Bill Maher Puts On His ‘Tea Bagger Hat’ To Solve The Debt Crisis

For a brief moment last night, Bill Maher was a tea partier. Armed with a creatively-designed “teabagger hat” and a powerful desire to cut spending, Maher agreed with the economically conservative group that the current national debt is unsustainable. He just wants to reduce it by cutting down “our empire.”

Maher’s monologue begins with a simple premise: if we can’t cut spending on NASA, which is almost completely useless, we don’t have the moral authority to cut spending on any other frivolous program, in which he included all sorts of entitlements in addition to the “drug war” and the “war war.”

Then Maher put on his “teabagger hat,” and all of the sudden cutting spending on the space program becomes irrelevant, because “we have an empire” that we have to reduce and protecting the nation from outward attack is not the most important function of a state but a “giant welfare program—a jobs program for defense workers to build crap we don’t need.”

Watch the clip below:

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