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For those of you were are not Wu-Tang Clan fans:</p>
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me.</p>
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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/12/judge-rules-teensaffluenceisadefenseagainstdui.html</p>
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<span style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A Texas teenager who killed four people while driving drunk was sentenced this week to </span>10 years’ probation<span style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> in lieu of jail time, after the defense argued that the 16-year-old was a product of "affluenza" — a condition in which growing up wealthy prevents children from understanding the links between their behaviors and the consequences, because they are rarely held accountable for their actions.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Couch’s defense argued that he should not be jailed for 20 years because he suffered from so-called “affluenza.� Dr. G. Dick Miller, a psychologist who testified on Couch’s behalf, argued that Couch was a product of a lifestyle in which wealth brought privilege and he had faced no consequences for his bad behavior.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">WFAA ABC reported that Miller said the teen’s parents gave him “freedoms no young person should have.�</p>
<p style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">As an example, the psychologist cited an instance in which Couch, then 15, was caught in a parked vehicle with a passed-out and undressed 14-year-old girl. Couch was never punished for his behavior, the psychologist said.</p>
</p>
Cash Rules Everything Around Me.</p>
</p>
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/12/judge-rules-teensaffluenceisadefenseagainstdui.html</p>
</p>
<span style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A Texas teenager who killed four people while driving drunk was sentenced this week to </span>10 years’ probation<span style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> in lieu of jail time, after the defense argued that the 16-year-old was a product of "affluenza" — a condition in which growing up wealthy prevents children from understanding the links between their behaviors and the consequences, because they are rarely held accountable for their actions.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Couch’s defense argued that he should not be jailed for 20 years because he suffered from so-called “affluenza.� Dr. G. Dick Miller, a psychologist who testified on Couch’s behalf, argued that Couch was a product of a lifestyle in which wealth brought privilege and he had faced no consequences for his bad behavior.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">WFAA ABC reported that Miller said the teen’s parents gave him “freedoms no young person should have.�</p>
<p style="color:rgb(63,66,69);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">As an example, the psychologist cited an instance in which Couch, then 15, was caught in a parked vehicle with a passed-out and undressed 14-year-old girl. Couch was never punished for his behavior, the psychologist said.</p>
