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So is Ben Aflak and Tommy Lee Jones Joining the Tea Party.

posted 12 years ago by clogan-1
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This movie was well acted and well written. I enjoyed it. Why didn't it get that lambasting politically that Atlas Shrugged got? It was more or less the same movie. This one had a bigger budget, more highly paid actors. But the story is the same. We have lost our way. We have sold out to "big money". We don't make anything any more. All the things that we once were proud of we sold off. TV, Autos, Aerospace, even home applicances. Crap when I was a kid made in chine was a sign that the thing ( whatever it was ) was sub standard. Now, we (americans) have nothing to compete with. We have sold off or priced ourselves out of the market place. OPPs Rant alert.
Good movie exposes what we could become. If ...
If we get rid of the Hope for chage and change things so that we can be hopeful.
Be well, Be extraordinary.

[–] Trackmaster 10 years ago

It's not big business, it's Big Entitlement. People across the country demand that they will go to college and get a white collar job with a big salary and full benefits. Nobody wants to do the manual labor anymore for $5 an hour and no benefits. That's why most of our production has gone overseas, they have people who aren't entitled, who having nothing, but can work just as well. It's the participation trophy generation. People don't want the best jobs to go to the winners, they want them to go to everybody. But when everybody is qualified, there's no reason for companies to pay competitive wages to the best.