I think The Prisoner was perfect for its time, when we didn't know who in our government to trust, so we didn't trust anyone (over 30). Snarky Number 2 was the very picture of manipulative power with no restraints. If they just made a series that reflects our current mistrust with authority, they'd do much better than to ape a show that seems quaint now.

I love the way conservative economists use figures they massage to make their own insular anecdotal evidence fit. Anecdotes are all the middle class has when the numbers are being falsified by the rich!

When Christmas passes and the retailers tally their losses, how will they explain away the disappearance of demand then? Yes they can send away our jobs so their bottom line improves. But the demand they depend on is HERE, in the US, and they have starved their own customers.

Keflezighi isn't white. Sure there's an anti-immigrant stink, but I'm pretty sure that's the subtext.

I had two mortgages with WaMu. We pulled the first mortgage because of issues with the escrow department and got out of the second because we saw the bust coming and sold the property. They consistently were the most aggressive at getting the business and the least competent with servicing the account. When we went into the office, it was like a Circuit City or Best Buy - the employees were actually clueless about their products, they had memorized bullet points and had no real knowledge of banking. They were obviously paid minimum wage and had no real interest in anything but the commission when they sold the loan.

I was really hoping this was satire. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered. Predictable, every word and syllable. She doesn't have a brain (neither of them do) She has a flash memory card in her brain filled with pat sayings that are meaningless but useful as soundbytes to please the rest of the brainless.

Secede!

Oh yeah, that's the riff that they use to convince suicide bombers, minus the 70 virgins.

That's what Fox News, every other media outlet that's making this claim and especially Tucker Carlson are full of. I immediately took The Daily Beast off my favorites list when I saw his smug baby face on their masthead. They are a bunch of lying, whining assholes!

Tax the hell out of every offshore job. Give tax benefits to every job created in this country.

People just don't recognize courage anymore. She will be a heroine for other girls her age, no matter what the outcome. I dreamt of circumnavigating, and read every word of The Dove, but didn't have the support system or the years of offshore experience. More power to her. "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." Good voyage Jessica!!!

We should all be used to the outright, baldfaced lying that oil and coal companies are doing in their ads and communications. Rick Berman is the poster boy for this fuck-you approach taken by the corporations. We should be ignoring every single utterance, just on the grounds that can't be trusted to adapt to changing times and prefer to kill us all rather than lose one penny in profits.

Who can argue with budding, talented artists making a reasonable living creating art?

THERE ARE PLENTY OF THESE BUDDING TALENTED ARTISTS IN THE US!!! (Sorry, I just had to yell - I am one of them!) In fact, there are plenty of those artists IN YOUR TOWN! How about lowering the carbon footprint to zero and buying your crafts locally, and stop putting the hugely inflated profit margin that Anthropologie gets in their already wealthy corporate pockets!!!

... create a tax for every job that a US company hires overseas. Retroactive.

Only when the government recognizes that outsourcing is killing the economy and penalize each and every instance will there be jobs created in this country.

My voice will be buried in the avalanche of us vs them on government spending, but what i haven't seen anywhere is a plan to force/incent US companies to hire US citizens? The jobs we went to college for all went overseas, now how do we bring them back? Our middle class doesn't know sit about road-building, which is why there's so little enthusiasm for WPA-style projects.

Who ever said that the program was supposed to save the industry? It did send cash that way that wasn't going to be spent otherwise. As other commenters said, it got a lot of clunkers off the road too. But the real message here is we are f-ing broke and need some government help if we are to grease the corporate machine like we used to. Bottom Line, business as usual will not happen again in the way the corporate fat-cats wish. Duh.

I only read a paragraph of this review before it became clear that the reviewer dislikes Moore personally. If she can't watch the movie for itself - she barely discusses the movie - then this is an opinion piece, not a movie review.

And, given the sad lack of information released to the citizenry about the state of the economy, Moore's approach is appropriate. I think if he is talking to us like 5 year-olds, that is more than we are getting from our government.

Little known fact about Blockbuster - they killed off your local music stores too. In the early 90's they bought up all the local small chains - like Peach's in Georgia - giving them a large presence in the music store business as well as the movie business. Not seeing the digital age coming wasn't their downfall - they just didn't know a damn thing about selling music and just quietly died off and left the field to the big mall chains, Tower and a few others.