Jon Stewart was left bleeding after slicing his hand open on-air Monday whereas delivering an impassioned monologue on the federal company subsidies that look like untouched amid the Trump administration’s indiscriminate cuts to civil service companies.
Whipping out his “wannabe accountant starter kit” — a banker’s desk lamp, old style calculator and mug emblazoned with the phrases “World’s Most Dad” — “The Daily Show” host saved “billions of dollars in 11 seconds” in highlighting the conglomerates that obtain taxpayer-funded subsidies, together with fossil gas corporations, main retailers and pharmaceutical corporations.
He famous that such large handouts usually are not being touched by billionaire Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity, even because the faux-agency boasts large financial savings that really haven’t come to move.
“Pharmaceutical companies get everything from our government: tax breaks, research grants, patent extensions — worth billions of dollars,” he stated. “And what do we the people get for it? The highest drug prices in the western hemisphere.”
Expressing comedically over-the-top frustration at “the money our free-market-ish system uses to prop up corporate profit at the expense of the taxpayer,” Stewart shattered the mug on his desktop, embedding a piece of it between his proper thumb and forefinger.
He shook off the shards, seemed down with a grimace and hid his hand beneath the desk, quipping, “I’ll be going to the hospital soon.”
However Stewart didn’t miss a beat, persevering with to level out the irony of subsidies for wildly worthwhile corporations whose staff don’t earn sufficient to dwell on.
His injured handcrafted one final look as he later introduced it out from behind the desk, clutching a blood-soaked tissue, to exhort the Democratic Social gathering to do extra to focus on these disparities.
“We are subsidizing the very system that makes workers’ lives harder in the first place,” Stewart stated. “The government’s role should be to end the corruption that enables that exploitation.”
