Face it, you'll never be rich says Michael Moore(Spot the irony)

Guardian ^ | 10/06/03 | Michael Moore

[jdege]

He's absolutely right, of course.

That's why the elitist rich support the left, and why the left is so strongly in favor of "progressive" income taxes, estate taxes, and other obstacles to the accumulation of
wealth.

It makes it harder for other people to become rich, and they don't want the competition.

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[woofie]

Lets all write stupid books and get rich

[TRY ONE]

"...there are only going to be a few rich people, and you are not going to be one of them. So get used to it."

1) Bill Gates made several thousand millionaires at Microsoft! Of course, that was Capitalism working at its best, something that Moore hates.

2) How many millionaires are there in Moore's world of Socialism --- in Sweeden, France, Russia ....?

[IncPen]

OK, I'm game...

The takeover has happened right under our noses. We've been force-fed some mighty powerful "drugs" to keep us quiet while we're being mugged by this lawless gang of CEOs.

I don't know about you, but this is reason enough for me to own a gun.

One of these drugs is called fear and the other is called Horatio Alger.

My main fear is that Michael will steal my food. Seriously, here's a guy who 'made it' telling you that you can't, and he's trying to stir fear in you to convince you.

The fear drug works like this: you are repeatedly told that bad, scary people are going to kill you, so place all your trust in us, your corporate leaders, and we will protect you.

Isn't this the gist of every one of Michael Moore's movies, and his political stand?

But since we know what's best, don't question us if we want you to foot the bill for our tax cut social program, or if we decide to slash take over your health benefits or jack up the cost of buying make you buy some deadbeat a home.

And if you don't shut up and toe the line and work your ass off, we will sack you - and then just try to find a new job in this economy, punk!

Let me get this straight, CEOs want to fire the workers and keep the money for themselves. How do you manufacture products with no employees?

[darkwing104]

So when do I start believing what Micheal Moron has to say? I haven't before and I'am not going to start now.

[dead]

During the past 20 years, companies including Disney, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical, JP Morgan Chase and Wal-Mart have been secretly taking out life insurance policies on their low- and mid-level employees and then naming themselves - the corporation - as the beneficiary! That's right: When you die, the company - not your survivors - gets to cash in. If you die on the job, all the better, as most life-insurance policies are geared to pay out more when someone dies young. And if you live to a ripe old age, even long after you've left the company, the company still gets to collect on your death. And regardless of when you croak, the company is able to borrow against the policy and deduct the interest from its corporate taxes.

I don’t know why this is supposed to outrage me. If they want to buy a life insurance policy that’s their business. Any legal scheme that keeps money away from the socialists in our government gets my official stamp of approval.

Maybe I’ll buy one on that fat moron Moore, except the rates would be sky high after his physical.

[FairWitness]

An inescapable fact of life is that no more than 1 percent of the population can be in the top 1 percent at any given time.

[Registered]

...except the rates would be sky high after his physical.

I think you might have a difficult time even finding a company that would accept him at all.

[Born Conservative]

don't question us if we want you to foot the bill for our tax cut

Nobody's footing the bill for a tax cut; it's a CUT, not a PAYMENT.

[HEY4QDEMS]

[Liberal Classic]

Silly parlor pink. He's an Horatio Alger story all by his lonesome.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Jeez... next he'll be telling us that Soylent Green is people.

[jdege]

The lie in what Michael Moore has to say is in the idea that the left is working in opposition to the rich fat-cats, when in fact the left is the rich fat-cats.

It's the pro-market, pro-liberty right that is working to ensure competition, low marginal tax rates, the end to the estate tax, etc.

[joesnuffy]

Who ever said the American Dream was to become rich?

The American Dream was always about Freedom

Freedom to Worship first of all

Freedom from an oppressive form of government

Freedom to own your own land your own home

To raise your children as you saw fit and to bring them up in fear and admonition of The Lord
To band together for mutual defense not dependent upon king nor anyone else

To own weapons as well for self protection family protection and neighborprotection

The American Dream was never about greed or power ..that is the dream of the left...
and of despots and those who dream of becoming despots

To create a nation of dependent peons who give all their power to the oligarchs -who promise the peons the spoils of those who have built and own property and businesses created from the sweat of their brow in freedom -stolen from them to give to those who are unwilling to work for it..

The hook is the peons are lied to and their greed their baser natures are appealed to by the oligarcs who have no intention of sharing anything with peons...only to use them as either cannon fodder to to get them out of the way in order to spoil the owner of private property's house

[dead]

so place all your trust in us, your corporate leaders, and we will protect you.
Isn't this the gist of every one of Michael Moore's movies, and his political stand?

No. For some reason, Moore thinks its foolish to put your trust in corporate leaders. You should put your trust in the pristine intentions of a Democratic Party-run government.

Then, apparently, you’re not a dupe or a stooge, like those people who would prefer to run their own lives.

[VoodooEconomics]

"The wealthy did everything they could to en courage this attitude." - encore, encore! The evil mojahedin rich - Mange les riches!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Wealthy Europeans pay up to 65% in taxes, and they know better than to bitch too loud about it or the people will make them fork over even more.

They also know better than to expand their businesses, hire new employees, invent new products, or invest in their own countries' economies. No point in being productive if one is simply going to be punished for it.

[VoodooEconomics]

excellent post!