Michael Moore is at it again with his film, Capitalism: A Love Story. I'm not going to review the film or go point by point on why the film is a complete affront to logic, but I am going to raise a few quick issues with Moore's relentless attack on capitalism.

In the film he says 1) that captialism is evil and 2) that capitalists are greedy and that we should take money from the rich and give that money to the poor. My issue is that he can still say those things after being a multi-million dollar documentary maker that profited heartily off of the capitalist system. The last time I checked, he's worth somewhere in the realm of $60 million. If Moore believes what he says, the best way for him to show that would be for him to donate all of the money from his films to government agencies that help the poor, or directly to people that have less money than him. He decries the system that has made him incredibly wealthy.

That is the problem with people like Moore...they want everyone else to do what they are unwilling to do themselves.

Examples:

1) Al Gore talks about the dangers of global warming and pollution, but he flies around the world giving global warming speeches in a private jet that emits more pollution than dozens of cars. International reports have said that the greatest emitter of carbon gas is the livestock production, namely cattle. So if Mr. Gore really believes what he says, he would stop flying in his private jet and would become a vegetarian.

2) Anti-capitlalist talk show hosts on XM and Sirius radio rail on capitalism and corporations, and yet they work for a major corporation that exists only because of the capitalist system. And they are paid by those evil corporations. If they believe what they say, they should refuse to work for anything but public radio.

3) Some Republicans argue against big government and social programs, but the second that a defense spending bill full of pork projects and waste is put on their desks they see no problem with big government. Many of those Republicans end up working for the defense contractors that they pay through such bills. If Republicans really believed what they said, they would argue for all-around small government instead of small-government that's convenient for them to win an election.

There are many Moores in this country and around the world. People that have an agenda and use emotional language, film in Moore's case, to get people to agree with them and in turn give them money. Hmmm... they provide people with a product (film, speech, fuzzy feelings), in exchange for money in an effort to make a profit. Sounds like they've bought into capitalism to me.

For an actual review of Moore's film, Capitalism: A Love Story, look at this post by Michael W. Covel at the Mises Institute. He's a much better writer than myself.

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