Democracy And Capitalism: It's A Love - Hate Relationship For Michael Moore Open Media Boston:
"Because as many citizens as possible should view the devastating effects of home foreclosures on families throughout this country. Because people need to see what happens when municipalities cede public service functions to private for-profit corporations (like the privately owned reform school in Wilkes Barre, PA that made a deal with a juvenile court judge to “buy” wayward kids and warehouse them long past a reasonable sentence.)
Because every American voter needs to hear the Congresspersons interviewed in Moore’s film who describe how Bush administration officials - and the leadership of the Democratic Party, such as Chris Dodd and Barney Frank – frightened their colleagues into voting for the bank bailout with tactics including admonitions that “martial law [presumably to quell a violent revolution of the masses] might be necessary” if the bailout money was not approved."
"Because as many citizens as possible should view the devastating effects of home foreclosures on families throughout this country. Because people need to see what happens when municipalities cede public service functions to private for-profit corporations (like the privately owned reform school in Wilkes Barre, PA that made a deal with a juvenile court judge to “buy” wayward kids and warehouse them long past a reasonable sentence.)
Because every American voter needs to hear the Congresspersons interviewed in Moore’s film who describe how Bush administration officials - and the leadership of the Democratic Party, such as Chris Dodd and Barney Frank – frightened their colleagues into voting for the bank bailout with tactics including admonitions that “martial law [presumably to quell a violent revolution of the masses] might be necessary” if the bailout money was not approved."