Many people question President Obama’s birth country. Other folks believe they were born into the wrong time. Michael Moore has clearly been born into the wrong political environment. He should have been born in Cuba or Communist China or the old Soviet Republic. It’s evident that he was never properly educated about how the American system works.
I just read one of his rants about rich people and their money. He told GRITtv’s (I know, I never heard of it either) Laura Flanders: "They're sitting on the money, they're using it for their own -- they're putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with your life, with that money. We've allowed them to take that. 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."
This sounds like the Wisconsin protester I heard yesterday. He was talking about needing to revolt because he worked at a noodle shop where the owner had the gall to tell them how they had to cook the noodles and when they had to come to work. He seems to think that because he is doing a job, he can do it anyway he wants and the owner should have no control over him or how he does it. As if the job would not exist without him.
What is wrong with these people? They act as if they owned the job. Noodle boy doesn’t seem to recognize that people come to the noodle shop knowing what the noodles will be like. They don’t come hoping to be surprised by some alternately prepared noodles. If noodle boy wants to make noodles a different way every day, he should start his own random noodle store. If people do go there and take random chance on whether the noodles are going to be edible then he will have a successful business of his own.
The point that neither Michael Moore nor noodle boy seem to understand is that without the owner, the job would not exist for them to complain about. Michael Moore seems to resent the real owner of the job making money. He wants to lay claim to the money generated by the job he created. But Michael Moore and his ilk were not there risking their money in the startup of the business that created the job that created the money.
I would be bet you that if I took Michael Moore or noodle boy to Las Vegas and asked them to put their money in a slot machine and then told them they had to share their winnings with me, they would tell me to go eff off. I feel certain they would tell me it was their money and their risk putting the money in the slot machine and that I had no call on any monies they generated from that act. And yet they seem to think that the monies derived from a business should be shared equally by all.
Somehow I don’t think either of our hero’s would be jumping to the front of the line to give the business owner their money if the business he started failed. And yet there they are laying claim to monies and jobs they had no part in creating. If the business owner let noodle boy cook noodles however he wanted and the business lost money, do you suppose noodle boy would kick in money from his own pocket to keep the business operating? I think we both know the answer to that question.
Without the reward part of the risk/reward paradigm, there is no incentive for the risk. But these mental midgets don’t seem to be able to think any further than the next guys bank account.
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