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what kind of profit

you were making here?

MAN:

27 million is what they said.

MOORE:
Twenty million here,

just inside this building?

Profit, out of this plant.

And now, now what?

People will go off the deep end

that lose their jobs in America.

It happens all the time.

Suicides will go up,

divorce rates...

people start beatin' their kids

that normally wouldn't.

I mean, damn!

People just lose it when

they don't have an income...

or they have to go from

making $10 an hour...

down to $5.00 an hour.

It's tough!

MOORE:
Do you know

what he's talking about?

Yeah?

Are you worried about this?

- Yes!

- I'm a single mother.

I can't buy a house

or anything on $5.00 an hour.

MAN:
Tell me something.

I want to know...

what's going to happen to

the United States of America...

when they downsize everything...

and we get down to where

everybody's makin' minimum wage.

Who's gonna buy $30,000 cars?

Who's gonna buy homes?

Who's gonna buy this stuff?

I want to know!

And it's just gonna be

like a snowball effect...

because then the automakers

are gonna be out of work...

the construction people's

gonna be...

Who's got the money to buy it...

if we're all downsized

to $4.75 an hour?

When's it gonna end?

MOORE:
The workers told me

that the manager from PayDay...

was still across the street

in the factory...

so I decided

to pay him a visit.

He said he'd talk to you...

without the camera

if you'll talk to him.

All right, I'll come in.

You stay here. OK?

MOORE:
What is the message

to the American worker?

That if they come here

and work hard and do well...

and because of their hard work

the company does well...

their reward is unemployment?

MAN:
If this place

would've done better...

and would've made more profit...

it would have

had a quicker payback.

You're saying if they had made

a bigger profit here...

the move would've been even

quicker to get out of here?

MAN:
You're right.

MOORE:
If the workers here

had done a worse job...

If the candy bar

hadn't done as well...

there might still be

a candy bar plant here?

- That's true.

- That's insane.

WOMAN:
Centralia, Illinois!

MAN:
That's right!

[People chattering]

[Music playing]

PayDay back to Centralia

where it belongs.

PayDay in Centralia.

I want my job back, insurance.

I need it badly.

Everybody else needs it badly.

We all need our paydays.

- We want our jobs back.

- Yep.

We need our jobs back.

WOMAN:
The whole town

needs these jobs back.

[Music playing]

[Audience applauds]

Hi.

This is my book.

I take the cover off...

because I can't stand

to look at the photo.

[Laughter]

Look at... look...

Who's got the...

Do you have a book down here?

Let me see it.

Look at this.

This is what they did.

Look at my fingernails.

They digitally gave me

a manicure.

[Laughter]

They cleaned my fingernails.

Can you see... Look at that!

And I called them up

at Random House, and I said...

"You know, I mean,

while you were in there...

"if you were gonna be

doing digital things...

"couldn't you take

10 pounds off the face?"

"Oh, no, no, no.

We'll clean your fingernails.

"But then you gotta

still look like this."

[Laughter]

Jeez. Nineteen cities.

I can't bear to look at myself,

thank you, anymore.

Signature only.

Signature, city and date.

"To Meredith,"

signature, city and date.

City and date.

"To Pat and Teresa."

[Woman laughing]

- How's that?

- That's great. Thank you.

- Yes. Thank you.

- Anything else?

Sounds like the next title.

- You'll be there a day ahead.

- Great. Thanks very much.

- OK. Bye.

- Bye! We're off to lowa.

[Country western music playing]

You heard me right

Yeow!

100 cups of coffee,

500 cigarettes

A thousand miles of highway

and I ain't forgot her yet

But I keep on movin'

I keep a-movin'

on down the line

Ain't nothin'

in my mirror

Just a cloud of dust

and smoke

What did you expect

When some old trucker's

heart gets broke

Whoo

How do you feel about

our choices in the election?

- I don't care which way it goes.

- You what?

- I don't care which way it goes.

- Why is that?

Because I just don't have

no interest in it.

I wish we had a better choice,

but we gotta pick between...

What would you call it?

Between two evils.

MOORE:
Yeah, or I call it

"the evil of two lessers."

How you guys doing

with your jobs right now?

I work harder than

I ever had to work in my life.

My kids are all grown up...

and I gotta work harder today

than I did 20 years ago.

You gotta pay your rent,

your electric, your water...

your gas and food

and clothes for your kids.

And there's no money left.

MOORE:
At the end

of the month, that's it.

- No. There's nothin' left.

- And you're working two jobs?

- Yeah.

- And raising your kids?

I have two little girls.

MOORE:
How do you do that?

How do you work two jobs?

I work mornings at one

and nights at the other.

- Every day?

- Just about.

When do you get to see

your kids?

WOMAN:

I don't, not that often.

On the weekends,

on a Sunday...

in the afternoon,

'cause Fairway's not open.

MOORE:
That would be like

if you're divorced...

you get to see them

on the weekends.

Yeah, and I'm not divorced.

I'm married

and have a husband...

and I still

don't get to see them...

because of the way it is

in America and around the world.

It's just not fair.

Any words of advice

to your fellow American voters?

- Don't vote.

- Don't vote?

If you have to pick

between them two, don't vote.

MOORE:
Hey, guys, do you get

the feeling we're gonna have...

the lowest turnout ever

in an election?

TIA:
Yeah.

MOORE:
It's depressing.

Let's go to McDonald's.

MAN:
Is everybody stabilized

for driving here?

MOORE:
I think "stabilized"

is the wrong word...

to be used as

you're eating this stuff.

Are there any napkins in there?

Hey, they put vegetables

on my fish filet.

F***ers.

MOORE:
Do you ever wonder

what happened to Steve Forbes?

He appeared from nowhere.

Had you heard of him before?

Honest. Come on. Honest.

You heard of his dad,

but have you heard of him?

No. Have you

heard of him since?

Did you ever notice

when he was on TV...

his eyes never blinked?

Right?

I mean, they never blinked.

I saw him on Larry King.

He didn't blink.

The whole time, the whole hour,

he never blinked.

A couple nights later,

he was on "Nightline."

They had the camera on him

for a full minute.

Not once did the eyes blink.

FORBES:
race was about

principles and issues.

These principles are bigger

than a single candidate...

bigger than a single campaign.

I'm thinking,

"This is very strange,"

so I called up

New York Hospital...

and asked for a doctor...

in the Eyes, Ears, Nose

and Throat Division.

And I said, "Doctor,

I'm watching TV right now...

"and there's a guy on there...

"and his eyes have not blinked

for a full minute.

"Is that possible?"

He said, "No.

"The human eye needs to blink

every 15 or 20 seconds."

I said, "I'm telling you,

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