Capitalism: A Love Story Page #13

How did he really feel about them

and their way of life?

My attitude is that if the economy

is good for folks from the bottom up,

it's gonna be good for everybody.

Senator Obama is running

to spread the wealth.

Joe the Plumber said to him

that plan sounded like socialism.

( Russian music playing )

Joe:

l love America.

l want to make sure it stays a democracy

and not a socialist society.

l really think he's gonna bring socialism

if he gets half a chance.

l don't trust Obama at all.

l left Europe four decades ago

because socialism has killed

opportunities there.

''Someone is going to have to

give up a piece of their pie

so someone else can have more.''

l want all my pie.

Barack Obama is a socialist,

it's that simple.

Moore:

The scare campaign wasn't working.

ln fact, the more they called

Obama a socialist,

the more he went ahead in the polls.

And by using the word so much,

it made a new generation curious

about what that was.

For instance, few of them knew

there was actually a socialist

in the United States Senate.

Of course he was from

the gay state of Vermont.

( moos )

You say that you're a socialist.

Tell me what that means.

l'm a democratic socialist,

which means that the function

of government is to represent

middle income and working people

rather than just the wealthy

and the powerful.

One of the things that we've done here,

we've become very religious

in worshipping greed.

We put on the front pages

of the magazines

guys who have made

billions of dollars.

We ignore the cops, the firemen,

the teachers, the nurses

who every day are doing so much

in improving the lives of people.

We've got to change our value system.

Moore:

Hmm, that doesn't sound too bad.

l mean, it sounds like something

maybe we should try.

Within a few months,

the Rasmussen poll reported

that only 37%/% of young adults

now favor capitalism over socialism.

l hope the economy will...

( people cheering )

At 11 :
00 we project Barack Obama

President-Elect

of the United States of America.

( cheering )

Moore:

Just two years earlier

had anyone predicted

this moment,

they would have been

considered crazy.

But that's how fast

things change.

lt was in an instant

a farewell to the old America.

The country

was electrified by his victory.

And suddenly people

were inspired

to do things they never

would have done before.

Like the sheriff in Detroit

who decided it was time

to break the law

in order to help the people.

Warren Evans:

Doesn't it seem kind of strange to you

they would seek a government bailout?

l thought that's not what they do.

l thought the free market

is you sink or swim.

l just saw them sink

and cry like babies

for assistance from everybody else.

Today l will be stopping

all mortgage foreclosure sales

in Wayne County.

l cannot in clear conscience

allow anymore families

to lose their homes

through foreclosure sales.

Moore:

What must the banks have thought

seeing the law that was set up

to protect their interests

being subverted?

Do you think the free market

has failed Detroit?

Well, l mean, l think that the free market

failed the country.

You know, this is crazy.

Neighborhoods that are

completely destroyed

because too many homes

have been foreclosed.

And then you wonder,

is this really America

or is this a third-world country?

Exactly what are we doing here?

Until things get so bad that people

can do nothing but protest,

and then those

are called revolutions.

Moore:

And sometimes revolutions begin

in unlikely places.

Wake up.

Moore:

Living in the back of a truck

after a bank foreclosed on

the home they had owned for 22 years,

the Trody family of Miami,

with the help of their neighbors,

took matters into their own hands.

On behalf of this family

and this community,

we liberate this home for this family.

Cut the sign down.

Take it off.

- ( applause )

- Yay!

When l say community,

y'all say power.

- Community!

- Power!

- Community!

- Power!

- Community!

- Power!

- Community!

- Power!

- Community!

- Power!

Moore:
lt wasn't long

before the guy from the bank

who had evicted them came back.

See this?

l want you to go ahead

and take a picture of that.

You're trespassing.

We did an eviction here and the people

went back inside the property.

Yes.

So l need police assistance.

When all these houses are empty

the value of everybody

else's house goes down.

So if you can keep

these people in this house

that will help not only them...

So you see, the situation is that

the people--

if the bank lets them go back inside,

then the bank misses the opportunity

to sell the house to somebody else.

The banks are selling

so many houses right now.

Well, if the bank lets everybody

get back inside the house for free--

Then people will have places to live.

Moore:
People fighting back

was an unusual sight.

So nine police cars

responded to the call.

Considering the neighborhood,

the response time

was impressive.

- You are not in charge.

- l'm not saying l'm in charge.

l'm saying she doesn't want to be isolated.

You don't have to answer any questions.

You don't have to say

anything to them, okay?

Moore:

But the Trodys stood their ground.

We don't have nowhere else to go.

- This was the backup plan.

- We're forced to live inside of a truck.

This was our plan B.

We don't have no plan C.

That is our grandma and it's not right.

She's been in this house for 22 years

and y'all gonna put her out?

How do you feel putting people

out of their homes

every single frickin' day?

You should rather be home

instead of do something like that.

Where is the money the federal

government put in the bank?

We should be telling you that you're

trespassing because this is our house.

( crowd yelling )

Rooted like a tree,

rooted like a tree

We are here

Stand up strong...

Let's go.

- We did good. We did good.

- All right.

Moore:
The police and the man

from the bank were sent packing.

Ain't no power

like the power of the people.

And the power of the people don't stop.

Say what?

Ain't no power

like the power of the people.

And the power of the people don't stop.

Say what?

Don't leave your home.

Because you know what?

When those companies say

they have your mortgage,

unless you have a lawyer

that can put his finger

or her finger on that mortgage,

you don't have that mortgage.

And you're gonna find that they can't find

the paper up there on Wall Street.

So l say to the American people,

you be squatters in your own homes.

Don't you leave

in Ohio and Michigan,

in lndiana and lllinois

and all these other places

where our people are being

treated like chattel.

And this Congress is stymied.

Moore:
Wow.

lt's not every day you get

to see a member of Congress

encouraging open rebellion.

Back in Chicago,

the workers at Republic

Windows & Doors

had a bright idea.

They decided

that on second thought,

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