Michael Moore: New film premiers at festival, blasts capitalism

Michael Moore is a gadfly, not just of the state like Socrates was, but Moore would definitely fit into the Socratic maxim of "An unexamined life is not worth living."  Moore is our 21st century examiner and delver into topics that might otherwise go unexamined using the one of the most popular and vast mediums of our time:  The Film Expose Documentary.  

Did the Founding Fathers imagine industrialization?

I would argue that Alexander Hamilton did have this vision.  The scientific wonders of the 1760s from the first steam engine built by James Watt, hot-air ballons in the 1780s, and Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin and the use of interchangeable parts in the 1790s.  Technology was on the march at this time in Britain especially in textiles.  Britain was emgerging as an economic world leader. Hamilton as secretary treasurer celebrated the growth of American industry in a competitive spirit alongside England which was contrary to his opposition that proffered his image as being a tool of the British.  His policies were consistent with the drive for trade on equal terms with England in anticipation of the industrial age.

It was Hamilton whose Federal policy of Assumption took on the debt of the states after the Revolution.    The war expenses of the individual states added up to $114,000,000, compared to $37 million by the central government. In 1790, at the recommendation of first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Congress combined the state debts with the foreign and domestic debts into one national debt totaling $80 million. Everyone received face value for wartime certificates, so that the national honor would be sustained and the national credit established.

Hamilton's future Industrial policy was foreshadowed in May 1790 with the appointment of Tench Coxe as assistant treasury secretary who was a well-known advocate of manufacturing and eager to raid Britain's industrial knowledge and inventions.   

Oh that's for sure. I remember watching a few of his films where he showed both London and Canada, and having lived in both places I was like 'that's not what it's really like'....

Interest is forbidden by the God of Islam & Christianity, NOT the God of Judaism & Deism which rule America.  I don't think we all worship the same God.  I'm sorry if that's offensive.

Great comment.

"If I am not for myself, who am I for? If I am only for myself, what am I?"

Rabbi Hillel, I believe, and, whoever first said it:

capitalism's excesses are promoted falsely as being good for the entire system, as when the Wall Streeters push for Free Trade and expose our workers to unconscionable competition with currency manipulators such as Japan and China.

Used to be known as the old "what is good for GM is good for the US" attitude.

You can make money with out being a capitalist, a fair days work for the real amount the work is worth. Capitalism is all about making money and not caring how you make it and the more you make the more you want. Social care does not enter the equation and there is no rules that can not be broken by oiling the wheels.

Yep the truth hurts especially dressed up in humor.  Sicko was the best film so far it was spot on about national care being much better in Canada, UK, Europe and even Cuba, lol

Good old MM shock people in the USA with the truth again, got to love him for that, shame that he is so far to the left or is he?  

He deserve ever dollar... lol