Movie Review, I finally saw Fahrenheit 911 Options

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It was on cable so I watched it with my wife.

I should point out that I am as much a fan of Michael Moore as I am of our current President, holding neither in high regard.

I think Moore over-reached when portraying our President as a moron. The President himself brags about being nothing more than a 'C' student in college, I didn't see the point in reiterating this point over and over again.

I was disturbed by the blatant display of corporate greed by Haliburton, a company that will make billions on the backs of soldiers making $1200 a month and make a bunch of Bush's friends millionaires many times over in the process. Where are the 'outraged' Republicans that just couldn't live with themselves knowing that friends of the Clintons made $117,000 on the Whitewater deal? I am surprised that Moore did not capitalize on this fact.

For the most part, I thought the movie was foolish. Over and over again we saw pictures of Bush with the Saudi's. I am sure there are just as many pictures of Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter and every other modern President with the Saudi's, for no other reason than they were/are our allies.

I also thought it was foolish to ask Senators and Congressmen to volunteer their children for military service. I surmise he would have gotten the same reaction if he stood outside any Fortune 500 company headquarters.

Following the marine recruiters was just plain retarded. These guys are doing their jobs and for a lot of people, the military is a very attractive option. He made a big deal of the recruiters avoiding a suburban mall and going to the hood instead. Did he really think the 'priveleged' kids look forward to a military career?

All in all, the movie was ok, not great, not bad. Too much opinion and not enough facts.

One more thing, I will give $100 to the first person that finds the cunt who claimed that poor woman's grief was staged and punches her in the face and kicks her in the ovaries so she can never procreate. I have never in my life seen such cruelty spew from a human mouth. At that point in the movie I was disgusted to share the same air as my fellow American.

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Cypher

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Not true...
As much as the term "Reagenomics" is overused it was it was nothing new and it's not what his administration called it the term actually came from the media. Reagan's plan was simply "supply-side" economics dressed up.
Many people talk about Reagan cutting taxes for the rich but thats far from the truth. The Tax plan signed into law in 1981 called for a 25% cut in taxes across the board. Everybody's tax burden was reduced by the same amount. The reason it's so easy for people to portray the tax cut as only for the wealth is a simply but always overlooked situation, the poor don't pay taxes or very little.
BTW the idea behind trickle down economics actually did work and here is why.
Prior to Reagan's tax cuts the tax rate had slowly moved up wards for several years. The effect this had is called the Laffer Curve. The initially raise in taxes causes a temporary raise in tax revenue but as the tax rate goes up revenue actually begins to fall. This is for several reason, economic growth stops, job creation slows, the rich spend their money abroad or in many cases hide their money abroad.
In 1980 the top tax rate was over 70%, by 1988 this had been lowered to around 30%. Did this mean the tax revenue also dropped by 40%, nope just the opposite.
The top 10% of taxpayers contributed 48% of the total in 1981, but 58% in 1988 a 10% increase. Even bigger increases where seen as you go up the money ladder.
The top one 1% paid 17% of all taxes in 1981 but this grew to 27% by 1988. Taxes paid by the super wealthy ( top .1% ) almost doubled in the same period, they went from 17% in 1981 up to 27% in 1989.
Think about that, the top 0.1% paid over 25% of all the taxes in 1989.
I'm always amazed how easily people buy into the rhetoric about how the rich don't pay their share of taxes.