It is good to be in the 1% of the 1%.
Case in point, a 16 year-old was recently acquitted of killing 4 people while driving drunk because ... he's too rich.
Really. That was what the judge said.
Ethan Couch was sentenced in a Fort Worth, Tex. juvenile court to 10 years probation for the drunk driving crash that ended the lives of youth pastor, Brian Jennings; Hollie and Shelby Boyles; and Breanna Mitchell.
The defense put forth the novel theory that Master Crouch suffered from "affluenza" and therefore was not responsible for his actions.
So in this country now if you are ridiculously rich you can't be held accountable for your actions because ... you are too rich?
You can just kill four people and your winning defense is that you are too rich? And it works?
What do the lives of four of the little people matter?
Apparently in Texas, they don't matter at all.
What about all those kids that are too poor to know right from wrong? Is that okay? What about all of those poor kids on death row who didn't have parents that taught them the consequences of their actions?
Is this the America we want?
Time for a Progressive revolution.
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