Michael Moore Joins Labor Protests

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Michael Moore Joins Wisconsin Labor Protests: “America Is Not Broke”


(From Democracy Now!)

“Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe, so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot,” said Michael Moore at Saturday’s labor rally in Madison opposing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to end the collective bargaining rights for the majority of public sector workers. “The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it’s not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.”

Right now, this afternoon, just 400 Americans—400—have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. Let me say that again. And please, someone in the mainstream media, just repeat this fact once. We’re not greedy; we’ll be happy to hear it just once. Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008, now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.

CROWD: Shame! Shame! Shame!

MICHAEL MOORE: It is a shame.

CROWD: Shame! Shame! Shame!

MICHAEL MOORE: If—if you can’t bring yourself to call that a financial coup d’état, then you are simply not being honest with what you know in your heart to be true. But I can see why people don’t want to even think about this. For us to admit that we have let a small group of men abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy would mean that we’d have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that we have indeed surrendered our precious democracy to the moneyed elite. Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this republic. And until this past month here in Madison, Wisconsin, the rest of us, until then, have felt completely helpless, unable to find a way to do anything about it.


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1. Aka: Protests join Moore.

He's been pointing this shit out for years.

Before it was fashionable.

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2. GOD LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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3. Longtime?

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4. There was a time when people cared!

(Fashionable?)


Then they stopped caring. It wasn't cool! (Unfashionalble?)


And now maybe they are starting to care again - I HOPE!!!! (Fashionable?)


Yes, it has been a LOOONG Time!!!!!!!!!!!


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