![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
docwebster(Snagged, of course, from the wise and holy Eschaton.)
"And so there are guidelines as to what you can invest in. I was being somewhat facetious on the lottery -- but really not. There's a proper risk reward, a portfolio that will allow you as a younger worker to pick a mix of stocks and bonds. Oh, I know they say certain people aren't capable of investing, you know, the investor class. It kind of sounds like to me, you know, a certain race of people living in a certain area. I believe everybody's got the capability of being in the investor class."
Everybody got that?
But that's okay, because it has about as much chance of coming to a vote as Britney Spears has of not being an annoying little fake breasted twirp.
"And so there are guidelines as to what you can invest in. I was being somewhat facetious on the lottery -- but really not. There's a proper risk reward, a portfolio that will allow you as a younger worker to pick a mix of stocks and bonds. Oh, I know they say certain people aren't capable of investing, you know, the investor class. It kind of sounds like to me, you know, a certain race of people living in a certain area. I believe everybody's got the capability of being in the investor class."
Everybody got that?
But that's okay, because it has about as much chance of coming to a vote as Britney Spears has of not being an annoying little fake breasted twirp.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 05:53 pm (UTC)Michael Moore in a Playboy interview
Date: 2005-03-14 05:16 pm (UTC)The relevant parts:
PLAYBOY: Why don't you believe in the stock market?
MOORE: I just feel bad for all the average Americans who got sucked into the market in the 1990s thinking they were going to get rich. They ended up losing their pensions, their 401(k)s. They should never have been there. It's a rich man's game. It's Vegas.
PLAYBOY: Maybe this is why you've been accused of spouting "socialist blather," according to Robert Novak.
MOORE: It's pretty funny how we use the word socialist to try to smear people these days. The guy who started the religion I grew up with said you'll be judged by how you treat the least among us. He said you're to love your enemy. He said the poor and meek shall inherit the earth. Was he a socialist? He went into the temple and turned over the money changers' tables because he didn't like that the have-nots were suffering. He felt the pie should be divided up a little more fairly. That's the fundamental basis of my upbringing in an Irish Catholic household. I still live by those principles. To try to smear me with the word socialist is anti-Catholic, and I wish people like Mr. Novak weren't so bigoted. I've never read a book by Karl Marx, I'm embarrassed to say. I probably should. It sounds like he had some good ideas. Call it liberal, socialist, whatever -- I don't care. It's about responding from a good place in your heart.