Posted on 03/27/2010 6:33:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Appearing on the radical-left public radio network Pacifica on Tuesday to promote his DVD of Capitalism: A Love Story, filmmaker Michael Moore called the passage of ObamaCare a victory...for capitalism:
Well, I mean, to me, it all comes back to this issue of an economic system that is truly evil. And the healthcare bill that was passed ultimately will be seen as a victory for capitalism, because it protected the capitalist model of providing healthcare for people. In other words, we’re not to help people unless there’s money to be made from it. That is so patently disgusting and immoral, but that’s the system. That’s where we live.
Moore wanted the leftists to get right back to pushing a "single payer" option that outlaws insurance companies:
There’s nothing to be proud of with this bill being passed, other than maybe a temporary satisfaction of watching Republicans -- you know, watching their spray-on tan fall off out of utter -- through utter anger.
Moore doesn't feel that Obama is authentically leftist. He's a sellout:
I don’t think he really cared about a public option. I don’t think he really believes in true universal healthcare that’s managed by we the people. He was the number one recipient of health industry money in the Senate and when he was running for president, so I’m not surprised that he had very little interest in doing any of that.
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All Obama did was turned the insurance companies into government contractors and forced us all under their thumb.
Capitalism never forced me to buy insurance. It took democrats and socialism to do that.
I take it this DVD is not free to anyone earning under $50k?
Why does anyone care what this half-wit thinks ..eerr.. feels?
He made some videos filled with lies - he should be in jail.
“Hey Michael, if capitalism is sooo evil, why don’t you make admission your “movies” (aka propoganda pieces) for free?!”
LOL!;)
End world hunger. Take away Michael Moor’s knife and fork.
Using MSNBC logic, Michael Moore is only opposed to Obamacare because he is white and the president is black.
Oh sure Micheal I’ll take advise about capitalism from you the day you donate all of your money, homes,cars etc, and make movies for free!
It would take a lot of despair to fill Michael Moore! Suicide may be his only option!
This guy is woefully sub-par as a serious thinker.
The foundation is in Moore, and the infrastructure is going up in record time.
How did the Democrat shills phrase it, “Get over it!”
Let me just add..., “YOU FRICKEN MORON!”
[ to Moore, not you ]
Let me get this straight. He goes on a publically funded radio station to SELL his COMMERCIAL dvd about capitalism and is upset that capitalism will still exist.
What is it with these rich leftists?
They can’t even keep their own systems straight.
Corporatist is close to what O is driving to now.
Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor
What could go wrong? (You’re witnessing it !)
Wonder how He’s spending earth hour tonight. For a guy who’s never seen the light, how would he know the difference if it was off?
He doesn’t approve of people having to pay for healthcare. But someone has to deliver the healthcare: it is an economic good, like everything else desirable. I suppose that, like some other leftists, he thinks also that FOOD and housing should also be free. And maybe also education, and transportation, and vacations, and clothing. Why should people have to pay for these things? They should all be rights, as that UN manifesto says.
He’s a sicko communist. However, he does seem to SELL his movies. Hey, fatso! Why aren’t they free?
He doesn’t approve of people having to pay for healthcare. But someone has to deliver the healthcare: it is an economic good, like everything else desirable. I suppose that, like some other leftists, he thinks also that FOOD and housing should also be free. And maybe also education, and transportation, and vacations, and clothing. Why should people have to pay for these things? They should all be rights, as that UN manifesto says.
He’s a sicko communist. However, he does seem to SELL his movies. Hey, fatso! Why aren’t they free?
Moore is a nut. Sounds like he just is begging for a Marxist takeover. He reminds me of Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney.
this is so phony. He knows full well that Obama will try to implement single-payer. I fully expect these type of columns/outrages from the left to be co-ordinated by the White House...in order for Obama to look more “centrist”.
Socialism has no track record of victories....only world records in death counts.
I thought capitalism was evil too. When I was TWELVE. However, it didn't take long for me to realize that the admonitions against "selfishness" were a sneaky, twisted package deal designed to confuse the fact that there are, in fact, TWO entirely different kinds of selfishness, and that they have OPPOSITE moral standing. The GOOD kind of selfishness, taking care of yourself and your family, is what America was built on, achieving greater prosperity and happiness than the world has ever known. On the other hand, the BAD kind of selfishness -- taking advantage of unwilling others, with extortion, coercion, threats of jail sentences, ultimately at gunpoint -- is what socialists and other collectivists actually rely upon, INCLUDING Obama AND MOORE.
"To embrace a collectivist system ... and thereby jeopardize sustained economic growth, inevitably misallocate scarce resources, and almost necessarily perpetuate destitution, hardly merits moral acclaim. Indeed, intellectuals in general and church leaders in particular who bewail the continued existence of poverty absolutely defined, and who state that they yearn for a world in which the hungry are fed, the naked clothed, and the destitute housed, yet who ceaselessly undermine the very system which, to date, has best done what they claim to value most, are, surely, moral imbeciles." -- The Reverend Doctor John K. Williams, -- The Reverend Doctor John K. Williams here
Can't this dillweed make up his "mind"? Just the other day he was saying how wonderful this was.
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