And although Its a Wonderful Life is a great movie, it makes an honest and good businessman, Potter, into a villain. Sure he takes the $8,000 and attempts to shut down Bailey, but Bailey gives loans to people that dont qualify and puts his other clients into jeopardy. Potter rents out shacks but they do have a choice of bettering their lives.
So, wait, Potter didnt threaten stockholders by stealing baileys $8,000.00?
Wow.
I suggest you get smart on what happened during the stock market crash depicted in the film
You compare a successful multi generational family loan company to our contemporary democrat politicians taking middle class taxes and giving them away to welfare recipients who turn around and vote for Democrats when the should not be allowed to vote if they are not working as the conflict of interest threatens tge middle class backbone of this country?
Ok. George Bailey and his family and stockholders were in business to make a living and improve the community. There is always risk
The threat you see in the film was the Great Depression, when the every man for himself mentality was the threat which George fought off
Potter was in for himself, stealing the Bailey stockholder money during the depression.
Potter is Paul Si nger, driving entire towns into the ground, taking care of his greedy stockholders who pretend theyre not responsible for turning the community into pottersville or worse. Allowing the government to have to come in with middle clas tax revenue and support the irresponsible for generations while people like him and bought-out senators pay single digit loopholed tax rates
And Die Hard is a Christmas movie
I take it that Potter was the kind of big busniessmman who supported the facist new deal, and Bailey was the kind of small busniess banker the new deal was destroying. Capra was anti-monopolist, and the New Deal ran on that.