Well I watched it. All of it.
They really could have shortened it to about 40-50 mins by skipping over the vaguely defined 'conspiracy' of the bilkenwhatever group. I have no doubt rich people conspire to get richer. Hell I am poor and conspire to get richer. All gangsters have pacts, and you always get someone else to do the dirty work.
They did point out the flip flop of Obama on many campaign promises, which have been very troubling. Troop withdrawl. Renegotiation of NAFTA/GATT. All those lobbiest apointments, all those wall street, fed reserve people, carry overs from the bush admin placed into admin positions. So much for 'real change'.
But there was also some misleading things going on. I am pretty sure the footage they showed in reference to HR 645 was of INS detention centers, whos construction was approved under Bush. It sure couldnt be footage of the HR645 stuff, being as that bill has been referred to another committee (as of mar 20 or so). And while one part (4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, seems to be very vague, the rest of it seems to be an evacuation center. Our goofy gov Pawlenty spent a bunch of money remodeling a closed Nat. Guard base (in bemidji of all dumb ass locations) and offered that to Katrina people.
H.R. 645: National Emergency Centers Establishment Act (GovTrack.us)
And the nat. service plan is here (well at least one of the bills referenced in the film):
GovTrack: H.R. 1153: Text of Legislation, Introduced in House
While the film compared the above bill to the hitler youth, as a former government employee, I wish more people had the experience of dealing with taxpayers on the telephone, as they try to order gov employees around with the tired line of "I pay your wages, you work for me" when they are trying to get out of paying a fine, paying for a license, or following some rule/requirement. I couldnt tell them how to break the law while I am on the job. No doubt these same scumbags would roll me over if something went wrong. Meet me for a beer out of the office and call me deepthroat... sheesh.
I have no idea what obama is up to. I strongly disagreed with the bailout parts one, two and three. I think his talk of creating jobs will not produce. Temp jobs. I have no idea why he is planning on going forward with these bases stretched across europe, talk about dealing with some shady characters. I really think if this admin/democratic congress isnt careful, it will be 25 years before they get elected into a majority position again. Its like they have no idea why there have been so many republican majorities elected.
