Michael Moore Rats Out Reagan and Capitalism

[CoolGuy18201]

Socialism and Communism make corrupt governments to milackk7. Capitalism promotes freedom to do what you want. Ronald Reagan was the third greatest President after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

[mason72518]

@Tradingtutor 1)Who says something that is unproductive must be taxed? I dont want you or the govt to impose your definition of "productive" on the rest of us. 2)Price discovery/hedging/liquidity are useful - so I dont know why u think those mrkts are unproductive. 3)Lastly, even if u were right and if we assume those mrkts to be unproductive why would u choose to transfer the money to govt. They will be even less productve!! Your claims make no sense.

[mason72518]

1) Smart people shouldnt be able to work just because the regulators are too dumb to understand what they are doing?? 2) Derivatives are not a part of most people's portfolios..if any derivative exposure exists in the average client portfolio it will be simplistic options contracts.

[mason72518]

Wall st paid the money back with interest & the taxpayers made a profit. He should go to detroit..they didnt still have their bail out money.

[SpitfireOFatj]

Typical Tweety. Says he doesn't get it and then overtalks someone trying to give him a fucking clue and then ends the segment just as clueless as when he started and makes a point of letting everyone know it's HIS show and hes the star.

[CaptainBluebear08]

No lie in this man. (Michael, I mean)

[ToxinalX]

I have to add though, that The Goverment should never be run "like a corporation".

It should allways be run like a responsible State/Federal Goverment and respect the rights of each and every individual.

Had the founders needed another company, they would have created another company !

[ToxinalX]

Michael Moore is a very good film maker,a good historian and probably a nice guy too.

But I couldn't agree less with some of his conclusions.

Back when I felt like I was a pretty typical democratic socialist / social liberal, I used to agree with him on lots of things. Nowadays I've come to understand that it is not Capitalism that is the cause of our problems. It is people. And corruption.

[alvisc2002]

i can see now why so many Liberals are registering as republicans and Voting Ron Paul. the only guy that the mainstream media tries to hide from the american people. i would Love it if Mike did an interview with him and talked about his ideas of ending the FED.

[MrMccaberules]

Michael Moore is a dumbass

[stephenddblyth]

@MrMccaberules oh boo hoo is he hurting your feelings. moore is not lieing in anyway. he just hurts the feeling of the americans that think there way of life is perfect and does no wrong. grow up

[MrMccaberules]

@stephenddblyth No. He is just wrong. Capitalism isn't perfect, but its a whole lot better than anything else. Besides, Michael Moore should love capitalism. If it weren't for capitalism, he wouldn't make his crappy movies.

[kar98k1000]

@MrMccaberules exactly, capitalism gives you the right to do that, while if you were to do that in a communist state, your shot on scene, a communist leader who ruled china killed 70 million of his own people because they talked bad about their government, and if capitalism is so bad, why did people try to escape communist east germany to capitalist west germany??? communists are fucked up, and nothings perfect, but people can make it a hell of a lot worse

[eatcarpet]

Reagan was just a willing puppet.

[PIANOPHUNGUY]

Factories in border towns, which would make things that Americans don't want to do, is better than immigration.

[fomocore]

if we got corperate funding out of politics ther would be no msnbc no ge no fox, ron paul would win!

[RadarGuidedVermin]

Have you ever seen a talking turd wearing a baseball hat? You have now!

[jmjfanss]

Alex Jones aired this clown out, Michael Moore is a blubber butt globalist.

[trifulquita15]

Michael Moore a millionaire socialist???? Share 90% of your money first, talk later.

[StyrofoamKup]

¨We have to speed it up¨... trouble trouble trouble

[DCnightcrawler]

Ronald Reagan was a naive man who could not see that corporate interests didn't embrace similar ethics to his own. They fooled him into thinking they would treat everybody like they treated him. Don Regan wanted to be President judging by his behavior. Good thing Nancy saw through him and finally convinced Reagan to fire him.

[MizikeDM]

wow stfu Mathews and let your guest finish a sentence... god damn that's annoying.



[Coelacanth1938]

Big Pharma corporations won't let Americans have an anti-cancer drug and that's from Fox News!

[juicyappleish]

@Coelacanth1938 Anyone is totally free to invest his money in R&D and invent the cure for cancer. Anyone is free to start a company to invent a cure for cancer.

[Coelacanth1938]

@juicyappleish I'm already doing that by paying my taxes. Big Pharma barely spends money on R&D anymore. They use most of their profits for advertising. All the R&D money is mostly coming from American taxpayers and that keeps getting cut by Congress.

[juicyappleish]

@Coelacanth1938 Big pharma pays taxes too. Coporate income tax is high. If they use it for advertising, they are free to do so. It's their money. If you want to dictate to them, buy some shares of stocks and vote for your preferred board of directors.

[quincee33]

Why doesn't Moore move to Romania and get it over with.

[iHacksorzz]

@quincee33 Fuck freedom of speech man i know.

[quincee33]

@iHacksorzz he's just a liar.

[ninuxy]

@quincee33 He is not a quitter like Palin.

[quincee33]

@ninuxy Palin should quit..she's an airhead.

[ninuxy]

@quincee33 She doesn't hold any official position in politics. She is not an airhead. She is a clueless donut.

[atosafi1]

The reason social democratic parties are losing in Europe right now is because since the mid-80's they've been marching to the right and adapting to neo-liberalism, and at the same time they've gone from 35-45% -> 20-35%. Reality speaks for itself.

A good side-effect of losing these elections is that they've realized that the only way to win the middle-class voters without alienating the working-class is through strong left-wing politics, political belief is the way to win the middle-class vote

[quincee33]

@atosafi1 Left wing politics??? Europe needs to move more to the right....Greece especially. Socialism is killing the Greek economy.

[optionsupdate]

merkel is not  socialist

[optionsupdate]

chris mathews is a whore, he should "speed it up" and shut his mouth

[BowToMySkill]

hes got one thing right, capitalism is fucking gay, but he is wrong liberal socialism is also fucking gay, and why are they both gay? because both of them are in the intrest of the jew. the only political system worth using is FASCIST NATIONAL SOCIALISM. The Nazi's government was flawless, it got italy and germany out of the great depression before any other country. MIKE MOORE IS IN FAVOR OF JEWISH BOLSHEVIK SOCIALISM! Look how well that turned out.

[jtscully83]

@BowToMySkill The Nazi's government was flawless? No one cares to hear about you fascist biological racism and antisemitism you asshole!

[Tippersnore]

Edmund Morris (Dutch) makes a strong case that Reagan was no bumbling idiot as so many have claimed. BTW, did Tweety Bird say Moore's film, Capitalism, was booming? Shows you how much his loud-mouthed punditry is worth.

[TheSuperiorJam]

haha... free colledge education... not in england anymore... thanks dave...

[quincee33]

@TheSuperiorJam Micheal Moore also says Canada has free college in one of his movies. A total lie...we have always paid tuition for post secondary education.... and really some of our best athletes and scholars go to the States (NCAA) and leave Canada... it's called the "brain drain" here in Canada.

[Bren565]

@quincee33

FUCKING THANK YOU!!!!!!

usa = superior

time to let the bull loose in CANADA!

[quincee33]

@Bren565 whoa....easy big guy, i'm proud to be Canadian. but also proud to be American. Just wish more people could see how the average American lives, and then compare it to how others live in other countries....i think you'll find Americans have more freedom, more disposable income and a higher standard of living. I'ts very easy to pick apart a country that has 300 million people....

[BeeblesTV]

My forehead. My rules.

[Geoffrey2410]

Don didn't say that.

Turn off your sound and read Regan's lips.

Mike Moore altered the video tape. DUH

[Casarzino]

the presenter is your typical average old American loudmouthed dumbass

[Hawkace009]

Nothing can hold a candle to capitalism and every statistic backs that up. Keep trying Michael Moore but you will never have the numbers.

[bapyou]

@Hawkace009 "Real wages for working people declined throughout Reagan's terms in office. Working people compensated by working more hours. Between 1982-84, taxes on the working poor rose 22%.1986's Tax Reform Act cut taxes on the wealthy from 70% to 28%. In 1986, the top 1% of the wealthy had never been richer. One in every four families in 1987 lived below the poverty line. By the end of the 1980s, the U.S. was the most unequal society in the Western world." ~ labor historian Sharon Smith

[jmkpns]

Obama works for Wall Street too.

[milackk7]

@trakomako Thanks for the response. We used to travel through the former Yugoslavia, but it was a pretty poor country. I'm glad to hear your parents were happy there.

[milackk7]

Matthews needs to lay off the speed. Shut up a sec. and let your guests answer....coward. And to those who say Socialism and Communism don't work...maybe if they were given a chance 'without' corrupt government destroying them, we'd see better results. Same with Capitalism - corrupt government has destroyed this system. We now only survive by robbing other countries and enslaving their people, and our poor.

[Vykingthor97]

I find it amazing that Mike here is always calling out the "LIES" of others, He's just as guilty as any one else. His "stretches" of the truth are flat out lies. He is a joke, a documentary film maker that lies about the subject he is making the documentary about. He has to lie just to make a point. .

[AnonTbomb]

@Vykingthor97

what's he lied about?

[wildboy789789]

HARDBALL SHOWED THIS!?!! MSNBC KICKS ASS... REAL NEWS!!!!!

[Majicgarnet]

Our founding fathers warned us of this! We need a house cleaning!

Outlaw lobbying!

Enact a Variable Federal Sales Tax

Lock up our borders,

Intentional public deception should be treason!

Otherwise read history! The Czars will fall and take the whole country with them! Clean it up first!

[ThiefFanatic]

Wasn't this thing about "speeding up" in Sicko?

[JLANDIS1043]

Socialism, Communism, Capitalism...it's all the same. It's all about centralization. It's really about Monetary-ism. Money is the life blood of these empires. We seem to think that money solves everything. This is something that goes way deeper than politics. Corruption and selfishness are part of our every man for himself paradigm. We exploit this world and make it our business. The problems in this world are TECHNICAL and not political. Watch "Zeitgeist Addendum" to open your eyes.

[weedipikia]

Michael Moore's best film yet. Of course, like anything do your own research. Michael Moore's films are great because they get you thinking about things, but when I hear college kids regurgitating things from his films as if they're gospel, I have to shake my head (and these are people I agree with for the most part). Michael Moore and Fox News both have high production values and access to mainstream distribution channels, but they contradict one another. That should tell you something.

[fortisKID]

He deregulated those things and democrats claimed it would cause prices to go up. But then they fell.... and democrats were wrong. What kind of idiot goes back and criticizes something that was already proven to be good.

[Shenfootball50]

Reagan is the fuckin man, and everyone should know it!!!!

[DBCS19]

It always looks like theres 5 guys standing around Moore.

[TheTurdTemple]

Communism and Capitalism are just flip sides of the same jewish coin which Hitler fully understood. Hitler liked "industrial capitalism" but opposed "interest capitalism" so that threatened the jewish bankers who funded the British, USSR and USA empires so all of the kikes conspired to instigate WW2.

"Now Germany is against the power of evil incarnated in the Anglo-Saxon/Soviet coalition managed by the Jews." - Luis Blanco telegram to Francisco Franco soon after America joined the USSrR

[syzdaman]

Micheal moore..... the most ignorant fattest idiot in hollywood....ha ha what a bafoon!

[slochops]

syzdaman - What an absurd response. Did you see "Capitalism"? Moore has exposed the republican scumbags who deregulated the banking industry in the early 80's. Are you aware of this? Your friends - Sec. Treasury Don Regan (Merrill Lynch), Hank Paulson (Goldman Sachs) and Pres. Reagan should have been hung by their nuts for what they did to this country.

Michael Moore goes after democrats too in this film. If you dislike Michael Moore, you are one greedy, selfish, materialistic piece of sh#t.

[shitnrun]

whatever, matthews isn't "left" at all

[duckndan44]

haha Michael Moore!! All of his movies tell people how damaging their own government is towards them and all the corruption and backroom deals politicians make... then tells them the only way to fix it is by giving the government more power!!! He's playing us for fools

[borat443]

Ronald Regan was a puppet and a pussy, run by the illumanati, as well as a drug dealing rascist scumbag...

[gia2black]

Michael moore is a true American Patriot..one that actually cares about corporate greed killing this so caleld american dream.. as george carlin said.. ''the American Dream, you have to be asleep to believe it''

[jaker2880]

REA GONE- Because of Ron the middle class is GONE...

The corporations couldn't have found a better puppet than Reagan to spew their bullshit.

[angelofrock420]

I wish that Matthews would shut the fuck up and let the man talk!!!!

[shitnrun]

@angelofrock420: I wish that Matthews would shut the fuck up always.

[davfritz]

I think Moor is a realy good guy,..... he should run for a senate seat

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

Michael Moore, The man who thinks he can just make up stories and get away with it. In the Movie "Roger and Me " he said a Ex GM Worker stole a Satellite Truck before Nightline was to report from Flint. But it never happened. Moore made the whole thing up.

[Corporations8MyBaby]

Oh wow [ applauding ] you are Sherlock Holmes aren't ya? Moore's work is so exemplary... and so hard for you to understand... you need to paint him with the right wing myth that me "makes it up". His work is incisive on how Wall Street is trying to suffocate democracy. But you need to see the distinctions by using your mind... make Sherlock proud and pay closer attention. If you see this new movie you will really learn something.

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

He did make it up. And do you want to bet with me? I can name lies in everyone of his movies. He can't play that game. He can't try to hold others accountable while he lies at the same time.

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

He lies in everyone of his movies. If he's going to attack people he needs to hold himself accountable. He doesn't . The truth is that Socialism doesn't work. If it did then those countries wouldn't be hurting in a world wide recession.

[hackit12]

VIDEOTIMEMACHINE –‘He lies in everyone of his movies’-

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Rodger & ME, 1989 – exposed the destruction of American labor by and for e-greed-gious CEO, CFO, corporate profit, -‘decades before many noticed it’– due to the [failure] of supply-side economics [private business sector in determining (lobbying/media manipulation) of the political and economic priorities]. Was he wrong on the basic premise ? NO !

cont

[hackit12]

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Did supply-side econ. Destroy labor [pensions, health care, etc.] – Yes ! Is it STILL important to economics and political policies ? Yes, yes !

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Everyone of his movies as you are – -‘has been attacked on similar issues’-; that on issues that do not affect the basic story premise.

Independent fact-checkers have found, -‘exaggerations in his movies’-, but nothing that change the facts, evidence presented nor the logical conclusions.

cont

[hackit12]

VIDEOTIMEMACHINE –‘If he's going to attack people he needs to hold himself accountable’-

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Can we hold you to –‘that alleged ethical standard-‘; that you attack people on –‘irrelevant issues’- ?

Cont

[hackit12]

And :

VIDEOTIMEMACHINE –‘The truth is that Socialism doesn't work. If it did then those countries wouldn't be hurting in a world wide recession’-

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The European, etc. Democratic-Socialist countries - work very good at protecting the majority [from the corporates]; and have been negatively affected by the same –‘Wall St. fraudulently packaged’- equities … not a reflection on socialism, a reflection on greedy capitalists here.

cont.

[hackit12]

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But that is the hypocritical [wrong-wing] - method of attack - accuse them of what you are doing - with red herrings !

red herrings = irrelevant B.S.

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VIDEOTIMEMACHINE –‘If he's going to attack people he needs to hold himself accountable’-

[KerriK73]

around 5:20 - because the right in europe is the "fringe" left in the united states.

[spiderwebb33]

ya rachel maddow is the best on msnbc

[EdwardJellico]

This fucker Matthews won't let anyone talk. I can't even watch him.

[wildboy789789]

@EdwardJellico what are you talking about... he brought him on a live news show, he can say anything he wants... matthews is a debater, moore is a journalist... as smart as you think richard dawkins or james earl jones are, some people are horrible at debate... im a master debater :) lol

[gorgorybmus]

@EdwardJellico You are an idiot.

[gorgorybmus]

The conservatives commenting on this video MUST realize that their harsh, mean, and anti-human ideas are NOT in favor by the general public. A movie like this is not an advocate for communism or any such fully economic system... it is a signal that our economy has been transformed, through right wing victory after another, into one that is for the rich, by the rich, and of the rich. This isn't to say that "the rich" are bad people... but certainly we must accept that we all SURVIVE together.

[anthonypepitoneVideo]

@EdwardJellico I've never seen him before (I don't watch TV) but boy are you right - what a bigmouth he is!

[Geschmolzen]

You could take a free market approach to this issue. Make banks fullfill their contracts, thus ending fractional reserve banking.

[Geschmolzen]

Wilson and FDR was a bigger friend to the Bankers than Reagan.

[dieyou2000]

I agree with Chris on most things, but holy shit dude let the guest fucking talk.

[limosince2007]

this sounds like some right-wing conspiracy video

[Skyman46]

Speed it up Ronnie...too funny.

[Wendy62]

Even when I agree with the guy, Chris Matthews bugs the hell out of me. He's right, Moore's new movie looks awesome. But as for Matthews? He's a congenital brown-noser.

[MrOldSlacker]

The more I read about Reagan the more I believe that he was a sincere but simple man who became a tool of evil people like Regan. I don't think he wasn't in his right mind the entire time he was president.

[jobw87]

This video pissed me off. I know I'm not a Reagan fan, but did that guy just tell the president to "Speed it up?" Know, I second that MrOldSlacker. They exploited a man was probably in the early stages of alhemizers.

[Skyman46]

You know Americans have some inherent need to shift the blame on someone else just like with George Bush...no he wasn't responsible he was too stupid to pull the strings so let's blame Cheney.

When you're at the top you're in charge and you are or should be responsible.

[Therealoutrageus]

A company can file for life insurance on its own employs. This is sick!