Filmmaker Michael Moore followed in the footsteps of Jesse Jackson, and made the trip to Madison, Wisconsin in order to encourage the protesters there.
Moore, who decided to make the trip early Saturday morning, told the protesters, "all of America thanks you."
He also said, "America is not broke," and claimed that the nation was "awash in wealth and cash." "It's just not in your hands," he said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Sounding like a Bolshevik rabble rouser, Moore told the crowd America's wealth has been transferred in what he called "...the greatest heist in history" from the "workers" (read union members) to the "bankers and the super-rich."
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Moore - a successful filmmaker in his own right - is worth an estimated $50 million. By Moore's own definition, apparently he got that $50 million by stealing from those who actually paid money to see his work. Moore did not offer to give it back to the protesters in Madison, however.
Nevertheless, Moore claimed "Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this Republic," and called Governor Scott Walker "your soon to be ex-Governor." Moore, however, did not specify how Walker would be removed from office.
Moore claimed that the idea of Wisconsin going broke was a lie.
He also had nice things to say about the 14 Senate Democrats - dubbed "fleebaggers" by conservative pundits - who fled the state rather than do the job they were elected to do. According to the Journal Sentinel, he said:
"If they're listening, thank you Wisconsin 14," he said.
"These 14 Senators will go down in the history books of America," he said. "And we will never forget their courage. This kind of resolve we're used to seeing on the other side of the fence."
But the actions of these Senators may cost hundreds, if not possibly thousands, of Wisconsin public sector workers their jobs. After repeated efforts to get the recalitrant legislators back to Madison, Governor Walker announced that if the budget repair bill was not voted on in 15 days, he would be forced to send layoff notices.
According to Moore, the protesters in Wisconsin "have aroused a sleeping giant, known as the working people." They have also aroused another sleeping giant - the American taxpayers who are tired of their hard earned tax dollars being shoveled into the pockets of public union bosses who demand more with no regard for the public who pays their exorbitant salaries.
Moore recently claimed that money earned by rich people actually did not belong to them, but to the country as a whole.
According to CBS Detroit, Moore told GRIT-TV:
“What’s happened is that we’ve allowed the vast majority of that cash to be concentrated in the hands of just a few people, and they’re not circulating that cash. They’re sitting on the money,” says Moore. “That’s not theirs, that’s a national resource, that’s ours. We all have this… we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it.”
But the Marxist ideals Moore so readily embraces have never worked. Moore also displays the hypocrisy so prevalent among those on the far-left. Moore, a rich man by any definition, has yet to divest himself of his millions, yet he thinks everyone else should give up theirs.
When Michael Moore empties his bank accounts and gives everything he has to "workers" then he will have credibility.
Until then, he is simply another radical blowhard with more dollars than sense.
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