Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:12:00
Moore, Social Security and patriotism
Originally posted at Moorewatch. Re-posted here for those of you that don’t want to visit that joint. :)
In the middle of a conversation we were having with my in-laws about how they receive their SS payments, something occurred to me: Moore has told another little lie, and keeps telling it over and over again.
Fact: 80% of the people who receive Social Security do so via Direct Deposit. 80% of the people that receive Social Security do not receive checks every month, but rather automated wire transfers. Using that example to prove that a single-payer healthcare system is easy to run in America is absolutely ludicrous.
Supplemental Fact: Those same 80% never see a piece of mail that “arrives on the same day every month.” Of the 20% who do get a physical check mailed to them, you can find hundreds - if not thousands - of examples of checks arriving late, for the wrong amounts, etc.
Sure, it’s a small detail, but one Moore has been relying on heavily to “prove” that Special Free Super Cheap Universal Health Magic For All can be done, done well and done by our federal machine exclusively. He’s using a half-truth and a small lie to try to convince America to enact the largest socialist program in the history of the nation.
By the way...the next time you hear Moore say he loves America, here’s some proof, by his own words, that he’s lying. Mikey took part in a Q&A (heavy on the Q, very very light on the A) over at Crooks & Liars. Here’s what he wrote that, in my opinion, proves he has never and will never love the United States of America as it was founded and exists today. First, when asked about his next project, he said:
If you look at the other films in order, you can see a theme and pattern, but much more I can’t tell you yet.
Later, in response to someone asking him to clarify, he wrote:
The theme i referred to that exists in all my films is the economic system that we live under. It’s unfair, unjust, and not democratic.
And there you have it. Moore believes that our entire economic system is wrong. Of course, it’s the reason we exist as a separate nation - we wanted a free market, and we were sick and tired of our market being controlled by one dottering old madman thousands of miles away. We fought a war to establish, among other things, our right to have a free market economy. It’s one of the cornerstones of this great country, and Michael abhors it.
His desire has always been to see socialism established in the U.S. in any way possible. It’s the central theme to every film and most of his television and written projects as well. It’s why he overlooks Castro’s horrible abuses and murderous past to champion him as a man of the people. In Moore’s mind, human rights can only be abused by those of a right-wing persuasion. Anything to the left is inherently good, and the further left you go the better. Unions should be able to bankrupt a company. Guns belong only in the hands of the state. Government should dole out your healthcare. F911 was the aberration, and that was about capturing lightning in a bottle. The radical hatred of Bush wasn’t going to be marketable for very long.
Moore wants to literally destroy one of the cornerstones of the United States of America. It’s not just about healthcare. He wants the government - or rather, a far left government - in charge of everything. I do not believe Moore loves the United States of America. I believe he’s in love with the idea of turning it into the People’s Republic of America.
Posted by JimK at 07:12 PM on July 25, 2007
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#4 Posted by JimK 
on 07/25 at 10:00 PM -
I think it’s supposed to, that comes from a permanent template. But can you actually still edit past 3 mins? Hard for me to tell, as admin I can edit forever regardless of the time limit. I can even edit yours. :)
#5 Posted by Buzzion on 07/25 at 10:15 PM -
no the ability to edit is gone. I could have sworn though that the display disappeared after 3 minutes before.
#6 Posted by JimK on 07/25 at 10:56 PM -
There, I think I made it so that it will all disappear after three minutes.
I think. :)
#7 Posted by Ryley R. Hayes on 07/26 at 12:56 AM -
“...we were sick and tired of our market being controlled by one dottering old madman thousands of miles away.”
I don’t know why, but that made me laugh hard enough to make what I was eating come out my nose. Unfortunately it was hot sauce…
#8 Posted by Technomad on 07/26 at 02:38 PM -
I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but the “blogads” on the left side of your blog are wide enough to make the blog hard to read---the leftmost few words of everything are covered.
I agree about Mikey longing for a socialist America. I’d love to know why he took that particular turn. Was he that upset that Flint’s good times didn’t last forever?
#9 Posted by miguelito on 07/26 at 06:02 PM -
”...we were sick and tired of our market being controlled by one dottering old madman thousands of miles away.”
And they tried to setup a small federal government to keep that one dottering old man from becoming a group of dottering old men doing the same thing. Unfortunately that’s long since been overcome by the idiots in Washington DC.
#10 Posted by Ryley R. Hayes on 07/27 at 12:26 AM -
Indeed.
I forgot to mention, I thought this was one of the most thoughtful posts I’ve read on this blog.
While loving America does include wanting changes for the better to be made, it doesn’t include such a radical alteration of American society.
#11 Posted by Drumwaster on 07/27 at 01:05 PM -
The theme i referred to that exists in all my films is the economic system that we live under. It’s unfair, unjust, and not democratic.
Does this mean that Mikey will be giving back all that filthy lucre that he stole from the “unfair, unjust and not democratic” economic system he alleges to be exposing?
Or is he just a hypocrite who sees himself as the arbiter of what is fair and just and democratic because he has stolen so much of that lucre?
Yet more proof that fame does not equal wisdom.
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 07/25 at 08:42 PM -
Hey jim, I think your 3 minute limit on comment editing is broken. Seems to be on infinite time limit.