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2016 Postmortem

K8-EEE

(15,667 posts) Tue Feb 14, 2012, 02:54 PM Feb 2012

"Roger and Me:" Corporate greed, globalization and outsourcing killed Detroit.

NOT "Democrats." NOT "unions." NOT "Obama." Democrats and unions BUILT Detroit, Reaganism did it in!

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"Roger and Me:" Corporate greed, globalization and outsourcing killed Detroit. (Original Post) K8-EEE Feb 2012 OP

The beginning of Michael Moore's career. drm604 Feb 2012 #1

Michael Moore told us this in 1989 and nobody has learned a damn thing from it. Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2012 #2

drm604

(16,230 posts)

1. The beginning of Michael Moore's career.

Reply to K8-EEE (Original post)

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 03:05 PM

Feb 2012

He was a nobody when he made this. I don't think anybody thought he would go on to be as big as he is now.

As I recall, Siskel and Ebert were instrumental in getting attention for this film.

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

2. Michael Moore told us this in 1989 and nobody has learned a damn thing from it.

Reply to K8-EEE (Original post)

Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:11 AM

Feb 2012

At least nobody who can do anything about it, the rich management types who fire people to make money. Eventually they cut their own throats and wonder why the whole town is economically dead.

Cue "Wouldn't It Be Nice"......

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