Cammmpbell
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Interesting that Moore is against Capitalism that he so handsomely profits from?
Moore is another professional shit disturber just as the man in the Oval office is. Cut of the same cloth.
Michael Moore is not against the Capitalism of old. In this country big corporations used to share their wealth with their employees and their government. Now an elitist CEO/CFO load up a board of directors with a bunch of YES people and create a scenario where they pay as little as they can in taxes and share as little as they can with their employees. Then...after they either relocate outside the country and hire peons to work 60-80 hours a week with no benefits they bitch about having to pay any taxes to the government on what they earn. Also they set up a scenario by which they'll draw hundreds of millions of dollars should the company fail.
I'm 77 years old. In the late 40's and 50's a corporate executive earned about 5-10 times what a carpenter or assembly line worker earned. By the 1970's that multiplier had grown to about 50 times as much. Guess what it was in 2010? Yes sport's fans last year the average CEO in America earned 550 times what an ordinary American worker earned.
It doesn't end there. Nixon cut out the draft so the biggest concern the wealthy have for their offspring is which ivy league school they will attend. These damn made up wars are fought by the sons and daughters of what used to be the middle class in this country. Things are so phucked up right now this country will be fortunate to even survive and it will never be the way it was. Reason...our politicians are in the pockets of corporations and the well off. Ordinary people have lost the battle and may never rebound. When it requires $35 million and a year of campaigning for a senator to get reelected things are about as bad as they can get.
Since you are 77, I am guessing that you are no longer in the workforce.
My employer (a Fortune 500 Company) shares profits with the employees, contrary to your opinion, the fact in my situation is that I am paid an annual bonus based upon personal and corporate performance (it's paid the past 5 years). I guess you can call that "sharing the wealth", but you probably won't.
The existence or non-existence of the draft is totally unrelated to the topic at hand, but it's nice to know that you agree with government enforced involuntary servitude. It gives me a little more insight into your mindset.
I've been retired since the mid 90's. I only had a high school education but succeeded. I served in the military and drew paychecks from three different sources when my children were young. I never drew a bonus in my life. Sounds to me like you're one of the Wall St. crowd. Do you believe a CEO is worth 550 times what an ordinary worker earns? Do you believe it's OK for a company to layoff in this country and hire in Central America and Malaysia? Do you believe it's OK for our leaders to start wars knowing somebody else's kids will do the fighting and dying? If you do you're definitely a Republican.
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