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Jukebox: Social Distortion - Sex, Love, & Rock N' Roll

We watched the Big One last night. It's not a porn. Really great! I've never heard of it before, but I saw the trailer for it and I remember the trailor. It's that Men In Black type one and he shoots the last guy at the end after he asks, "Who's the one who keeps raising the ticket prices for movies?"

I probably thought it was an ad or something. Anyhow, I thought it was pretty well done. It's Michael Moore and there's his guerilla tactics of forcing himself into buildings and harassing the front desk people. It's really great sometimes, but other times I feel he's just too pushy.

This movie was a video taped documentary to suport Michael Moore's book Downsize This on a nationwide tour. All the while visiting corporations and helping the Joe Americans.

It really gets to you because he shows you exactly how America's going into the dumps. Like one of the laid off workers in the movie says, "If they keep downsizing and outsourcing and we have to all get jobs that pay $5/hr, who's going to have money to buy a car? Who's going to have money to buy a house? There's not going to be a need for construction workers anymore..."

All the company heads he talked to said stuff like, "You don't know how it is. We've talked to the employees and they all knew and we try to help them...blah, blah, blah."

Then he talks to the employees himself and they found out the day before and none of them knew what they were to do.

Anyway, the whole thing that was gathered from the corporations who were downsizing and opening up shop in Mexico or Indonesia was because, even though they were making record profits, they had to be competitive. Which basically means, it's because if their profits aren't higher, their shares go down. And no one wants that. Not no business man. How are you going to end up in Forbes? With less employees, the profit margins are larger. All that jazz. Basically, none of them had a morally valid reason, nor did they back themselves up well. Especially the Nike CEO.

That dude's reason for the Indonesian sweat shops is that, according to him, "No one in America wants to make shoes. They say they do, but they don't." So Michael, per a challenge he proposed to him, said if he could get 500 unemployed people to prove they could work for him making shoes that he would open a plant in Flint. He agreed. So Michael went to work and did it, and after seeing that and hearing testimonies, Phil Knight said, "They say they want to make shoes, but I know for a fact they don't."

"But they want to. They want to work."

"Yeah. But they don't really want to make shoes. No American wants to make shoes."

With this moron's rationale, at least 75% of the working force wouldn't have jobs.

The funniest shit, though, Michael was on like MSNBC or some show like that with the scrolling stock quotes at the bottom of the screen and he was looking toward the bottom of the screen with his head following the ever scrolling quotes and saying, "GM. Sell! Sell!"