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Michael Moore bemoans US wealth, poverty paradox

WASHINGTON — Michael Moore, clad in customary baseball cap, a black T-shirt, baggy trousers and white sneakers, strolled into the neo-Gothic splendor of Georgetown University's Gaston Hall and began to preach.

"We as Americans have allowed a very small group of people to be highly skilled practitioners of one of the seven deadly sins," he told his youthful and multinational audience on Friday, "and that sin, of course, is greed."

The Oscar-winning filmmaker, author and scourge of the American Right was schooled by Roman Catholic priests and after noting that Georgetown, whose main campus is in the eponymous, wealthy district of the US capital, was founded by Jesuits he scolded the inequalities pervading the modern day United States.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was growing up in the motor city of Flint, Michigan, the rich paid high taxes, but still lived well, he said. So too did the not-so-rich who had good homes, free education and job security.

Not so today, said the director of "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11," "Sicko" and "Capitalism: A Love Story" who is touring the United States and Canada to promote his just-published memoirs, "Here Comes Trouble."

"What on earth got into us in these last 30 years where we thought we were doing ourselves good by creating a society that's filled with so much poverty?" he asked, recalling the record 46.2 million Americans now living in poverty.

"What part of what Jesus said had to do with kicking people out of their homes?" he said, citing a record number of foreclosures triggered by sub-prime lending and the ensuing global financial crisis.

"Or for not providing them with health insurance, or just treatment when they become sick?" he said, reminding his listeners in the university's most prestigious auditorium that the United States is the only industrialized nation without universal health care.

With his blend of confrontational interviewing and ironic humor, Moore, 57, is perhaps his generation's best-known documentary filmmaker, winning an Academy Award for "Bowling for Columbine" and the Palme d'Or at Cannes for "Fahrenheit 9/11".

Charles Koch To Friedrich Hayek: Use Social Security!

The Nation — There’s worried hypocrisy, and then there’s this: Charles Koch , billionaire benefactor of free-market libertarianism, secretly championed the benefits of Social Security to Friedrich Hayek , the heading laissez-faire economist of the twentieth century. Koch even sent Hayek a supervision poster to help him take value of America’s sovereign early retirement insurance and healthcare programs.

This unusual association concerning Social Security began in early June 1973, weeks after Koch was allocated boss of the Institute for Humane Studies. Along with his brothers, Koch hereditary his father’s secretly hold oil firm in 1967, apropos a of the richest group in America. He used this luck to help spin the IHS, then formed in Menlo Park, California, in to a of the world’s foremost libertarian regard tanks. Soon after receiving over as president, Koch invited Hayek to offer as the institute’s “distinguished comparison scholar” in credentials for its initial discussion on Austrian economics, to be hold in June 1974.

Hayek primarily declined Koch’s offer. In a e-mail to IHS personal assistant Kenneth Templeton Jr., antiquated June 16, 1973, Hayek explains that he underwent gall bladder operation in Austria progressing that year, that usually heightened his apprehension of “the problems (and costs) of descending sick divided from home.” (Thanks to waves of forward-thinking reforms, postwar Austria had nearby concept healthcare and strong amicable insurance skeleton that Hayek would have been authorised for.)

IHS clamp boss George Pearson (who after that became a tip Koch Industries executive) responded 3 weeks later, surrender that it was all but unfit to prepare affordable in isolation medical insurance for Hayek in the United States. However, interjection to investigate by Yale Brozen, a libertarian economist at the University of Chicago, Pearson happily reported that “social safety was transfered at the University of Chicago whilst you [Hayek] were there in 1951. You had an choice of being in the program. If you so inaugurated at that time, you may be entitled to coverage now.

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