Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' - Flint Sit-Down Strike

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[brookstileandstone]

my great grandfather was a sitdowner, my grandmother told us how the women and children marched right through the hired thugs, not one of them wanted to be the first one to hit a woman, they had bags of food for the strikers hidden in the middle of the mass of people , we owe this generation for many of the labor laws we take for granted today, they earned them for us

[randroid88]

Back in nineteen hundred and twenty-five There were thousands of people struggling to survive. There was hunger, unemployment and poverty, Then in 1926 they decided to be free So they all went on strike and The workers told the unions, who blamed it on the government, The politicians blamed it on the strikers and the militants, Everybody's guilty and everybody's innocent, But the fact of it is nobody gives any more. RAY DAVIES (The KINKS)

[fluffynoses]

@pf91rodman yeah that was definitely a dark stain on his presidency. and he also gets more credit for the New Deal.  that being said I wouldn't say he is a horrible president in fact scholars consistently rank him top three

[pf91rodman]

@fluffynoses

FDR was a horrible president. He signed the Japanese internment camp order stripping Japanese Americans of their constitutional rights. He doesn't care about the constitution at all, just like Obama today.

[nicenonya3]

@rjspeleton you mean Hoover's great depression!

[fluffynoses]

@expatted oh hell no. obama can't carry FDR or even LBJ's jock for that matter

[fluffynoses]

@gundamWWW FDR was one of the best presidents we had...i mean sure the new deal didn't really get america out of the depression, but he was a true leader especially during the global crisis that was WW2

[MrAsiaBill]

Americans like anyone else on earth enjoy their lifestyle ONLY after FIGHTING for it at HOME! So the idea that American armed forces are responsible for others' freedom and lifestyle serves as only a decoy to divert Americans' away from the injustices at HOME! Only the Iraqis and Afghanis can fight for their own freedom and lifestyle just like our ancestors did.

[tommyt1971]

It's right there in the 1st amendment, "redress of grievances" - words we should be living by & don't these days because corporations have hijacked our legislative process.

[expatted]

Think Obama would do the same? ... NO.

[rjspeleton]

The actual facts (rather than progressive populist propaganda) about 1937 America can be found in detail and context in Amity Schlae's book, "The Forgotten Man" which proves the disaster of FDR'd New Deal and government prolonging the Great Depression. It can also be found in the full understanding of the law of supply and demand.

[dlbysr44]

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