fuck-ups who trashed the economy are receiving multi-million-dollar bonuses (let alone not losing their jobs)? Where is the sacrifice when a company lays off some low-wage workers (whose job means a difference in their entire EXISTENCE), so that some executive can continue to make payments on his Jag? Where is the sacrifice at the UPPER LEVELS in America? When will companies stop bleeding the working class to supplant their out-of-control greed?
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Re: Submit Questions for Overtime - 10/16/09
Oct 16, 2009 4:48 PM
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Do you and your panel think that reality shows are detrimental to our country? I think that they are, and this whole "balloon boy" farce is a good example of just what they are doing to us. It has invaded our actual msm in a major way and that makes all of us look like morons.
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