Michael Moore and Arianna Huffington Discuss Heroes of 'Capitalism: A Love Story'

[combsbruce]

This is a test-post, I'm having trouble.

[84cristianoforever]

keep doing a great job !!!

[dirtyshortsPU]

Two fat douchebags.

[1dannymega1]

Go on say it! See how good it feels to say it. Lets say it together " NO MORE WAR!"

[Dagney77]

Moore is right. Obama has totally sold us out.

[dexterriley]

folks check out the excellent doc "maxed out" Elizabeth Warren plays a prominent role.

hopefully Michael will include her interview in its entirety on the DVD, much like the double disc "the corporation" another excellent doc btw.

[goldsilverandiamonds]

Two of America's worst ememies to freedom and liberty.Government pushed corporations to lower there lending standards to unqualified people in a push of equality.BIG GREEDY GOVERNMENT IS TO BLAME for this mess!They bankrupted the companies that were now forced to bail out by BIG GREEDY GOVERNMENT!Moore thinks your to stupid to figure this out,he might be right.Corporations follow laws the government makes,goverment pushes the agenda,just look at the green movement corporations follow the lead.

[combsbruce]

@goldsilverandiamonds The CRA of 1977 was passed 30 years ago and only 1/4 of the defaulted mortgages are covered by it anyway. It was the lending deregulation under Bush that allowed all sorts of deceptive "creative lending" practices with exploding interest rates and fees by "subprime" lenders who then sold the loans to other banks or investment groups. Many "subprime" lenders made a fortune while secondary banks and investors, along with the homeowners themselves, got stuck with a time bomb.

[goldsilverandiamonds]

@com THE LIBERAL CONGRESS IS TO BLAME F O R THE L O W E R I N G of the standards! Liberals are to blame for the lowering of lending standards which lead to the bankrupcy of America,but also are schools an our inabilty to compete with the rest of the world. LIBERALS LOVE TO LOWER THE STANDARDS OF SOCIETY so that they can increase their voter base!! This does not help society it only hurts it...and LIBERALS KNOW THIS,MICHAEL MOORE knows this and he MAKES TONS OF MONEY OFF THE STUPID AND IGNORANT!

[combsbruce]

@goldsilverandiamonds The "lowering of lending standards" you refer to was permitted, not forced, by the lending deregulation under Bush 43 and a Republican congress. Many fly-by-night "subprime" mortgage companies were more than happy to make these loans if they could make them look sound and attractive, then sell them to other banks and investors. It's widely recognized that these new kinds of lending practices really took off in the past decade, not the Carter or Clinton years.

[jahellaspartan]

Bottom line! Our own federal government is controlled by the many powerful world coporate banking institutions (ex: Chase, J.P. Morgan, Citi Corp, Bank of America, etc...) for many years ( since the introduction of the Federal Reserve Bank of 1913). Through those many years, many banking lobbyists have payed, bought off and then control many of our political senators and congressman, as well as most of Capitol Hill. Either Wall Street or Washington D.C. are controlled by the banking world!

[Joustmasta64x]

Perhaps people need to realize the system doesnt work to make your life better. it works to make the wealthy more wealthy. once you know what you can derive from it.. how everything in goverment will work. People claim that by thinking your goverment is less then perfect makes you anti american.. and that you dont love america. well I like to think I love america in the adult sense of the word as opposed to a child who loves unconditionally no matter what mommy and daddy do.

[poisonapple16]

Michael Moore

American's Fat Bastard

[lesgov69]

The 2 biggest loosers in the country.

[levitron80]

"Losers" is spelled with a single 'o'.  Now how ironic.

[beenerkillz]

lol! SLAP

[RoyalDemonforChrist]

capatlism dosent work. moore's film got terrible numbers in the box office dispite the media praise. LOL capitalism dosent work when you have a shity product like moore.

[Signofthedollar]

Of the Michael Moore films I've seen, he shows the problem, but then he doesn't provide a solution. Take for example his anti-gun film, whats the solution? His film about a GM plant closing, a solution none. His film about health-care, he seems to suggest a government take over would be an improvement. His film on 9/11 has no solution. At least the solution to his latest movie should be obvious, it's capitalism!

[kingmafi6699]

"At least the solution to his latest movie should be obvious, it's capitalism!"

bwahahaha please put that Milton Friedman shit into the garbage bin.

[hamoana4]

signofthedollar: It's called an OPINION you idiot! Just because he didnt present his OPINION the way YOU thought it should be doesnt invalidate it. Now, Because YOU didnt present a solution I dont see why you should post here??

[gkgreger]

This Global Free Market Capitalist system has failed us! We must bring back ALL our Industries & start Manufacturing & producing products again. The fixed exchange rate system needs to go back in. Screw Free Trade & U.S. outsourcing. Lets return to a FDR style Government with lots of productive work, well paid workers & opportunities for small business entrepreneurs. A government that works for us & not Wall Street.yOUTUBE: LaRouche April 28, 2009 What is Empire 1/6

[yakyakyak69]

Todays Crony Corporatism is NOT Fee Market Capitalism.

When the Crony Corporatist's (Keynesian) Central Planning fails, Progressives blame the free market which is NOT free due to all the regulation and central planning.

Then the Crony Corporatists use their political influence to take MORE taxpayer money in the form of "Bailouts" and "loans".

This "Progressive" trend can (and will) lead us into Marxism!

BTW, Capitalists are YOU & ME who invest OUR SAVINGS in order to turn a profit.

[kingmafi6699]

Capitalism is a system of ownership of capital by private individuals who consist of a minority who force the majority to sell their labor power, This is a form of exploitation.

Society is held hostage to the decisions this minority makes and therefore they can bribe the state under the threat of greater crisis within the system.

You and I are NOT capitalists, We are merely participants who have no choice but to work for a capitalist or suffer poverty or in some nations starvation.

[noxidereus]

To people calling Moore a liar. Instead of having us accept your dumb shit as dogma, back up your claims.

[Kushmotif]

Who said Moore is against capitalism? The underlying message of his documentary is, why are we in the debacle that we are in today. To make you think other than what the government/elitist think.

Stop being a hermit to Fox news and get up and look beyond your stubbornness. Then maybe we as a whole can take a step towards voicing our opinions without being dumbed down.

What happen to the million man marches of this century?

[cruzinusa00]

It's funny how Michael Moore hates capitalism, but yet he's worth an estimated $50 million dolloars... I wonder where he made that money from....?

[zio5q]

His movies?

[Tougemaster06]

Making money isn't exclusive to Capitalism. Nor is making money wrong.

[WadeBlazingame34]

As far as I know, he didn't outsource anyone, charge an adjustable interest rate, or otherwise oppress anyone for that dough. So, you know... That's the way to do things. Costco's a good company too.

[pinochet222]

@cruzinusa00

I think you missed the point.

money is present in every political system, but money doesn't buy congressional votes and media coverage in every political system ...

[fdawn08]

He made his money by having the balls, unlike most Americans, to stand up and invloving himself in our countries discourse. Regardless of whether you agree with his opinions or not, atleast he is trying to make a difference.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

[RadarGuidedVermin]

Ya, George Soros' balls in his mouth. This overweight partisan hack couldn't make a factual movie if his next Twinkie shipment depended on it.

[fdawn08]

Oh don't you think you are so cleaver...

but you sound like an a-hole.

Many points and facts presented in MM's movies have been proven to be true.

That said, he may be partisan, but he is trying to be an active American by getting involved and standing up fro what he believes in...I will say again...to you Vermin (how appropriate)....what have you done?

[RadarGuidedVermin]

Sorry, dipshit, I don't tolerate ANY lies in my documentaries.

[fdawn08]

You still haven't answered my question (what have you done?)

...or maybe you have by your silence.

Here's another one for you Vermin...

Is a lie a lie if you believe it to be true and you can back it up?

[RadarGuidedVermin]

Yes, Fdawn08, a lie is still a lie even if you're dumb enough to believe it.

[fdawn08]

OK Vermin,

What specific "lie(s)" are you refering to?

Can you back up your accusations with specifics?

[RadarGuidedVermin]

Every idiot asks me the same question over and over again.  How stupid do you have to be not to be aware of even a single one of dozens of lies told by Moore. He said every gun owner in America is a racist. He gave the wrong per capita health care statistics in Sicko. The list of lies goes on and on.

[quitearow]

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I am really getting sick of this! VIDEO WON'T LOAD.

[gkgreger]

Free Market Capitalism (Globalization) has created a immoral bogee dog materialistic world that believes MONEY & PROFIT is the only thing that matters. The world is now rebelling against it. Let's return to the Hamilton American System of Economy with lot's of opportunity for small business entrepreneurs, productive work, well paid workers & solid risk free investments. We don't need Wall Street & PRIVATE international banking! YouTube: LaRouche Webcast Excerpt: A Monetary vs Credit System

[phoboskitty]

of course bush had nothing to do with it... he is a figurehead...

it has nothing to do with him being stupid... its just that he was not making the decisions... that dosn't mean no one had any for knowlage... that dosn't mean no one helped it along...

OTHER people control the US government... people who do not care if a few thousand people die to further there own aims...

[treid100182]

enough with LaRouche...

...he attracts lunatics into his beliefs which, not surprisingly, have intermittently changed over the years.

[lunchbox2643]

The speaker of the house got bought off...some big insurance Co is holding a fund raiser @ her home.Maybe the answer is to do away with insurance. I hear my birth cost $100 way back 50 years ago. minimum wage was what in 1959 $2.50 an hour? now it cost $5,000 $10,000 for a baby (I guess)and minimum wage is $7.25 big rate hike for one side.

[pongman]

I can't wait to see this film. I'm hoping that it will stir the citizenry as well as congress and the president to do something finally for the people. However I'm also certain that it will be just a movie like every other movie and when it comes out on video be stacked on top of some other obscure movie, and relegated as a film of a bygone era when people tried to care but really didn't. We need Upton Sinclair.

[kevmo99]

It wasn't so long ago that Arianna was a staunch conservative. She seems more like an opportunist and businesswoman than an actual ideologue. Her website is very corporate friendly.

[shanmarq]

Yes, her Website is very corporat friendly.

And she also did a fake 'I am horrified Jones signed the Truth 9/11 Movement petition' Warticle. When I tried to post the fact there is significant evidence Bush allowed 9/11 to happen and even some evidence it was an inside job, the Huffington Post blocked my user i.d. from doing any additional posts and refused to post my 9/11 comment. Use the Worldwiew and the Daily Kos for your news sources and forget about the Huffington Post.

[Dane42o]

"there is significant evidence Bush allowed 9/11 to happen and even some evidence it was an inside job"

I'd like you to prove this to me.

[llothar68]

There were memos to not use airplanes at this date. IMHO a CIA/FBI operation that went totally wrong by not stopping the terrorists soon enough. Maybe the terrorist were even encouraged by the CIA - hey we know they have done this so many times.

I doubt that Bush has anything to do nor that it was allowed to happen.

[dangerouslytalented]

Yes Bush possibly allowed it to happen through incompetence, by not reading the August 6 memo, not listening to his antiterrorism experts in the months beforehand, not having even one meeting with them.

However, there is absolutely no evidence that it was an inside job, apart from that produced by the truther movement, many of whom are making a lot of money selling tshirts and dvds of their bullshit.

[GuinnevereB]

The Roman Empire gave the public bread and circuses to keep them pacified so they wouldn't take it into their heads to revolt. Our government has figured a way to keep us confused and disorganized and buying into their agenda. They have developed the most efficient propaganda machine in history, and with it they can exploit us endlessly. They've even got most people believing that WTC 1, 2 and 7 just fell down due to "structural weakness" and all the "coincidences" on 9/11 were only that. Hah!

[prjctcivilian]

i don't think anyone, unless you have a degree in engineering and are a professional have the credibility to question all of the myth regarding 9/11.

[treid100182]

Single-Payer Now!!!!!!!!!!!!

[llothar68]

Socialism Now !!!!!!!!!!

[treid100182]

hell yeah.

[kurdatheist]

Fuck Socilaism we need more debt and Greed on Wall Street... Fuck the 95% of the peple that Moore Talks about...It is betterfor people to die f cancer than insurance companies loose a penny....

[PdishmonkeyJJ]

socialism ftw

[WKaliberr]

socialism is better

[DietLite1986]

@WKaliberr

Exactly!!!

That is why people are dying on rafts and in the desert to leave their socialist motherlands and come to America.

Last time I checked, socialism has a flawless record of keeping people down and not allowing them to be free.

[stu66er]

why is everyone of these films so damn low in volume..?

[Coelacanth1938]

Mike, we can't hear nothing. Can you turn up the volume on your next video please?

[RadarKat73080]

The audio on these videos is horrible!

[gloryoski]

Hey channel peeps: The audio on a lot of these has been incredibly low, to where you can barely hear if your ears aren't within a foot of your speakers. (At least that is the case with my laptop speakers.)

Anything chance you can fix that?

[t4ac3y1]

I just put on my ears, then I can hear it just fine.

[gloryoski]

Are you talking about headphones? Sure, I could do that, but ppl are busy. They need to move around and do stuff. I just thought if it's a problem that could be corrected easily, either now or in future ones.

[gkgreger]

OK,Free Market Capitalism (Globalization) has created a immoral bogee dog materialistic world that believes MONEY & PROFIT is the only thing that matters. The world is now rebelling against it. Let's return to the Hamilton American System of Economy with lot's of opportunity for small business entrepreneurs, productive work, well paid workers & solid risk free investments. We don't need Wall Street & PRIVATE international banking! YouTube: LaRouche Webcast Excerpt: A Monetary vs Credit System

[dangerouslytalented]

That is oversimplified. There is never such a thing as a solid risk free investment. They tried creating a system in which risk was eliminated, using dirivitives, and what happened? The risk compounded itself, until AIG and Bear Stearns collapsed.

[poshknacker]

gkgreger,

just a thought for you.

maybe less might be more.

not many people have the time or inclination to read longwinded comments.

[gkgreger]

4) Capitalism is used to build EMPIRES. In America, We don't like imperialism or imperial classes. We don't bow to Queens!  What did the evil little Queen of Buckingham palace who gets hauled around in a golden carriage ever produce of real value to others in exchange for all her wealth? Did she really earn that wealth? What about Bernie Madoff ? We must return to the American System of economy! Google: LaRouche on the American Sysytem of economics

[gkgreger]

3) But, what did he produce of real value to others in exchange for the profit he made? The shareholder does the same thing. The Capitalist is a parasite that feeds of the production of others without having to produce anything of real value himself. He is a drag in the economy & sucks money out of the economy like a tick attached to a healthy horse. He gets a free lunch. A Capitalist is BAD for any economy. Capitalism is not the American system of economy.

[gkgreger]

2) Under the real American system of economy, real wealth is measured on ones ability to manufacture & produce something. But, the Capitalist has found a way to obtain money without having to produce or manufacture anything of real value to others. He just makes his money make more money. A privet banker does the same thing. He loans you $1000. You work & produce your ass off & pay him back $1,150. He profits $150 off your ability to produce.

[justonefirefly1]

you wish! 150 on a 1000? Look at credit cards - look at those legalized thiefs - "title Loan and pay day loans. I wonder why  theses idiots are not put in jail? Throw away the key.

I can't wait to see this movie.

[dangerouslytalented]

The big problem is supply side economics.They believed that giving money to the rich would encourage them to build factories and employ people,but all it did was give them more money to invest in high interest loans and dirivitives and Madoff whatever investments that guaranteed a better income than building a factory.Result-real workers wages went down,jobs went overseas,GM and Chrysler collapsed.The loosening of credit was implemented in order to keep the economy up and it worked...for a while

[1Mastermind1990]

Kinda reminds me of this piece I was watching where George Bush admits he supports the idea of trickle down economics. like the majority of the rich are philanthropists...

[gkgreger]

1) Capitalism violates the purpose for money. There are products & services we need & desire & must have in order to survive well as a culture & Nation. We produce a verity of products & use money as the medium of exchange to obtain those different products. THAT IS THE ONLY PURPOSE FOR MONEY! It's just paper! It has no other real value or purpose. If you want more money, you must be able to CREATE & MANUFACTURE something of real value to people.