While browsing the close-out sale at a Blockbusters store a 99 cent sales display jumped out. See photo on the right and note the movie on the far left of the display.
It's Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. I didn't buy it -- let his fans give up their own money. But that's the essence of capitalism. Let people do with their money what they want to do with their money, and an economy will flourish. And the price will reflect the value customers place on it. The fact that Moore's movie languishes at discounted prices tells us that maybe the price is still too high.
Judging from the IMDB.com plot summaries the movie is a diatribe against capitalism. Samples:
What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. ...
However capitalism as seen the United States today, which truly took hold in the Reagan era, is more about the want of the wealthy to get wealthier at the expense of all others. ...
Michael Moore himself seems have done OK by capitalism. Maybe Moore could have demonstrated his concern for those who haven't made out as well by bailing out Blockbuster, a store chain which probably contributed mightily to Mr. Moore's considerable wealth.
For a better read on capitalism, let's seek out some smarter people:
Milton Friedman:
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Larry Elder:
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Warren Buffett:
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Ron Paul:
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Terry McAuliffe:
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.
Fidel Castro:
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
---Moore has yet to delve into the nature of unaccountable
world USURY, and says nothing at all about our 4 decades
underway Globalist-RED China sellout, set up and TREASON OP.
Posted by: anon Ymus | December 29, 2011 at 10:27 PM