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Michael Moore recently posted a disturbing message on his Facebook site. At least it was disturbing to me. It was on election day hours before the polls were closing. Now understand, if this this was done by a person who wasn’t famous, I would be fine with it but when you are famous like Michael, I fee there is a certain level of responsibility you must take. This is what he said :
If you know someone who still hasn’t voted yet and is on the fence – and you think a personal call or text from me may help – text me their cell # at 810-522-8398. I will try to personally contact as many of them as I can in the next few hours. Every minute counts! (don’t post their cell on Facebook – you must text it to me at my personal phone number – which i guess i’ll have to change after today hahaha).
Now before you read my response, understand I do not believe in political parties. I think there are good ideas and bad ideas from both sides. I think for myself and do not require a party to tell me how to feel or vote.
This is was my response on his Facebook page
Michael Moore you are a great story teller but I find it shameful that you would use your celebrity status to influence people’s decision with a star-struck phone call. I believe you have a good heart and want to do the right thing. I know that you believe Obama (or the left) is the answer and that’s fine, I respect that, but by posting this you are no different than the PR mainstream media machine that pushes propaganda towards ignorant American’s and brainwashes them on how they should vote. Any politician that would allow over $1 billion dollars to influence their camp (mainly with school kid mentality smear ads) is un-American and immoral and both Obama and Romney did so. I understand the system forces them to play this game but we shouldn’t be encouraging people to vote for the broken system candidates or that bullshit term “lesser of two evil”. It’s still evil…Why wouldn’t you vote for good? We should be encouraging people to fix the system so this crazy amount of money called bribery will end or at least diminish greatly. I know you are against money in politics Michael (http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/auction-2012-top-10-reasons-get-money-out) so why vote for the system that is exactly the opposite of what you stand for? Get the word out the right way, with your movies and your FB and your blog. IMO the answer is simple….just follow the constitution and stop and think before you support policies that hurt the masses. It’s called common sense and neither the democrats nor the republicans seem to have a clue about this.
If you want to inform yourself about how much money is being used to bribe candidates and where it comes from, you will have a very hard time finding it on CNN, FOX, or NBC… but you will find it here at OpenSecrets.Org
If you believe money is the root of all evil and does not help level the playing field for voters like you and me, you may want to hear what Dylan Ratigan has to say about it in this video.
Oh man…I feel so good every time I hear this video.
Citizens Gateway recently announced that they will be producing a powerful documentary that will find real life solutions to save America’s economy. The original release date was scheduled in time for the 2012 elections but due to a lack of funds, the film has been pushed back to later in 2013. The film is non-partisan which explains why money would be hard to raise. If it was a right wing or left wing film, perhaps the movie would be in theaters in time for the election. To learn more about the film, you can visit wtpmovie.com
Mission Statement from the filmmakers
WE THE PEOPLE is a film about how to fix the American Economy and bring back the American Spirit.
We Believe……
Capitalism can be successful if treated with respect (moral capitalism)
There is no quick solutions
Great things can happen in great numbers
Americans need to be more proactive for their country
With great power and money comes great responsibility
Almost everyone was responsible for the 2008 crash
We should hold the reckless banks, CEO’s, and financial institutions accountable for the problems they helped create
We should hold the rating agencies accountable for the problems they helped create
We let CDO’s and CDS’s get very dangerous and they should have been regulated
Many leaders were warned about the 2008 crash but did nothing
The bailouts were unfair
People should understand how bubbles work
Letting banks fail may have been an option
If we did let them fail, we should have let smaller banks take pieces of the larger reckless banks
If you are too big to fail, you can take down a nation
Theres enough money in America for us to have prosperity
If you work hard and you are good at what you do, you deserve a shot at the American Dream
The gap between rich and poor is way to big
More companies should remember why they are successful and help the people and their country, who made it possible
Paying close attention to our national debt and doing something drastic to shrink it
China may soon exceed our GDP
Globalization can be dangerous and that we should re-think our global solutions
In bringing back jobs to America even if it hurts a little
The Federal Reserve should be audited regularly
The Federal Reserve may have too much power
The Federal Reserve’s job was to avoid us from the Great Depression and 2008 crash but instead they were partly responsible
Michael Moore recently posted a disturbing message on his Facebook site. At least it was disturbing to me. It was on election day hours before the polls were closing. Now understand, if this this was done by a person who wasn’t famous, I would be fine with it but when you are famous like Michael, I fee there is a certain level of responsibility you must take. This is what he said :
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