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Capitalism: a Love Story--a Movie Review



Corporations
insure their employees naming themselves as beneficiary unknowingly to
the employee and in one case the corporation made $5 mil while the
widow didn't get a dime and in another case they made $80,000 while the
widower left with 3 children didn't see any money.

A
year before he died President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to pass
a second Bill of Rights protecting all American workers including
health benefits, a living wage enough to support a family, the right to
have unions, etc. but never had a chance to work on it yet both Japan
and Germany, our defeated enemies, while being rebuilt, incorporated
all that Roosevelt had listed on the second Bill of Rights.

Two judges made millions of dollars by sentencing juveniles, even for minor offenses, to a private owned child care facility built especially to make money for the company that owned it.

One
never fails to learn new things in a Michael Moore documentary along
with a few laughs and, of course, just a bit too much of him. There is
one completely unnecessary armored car sequence with the camera on him
but when he shows how our Congress was bought and paid for by banks and
Wall street you listen.

In "Capitalism:
A Love Story" he follows how we got to the economic crisis we have
today starting with Ronald Reagan and shows how Bush finished the
scenario.

Moore talks about when rich
people were taxed 90% of their income allowing much of American
bridges, dams, etc., to be built and yet the tax payers still had all
theluxuries and how about 1% of today's population in America have all the wealth.

There
are a few more mistakes in this film than usual for Moore such as poor
musical choices, it being a little too long and, as usual, preaching to
the choir but this time he is also picking on the democrats.

The
main thrust of Moore's film is that the American people revolt as the
workers who were being threatened without getting their last salary
when their company went bust and Bank of America wouldn't pay but
eventually did because of the employee's action or the people who were
thrown out of their homes due to foreclosure and moved back in
challenging the authorities who came to enforce the law with the latter
leaving and the former staying in their homes.

He
believes democracy is the best system if people vote and tell, by
writing and calling by the millions, to their elected officials to do
what they, the voters, want them to do and not the lobbyists or Wall
street but I don't think that particular message will get across as
much as it is needed.

Moore is intrusive, can be obnoxious and inserts himself too much into his films but he does keep your interest and tackles hard core issues that effects everyone--too bad those who should see this film won't.


posted on Oct 2, 2009 5:25 PM ()

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