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Many of our least favorite critics are giving this rave reviews, possibly because they love that it skewers both Reagan and Bush, and they can ignore that it does the same to Clinton and Obama. (None of whom are the primary authors of our dilemma.)

What this movie / documentary did for me, however, was put some of my issues in perspective.

The people who have done and are doing this to us don't care about Communism versus Capitalism, Right versus Left, Illegal Immigration, ObamaCare, Cap and Trade, Abortion, Racism, Climate Change Hoaxes, Islamic Terrorists or any of that. In fact, they're happy if any and all of that stuff keeps us from taking a close look at what they have done and are continuing to do to us. (and putting an end to it.)

EasySt (My first thread post ever since joining FR, back in 04...)
1 posted on 10/23/2010 11:48:03 PM PDT by EasySt
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To: EasySt

Funny all the raving reviews are from liberal rags. No thanks.


2 posted on 10/23/2010 11:56:36 PM PDT by JoSixChip (You think your having a bad day?.....Just remember, somewhere out there is a Mr. Pelosi!)
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The movie maker Charles Ferguson is a raving MARXISTS! Previous Documentary was an about how we could never win in Iraq. Dude is from San Fran and is a Berkley Poli Sci grad.

I’m pretty sure this is nothing more than a PROPAGANDA film against capitalism.


3 posted on 10/24/2010 12:04:21 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
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To: EasySt
Economies have collapsed since the inception of the concept.

There will always be villain's and victims when the system faults. Villain's and their accuser victims are required for the concept of an economy to exist. Sadly, the world is not all sweetness and sunshine.

The only thing that matters is that enough people understand this natural human reality to prevent chaos; thereby allowing the political conditions for restoration of an adjusted economic order.

4 posted on 10/24/2010 12:06:36 AM PDT by mmercier (same as it ever was)
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To: EasySt

“The people who have done and are doing this to us don’t care about Communism versus Capitalism, Right versus Left...”

Very true. We should never forget that Republican politicians are still politicians, and most politicians fall somewhere between card cheats and lawyers (card cheats being the more honorable of those two of course). Now and then, an honest man gets elected and manages to resist the temptations of office, but then they’ll have to face the combined wrath of the political class, since they then become a danger to all the other politicians’ rackets.

I think we’ll see some of this rare breed elected in a week, and they’re going to need all the support we can give them to weather the storm that the rats of both parties, the bureaucrats, crooked DA’s & judges, the IRS, and the media will try to throw at them.


5 posted on 10/24/2010 12:08:54 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EasySt
The people who have done and are doing this to us don't care about Communism versus Capitalism, Right versus Left, Illegal Immigration, ObamaCare, Cap and Trade, Abortion, Racism, Climate Change Hoaxes, Islamic Terrorists or any of that. In fact, they're happy if any and all of that stuff keeps us from taking a close look at what they have done and are continuing to do to us. (and putting an end to it.)

How can you throw out statements like this? The movie only sounds like the age-old rich bashing of the Marxist against the "Evil" Bourgeoisie.

Where the Communist - Capitalist dichotomy fits in the attempted destruction of America, is in the culpability of the Socialist Democrats in Congress giving political license and impetus to force economic changes that brought the global financial crisis.

The profiteering didn't occur in a vacuum. Ferguson interviewed the guilty (Frank, Soros, etc.) for this film, allowing them to present their own alibi. This film sounds like a send-up of our Global Financial System as a whole, with an eye toward eventually replacing it with a global "supposed" Socialist Utopia.

Give me a more valid reason to watch this transparent crap!

9 posted on 10/24/2010 1:56:49 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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EasySt (My first thread post ever since joining FR, back in 04...)

Please let it be your last.

10 posted on 10/24/2010 1:59:25 AM PDT by Misterioso (Burning a Koran is a victimless crime.)
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Banksters and Wall Streeters are not capitalists. In the past they were but there days they are parasites. Today Wall Street is at war with main street. If I saw this movie I would agree with it but be embarrassed by the leftists behind it


11 posted on 10/24/2010 2:11:46 AM PDT by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius.)
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Go to YouTube and type into the Saerch Bar "Congress hearings Fannie Mae Freddie Mac."

You will see how President Bush and the Republicans in Congress and the assigned Regulators with oversight of F-Mae and F-Mac repeatedly urged for investigation into and increased regulation of F-Mae & F-Mac. You will see how, at every turn, on several repeated occasions from 2003 through 2007, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and the Congressional Black Caucus refused to allow it, insisting vehemently that there was nothing wrong wtih F-Mae/Mac.

They threatened to "let the voters know" how the "Republicans were trying to keep minorities from owning homes," how the GOP was making up false accusations of non-existent financial instability as a ruse to "keep the black man down."

Barack Obama, Acorn, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd created and then covered up this whole thing until it exploded, just as they had planned it would.

Yes, the bankers used the Democrat Congress' scheme to line their own pockets, but they did not engineer the collapse. The Democrats and, more specifically, the Congressional Black Caucus engineered this for their own purposes of collapsing the previous system so they could then institute their own system.

It's all on tape, viewable for anybody who wants to see what really happened.

;-/

12 posted on 10/24/2010 3:04:09 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin-Bachman 2012... just call it "Pa-Bach" :-)
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I just watched the trailer...

Matt Damon is the narrator - Strike 1.

The gist of the film is to blame all on Wall Street Bankers - Strike 2.

George Soros is in the film blaming Wall Street - Strike 3

Then I clicked the Reviews link and not one conservative media outlet is quoted - You're OUT.

It is not worth seeing.

15 posted on 10/24/2010 6:27:30 AM PDT by Florida native
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Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
by novelist Orson Scott Card, a Democrat
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This [financial crisis] was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
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Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.) ...
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If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
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If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis. ...
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So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
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[Was] getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for? ...
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... tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
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This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
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If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
- Novelist Orson Scott Card, a Democrat, on October 5, 2008,HERE


16 posted on 10/24/2010 6:40:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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The folks behind this Movie are looking for some of that Obama Money and your’re not going to get it unless you get off of your A$$ and go work for it.


22 posted on 10/24/2010 7:46:01 AM PDT by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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