Michael Moore: Private citizens’ money is a ‘national resource’
Hat tip to Jonah Goldberg. The inside of Michael Moore’s mind must be a very confusing place. Also, smelly.
“They’re sitting on the money, they’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money. We’ve allowed them to take that. That’s not theirs, that’s a national resource, that’s ours. We all have this, we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it,” Michael Moore told Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
The money he’s referring to is money that wealth Americans have earned for themselves (or inherited, as if that distinction matters) and keep in banks. In the same interview, Moore also said that private sector jobs are something that “we collectively own.”
Does that mean that we’re all entitled to a cut of the proceeds from Fahrenheit 9-11? I’ll take my slice now, thanks.
Hell, it means we’re entitled to take our cut of the proceeds.
Somehow, I doubt that if we went up to MM and demanded money as forcefully as the union goons are doing so, he’d be real pleased.
ONe of the interesting sidelights about Moore that most don’t know is that he refused to pay union wage some years back to writers working for him on television. He is obviously one of the biggest hypocrites of our time. The consolation is how much he must hate himself every time he has to look at himself in the mirror.
Noticed a decrease in troll postings? What is happening here and overseas, along with the conduct of the likes of Moore and Chavez have becalmed their armada…
Well, let’s look at what these greedy rich people do with that money.
Ignoring the wages they pay with the businesses they run, they put it in the bank.
And it just sits there! Right?!? Um, no. Banks lend out money, they don’t sit there and watch it shine. So rich people are making your mortgage possible. That’s right. You we’re able to buy a house because some greedy rich person was…rich.
I would never pay to see a Michael Moore movie but when he waddles over to take money from George Soros or Warren Buffet, or asks for his portion of the Obama’s Peace Prize proceeds, count me in. I’ll pay a lot for a front row seat to that fracas. And Michael, I’ll even bring you an extra large tub of buttered popcorn so you can keep up your strength.
Moore is as big a liar as are his propaganda pieces laughingly referred to as ‘documentaries’.
What does he mean by “they’re”? He means “we” since he’s the one with the big dough.
Moore is a bigger version of Leni Riefenstahl. Isn’t there some gulag he can be sent to? Maybe after he makes “Fidel and Me”, where he shows off Cuba like he did Flint after the A-Bomb.
Michael Moore continues to be indicative of all that is facile – a simpleton that has ignored what life has to offer. He’d rather spout forth this irrelevant inventive invective than be authentic. He’s shown himself to be the poster child of ignorance. These comments only verify that to those of us that are honest and operate in reality, not in perception.
That said, I still have hope, albeit fleeting.
Worst of all, he says these crap because he knows he has a market for it.
An we to understand that after all his socialistic, anti-business propagana he’s put on screen, that he’s actually for business now ??? Hey how to you spell Hypocrite ?
Why stop at Michael Moore, George Soros and Warren Buffet. Why not the Koch Brothers, the Bush family and about a dozen guys on Wall St. who pocketed BILLIONS in bonuses while millions were laid off. The guy at the Academy Awards was right. Nobody on Wall St. went to jail for this catastrophe. (And don’t say Bernie Madoff, because he commited a felony.) Why, because their minions in the congress and the Supreme Court made what they did LEGAL. Why do you conservatives love millionaires and billionaires so much that you would let them literally get away with murder as well as driving the economy into the dirt? Haven’t you learned yet that if these bastards had their way they would work you and your children to death and not pay you a dime if they could?
Bryan — Goldberg actually took the quote out of context. Moore led that quote off by saying “What we’ve done is allow a vast majority of that cash to be concentrated in the hands of just a few people, and they’re not circulating that cash. If you don’t believe me, go try to get a loan right now. They’re sitting on the money (quote continues as posted)…”
So he was talking about the banks sitting on the cash. I also don’t want to read too much into it because he didn’t fully explain it enough, but he goes on to call for higher tax rates for corporations and the banks, but it could also be interpreted as higher tax rates for all wealthy. So it’s not quite as inflammatory as the selected quote above makes it sound.