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Originally posted by bret
man... have you ever even heard of michael moore? he is not trying to change a goddamn thing. he nit-picks self-proclaimed flaws in "the powers that be" and provides no facts/data/studies to back up his claims, just a bunch of his theoretical bullshit. he is a fucking mud-slinger, at best.
example of how stupid he is... in his retarded "documentary" he shows a black woman who had a kid out of wedlock and is trying to raise the kid as a single mom. he shows how she has no child care and she works for Dick Clark's restaurant in Great Lakes Crossing... how she has to take the bus and she makes minimum wage or just over... Then he goes and tries to verbally attack Dick Clark for not having day care and not paying his workers enough and how Dick Clark has X amount of dollars and his workers are poor....
if anything these people should be THANKING Dick Clark for opening a restaurant and providing jobs for people that need them...
if i am remembering this wrong, someone correct me. i saw it well over a year ago and i really didnt give a fuck about it at the time.
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yeah I know who he is and have seen that movie ( and his others ) I agree with you about this part of the movie. That part actually pissed me off because he made it out like somehow it was either Dick Clark or the Governments fault that this woman had a child out of wedlock and was forced to work to support her kid and get welfare. God forbid we should make people work to support their kids. Another part of that that didn't make sense is that he says she worked often 60-70 hours a week but still couldn't pay the rent so she had to move in with the relative. How? She had no car because she took the bus and the bus was free. She got food stamps as part of her welfare for working how much was the rent on here little place be? If there is one thing I know about a lot of people on welfare ( not all of them but many of them and, unfortunatly I've known a lot of them, ) it's that they have screwed up priorities when it comes to money. I've known a lot of people that were on welfare wh had bill collectors calling them, had leins agianst thier bank accounts and were always struggling to put food on the table but they seemed to have $200 cordless phones and cable with ever movie channel and nice clothes. I wonder what we aren't seeing. He never said where the money she made went.
I agree that he often goes on tangents about things that are unrelated and it sometimes sidetracks his point. He doesn't have the answers. He actually does give a lot of data/facts/stats to back up many of his points. If everything he said was made up he would be under a constant birage of libal lawsuits. He does sometimes have the answers. He thought it was wrong that K-mart would sell handgun ammo to anyone. He eventually got them to stop selling handgun ammo all together.
What bothers me is that he is voicing his displeasure with how the country is being run and giving examples of other countries that he feels are doing some things better that we may learn from and you just want him to just shut up and leave.
I don't see him as a messiah or as some guy who's striving for vast social change, but I think he's an interesting guy with some valid points. I don't agree with everything he says. As a matter of fact I dont agree with a lot of it but some of it is very thought provoking.