Michael Moore Keeps Pulling Me Back In
by Michael WilsonNo matter what I’m doing now or what I do in the future, I’ll probably always be known as the guy who made “Michael Moore Hates America.” I often wonder why I picked a fight with Moore. I mean really, I got to be a tiny little bit famous for a few weeks, stressed out for five years and more broke than when I started. Sometimes I wish I’d never dipped my foot into this addiction called showbiz and often wonder what life would’ve been like if I were just toiling away in the marketing department of some company again.
But then the multimillionaire and self-proclaimed champion of the little guy opens his foul, uneducated, lying mouth and I’m reminded why I made that movie and continue to write and talk about Moore. Someone somewhere has to tell the truth about this country and I guess it might as well be me. I guess fate has appointed me his much less wealthy, way less well-known, and much thinner (even though I’m fat) counterpart. I just read Moore’s latest diatribe and got Hulk-angry. HULK SMAAASHHH!
I am now thoroughly convinced that even though millions look to him as thought-leader, there’s really not much going on upstairs. Moore is quite simply an uneducated populist. He’s Mos Def with a bigger vocabulary. He has no interest in studying history, because if he did, he’d find his whole worldview to be antithetical to what this nation is defined as by the documents that do the defining. Michael Moore hates what America is.
It’s certainly clear that Michael Moore loves power. He loves crushing people. He loves destroying the lives of others. He’s done it over and over for his own benefit. So it’s probably no surprise that Moore thinks the firing of the CEO of a private company by a federal bureaucrat is a good thing. Especially when Moore can make hay and horde millions of dollars because of it (his next populist rant is about the evil Wall Street puppetmasters). If there were ever more of a mind-blowingly hypocritical person in the history of the world, I can’t think of it.
Moore actually wrote in his latest insane and unbalanced screed that Obama “has the massive will of the American people behind him — and he has been granted permission by us to do what he sees fit.”
No, you stupid motherfucker, he hasn’t. You see, the Constitution of the United States of America determines the power of the President, not the people. Specifically, it LIMITS that power. And the guys who wrote that document were scared shitless of guys like Obama. George Washington referred to the President as the “Chief Magistrate” and the Founders saw government as something that had to be limited to prevent it from committing the sorts of atrocities we’ve seen in the last couple of months. Government has no business firing anyone in the private sector. None. Zip. Nada.
But Moore cheers for Obama’s overturning of centuries of Constitutional and common law like a high school girl whose panties are a little moist at the site of the big, strong quarterback. He cheers him on because he loves the sight of OTHER rich guys squirming (DO NOT FORGET THAT MOORE IS A MULTIMILLIONAIRE WHO HAS A TRACK RECORD OF AVOIDING UNION FILM WORKERS BECAUSE THEY COST TOO MUCH!!!) because the almighty government is inflicting pain on them.
Moore has talked in the past about the “free” health care and dentistry provided to him by GM when he was a kid. He talks about how the “common man” could make a “living wage” when times were good for GM. He talks about how it was the line workers that made the company one of the greatest on earth and how the rich elite have always been bald, cat-stroking evil geniuses bent on pouring liquid waste on everyone they can before anally raping their mothers and firing them and burning their houses down and pissing on the ashes. In fact, his NEW MOVIE is about just that! Of course if you’ve seen one Michael Moore movie, you’ve seen them all.
Despite all that GM provided for Moore and his family (it wasn’t “free,” GM paid for it), Moore can’t help but demonize the company, writing about the “hundreds of thousands of workers over the past 25+ years who have been tossed into the trash heap by General Motors.” Despite the fact that the primary reason the company is failing is because it overpaid its workers and now pays retirees more in salary than when they actually worked there, Moore is happy that it’s time for a little revenge.
Moore thinks its good that government is now telling private companies who will run them, what products they will make, and how they will operate (regardless of whether it’s profitable). He thinks it’s great that government is using the IRS to target specific individuals Ex Post Facto to take away money they rightly earned. He loves that big daddy government is there to take care of us.
I can’t imagine how that must feel. It must be awful to be so weak and unable to care for yourself that you need a bureaucrat to do it for you. But then, Michael Moore knows that he’ll be okay. He knows that the ultra-wealthy like him don’t have to play by the same rules as everyone else. He’ll be able to go to a private doctor when we’re in line at the government hospital. He won’t have to beg the IRS to honor the warranty on his GM (yes, Obama’s promise to honor GMs warranties falls under Treasury) because he can just buy another car. He won’t have to worry about government seizure of his property (they own most of the mortgages now) because his multimillion-dollar penthouse in New York and giant vacation home in Michigan are paid for.
What I don’t understand about Moore is how just a few months ago he abhorred the power-grabbing Bush “regime” but now he’s cheering on the most overreaching President in the history of the United States. I guess as long as his guy is in charge, it’s okay for one man to have way too much power. If you want an almighty government, Mike, you’ve gotta be okay when it’s your liberty that’s under attack. Based on your sycophantic slobbering over Obama’s action, you’d better be happy when the next President tells you what your next project is going to be about.
They’ve already come for the capitalists. They’ll eventually get to the lying, scumbag communist propagandists and Moore will be fucked.





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More than any single person outside of Jimmy Carter and Ron Gettelfinger, Moore is responsible for the shackling of GM to the UAW. Had Carter not saved Chrysler, the UAW would have had to have changed their wage structure, and GM and Ford would not have had to move away from cars into more profitable trucks, so they could pay the wages and benefits of their workers.
Moore, on the other hand, made it popular to hate American automobiles and auto companies. Ultimately and ironically, he'll be responsible for the dismantling of both the UAW and an American icon.
Another good documentary would be the socialized health care currently forced on Canadians and Brits. One that shows the systems in their entirety – good and bad. I'm biased but I'm assuming it wouldn't be too much good. Michael Moore would probably be refused care in those systems due to his obesity and rationing – there would be too many healthy people in line before him
Gotta love these forme Jarheads… the only thing better than his doccumentary on Moore was Trey Parker and Matt
Stone's devestating depiction of the Fat One in 'Team America'…
Gotta love these former Jarheads… the only thing better than his doccumentary on Moore was Trey Parker and Matt
Stone's devestating depiction of the Fat One in 'Team America'…
What I don’t understand about Moore is how just a few months ago he abhorred the power-grabbing Bush “regime” but now he’s cheering on the most overreaching President in the history of the United States. I guess as long as his guy is in charge, it’s okay for one man to have way too much power.
I'd say you understand it perfectly. I'll go one further: Moore is an anarchist in favor of his own brand of "archy": Oligarchy.
Oh, and, Buck Farack.
Michael, can you use a more recent pic of that fascist pig? He's plumped up a bit, living a good life speaking "TRUTH"!
Gotta love these former Jarheads… the only thing better than his documentary on Moore was Trey Parker and Matt
Stone's devestating depiction of the Fat One in 'Team America'…
Moore is a hack and a hypocrite.
Everyone is now finding out the simple fact that power is always abused by conservatives and there is never enough for liberals…
You're strong enough, you're tough enough, and gosh darn it, we people really like you. So why don't you just go over and punch that pig in the mouth and save us from his oinkdoms?
You won't find Oligarchy or Socialism in the Constitution either, but hither we are bound.
Liberty and its inherent implications, is the lifeblood of the human spirit. Capitalism thrives where there is liberty, and even where there isn't, since the human nature is to provide for one's own security. The inhuman nature is to control another's provisions and securities for the purpose of personal gain and aggrandizement.
Wages are flat because of mandatory (read fascist) dictates from local, state, and federal fatcats with their hands in the till. To vilify the capitalist without calling our public servants to task is merely an exercise in class envy, and has no real moral implication other than the lowest form of greed.
Will we still be called America at that point?
your fools go to 'motivational platoon' and generally stop behaving foolishly… of course, a disgusting fat body like Moore wouldn't have lasted a day in ROTC…
Kenny, this line you wrote is right: GM, AIG et al should have gone out of business.
That being said, Bush should NEVER have offered up TARP I..
Obama should never have offered up the Stimulus package or TARPII…
I find it painful that, from the "stimulus' package, a lot of banks WANT to return the money they say they were pressured to take, but didn't Need (it seems that only AIG, BoA (and I'm trying to figure out how they got control of my Countrywide mortgage.,… so I own part of the company that I owe money to now? So i can just pay myself the mortgage payments? SWEET!), and CitiBank "needed" the money) but can't start paying it back for 3 years (per the WSJ article)… by which time it'll be too late and the "Govt Wage Control" takes effect…
Oh, and I'm going to tell the PC police that you used the word "retarded" (capitalized no less!)
Bad liberal! Bad!
your fist might hit the ketchup and mustard on his puss and slip right off- no, a hot foot would do nicely…
Kenny, this line you wrote is right: GM, AIG et al should have gone out of business.
That being said, Bush should NEVER have offered up TARP I..
Obama should never have offered up the Stimulus package or TARPII…
I find it painful that, from the "stimulus' package, a lot of banks WANT to return the money they say they were pressured to take, but didn't Need (it seems that only AIG, BoA (and I'm trying to figure out how they got control of my Countrywide mortgage.,… so I own part of the company that I owe money to now? So i can just pay myself the mortgage payments? SWEET!), and CitiBank "needed" the money) but can't start paying it back for 3 years (per the WSJ article)… by which time it'll be too late and the "Govt Wage Control" takes effect…
However: the second paragraph you wrote is COMPLETELY off…
You do realize that the money a CEO for these major companies make is usually a FRACTION of what the company makes/spends as a whole?
Kenny, this line you wrote is right: GM, AIG et al should have gone out of business.
That being said, Bush should NEVER have offered up TARP I..
Obama should never have offered up the Stimulus package or TARPII…
I find it painful that, from the "stimulus' package, a lot of banks WANT to return the money they say they were pressured to take, <but didn't Need</u> (it seems that only AIG, BoA (and I'm trying to figure out how they got control of my Countrywide mortgage.,… so I own part of the company that I owe money to now? So i can just pay myself the mortgage payments? SWEET!), and CitiBank "needed" the money) but can't start paying it back for 3 years (per the WSJ article)… by which time it'll be too late and the "Govt Wage Control" takes effect…
However: the second paragraph you wrote is COMPLETELY off…
You do realize that the money a CEO for these major companies make is usually a FRACTION of what the company makes/spends as a whole?
Kenny, this line you wrote is right: GM, AIG et al should have gone out of business.
That being said, Bush should NEVER have offered up TARP I..
Obama should never have offered up the Stimulus package or TARPII…
I find it painful that, from the "stimulus' package, a lot of banks WANT to return the money they say they were pressured to take, <but didn't Need (it seems that only AIG, BoA (and I'm trying to figure out how they got control of my Countrywide mortgage.,… so I own part of the company that I owe money to now? So i can just pay myself the mortgage payments? SWEET!), and CitiBank "needed" the money) but can't start paying it back for 3 years (per the WSJ article)… by which time it'll be too late and the "Govt Wage Control" takes effect…
However: the second paragraph you wrote is COMPLETELY off…
You do realize that the money a CEO for these major companies make is usually a FRACTION of what the company makes/spends as a whole?
Kenny, this line you wrote is right: GM, AIG et al should have gone out of business.
That being said, Bush should NEVER have offered up TARP I..
Obama should never have offered up the Stimulus package or TARPII…
I find it painful that, from the "stimulus' package, a lot of banks WANT to return the money they say they were pressured to take, but didn't Need (it seems that only AIG, BoA (and I'm trying to figure out how they got control of my Countrywide mortgage.,… so I own part of the company that I owe money to now? So i can just pay myself the mortgage payments? SWEET!), and CitiBank "needed" the money) but can't start paying it back for 3 years (per the WSJ article)… by which time it'll be too late and the "Govt Wage Control" takes effect…
However: the second paragraph you wrote is COMPLETELY off…
You do realize that the money a CEO for these major companies make is usually a FRACTION of what the company makes/spends as a whole?
You malign the pigs in that comparison. How 'bout dung beetle? Worshipped by many, but in the end, he's just pushing around a ball of (auto-modded).
The only thing I can say as a lifelong BofA customer is that at least they haven't punished me for making my payments on time by raising my interest rate in inverse proportion to the prime rate. Can't say the same for my Chase (WaMu) rates.
Punk rock journalism for the GOP? I dig it. Great rant, Mike. About F-ing time. However the fact is Wagoner was a terrible CEO; plain and simple. So what, that he was a career guy. He stunk GM up. He should have been fired years ago. He knew GM was in the tank for years. A strong leader would have scorched earth until earnings were in line with costs, while chasing profits. Not Wagoner. He grabbed ankles and let Barney pound him.
Yeah, I actually should have said "that ball of pig (self-moderated)."
Actually, I don't know the dictionary definition of a hack. I just like the sound of it.
I gotta tell you, even that pic of Moore above kind of cheeses me off.
If there is one thing I HATE it is ingratitude.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali said once that it is easy for free people to spit on their freedoms because they do not know what it is like to live under oppression.
Michael Moore is a fool.
Harrumph harrumph!
"(Obama) has the massive will of the American people behind him — and he has been granted permission by us to do what he sees fit." (Michael Moore)
In Moore´s defense, it sounds better in the original German. As another fat man said: The law and the will of the leader are one and the same.
"Das Recht und der Wille des Führers sind eins" (Hermann Göring)
"(Obama) has the massive will of the American people behind him — and he has been granted permission by us to do what he sees fit." (Michael Moore)
In Moore´s defense, it sounds better in the original German. As another fat man said: "The law and the will of the leader are one and the same."
"Das Recht und der Wille des Führers sind eins" (Hermann Göring)
There are times where I really wish Michael Moore had the kahones to allow comments on his website so I can tell him what a brainless piece of…., underserving of the air he breaths he is… :/ But alas, I must say it here…. He is a typical libtard that uses his "freedom of speech" to demonize whatever will profit him. He doesn't realize the implications of Obama forcing out the CEO of GM is… Maybe we should send him on a free vaction for life to North Korea then he will see how life is they way that he wants it…
Too bad you did not take AP English in high school. I love liberal seagulls who swoop in, squawk, take a crap, then leave (still somehow managing a way to validate themselves by dropping a tidbit like "AP Econ" that lets the rest of us know how smart they are…even if they have a questionable grasp on basic capitalization).
"He loves America – and anyone who say's otherwise is Retarded."
Spoken like a true idiot.
Michael Moore apparently invokes strong feelings… My comment below went straight to the mod too… But I just told it like I see it…. unfortunately without the lack of explicitives… hopefully the current omissions and revisions will work… oh well..
Okey dokey, thanks for stopping by…the portal back to your alternate universe is about to close up. You better hurry 'cause you don't want to be around here in reality too long. Your tiny brain might explode.
As soon as I read that line in the article I was wracking my brain trying to remember which Nazi tool said it. So you beat me to it, and now my brain can be un-wracked for a while.
Sie haben Recht. And how do you get umlauts into your posts? German never looks right without umlauts.
'You won't find Oligarch or Socialism in the constitution either'
My point exactly. As a country we are free to change are economic system. I am not advocating class envy or warfare for that matter. People who created wealth should absolutely be able to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But I have a real problem with two bit accountants who graduate from Purdue are hired by their buddies into their closed circle and give each other unheard of salaries.
In today's corporation the lowest level employee and even middle level is expendable or at best a commodity but the executive is indispensable and deserving of all the rewards. So as happened at Disney in the 80's and many corporations since. M. Eisner cuts the wages of all employees and is rewarded with a $300,000,000 bonus. Everything for him. Nothing for anyone else. He is the lord of his people. Giving a morsel to the little people, but getting much more. Disgusting!
Michael Moore is an awfully big waste of space.
This is an ACLU-type argument: nobody is defending the guy. We're saying it's ridiculous for the President to fire the CEO of a private company. And it's more ridiculous that the same people calling Bush names for taking the necessary steps to protect our country from an active terror campaign are now cheering "Superhero Obama" for overstepping his Constitutional authority. It shouldn't be shocking, these are the people who think having one party controlling all three branches of government and rubber-stamping anything that comes into their deranged little minds is a brilliant idea, too. Checks and balances? Nah, just write checks.
GM didn't "tank our economy". Ford didn't "tank our economy". FREE ENTERPRISE didn't "tank our economy". The failure, as everybody knows, was in the most heavily scrutinized and regulated aspect of our economy – a specific pet project allowed to run amok by social-engineering do-gooders. Firing an ineffective CEO at a failing company after you blame them for your own failures and nationalize them – that's not something to applaud. Left alone, the CEO would have been 'fired' by the free market with fewer implications on business down the line.
USSA maybe?
I will give Michael Moore credit for one thing and one thing only — in The Big One — something I've never seen him do in any other film of his: Offer a solution to a problem when he asked Nike's Phil Knight to set up a plant in Lansing. Not saying it was the most realistic or financially viable solution, but sure beat Moore's usual whine/gripe/complain/insult MO.
Otherwise, Mr. Wilson is dead-on: Seen one Michael Moore movie, you’ve seen them all."
Retarded? Geez, D., why didn't you just say anyone else is a member of the Special Olympics?
Moore is a creepy and repellant individual who has stumbled on a way to make being obnoxious pay. Ever since "Roger & Me" he has been playing to the same audience with the same pseudo-populist message. Hollywood has embraced him as their token "regular guy" and spokeman for "the little people" because he is selling them exactly the line they want to hear. If George W. Bush had made a one-tenth of the moves toward expanding Executive power as The One has made in his first two months of office….well, you get the idea. Believe me if W. had tried to intervene in the hiring, firing and salaries of private companies the Left would be stoutly manning the barricades in defense of freedom of contract. I try not to think of Moore but when I do I always remember what they say on the streets…."What goes around comes around!"
Moore is proof that nobody ever went broke bashing America and the institutions that made it great.
Which is tragically sad.
I am not advocating class envy or warfare for that matter.
And yet, you persist. I don't think you understand the concept. Eisner has more class, clout, and connections than you. Boo-hoo. You don't have to work for him. You do, however, have to work for every job your government creates, controls, and clusterfucks. Our last 60 years are littered with the detritus of failed government, not failed capitalism.
Just google up "jobcorps" to see what a top-heavy over-managed "job placement" government agency looks like. They have precious few jobs to offer, (like 1, in the state of Florida) and they've been in "business" since LBJ or before. They are never allowed to fail, their overseers collect handsomely, with sweet pensions. Yet, they do precious little and have quite agreeable salaries that you and I pay for.
If you wish to stand by Obama, it's likely you're hoping he'll be merciful to your penurious self-esteem and give you a job.
Yep. Hack. Like a nasty hairball hack.
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Michael Moore keeps pulling you back in… because without his celebrity to feed off, youv'e got nothing?
Capitalism isn´t a system. It is the absence of a system.
These CEOs "almost destroyed" our country? How so? These were private companies. They didn´t spend YOUR money, Obama did. YOU didn´t pay for their bonuses until Congress voted and made it so.
They didn´t create 2 trillion in new debt within a couple of weeks. Obama did. They didn´t start a class war in America, fanning envy and setting people against people and promising redistribution instead of wealth creation. They didn´t create a panic, inflating a severe but common recession into an "unprecedented crisis" purely for poltical gain. Obama did.
Nor did they push mortages on people unable to afford them – it was the price for doing business exacted by a liberal Congress. And if they refused, they got into trouble. In 1994, Obama took part in a class-action lawsuit accusing Citibank of "discriminatory redlining practices". Given their later losses related to subprime lending, Citigroup must have learned their lesson. But these were not economic decisons, they were political decisions of exactly the sort you applaud.
KennyJ, you're completely clueless if you think that the entire financial catastrophe can be chalked up to bad CEO's. The prime culprits here are not in corporate America, but in the federal government, namely idiots like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. The dominoes tumbled because the housing bubble popped, a housing bubble that was inititated by Democrats and the advocates for the perpetual victim class. Because these morons insisted on forcing financial institutions to make loans to even the most obviously unqualified applicants, the rest of us are now suffering for their sins. Why is it that liberals never learn from their mistakes? They ALWAYS and without exception fall prey to the law of unintended consequences. Unfortunately, this time they have taken the rest of the world down with them.
Also for your information, the Republicans repeatedly tried to reform Fannie and Freddie, and tried to implement other controls to prevent precisely the type of catastrophe that has occurred, but the Democrats would have none of it. Barney Frank, in particular, refused to entertain any notion of reforming Freddie and Fannie, stating as recently as mid-2008 that Fannie and Freddie were sound.
Or a uniform.
I AM in Germany and have a German-type keyboard (made by Dell, though) which enables me to properly spell Motörhead.
I agree with you about Eisner (since I know quite a bit about that situation), but only to the point of indignation and discussion about it. Taking it beyond that to the point of having the government decide how much he "should" make is, however, quite a different thing. That type of action is entirely un-American.
Eisner didn't steal the money, he was granted compensation by authority of the board of directors. Whether or not he "deserved" it is a value judgment that the shareholders are perfectly capable of making and enforcing. It is not a matter of law, and is not the domain of the government in any way. Nor is it the domain of Disney's employees. They are EMPLOYEES, and as such are entitled to the compensation they agreed to, nothing more. Where on Earth do the Michael Moore's of the world get this idea that employees are entitled to dictate to those who own and manage companies? Where would they be if these same people who they revel in villifying had never created those companies to begin with?
Failed government? What country do you live in? Let's see. FAA – We have the safest skies in the world. FDA – The advent of modern medicine occurred through the fund of university and NHI support. The national highway system built during the Eisenhower administration. Shall I go on? Go to Mexico if you want to see a failed government.
'Obama give me a job?' A cheap shot. I expected better but I guess not. I'm actually a design engineer for an aerospace company. So I don't need a job but thanks for asking. I might recommend reading a little history so you can learn a bit about our countries past. But then again I doubt it.
BTW you were completely off topic. I was speaking about CEO overcompensation and it deleterious effects on our economic system. Maybe you missed it.
Anyone that can type Motörhead without having to figure out all sorts of arcane code combinations is good in my book.
Nice try but not so. The collapse occurred because the financial system asked for a got deregulated by both the Democrats and Republicans starting with Regan, Bush, Clinton and finally Bush. The banks over leverage their capital 35 to 1 and tried to mitigate the risk through CDO with companies like AIG. S&P said these are AAA+ bond and sold them to all the suckers around the world. There are no hearings where banks are begging 'Please don't make us lend to poor people. Oh the horror!'
When the whole mess came tumbling down it almost destroyed the world economy. But you blame poor people if it make you feel better.
Maybe we can part him out?
I don't know. What do you suppose you can get for circus peanuts, lard, pork and muddy waters?
What you say is the way I've been taught too. But what if it doesn't work. Just because we want it to doesn't make it so. I don't begin to know the solution. But we should be able to talk about.
What I'm saying is the game might be fixed. The board was picked by Eisner. Heck he had a school teacher his kids went to. So he has cronies picking his salary. It all seems so incestuous to me. And it is going on in lots of board rooms.
I wonder how Mr. Moore would like it if Mr. Obama fired the head of Michael Moore's company?
Would Moore change his tune then?
Watching Frank try to say "circus peanuts" five times in a row as fast as he could would almost be worth the invite though.
*lol* My first inclination was to shudder like Andrew. But you did bring some entertainment value to the idea.
Yeah, sure, it's all fun and games until somebody gets. . . uh, Franked. :-O
Another hamburger and Mikey will explore. Man, I hope he is filming himself that day.
PS-when is the UAW president going to get the ax? What's good for the goose ……
Rats. I thought there was a quickie way to do it.
I have three old Hugo Boss numbers I drag out of the closet just to scare people.
Do what I did, copy/paste. Hehe.
I lived in Mexico for five years. I watched black market capitalism in action every day. The oppresive kleptocracy kept taking every profitable venture and either outright assimilated it, or taxed it to death. There are more John Galts in Mexico than we'll ever amass here in the Norte.
But as to your riposte, the context of my remark was not about government itself, but government jobs and make-work, and I think you knew that. Cheap shots exchanged!
I do agree, however, that if they want Government money, they should expect government oversight. The problem is that it's my money. And yours. And where shall that idea stop? Every road you drive could be patrolled, much like the Federales in Mexico, with footling "public servants" enforcing whatever law is handed down by the Oligarchs.
The overcompensation (your term) of CEOs has not had a negative effect on our economy, even if you do say so yourself. You've offered not one shred of supporting evidence save for a strawman of a fraction. If you wanted to compare combined CEO salaries to the GDP, that may have some impact, but perhaps not the one you expect.
If you want everyone to stay to your original topic, stop muddling it with hand-wringing emotion about who has more in their bank account. Lack of opportunity due to government over-regulation and taxation has done more to squelch wages than any CEO salary could every hope to do.
Ew ew ick shudder.
Failed government? Well, yes. Meditate on the following list:
Public Schools – F for failure.
Public Housing – not fit to live in.
Public Transportation – loses money on every rider.
Public Toilet – nasty.
Public Swimming Pool – see above
Public Library – cheaper to issue the poor a voucher at Amazon.com
Public Accountability – Bwhahaha!
Public Defender – Guilty, your honor!
Public Nuisance – (see also government)
I've tried that, but plain text shows up each time. What are you copying from?
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Ah ha, the umlaut race is on!
I do not understand why anybody gives a hoot about what this Jenny Craig's most wanted tub says. Ignore it and soon this hot mess will fade away in the sunset.
Did your suits come with jackboots?
By the way I really need to buy a widescreen tv to replace my 27" tv because it only shows half of Michael Boar. Maybe that's a blessing.
No, I had to borrow them from my mom.
Don't hold your breath!
You may want to read Michael Malone's headline today.
So what are you guys copying and pasting from?
The other M&M is a complete hypocrite. I love these people that could never be anything no where but in America disrespect this country. Where else can an unattractive, overweight, high school graduate with little talent become a multi-millionaire.
I copied from Golani's post — like a Russian stealing an atomic bomb. I don't know where he copied it.
B-29s too.
I actually copied it directly from El Gordo's,
Yeah that ain't kosher.
Schweinhund! Ve vill make you pay! Only der Gordo can spell Mötley Crüe.
Probably got it from Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs.
My older daughter loved 'em. I pointed out to her that properly done, the name of the band would sound a lot like "Mertley Cree." Donkey fieldmouse for keeping your secret.
And now we can too!
You can tell this guy learned a lot about articulating ideas and arguments with his public school education. "Well, it's like THIS, and if you don't say that, you're DUMB!" Brilliant. You should go run for office.
In Venezuela.
I think Michael Moore and the Leftist Congressman (and a hefty few of the RINOs) should be treated to a Million Man March of pitchforks and torches…with every eye bent towards herding them into the Capitol Rotunda and made to read the Constitution out loud ad nauseum until they are so heartily sick of hearing it that they either scream they give up and want out, or give in and say "Ok Ok, we'll do what you want."
Either way, I want the Fear of God and the Fear of Our Founders put into these guys.
Good Lord, I wish tar and feathering were still an option…
You are so clever.
And he thinks he IS the Higher Authority.
It's not?
Paules, I feel compelled to tell you I disagree
with your condemnation of public schools & libraries.
I taught in public schools for many years, and I realize there are many public schools in pitiful condition, where children don't learn nearly enough, but there are also many which are wonderful in almost every way (I'm talking about schools in middle class and working class communities, not affluent ones, BTW).
As for public libraries, I've been enjoying them and benefitting from them very much every since I could read. I see that these public libraries are valued by their communities and are operated by capable individuals who take pride in their work and appreciate the patrons.
Was Moore (or any liberal) calling for the head of Franklin Raines when he was CEO of Fannie, a company that actually did have a huge negative impact on the economy?
Michael Moore reminds me somewhat of Spike Lee, in that both appear to be far more capable of getting publicity (buzz, controversy, outrage, etc) than they are capable of producing high quality presentations which reward the attention of discerning audiences.
Both seem to have a similar attitude toward America.
That tone of self-righteous, self-pitying, bitter, resentful whining sure gets tiresome. But hey, that's just my reaction.
(I must concede I've seen only a little of Spike Lee's output after his first ten years, around 13 years ago)
I'll never forget when that Fat Bastard from the Team America World Police, on the day after 9-11, wrote on his website, "Why couldn't they (the terrorists) hit a red state? Why did they have to hit New York?"… I'm sure he would have been happier with the results if the planes went into Cincy or KC.
Michael Moore is the Fatty Arbuckle of the leftist documentarian set, only instead of molesting some actress with wine bottle, he molested Charlton Heston with a hit and run interview for his Columbine movie. We can be certain he will continue to perform multiple molestations of that manner in the future.
You've bought into a myth.
The CEO's did not initiate the massive devaluation of mortgages. Government charters did. Some CEO's exploited government social initiatives, and security traders compounded the problem, but they are not the origination of the problem. The government is– specifically Democrats. I don't take joy in placing blame, because there's nothing to be happy about, but it's important to remember who promoted the government charters against fiscal sanity.
It's obvious that Obama is using the recession as an opportunity to restructure the wealth dynamic in favor of socialism, but even if you really do believe that the spending bill is a sincere effort to help the economy, it would be proof that we are incapable of enduring the discomfort of economic downturns that previous generations accepted with unconscious grace. If anyone actually believes that we should obscenely throw money at the downside of the business cycle, they have no business benefiting from the earnings of those who are about to have much of their wealth stripped.
That's pretty cool. Quick, spell "Jaegermeister".
An invite to Barney Frank's house. *shudder*
Jägermeister. Son of a gun, it works. Thanks everybody.
I just did it on Brisco's post. It works!
Even the founder of GM recognized the folly of greed. William Durant built the company with his own money and good business practices for his investors. His philosophy was that a CEO (they were called presidents then) should never make more than about one hundred times the hourly wage of their lowest paid employees. As the father of the company, he poured his own money back into the company when it got hit by depression, and ended up nearly broke.
But it wasn't socialism that motivated him, nor the complaints of the workers, and nobody forced him to do what he did (unlike today). He self-limited his own salary for the good of the company and the employees. Today's CEOs are largely recruits, from the "executive management pool" and often have never worked a day in the business they are now in charge of. The bigger the corporation, the more likely that a new CEO will have a great deal of book-learning about "business," and practically no knowledge of the business he or she is being put in charge of. To most MBAs, one business is pretty much like another. They don't build businesses, nor do they have any personal fondness for the companies they run. That detachment is what leads to the out-of-control greed. Golden parachutes are an obvious symptom of this greed. "I really don't expect to do much, and I may cause the business to fail, so how much will you pay me if it turns out I stink as a CEO and drive your company into the ground?"
That said, it's still not the business of government (which suffers from the same greed syndrome) to determine "what's fair" in a business environment, nor to write ex post facto laws and bills of attainder. A plague on both their houses. Politician heal thyself. And a contract is a contract is a contract, so I don't let my employees determine how much I make. If I get it wrong, we'll all be in financial dire straits. But I'm not the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation.
WaveyDavey said: "Another good documentary would be the socialized health care currently forced on Canadians and Brits."
Great idea for someone other than Moore to make. It may already exist, done by the BBC or ITV.
If anyone knows where to find such a doco on the internet, this would seem a perfect place to post the link.
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Moore kinda favors Rosie O' Donnell in the picture above. Separated at birth? Maybe…………………………
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As a teacher myself, I'm very curious to know where these schools are. Can you provide the districts and names please.
Thanks.
"As a country we are free to change are [sic] economic system."
Reality check: there is no such thing as an 'economic system.' This is doubletalk. What there is, is a science called 'economics' first investigated by Adam Smith, which proved that the source of the wealth of nations was liberty, specifically, the liberty of the market FROM government interference and intervention.
The other so-called economic system aside from the free market is called socialism, which is not an economic system at all, it is an attempt to generate wealth through non-economic (i.e. command and control) means. It is an attempt to organize economic (and hence all human) activity by force and regulation. History abundantly proved what the science of economics foretells — namely, that the attempt to control all human activity produces nothing but want and misery.
Economic liberty and civil liberty are intertwined, conceptually interchangeable. For example, no one has freedom of the press if the state controls ownership of the printing presses.
So, translating your doubletalk into plain English, you are saying "as a country we are free to change from a free country to an unfree one." I think you can see the paradox involved.
The idea that the Obama Administrations's mad spending spree did anything except for slow the rate of recovery is laughable. Even a person who never took a single semester of economics in school knows or should know that one cannot get out of debt by going more deeply into debt. Paying your credit card bills with a credit card is madness.
The new USSR-United States Socialist Republic.
I work for B of A and can tell you how we got CountryWide, they suckered the CEO into an agreement with the phoney accounting methods that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were using to show a profit on paper. Unfortunately by the time B of A found out they had already signed the deal and were stuck with a 300 million loss on what was suppose to be a lucrative business well before the bubble burst. I lost my Bonus at the begining of 2008 because of that.
B of A passed on Merrill Lynch intially last year till the governement regulators ASKED us to take it over and turn it around to keep it from failing, then they forced TARP money in when it wasn't needed. Now our CEO is vowing to pay off the money by June of this year to get us out of the yoke of the Obama task masters.
Just to warn ya, Aleric.. if i've read everything right…
Now our CEO is vowing to pay off the money by June of this year to get us out of the yoke of the Obama task masters.
it's too late to get out of the yoke… because all these laws they pass always include the "retro-active" phrase… whether or not it has or doesn't have current debt to the US govt.. it still gets slapped with those outrageous laws.
And when Eisner started screwing up (after Frank Wells died in a plane crash and Jeffrey Katzenberg ran off in a snit to co-found Dreamworks for not getting Wells' job), who launched the campaign to get rid of him? Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold. Not the government. Eisner (who, IMO, gets too much credit for Disney's late 1980s resurgence) resigned in disgrace without any assistance from Uncle Sam.
Lol, I understand the BS that is being perpetrated by the Washinton Elites but I was just letting everyone outside of B of A know that some of the banks are not simply taking this. After all, perception and the media are what rules government now and not the actual people or laws.
Lol, I understand the BS that is being perpetrated by the Washington Elites but I was just letting everyone outside of B of A know that some of the banks are not simply taking this. After all, perception and the media are what rules government now and not the actual people or laws.
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I would have to agree with Rob. I live in one of the best school districts in Cal. and have pulled my last two children out. I could see with my older chidren that they were be instructed on what to think, not how to think. And that is just the top of my list.
My kids go to school in Northern Ca, I'd give you the school name but I'm kind of a privacy freak. It's not seriously overt but… we do get LOTS of flyers that are all about
global warmingclimate change and what we can do to lower our carbon footprint. And hey, I'm not so old I don't remember my own education that featured the evil-white man.IndiansNative Americans good, white people bad. I even remember being taught about Marx in grade school (Southern California school district) and he was presented as a visionary. Believe me, I keep an eye on the subject matter my kids are given so I can add a different perspective. I was a school teacher myself (5th grade) and while I think most of the curriculum is academically based, there's a lot of room for teacher interpretation to sneak in. I was always very careful not to infringe on the parent's territory, but I was amazed at how many parents were more than happy to have the school handle sex education without abstinence as part of the lesson plan.You know if you compare Enron and Fannie Mae you see a lot of simularities in the type of accounting fraud. The difference is that Enron in a purely Capitalist environment could not maintain the lie. Eventually you have to pay your debts no matter what you make figures on a peice of paper say.
Fannie on the hand is a "government" concern and so the government can lie, print money and use it as an excuse to take over other instituations and Fannie is not affected.
End of story Capitalism works because a Capitalist who is a lying cheat is going belly up. Government doesn't because Politicians can just push the loss off on the taxpayers.
I'm having trouble on this site in the comments department. Anyone else? (silly question)
When i get a heads-up in my mail app, it says, 'go to your comment', when someone replies to something I wrote in comments. But It simply dumps me off at the main page of the article. I mean, there are now 6 pages of comments for this. Who wants to wade through every comment, every time someone replies? No, it's not working for me. Btw, I'm using Safari on a Mac.
Oh, so, while I'm here, I'll clear up my question. I was replying to someone, can't find who now, who stated that there were lots of great public schools out there that don't indoctrinate. Sure, I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist.
Now, as a teacher, and an American, I find that very hard to believe. So, I would like to know where they are, and the names of the schools. Not for nefarious reasons, but to highlight such examples as something to strive for!
I've recieved kind replies to this, and I thank you, but the replies I received are only confirming what I already implied, that there are none.
So, if the original poster to that comment, or anyone else, that's why I'm putting it here, knows of a public school that does NOT indoctrinate, and teaches students how to think, not what to think, please reply here.
I'm having trouble on this site in the comments department. Anyone else? (silly question)
When i get a heads-up in my mail app, it says, 'go to your comment', when someone replies to something I wrote in comments. But It simply dumps me off at the main page of the article. I mean, there are now 6 pages of comments for this. Who wants to wade through every comment, every time someone replies? No, it's not working for me. Btw, I'm using Safari on a Mac.
Oh, so, while I'm here, I'll clear up my question. I was replying to someone, can't find who now, who stated that there were lots of great public schools out there that don't indoctrinate. Sure, I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist.
Now, as a teacher, and an American, I find that very hard to believe. So, I would like to know where they are, and the names of the schools. Not for nefarious reasons, but to highlight such examples as something to strive for!
I've recieved kind replies to this, and I thank you, but the replies I received are only confirming what I already implied, that there are none.
So, if the original poster to that comment, or anyone else, that's why I'm putting it here, knows of a public school that does NOT indoctrinate, and teaches students how to think, not what to think, please reply here.
Thanks.
I see why folks are telling me where indoctrinated schools are. Because they think I was responding to you, Rob. I was responding to Bailey,who was claiming that "there are also many which are wonderful in almost every way (I'm talking about schools in middle class and working class communities, not affluent ones, BTW). "
That explains why folks were telling me where the questionable schools are. That, I know. I wanted to know where Bailey's non indoctrinating ones are.
Thanks all.
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