Comments on: Capitalism, a shrug story.

By: frederic

frederic — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:18:58 +0000

Michael Moore will make a huge profit on a movie that bashes capitalism… Ironic or Hypocritical???

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:07:00 +0000

The thing that scares me the most is having to go on Medicare in three years.

As someone who just went ON Medicare, I can tell you it’s a bitch. Very hard to find a doctor who will take Medicare patients, particularly here, where there are few doctors anyway, none in some specialties. My own situation was made worse by the fact that we moved, so I had to find a new doctor. I think my old one would have [reluctantly] kept me, but finding a new one is a real problem.

Makes me wonder about the “Medicare for all” route. I know it will be better that the current “die in the streets” alternative, but it’s got a lot of holes.

Re Michael Moore’s latest [and I love him]: I’ll be interested to hear folks’ reactions. I saw it this past weekend and was disappointed. It doesn’t hit Obama hard at all; in fact suggests that he’s an “agent of change.” [Unless Moore was being so deeply ironic that it passed me by.]

By: twolf1

twolf1 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:29:19 +0000

Are you referring to comment 28?

By: HagAdort8

HagAdort8 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:29:11 +0000

OH; this is how it works!! Am I given a voice? FINALLY! Why is so much information requested though?

By: HagAdort8

HagAdort8 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0000

WHY isn’t my response submitted?

By: HagAdort8

HagAdort8 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:16:28 +0000

Wait,wait-HOLD-UP! Is the moon to be bombed? Can I be jailed for refusing healthcare and fines? Friends tell me these things and I don’t believe them!

By: twolf1

twolf1 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:45:34 +0000

The moon deserves to be bombed. That shifty-eyed man up there has been staring at us for quite some time and he can’t be trusted. He needs to be put in his place.

By: AngelsAwake

AngelsAwake — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:20:03 +0000

Why are we bombing the moon? Between wingnuts rewriting the Bible and scientists blowing up celestial bodies, I don’t know what the fuck the country is doing anymore.

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:05:09 +0000

Are we bombing the moon with taxpayer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ so we can shoot an asteroid out of the sky? Or are we doing it to feel macho again? What? Is it a message to Russia or China? Have they figured out what will happen if they throw the moon out of orbit?
What KIND of “bomb”. Is this some anti-feminist thing going on here?
I don’t get it!
Another great post, atta-boy

PS: any one notice “Texasreader” was a hit and run????

By: beaupeyton

beaupeyton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:36:14 +0000

I agree. But we’re talking about baby steps here. Real wealth and security is created through equity, and as you point out, that’s the only way workers every really have any security. Unions can’t do that, but equity can. And there’s all sorts of examples where this works very, very well.

What’s happening now is a parallel system of businesses, employee owned operations, are springing up creating a new way of doing things. The only way to get the top down businesses to convert would be for the majority stake holders to sell their equity to the company and then have those shares equally redistributed to the workers. Or, a revolution where the equity is taken at the point of a bayonet.
;)