We should all be grateful to Detriot because if it wasn't for them we would all be shoveling horseshit. Isn't that right, Trefoil?
I think the whole child labor thing is ridiculous. Like kids dont work now. They work, they just dont get paid for it. They have to mow the lawn, they have to clean the house, take out the garbage. Of course this "unpaid labor" gets away with it by calling it "chores" If a kid can spend 2 hours per day doing "chores" why cant he get a job at wal-mart stocking shelves for a couple hours. I bet the kid would LOVE doing that alot more than his unpaid chores at home. Plus they stay out of trouble when they work. This is why kids of 60-70 years ago were so well-mannered. They worked in stores and learned responsibility from their work and built a strong work ethic. When they went away from home and got a real job, they spent 30-40 years at that job. Now if a person lasts more than 2 years at a job, there is a good chance he has been there the longest. I'm betting most people in here probably have not spent more than 3 or 4 years at a single job. (trading not counted!) I'm talking about the 'get a paycheck' type jobs.
Trying working on a farm without ANY mechanized implements all day long (or large portion of it) as a kid and tell me it is a joke. Child labor deprived people of their dreams and education.
Auto makers went to Detroit because of the large Polish population at the time... they were the most talented machinists.. over time that manual machine work got replaced by automated machines... not much reason to stay in Detroit at all anymore... Everybody that has tried to replace capitalism has failed miserably, where is Michael Moore's brain? He was alive to see the aftermath of the Soviet Union, it was a disaster... Cuba is a disaster... currently it only works where you have lots of oil and you don't pay for your own national defense... and Venezuela has lots of oil but probably will still manage to turn into a disaster... I have to think that Michael Moore isn't all there basically... he does influence lots of very young voters unfortunately...
Capitalism in its purest form provides free choice and equal opportunity. Regulation only helps maintain status quo and limits competition. Example minimum wage only makes it harder for a new business to compete against an existing one.
Michael Moore actually owned Haliburton stock so can we listen to anything this war profiteer has to say.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. But I disagree with being called crazy. What is crazy about standing up and calling Michael Moore a hypocrite, and calling him out on his political agenda? The man isn't even distributing 'thinly veiled' propaganda anymore. I think that it is immoral, if not outright dangerous, to allow openly socialist propaganda to be produced and distributed in an uncontested fashion. Someone has to say "this man is a fool, don't buy his bullshit". In a recent poll, when asked whether capitalism or socialism is a better system, 53% of American adults cited capitalism, 20% said socialism and 27% said they weren't sure. Democrats were closely divided, with 39% preferring capitalism and 30% backing socialism. So it certainly can happen in America, its just a matter of the right climate. A deep recession is a pretty good climate to swing the pendulum towards socialism, don't you think?