Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Political Wire, December 4th – Filmmaker Michael Moore received $841,145 in tax incentives from the State of Michigan to make Capitalism: A Love Story, a documentary against corporate welfare, the New York Times reports.
Detroit News, Dec.7th – …a plan is being solidified in the governor’s office that would guide Michigan’s largest city through what is being called a managed bankruptcy.
There’s a Bette Midler song about this: “Ya got to have Frie-ends…!”
Detroit rots while FatMike gets most of a million bucks, them some good friends Mikey has eh?
Although in fairness, a million would fall into the black hole of Detroit and not even make a ripple.
“Old Detroit has a cancer…” Time for Robocop.
Moore is just another bloated, leftist, hypocrite.
Well, well, well, another of my pet theories bites the dust!
I’ve been arguing with free-market-challenged friends that, notwithstanding his virulent anti-capitalism rhetoric, Michael Moore, himself, is a true capitalist. Damnation hell! Back to the drawing board.
One of these friends sent me a link to a 12-page article at the NY Times about all the subsidies corporations were ripping off towns, counties and states with as a kind of greenmail to retain jobs in their jurisdictions. I told him that I was against all subsidies to corporations, no exceptions, including “infant industries” which usually become “demented industries” and die! And no matter if said industries are being subsidized elsewhere.
I’ll say this again: as these rip-offs are all about jobs, JOBS, JOBS, we should remember that the unemployment problem is a government-caused one. As Mises put it, “In the unhampered market economy there is no involuntary unemployment”.
me no dhimmi – exactly right. The unemployment problem is caused by government and its socialist interference with the free market and free competition.
It’s hilarious that Moore, the enemy of capitalism, himself uses a taxpayer government subsidy to produce a film about capitalism. He can’t produce a thing on the competitive market but must reduce the taxpayers to his slaves.
They should just fence off Detroit, and place notices on the fence along the lines of:
“This site is preserved as a memorial and warning of what unrestrained Democrat government does to a prosperous city.”
They should just fence off Detroit, and place notices on the fence along the lines of:
“This site is preserved as a memorial and warning of what unrestrained Democrat government does to a prosperous city.”
Wlhen you watch TV, always look at the credits at the end of the programs. If you watch carefully you will see that almost all of the “dramas” are partially financed by either federal or provincial entities.
I’m not sure of the actual amounbts, but I’m betting it’s substantial.
The Michigan Govenor and the Legislature will debate and possibly pass a “right to work” law for the State. The Repub. gov. has indicated he will sign. If this happens, Michigan may not go down the tubes but join with othe Northern Union states as right to work. But don’t worry union leaderw and members in Ontario it won’t happen here. We just become less competitive.
Hudak is touting a right to work plan in his platform. Unfortunately it will never fly in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Morontario.
Mike in White Rock, government grants help to fund all kinds of television programs, including some on Slice TV. (I read the credits.)
Ever watch ‘Til Debt Do Us Part’?
I would love to see Jason Kenney as Prime Minister, with Gail Vaz-Oxlade as Finance Minister.:)
Mike in White Rock, government grants help to fund all kinds of television programs, including some on Slice TV. (I read the credits.)
Ever watch ‘Til Debt Do Us Part’?
I would love to see Jason Kenney as Prime Minister, with Gail Vaz-Oxlade as Finance Minister.:)
Indeed, Mike in White Rock.
This often makes even ME uncomfortable when I watch (that rare) something on TV that I really like and then see the dreary alphabet soup of government agencies that show up in the credits.
Case in point, that show Hope for Wildlife about that little rehabilitation operation in Nova Scotia that restores damaged wildlife back to health and nature.
You can see how anti-market types would fall for the argument that, but for government assistance, such worthy projects might not come to fruition.
Nevertheless, the moral high ground should be: “Well I consider it a very worthy project but I can’t support forcing people to fund it who don’t agree with me”.
some in here fail understand people (and I use that word loosely)like MMMM(much more micheal moore) and geeorge soreass (soros), it’s that they don’t like capitalism, which is different from not liking MONEY!!!!
Oh, the ironing!
I’m sure there’s a book out there that explains how people can take government handouts to lampoon corporate welfare, or jet all around the world to decry our mass massive carbon footprint, without killing themselves in despair over their own hypocrisy.
M.Moore unintentionally plays into the opposed side in all of his movies. He makes good modern docus, but he has no idea of the effects,,or so i noticed.
LOVE MICHAEL MOORE!!
He’s the pillsbury/poster boy for the hippocracy of the left.
Including 1% lefty film-makers LOL!
Mike;
Watch any of the specialty TV programing and you usually see federal funding. HGTV is hughly funded.
It is one of those dirty little secrets about the Canadian federation. Watch the credits and see how many Quebec based programs receive federal funding. English programs but filmed and staffed from Quebec. Not to pic on Quebec alone as Ontario is right there as well. Personally if I want to watch Mike Homles then I should pay for it. I don’t think my tax dollars should be going there to subsidize it. But what the heh, I just another western redneck.