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

Guardian ^ | 10/06/03 | Michael Moore

[databoss]

Calling all Illuminati, Who Shot the Kennedys, UFO's in Roswell and Where is Hoffa conspiracy theorists...Alert Alert Michael Moore is your new leader...his "arguments" would be shot to hell by any first year Logics student...there is no there there there...are we supposed to believe that corporate fat cats sit around and think up ways to take the little guys money? I will tell you why all the skilled IT jobs have gone overseas, during the boom internet times kids w/o a college degree that could nat a firewall were getting paid 120K and treated like royalty and had a sense of entitlement to boot...companies needed workers that could actually write code so they turned to places like India and East Europe for good programmers that actually would work for a days pay...

[Dr.Deth]

I pity this man. No one with any self-respect whatsoever would broadcast such bellicose hypocrisy, let alone allow himself to become a fat, smelly, kohl-smeared CHUD.

Unless of course, this is part of the joke, and he's the funniest guy in history, and the other 6 billion riders on this rock are just too slow to get it.

Hmm.

[wayoverontheright]

Listen, friends, you have to face the truth: you are never going to be rich. The chance of that happening is about one in a million.

That's funny, the Democratic Party wants to categorize some 50% of us as 'rich' when it comes to who they think should get a tax cut.

[Yardstick]

You nailed it.

[Fraulein]

We are more than happy to cut their taxes even as ours go up!

Interesting that Michael Moore places his own income among the bottom brackets...

[alloysteel]

Michael Moore could not describe an "average" American if somebody put a gun to his head. He doesn't KNOW any "average" Americans. Nobody does. The composite does not exist in one person. Or a hundred. The statistical "average" American is a myth compounded over decades, even centuries, that reflects no one.

Michael has an overpowering dread and fear of "corporate" America, a myth that no more exists than the "average" American. Corporations are the fruit of the imaginations of relatively few people, who have shared their harvest of the marketplace with all who have supported and bought into the vision of the founders of the corporation. General Motors is not a huge corporation because the crushed out all competition. They are a huge and relatively successful corporation because they sold products that were competitive and they could make some margin of profit. In doing so, they paid wages to a lot of people who had no vision for making the products by themselves. When the inevitable happened, the job of the wage earner bacame obsolete, two choices were always available - act on a vision of your own, and become an entrepreneur, or apply whatever skills you had to another wage earner place.

How do you strike an "average" between those two courses of action?

[Mad Dawgg]

"It was all a ruse concocted by the corporate powers-that-be who never had any intention of letting you into their club. They just needed your money to take them to that next level, the one that insulates them from ever having to actually work for a living. They knew the big boom of the 90s couldn't last, so they needed your money to artificially inflate the value of their companies so their stocks would reach such a phantasmal price that, when it was time to cash out, they would be set for life, no matter how bad the economy got."

Hey dawg, have you ever seen WIllie and Michael Morroe in the same room together?

I am starting to wonder...

[LurkedLongEnough]

Michael still does not reveal his secret plan to eat everyone who disagrees with him.

[darkwing104]

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.

Exactly, that is why I refuse to belive any that moron has to say. He is just your typical left-wing stooge parrot towing the party line.

[MarkeyD]

I agree with you. With 20 years of experience in all facets of software development and having met perhaps 5000 software developers over the years, I estimate that 90+ percent of them pretty much have no skills that translate into the ability to deliver saleable products.

[SpinyNorman]

And why would "corporate America" let Moore rake in his riches?

If what he said were true, "corporate America" would shoot him down like the gas filled blimp he is (think of the size of that grease spot!)

[SpinyNorman]

And you are sometimes worth more to them dead than alive.

Would it be unkind to say that Moore is worth more to me dead than alive? And I don' t even have a life insurance policy on him!

[alnitak]

Well over 1% of the American population is a millionaire. This definition below just includes liquid assets. If you include those with their main home too...Ah well, another load of socialist claptrap shot down by facts...

CNN Money Story

The ranks of millionaire households jumped 14 percent to 3.8 million, up from 3.3 million in 2002 and 3.7 million in 2001, according to NFO WorldGroup, a market research and consulting firm, which conducts an annual survey of affluent households.

NFO defines a "millionaire" household as one having $1 million or more in investable assets, which doesn't include primary residences or 401(k)s, among other things.

The 3.8 million was the highest in the 20 years that NFO has been conducting its surveys.

The increase in households with $1 million or more in investable assets is due largely to increased stability in the stock market and to well-diversified portfolios, said Jeanette Luhr, NFO Financial Services Director and program manager for the study.

While the number of millionaire households is at a 20-year high, it still accounts for just 3.4 percent of the 111 million households in the United States.

[F16Fighter]

"Calling all Illuminati, Who Shot the Kennedys, UFO's in Roswell and Where is Hoffa conspiracy theorists..."

The respective UFOs and Hoffa conspiracies are a bit rich; OTOH, the Illuninati/New World Order and Kennedy Assassination Who-Done-It "conspiracies" are very much alive and well...

BTW, you did note George Bush Sr.'s organization recently honoring both Ted Kennedy and Gorby (of all people) with "awards"? What's stranger than this turn of events?

[F16Fighter]

Has anyone read any stories about the cavone Michael Moore donating the lion's share of the profits from either his Movie/Books of Lies to any charities whatsoever?

[Howlin]

Um, what have I missed? Isn't Michael Moore rich?

[fortaydoos]

Collect more than you spend, and then your point is valid. That is not the case today. My grandkids are being stuck with IOUs for african aids boondoggles, free drugs for seniors, and 100 billion a year or so for iraqis to have government jobs.

Doesn't mean moore is right (he is not), but let's inject some reality: the current crop of Republicans are borrowing like there is no tomorrow to spend.

[CSM]

Basically he is saying, "I am smarter than all the rest of you idiots. You aren't smart or motivated enough to do what I have done. You have proven this because you give me awards for my stupidity!"

[cyborg]

Michael Moore is a fatass retard who hates everything America stands for. Not only is he a fatass but a hypocrite. He also doesn't know history. A lot of these so called 'big evil corporations' started out as a dream in someone's mind. The reason why people try to come over here in inflatable tubes and makeshift boats is because ONLY in America can a poor man with nothing become filthy rich.

My father's family came here with nothing and became self made millionaires. Whatever... MM needs to get a grip and go on a diet.