The economically literate will compete with the liberty loving to see who can be more offended by Michael Moore’s idiocy here.
“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 talking about, by the way, is basically the money you have in the bank.
James Taggert and Orren Boyle would be so proud.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo, he's talking about all those bags of gold down in Uncle Scrooge McDuck's basement. All we have to do is get hold of them and everyone's problems will be solved.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnyone that would listen to Michael Moore at this point can't be reached with commonsense.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe moore they talk, the better it gets for the rest of us. It's not offending, it's buffoonery. I would no sooner get offended at my chidren who frequently make the same complaint! haha
This is what Obama sounds like every time he strays from the TOTUS or loses his inner monologue on TV.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's outstanding! I'll be looking for my check from Mr. Moore in the mail any day now. You know, since all he has is apparently mine as well.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePretty sure that whenever Jonah says "super genius" he says it properly like this:
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If not, I'll be disappointed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseC C Writer,
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMoore could be one of the missing Beagle Brothers.
Well, you can't expect the dude to keep Krispy Kreme, Dunkin' Donuts, Hardee's, MacDonald's, Baskin-Robbins, Burger King, KFC, Brewster's, and Taco Bell afloat all on his own, can you?
I see this as a cry for help.
Oh, and government-subsidized junk food, I suppose.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDude, seriously, where IS your country?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNever mind the cash, Warren Buffett doesn't even want the _gold_: External Link
(at the 5:00 minute mark and then about two minutes).
Currency isn't wealth. Wealth is access to productivity. Much as Moore might wish, productivity cannot be commanded.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"I see this as a cry for help" - haha.
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Scrooge McDuck doesn't keep his gold in the basement. He has a money bin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLove to know how Moore "suffered." Perhaps he can do a film about his "suffering" and show how some evil corporations strapped him down and force fed him burgers and fries for years until he ballooned from his svelte 165 to over 300 lbs. and totally ruined his budding tennis career.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSadly, it's the same ideology as our former green jobs czar. Savings are not personal, but collective. The green jobs czar was a Yale grad, by the way.
"There’s plenty of money out there; don’t fall into the trap of this whole deficit argument.”
“The only question is how to spend it.”
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYeah, I'll give up mine (if I had any) after Moore gives up his.
What a buffoon. Other posters are correct - there's nothing offensive about what he said. It's pure childish stupidity - "It's not fair, mommy!"
He needs a slap upside the head.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnybody have Michael Moore's email address? I want to get his PIN so I can liberate all the money that he's hoarding that belongs to me . . . I mean *us*.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSome commentators here seemed to have missed what Michael Moore said. Many of you are writing that you'll hand over your money when he hands over his first. But what some of you have seemed to miss is that he's talking about them (you) hoarding "our" money. He clearly put himself among the "our" group, and so he doesn't have to fork anything over. Them (you) must pay. "We" (Michael Moore) will receive.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnytime that fat fook wants to lead by example and start giving away the millions he has sequestered under his gargantuan posterior, he's more than welcome to.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMessage to Michael Moore and Robert Reisch. You first.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think we, as Americans, collectively own the profits from "Fahrenheit 911" and "Bowling for Columbine." After all we, as a nation, paid for the tickets that created those profits. This cash isn't Michael Moore's resource, it's ours, and we Americans need to take control of it to ensure that it's being used effectively. Michael Moore has obviously failed miserably at this task.
Michael, give me a call, I'll have my agents in Zambia arrange the transfer of funds.
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