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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I happen to find that link a while back.
This would be my single biggest reason why Reagan's plan didn't work as it should of
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But those military budgets were not significantly larger than during the 70s, and were smaller than in the Kennedy and Johnson years. No, it was domestic spending, and particularly entitlement spending, that grew enormously under the Democrat congress.

Reagan used the exact same economic plan as president as he did as Governor in California. The only real difference is in California he was able to use the line item veto to cut unneeded spending, where he lacked the same tool as president.


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When I was talking about congress spending the money, I was mainly talking about the differences between the democratic and Republican majorities between the Reagan and Clinton terms.
Normally the budget deceit left by Reagan is blamed on military spending. The truth is although military spending was way up compared to Carters years, it wasn't excessive as it's normally made out to be. Entitlement spending attached to every piece of legislation during Reagan's terms was way up and was a large part of the deficit Reagan left.

BTW I agree with people can't have it both ways. People always give to much credit or blame to this president or that president regarding the economy, it's cyclic in nature and will always have it's ups and downs. At best the government can only give it a budge this way or that way.
If the person giving credit to Clinton for the economy or blaming Bush for it, if they don't give specific example of policies that caused what they are talking about they are simply talking out the side of their mouth.