End Poverty to Stop Crime

Capitalism: A Love Story is the most important movie Michael Moore has made and it has become clear that he is the Thomas Paine of our generation. Yes, it is polemic against a system that is obviously inherently flawed. One needs to look no further than their own neighborhood to see that no one is secure in their profession, their investments their assets or their future. America is broken but that doesn’t mean that American citizens have forgotten how to perceive what horse shit smells like.

I assumed the movie was going to be populated with sob stories of families losing their houses, families that most likely bought into the “tap the equity in your homes” sales pitch and I was right. This is the easy story that network news has focused on in regards to the aftermath of the financial collapse over a year ago.

What I wasn’t prepared for was how mad I was going to get about the section of the movie where it was revealed that the largest companies in the country, companies each of us do business with on some level, routinely take out life insurance policies on their employees and collect on these policies when the employees die. The families get nothing, mind you, nothing at all. It’s like me taking out a home insurance policy on my neighbor’s house and if there isn’t a law against it, there fucking well should be. This is so inherently immoral and evil that it makes me wish that Congress would have pulled the plug on this entire system a year ago

I won’t spoil the rest of the movie but I hope you’ll trust me when I tell you that it is your civic duty to see this movie.

Beyond just seeing the movie, there is the what to do afterwards. Start with reading Ron Pauls’ book End the Fed. The system of fractional reserve banking, at the heart of the financial crisis, has allowed banks to essentially print their own money, to operate outside of congressional or judicial restraint, and to exert tremendous pressure on the Executive branch. The monster underneath this Darth Vader mask is the Federal Reserve, a printing press for the unscrupulous with no moral foundation and with system of reprecussion.

Beyond that, I just have a lot of shit to think about; the whole thing makes my head spin.
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