Seeing Capitalism: A Love Story with a Real-Life Capitalist

• Anthony, Its so easy to shuffle the opinions of your fellow citizens off with racism. It just couldn't be POLICY could it? Has to be race... Little Bit Farm

• Aaron is right! Ron Paul said the country couldn't stay in a credit spin forever and tried to do something about, unlike every other member of congress. The fact that he doesn't appear in the movie only shows what pointed propaganda it truly is.

• Michael Moore is a great man. Glenn Beck is a Mormon airhole preaching to mindless idiots who hate a black president. You do the planet a great disservice when you compare them.

• I dont see the connection with Ron Paul and Glen Beck. Perhaps you should have said George Bush and Glen Beck. You shouldnt smear the only consistantly honest congressmen with a crazy neocon and birthers. Ron Paul is on completely safe ground when he says that "Obama proved he was born the USA".

• Your friend seems wilfully oblivious to the institutionalized corruption and coercive mortgage tactics that led to the housing crash. It was a shell game. He thinks the victims of a shell game should be punished because they didn't know it was a racket? And our bought-and-sold Congress made sure to keep courts from being able to modify home mortgages in bankruptcy procedures, the way you're allowed to be if you're a Wall St. broker who gets to modify the mortgage on his Montauk mansion because it's a SECOND home. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people who assume they're informed without actually knowing the facts.

• Well no disrespect to Peter's capitalism, but IMHO you could have picked someone with a stronger free market point of view than this. First of all Reagan never achieved a free market during his presidency. He reduced regulation, but he never produced a free market. Michael Moore is a communist. There is no such thing as freedom in communism. Ask those at Tiananmen Square. What communism produces is masses of people who cannot better their lives, and also have no reason to achieve their goals, because they are not allowed to have goals. The idea that we can somehow "level the playing field", is counterproductive to the pursuit of happiness. For in fact, people are consistently unhappy when they feel they are unable to reach beyond themselves for more. If you doubt this, observe government run housing projects. Socialism/Communism always purports to assist the little guy, but in practice it holds the little guy down, and historically leads to starvation and tyranny. True for Germany. True for the USSR. True for Cambodia. True for Zimbabwe. True for China. Yet in America, the push is to take our own people away from the success of the past, forward into the tyranny of the future. Life is a cycle of boom and bust. To get rid of the bust means there will be no boom either. Socialism/Communism is about creating the status quo, where nobody achieves or enjoys achievement. People are given their little piece of the pie, and only their little piece of the pie. At least, MOST people are given their little piece of the pie. The Ukranians under Stalin certainly deserved their piece of the pie as they grew food for Stalin, yet they were shot for eating the production of their own hands, all in the name of "leveling the playing field", and then starved. Millions of people historically, have found themselves in the Ukranian's position, the greater percentage of them under a Socialist/Communist regime. When is the last time MILLIONS of Americans died from starvation??? In fact, Americans thrived under a free market. YES, there were people who suffered losses, of crops, businesses, and yes a FEW even starved(Donner Party). The whole earth is in a cycle of profit and loss. The changeable weather itself guarantees success and failure. Yet, you hear nothing of leveling the weather playing field. The founding fathers of this once great nation were trying to secure the right of every American to attempt to achieve their dreams, WITHOUT the interference of government in their lives, property, or correspondence. The American people DID achieve, and we have been riding the wave of that achievement for 70+ years since the 1930's when we decided to build a better mousetrap. However, that mousetrap is choking the life out of our nation! Our once great nation of farmers, have been routed out of business by regulation and corporatization. Our businesses are being choked to death by the same things. Our health has been threatened by the interference between us and our doctors by government, and soon we will have to find some sort of health status quo, neither be too sick nor well enough not to buy into the government internment into health prison! It is NOT Capitalism that is killing and starving people! It is Socialism/Communism which will make us follow the slaves of history. For we have not lived in a capitalist society for 70+ years. We live in a Socialist/Communist society! Socialism and Communism are two sides of the same exact coin. In one government owns all the property. In the other government controls all the property, and the net result is the same!Tyranny! So here's the deal, if we continue down the path of Michael Moore, Democrats, and Republicans(who are all on the same side with some exceptions), we may as well get in line(the bread line, the gas chamber line, the starvation line, the firing line...). For that is where we are headed like it or not! Little Bit Farm

• Wow, a liberal saying Michael Moore is like Glenn Beck. You're gonna get fired.

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