I wonder if Moore also showed footage of FDRs confiscation of personal gold, plans to pack the Court because his proposals were deemed unconstitutional, he destruction of food crops while people were starving and waiting in soup lines, his requirment of mandatory union membership, and his over-regulation of the market that prolonged and deepened the depression so that only WWII brought us out of the nightmare? I doubt it. I wonder if he showed the "love story" that is socialism communism and/or facism and the number of deaths at the hand of government in those regimes? Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Che, Castro. The list goes on and on and on. While Moore is entitled to his opinion and this country provides him the ability to bash and smear those in power, it is my opinion that his priorities and world view are skewed and he really does a disservice to the united states. Who else in history has advocated gun control, universal health care, and the "evils" of capitalism? Some of those folks above sound familiar. Do we need control of criminals, yes. Do we need reform to health care costs, yes. Do we need to find ways to prevent economic collapse, yes. But trashing our current system and beginning anew is not at all the right way to do it. We have been more prosperous and generous and have had one of the highest standards of living ever known. By and large the constitutional and capitalist system we have has served us beyond expectations. Don't let Moore convince you that the baby should be thrown out with the bathwater.

Rant over.

I notice that Mr. Moore is not giving away that majority of the vast funds he earns with his films. You would think that such a crusader would give 90% away and live modestly the way he advocates others do for the greater good. The truth is, was and always will be that he is proof positive that capitalism IS rampant greed and HE will do and say anything to get his hands on more money which he then keeps for himself.

This article is such a Michael Mooron.

As a Canadian we watch the insular right wing ideology being sold to Americans as a tragedy. Micheal Moore's movies offer a glimpse outside of the prism of thought and that is really a godsend. America history of progressive social innovation needs to be celebrated and not shout down by thuggishness.

You need to stop the ideological fear mongering and return to the pragmatism and innovation that got you where you are. If there is a better way to do something cheaper and more efficient why not do that? (Universal Medicare) (regulation) to me thats capitalism vs ideology. Your are sounding so dying empire these days.

The problem is he is wrong. Capitalism is not really a system, it is an equation. Marx predicted that the exploitation of capital would destroy the society, as value was destroyed. In volume 3 of capital it was predicted, that the system would collapse.

In many ways Michael Moore is a capitalist. He gets financing to make movies, he has to make a profit, and looking at the shape of him, I would doubt he shares that profit evenly with the workers involved in his projects.

The movie is entertainment, but not a proper analysis. State capitalism can be just as cruel, maybe more so, because if profit doesn't motivate people, then often it a fear of violence and public humiliation.

Look at this swine flu hysteria. Now there is talk of mass immunization and quarantine...even when more people die in car accidents every day than they do of the flu.

When something appears to be stupid, usually it is because someone gained power while something else was destroyed. And that is what the problem. Ugly power grabs not a simple accounting equation.

The real problem is that we don't have a free market, or free elections. Everyone who runs for election appears to be a millionaire. There are so many barriers of entry of a business, one being hillbilly city planers, who are able to change the rules, the goal post and entrance to driveways. Whenever something stupid happens and makes you wonder why, then just find out who made money and who lost money. That is the equation. Exploiting changes in pricing, especially oil derivatives, with all the problems in the middle east, what did they think was going to happen. Of course the Maddoff case and the Enron cases were stupid too, but look how much money was being made. That is not the fault of capitalism, it is the fault of the fixed market. The whole thing, including SEC's inability to respond, appeared fixed, too many rules for people to get around, and not enough concern for the public interest or following accepted accounting and auditing principles.

FDR was right. The government must protect it's people from the greedy, immoral and rapacious few who want to be rich and powerful and will tell any lie and commit any act to achieve their goals.
Some of the best and worst minds in economics have endorsed capitalism as a feasible system. Keynes, Schumpeter, Krugman (the best) endorse it with caveats about the need for regulations and limits. Milton Friedman (the worst) and his ilk, pushed for "pure capitalism," which is just another way of saying complete exploitation or starvation of the working class.
A government can intrude too far into an economy, but that is preferable to allowing the richest few to suck the life's blood from a people and leave them with debt and despair, while they sail off to their shangri-las with their ill-gotten gains.

Thank you Michael Moore for having the courage to show the truth, unlike the mainstream media.

Michael Moore's movie, "Sicko," should be required viewing for every American. They then might get some idea as to how bad a scam their private healthcare system is.
I'm sure Moore's new film will be equally pertinent, and will be roundly trashed by the right-wingers, including those who can't find jobs in the aftermath of our "deregulated" capitalist economy.

The thing that drives neocons up the wall about this guy is that he always ends up having been correct. They've never been able to disprove his facts although he continually offers a cash prize to anyone who can dispute his facts. No one has ever collected. Also--he's funny. The right wing has no representative who can even crack a joke. Watching Glen Beck TRYING hard to be funny is about the best they have to offer.

Glenn Beck is the personification of the right-wing in America.
Ignorant, buffoonish, irresponsible, deceitful and malicious.
If anyone thinks the Republican Party has any redeeming values, watch Beck and be disabused of this delusion.

Moore is a boorish twit. He makes Palin look like Einstein.

Michael Moore is getting us to talk about capitalism, democracy, socialism, and even FDR, this is exactly what he is provoking us to do! Muckraking at it's best, the dialogue is very important right now, we need to think about our future post haste. Film has always been a great way to tell a good story and documentaries like Mr. Moores' can have a great impact, I say don't ignore him just because you don't agree, open your mind!

Right wingers hate Moore because he makes them think, and that is very painful for their tiny pea brains.

I find it interesting that rightwingers constantly equate the fact that Micheal Moore is overweight with him being some greedy capitalist pig duping everyone poor into handing him their money and laughing all the way to the bank. So if he was a skinny man, maybe we could give him more credence?

I don't agree with everything this man says, nor do I think his films are above reproach (I've yet to find a documentary film maker who doesn't have some axe to grind - why make a documentary if you don't care about the issue in the first place?), but this man's body of work speaks for itself. Is it his FAULT that one of his movies (Bowling for Columbine) really touched a nerve with Americans and catapulted him into the 'mainstream' of Hollywood? Do you think he plotted this?

I find his personal story inspiring, his films thought-provoking, and his overall cultural critique to be pretty much spot on (though some of his tactics to prove points can be rather juvenile). I've yet to find a filmmaker on the right that could do any of this. I guess it is easier to shred and denigrate someone who actually is doing SOMETHING to positively impact regular, working/middle class Americans.

And btw - Mr. Moore does A LOT of good things with the profits from his movies and books. Unlike Republicans, he's not living like a king through lying, cheating, corrupting, and exploiting.

The truth hurts doesn't it right-wing, reactionary America?