Wealthy film maker Michael Moore decided to give the residents of his adopted community in Michigan an early view of his new documentary on Saturday, urging them to help him overthrow our wicked economic system he stated was beyond help.
The latest film revisits some of Moore's earlier movies, including a trip to his native Flint, Michigan where his own father was a car assembly line worker and was able to buy a home, a car, educate his children (except Michael, apparently) and look forward to a decent pension.
So Moore's dad, according to Moore's reasoning, was of the worse sort. But not perhaps as bad as his son who keeps making money off the poor people whom the wicked system condemns.
More than 500 of the people state with the highest unemployment crowded into a theater in Bellaire to see "Capitalism: A Love Story," a film based on the premise that greed and corruption have subverted the U.S. democracy.
"There has got to be a change. I don't own a single share of the market", Moore reportedly restates in the movie.
He's right. He doesn't own a single share according to a recent article. He owns tens of thousands of shares - including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
No report has been made on how much he earned from movie goers this day. Perhaps none. But the publicity should help to fill up the theaters with those poor souls that Moore wants to spend their last bits of cash, they have left, on his movies.
What is Michael Moore the capitalist hater worth? At present, WikiAnswers says "50 Million Dollars".
Or somewhere in the range of other leaders for the poor of their own country, like the estate of the late Yasser Arafat.
