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To: DMaA who wrote (50876)	6/19/2004 11:20:45 AM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 793914

I don't know if I'd necessarily agree with that. The Republican right has become very comfortable with government power in recent years. They are the ones who passed the PATRIOT Act and Homeland Security Dept. The PATRIOT Act infringes on our rights and Homeland Security is a huge new beauracy, probably the biggest expansion in government power and beauracry since the early 1970s when EPA, OSHA and other government agenices came into power under liberal government. Certainly, people like Stossel and others have proven the futility of just throwing government money at a problem. I don't think that's what Michael Moore is advocating though. Actually, I don't really know what the hell Moore is advocating, since he doesn't even attempt to live by the values that expouses in his movies?!? He seems hell bent on denouncing the American aristocracy that has developed over decades of endless war spending and other avarice, and the values of greed and waste that go along with it. But, he doesn't appear to actually live by an alternative system or really adovocate workable solutions. For example: he brings to light that in the middle of a war corporations held a conferance to disucss how to make money off the war. Immoral, but what solution does he propose? A law banning corporate conferences regarding making money off a war situation while it's in progress? How would that be Constitutional? I'm all for Moore bringing these issues to light, but his lack of workable alternatives or even the willingness to live by the philosophy he advocates, makes him seem like a grandstander and hypocrite. Moore needs to get off his high horse and start setting an example for all of us to view as the alternative lifestyle he advocates.