NJ/Star Ledger today: "Moore's indictment has power but lacks solid reasoning" review . ..

[defendandprotect]

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/09/mt-preview-cb9a948e5110fe844f15aba8e5f9bca7e3f73e18.html

This is a right wing paper hiding as mainstream and read by many in NJ --

Here are some of the highlights -- italics are my own added emphasis . . .

Here’s footage of people being evicted from their farm, in the family for four decades. Here are close-ups of people sobbing, one after another, as Moore talks about their exploitation at the hands of big business, faceless banks and Wall Street speculators.

But Moore’s exploiting them, too.

One long sequence, for example, focuses on the practice of companies quietly taking out insurance policies on lower-rung, blue-collar employees — and then cashing in big if the people die. Ghoulish? Certainly. But the employers were the ones paying the premiums. How does this harm the survivors?

It doesn’t. But it gives Moore a chance to turn the cameras on, and prod audiences into sobs.

Another sequence focuses on evictions. A horrible thing, of course.
But, typically, Moore arrives just in time to film people’s possessions being thrown into the gutter — but too late to really explore how they got into this mess.

Is everything always the bank’s fault? Is it only the guys in suits who can get greedy?




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PS: Forgot this part . . .

This isn’t a documentary, it’s a call to the streets, shouted through a bullhorn.


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[bluestateguy]

1. And so it begins. The Establishment fights back.

nt

[ejpoeta]

2. yes because they got into that mess on their own, right!! i mean, it can't be that they did

everything they were supposed to... worked hard and bought a house and paid their bills... then some greedy company like the one they worked for decided they could put even more money in their own pockets by screwing the customers.... like giving them crappy loans and then selling those loans over and over..... and who gets the bailout when the house of cards falls down??!! the ones that sold all the loans and not the customers that got screwed. it may not always be the banks fault, but in this case.... it is. we sell society this idea that they have to have things... have to have more.... because that is how the banks make more money and that is how our economy works now... we don't MAKE anything, just borrow money and shuffle it around like a deck of cards. Eventually you will run out of cards. But they NEED for us to keep wanting things and borrowing things so they can make money and keep their shell game going. And when things go bad, as they inevitably will when you are just playing a shell game, the poorest and the rest of us get left holding the bag while the people that caused this.... the banks get billions and get richer... no risk for them, i guess. and then they are free to start all over again.

[AJD48]

3. How does this harm the survivors?

"One long sequence, for example, focuses on the practice of companies quietly taking out insurance policies on lower-rung, blue-collar employees — and then cashing in big if the people die. Ghoulish? Certainly. But the employers were the ones paying the premiums. How does this harm the survivors?"

Let's see. A company stands to profit if its employees die.
And the company is in a position to decide the quality of the employees' health care.
By choosing cheap, bare-bones health care for its employees the company saves on premiums -
and profits if the employees die.
And the company profits if it overworks its employees by getting more work for less pay.
And if overwork contributes to their death, it profits again.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Gee, nobody would kill another person for insurance money, would they?

It's such a ridiculous concept. :sarcasm:

[AsahinaKimi]

4. October 2nd is too far away!!

I can't wait to see this movie!