The Big One Page #7

MOORE:
How many jobs has G.M.

eliminated in the last 10 years?

Since Tommy Thompson's

been in office...

they've had more jobs

in this state.

- General Motors?

- Been in office.

Yes. Since Tommy Thompson

has been in office.

MOORE:
Come on!

You complain about people

getting their jobs back...

What I want you to do is stop

giving away the free money.

KEANE:
You just want

to have an issue.

Stop giving away the free money

to the corporations.

We wanna work! We wanna work!

Where's my broom at?

My toilet brush?

There's something stink

up in this capitol.

I am a mother of 4 children.

Full-time student.

My youngest child

will be a year, November 21.

I am trying to better myself

in order to get a job...

where I can afford to live

above the poverty line...

and it's just not working.

WOMAN:
See that sign?

Say justice.

Where's mine?

Where's my justice?

This way? Come on, pumpkin.

Tommy Thompson.

[Laughter]

[Booing, hissing]

What bad experience did he have

in junior high school?

[Laughter]

"Hi. I'm Tommy Thompson."

[Laughter]

"Mmm!

I'm gonna take it out...

"on all the people of Wisconsin

when I grow up."

[Laughter, applause]

Tommy Thompson.

I went over to see him today.

[Laughter, cheering]

I went over there

to turn in some welfare mothers.

[Laughter]

To turn in

some welfare mothers...

because I am sick and tired

of these lazy welfare bums...

these cheats, these chiselers...

General Motors, Chrysler,

Johnson Controls...

Pabst Blue Ribbon, Miller,

et cetera, et cetera.

[Cheering, applause]

The people of Wisconsin

have been doling out...

way too much welfare money

to these corporations.

Do you know, nationwide,

we give $170 billion a year...

to corporate America

in corporate welfare?

That's free cash,

free handouts.

Three times what we give

in social welfare. Three times.

We don't hear a word

about that, though, do we?

We don't hear Tommy Thompson

wanting to end welfare...

as he knows it.

[Music playing]

Sure.

I got 20 cities

left to go, all right?

- So you're at number 27 now?

- Yes.

You've done this before.

This is my first time.

What is your advice for me

on this tour?

How do I get through this?

One person at a time,

you look them in the eye.

You shake their hand.

You do whatever they want.

- Become a passive individual.

- Right.

You give up all sense

of personal will or preference.

- Right.

- You are meat.

Any advice on how

to deal with the escorts?

The escorts?

Don't even get into that, Mike.

Don't get involved with that.

It's not a good thing.

Take cold showers

and go to church.

Kyrie eleison

Christe eleison

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

[Laughs]

This... [Laughs]

Sister Herman in fifth grade...

she taught us

about impure thoughts.

Fifth grade, all right?

She did two things to us

in fifth grade.

She taught us

what impure thoughts were...

and she used to

come into the boys' room...

during the two times of the day

you could go to pee...

they march you down

in a straight line...

you go in and pee...

and she'd come in there

and watch us pee...

to make sure that we weren't

playing with ourselves.

I swear.

[Laughter]

And if it looked like you were

having too much fun peeing...

she'd go like this,

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

So one day I said...

"Sister, when is

an impure thought a venial sin

"and when is it a mortal sin?"

You know, venial sins,

you just go to purgatory...

mortal sins, you burn in hell.

And she said... and I quote...

"A venial sin is when

you just allow the thought...

"to pass quickly through

your head without holding it.

"It just goes

right through your head."

Whoosh!

[Laughter]

"That's a venial sin.

"But if you hold that thought

for more than five seconds...

"it's a mortal sin."

Yeah. So I spent

most of my adolescence...

timing my impure thoughts.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

OK! It's gone!

"It's gone!

"Here comes another one. OK!

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

"Oh, Lucifer, here I come!"

We were over at

the Mall of America before...

[Audience booing]

Oh! "No, we don't go

to the Mall of America.

"No. No. We're going to

the student union after this...

"to listen to multicultural

folk music from Cuba...

"and eat tofu from Nicaragua.

"Mall of America...

"we don't want to be there

with those people."

What a great place, man.

I wish I'd spent

the whole day there.

We met... Ha! ...we met

some incredible people.

We met this guy...

and I said, "Did you vote

in the last election?"

He was probably

in his early 20s.

He said, "No. I was in prison."

- Yeah, I was in Ventura.

- You were in that prison?

California Youth Authority.

Yeah, I was.

MOORE:
Where TWA has

that reservation thing?

Yeah.

If you call TWA

at certain times of the day...

to make

a plane reservation...

you're talking to an inmate

in Ventura, California.

He goes, "Yeah, that was us."

[Laughter]

MOORE:
So you mean,

you're in prison...

and you're taking

airline reservations.

And you're sending people

to the Bahamas...

and you can't even walk outside?

MAN:
I think it's, like,

a "corporational" thing...

so TWA doesn't have

to hire people...

and they can pay less.

Because if you go

into a job at TWA...

they're gonna pay you

7, 8, 9 bucks an hour.

MOORE:
Any funny stories?

People calling for reservations?

MAN:
Yeah, there's all kinds.

How people get phone numbers

and get hookups...

and, you know, like,

girls'll be calling...

and they'll be, like,

"Hey, what's your name?"

Your normal stuff

that would probably happen...

if you were working at TWA,

but they don't realize that...

what they're really talking to

are rapists or murderers...

or, you know,

people that are just like...

They talk about how

they're supposed to change kids.

- Yeah.

- I came out as a murderer.

I don't give a f*** about

you, you, you, you.

Anybody in here. You know?

- Why should I?

- You don't give a sh*t?

Nah.

Nobody gives a sh*t in there.

MOORE:

You don't give a sh*t about me?

No. I don't care about...

I do not care about nobody.

And that is

your basic society nowadays.

MOORE:
You could f*** me up

right now if you wanted to?

Yeah. I wouldn't care.

- You wouldn't care?

- No. I wouldn't.

So next time

you're, like, treating...

that person on the phone

really shitty...

because they can't find

your frequent flyer number...

just remember...

you could get a visit someday.

[Laughter]

Isn't that sick, though?

I mean, corporations

are using prison labor.

We're not talking

about China, here.

We're talking about

the U.S. of A.

Spaulding packages

their golf balls...

in prisons in Hawaii.

Microsoft packages software

in prisons in Washington.

Eddie Bauer has clothes made

in prisons in Washington state.

You aware of this?

If you live in Colorado...

and you're getting a call

from AT&T...

AT&T uses prisoners to do

their telemarketing for them.

They're calling people

at 9:
00 at night...

asking them to switch from MCI,

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