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this picture, truly one of the mostunusual ever filmed, contains scenes whichunder no circumstances should be viewed by anyonewith a heart condition or anyone who is easily upset. we urgently recommend that if you are such a personor the parent of a young or impressionable childnow in attendance, that you and the childleave the auditorium.

- ( rock music playing )- yeah louie louie whoa baby i gotta go now i really gotta go now the communist worldis fallin' apart the capitalistsare just breakin' hearts money is the reason to be it makes me justwanna sing louie louie some say it will,some say it won't

now you see it,now you don't we spent all our moneyon a disaster movie it makes me wanna singlouie louie oh, let's give itto 'em right now. ( trumpet playing ) narrator:. rome was the largestand the most beautiful city of the ancient world. the magnificent facadeof the empire, however, could not concealthe seeds of decay,

the unhealthy dependenceof the economy on slaves, the disparity betweenrich and poor. behind the splendorof the forum were vast areasof crowded slums. escape from the slums was difficultfor there were few jobs available and practically nonefor the unskilled. to keep idle citizens entertainedand out of mischief, frequent games and spectacleswere held at public expense. at first, only chariot raceswere sponsored.

but by the reign of trajan, brutal combat to the deathhad become popular. earlier in rome's history, elected representativesexercised the power. but by now,every function of government had been absorbedby the emperor who was above the lawand ruled by decree. that a people as civilizedas the romans, with the most humanesystem of law ever devised,

could tolerate the violationof human beings is astonishing. this imbalanceand the irresponsible behavior of public officialswould become major reasons for rome's eventual decline. michael moore:. i wonder howfuture civilizations will view our society. will they judge us by this? - he's a cat flushin' a toilet...- ( mews ) he's a cat flushin' a toilet,he's a cat flushin' a toilet

he's-a-cat-flushin'-a-toilet ( mews ) moore:. or will theyjudge us by this? man #1 :do you see the sheriff's car? man #2: yeah, right there.the sheriff-- that's the first car. - woman: no--- there he is. man #3:three, four, five, six... woman: seven. - man #1 : give me the phone.- woman: it's on this--

it's on the c--it's on the couch. all right, that's as closeas i can get, dad. - don't stand in front of the door, dad.- ( knocking ) ( whispering )get out from the-- hey, sheriff, robertinside the house here. - ( knocking )- ( loud banging ) woman: they're trying to beatthe back door in, dad. ( loud banging ) there are four of us in here.they're beating on the door.

we're not gonna resist,but you will have to come in the house on your own. but there are four soulsin this house. woman: dad, don't standin front of the door. - do not.- ( doorknob rattling ) ( banging continues ) woman:another witness. tell your name to the camera. - i'm david phillips.- chris collins.

and audra collins - david: and this is america?- chris: uh-huh. audra: this is america, folks,what you're watching right here. - sheriff's office.- robert: yeah, we know. - okay, y'all have to come out, please.- robert: all right. woman: we cannot act like this--this is just something that's okay. and so this is new. they've never come outand boarded up our house after they've evicted the person

and threw their furniturein the dumpster. so they're letting us know that they are stepping it up, boarding up somebody's house. this has been my family home.this is my parents' house. i've lived here for 41 years. this is the only homei've ever really lived in. this is the only-- this will alwaysbe home to me, no matter what. - i'm a carpenter.- woman: there you go.

man #1 : sandra, they're leaving.let them leave. - man #2: i'm a carpenter. so what?- that's all i am. - well, people pay their bills.- this could happen to you. carpenter: that's right.so why do you think i'm doing it? i don't have to be happy about this,but that's what i do. sandra: that's all i'm saying is thatmaybe you can make another choice. - that's all we're saying.- that's no reason for... sandra:you're a working-class person. ...people here to get upsetand almost get themselves hurt.

we ain't gonna get hurt. are you threatening us? y'all gonna get on out of here.you might end up even getting hurt. talking about us getting hurt,you might get hurt. man: there's gonna besome kind of a rebellion between the peoplethat have nothing and the people that's got it all. i don't understand. there's no in-between no more.

there's the people that's got it all and the people that have nothing. we gotta get this stuffout of the house and packed up and be out of herein about 30 days even though we don'thave a place to go. oh. woman:we designed this house. the property that it's onwas my family farm. so i've lost a pieceof my heritage with this.

why do you do thisto the hard-working people? why do you take everything? you take everythingaway from them. we're just middle-class,hard-working people trying to make a living. just trying to survive. an old browning. ( grunts )my pistol, my dad's pistol, my pistol.

( sighs ) - ( knocking )- man: sheriff's department. it's supposed to be 30 days. i got 30 days to get my stuff out. - that's what the guy told me.- no. what? it's currently scheduled for today. but... the paper's telling usthat we are due

to do an eviction heretoday at 9:00 am. huh, shoot. well, he's surprised too. the house is gone. that cop told me that the house has already been soldto somebody else. so we don't own the house no more,somebody else does. moore:this is capitalism, a system of taking and giving--

mostly taking. the only thing we didn't know16600:10:09,108 --> 00:10:12,305was when the revolt would begin. man: everything,we've tried everything... except robbing a bank. i'm thinking aboutmaybe doing that. you know, that's one waysomebody could get their money back. if they did it--they did it to me, i don't know whyi can't do it to them. peter zalewski:this is my second hyundai sonata.

i'll probably get a new car next year. and when i do,it'll probably be another sonata. you know, i'm not a car guy. if i can go in thereand steal a condo for the equivalent of whata mercedes would cost or a bentley would cost,i'm all about that. moore:meet peter zalewski, florida's up-and-comingreal estate whiz.18200:10:50,516 --> 00:10:52,040here we go. moore: he calls hisreal estate company condo vultures.

( stuttering )we have a very good sign. you have the final noticeof eviction. so you can see this personwas basically thrown out by the police department. welcome.18900:11:06,098 --> 00:11:07,725moore:peter deals exclusively with clients who buy upforeclosed homes and then resell them at a profit. it's gonna be about830 square feet or so... at the end of the day,the only people who are buying

are primarily individualsthat we represent... today it's on the marketfor $66,000. ...which are basically bottom feederswho are going in there. they have no compassion,no sensitivity. they're running purely off numbersthey're coming in all cash, and they're looking to slitany single seller's throat regardless of whattheir situation is. so people always ask,"what's 25c on the dollar?" this is it.this is what you're gonna get.

the vulture basically representsa bottom feeder that goes in thereand cleans off a carcass. because they're dealing withso many different germs and situations, they'll have to vomit on themselvesand there's some sort of cleansing process that occurs. the vulturesaren't actually killing, they're the onesdoing the clean-up. which bank you want?bank of america? what we do is we tap into data...

and boom, voila. here we got 3,400 foreclosingby bank of america. gotta love it. as we collect data,it's giving us the insight into the battlefield, almost like a drone that fliesover the battleground in afghanistan or in pakistan or in iraq. the current asking price is 355. again, it was purchased for 840.

a little bit of a discount.you're gonna have two... our people are usingthat data to be able to go in and try to steal properties,legally and ethically, but take them at the bare-bonebottom price. it's all about taking right now. look at the-- look at the roof--completely gone and missing. we haven't had a hurricanein five years. ( laughing ) welcome to the housing crash,miami style.

so this-- this is what capitalism is and this is why the informationis so critical. we go in there,we alert them to it, and if they like it, you know-- ( imitates shotgun ) - look at the window.- look at that. looks like the housenext door was on fire. this is straight up capitalism. - fire damage.- i wonder if somebody was living there...

zalewski: everybody's gotthis desire to go in there and take advantageof others' misfortunes. somebody asked me, "what's the difference betweenyou and a real vulture?" i said, "it's very simple.i don't vomit on myself." our topic today:what is capitalism? capitalism? well, why should there beany question about it? hasn't it given us the higheststandard of living in the world?

we're free to try to make a profit, to just get by, or to fail. that's what capitalism is: a system of free enterprise. now tell us what"free enterprise" means. moore: i went to seemy friend wally shawn, a playwrightand sometimes actor. inconceivable! moore: but wally also studiedhistory and politics

and even a littleelementary economics. free enterpriseis a form of words that is intendedto conjure up in your mind a little town with different shops. and the guy who runsthe best shop has the most customers. narrator: there is the basisof the capitalistic system: the profit motive. he's in business to make money.

shawn: the originaltheory of capitalism is that it's a very clever way of society voting on what goods it wants made. what do you use this for? that's-- i could use thatfor practically everything i ever do. you know, society votes. they like the way this guy makes ice cream.

but the other guy, they don't likehis ice cream that much and they don't buy it,so it fades out. it's on me.that is a good fit. shawn: the basic law of lifeis that if you have things, you can easily get more things. very quickly, one guy can have five times morethan anybody else. - free enterprise.- competition.

woman:the profit motive. moore: my dad, an assembly-lineworker at general motors, bought and paid for our house before i graduatedfrom kindergarten. we had a new carevery three years. we went to new yorkevery other summer. that's me on wall street. and that's medirecting my first movie at the world's fair.

we went to catholic schools,we lived a good life. if this was capitalism,i loved it... and so did everyone else. during these yearsa lot of people got rich and they had to paya top tax rate of 90%. 90%? yep. but they still got to livelike bogie and bacall. and what did we dowith all their money?

we built damns, bridges, interstate highways,schools, hospitals. we even sent a guy to the moon. things seemed to be goingin the right direction. dad had a secure joband mom could work if she wanted,but didn't have to. middle-class families only neededone income to survive. our union family hadfree health care and free dental. the kids could go to collegewithout getting a loan from a bank.

dad had four weekspaid vacation every summer. most people hada savings account and little debt. and dad's pension was set asidewhere no one could touch it. it would be there for himwhen he retired. we got all of this becauseour main industrial competition had been reduced to rubble. here's what the germancar industry looked like. and here's the japaneseauto industry. i guess you could sayit's easy to be number one

when you have no competition. yes, of coursenot everything was perfect. we didn't mind having to put up with a little bit of thisand a little bit of that... just as long as we could bemiddle-class. and we could count on our kidshaving it better than we had it. it sounded likea good deal to us. capitalism-- no oneever had it so good. and then, right whenwe were in the middle

of this big love affairwith capitalism... announcer: the abcsunday night movie "the gambler" will continue in its entirety following this live reportfrom abc news. we are at a turning pointin our history. moore:along came debbie downer. too many of us nowtend to worship self-indulgenceand consumption. human identityis no longer defined

by what one does, but by what one owns. this is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning. moore:wow, what a bummer. it was time to bringa new sheriff to town... ( horse whinnies )

...one who knew how to actlike a president. he knew how to handle workerswho wanted a better wage. ( gunshot ) all right, mister, i guess you win. moore:or these annoying feminists whining about theirequal rights amendment. well, i can change that in a hurry. moore: a man who knewhow to get the job done. ronald reagancame out of the b movies

to become the most famouscorporate spokesman of the 1950s. it's a transistor radio too.weighs only a few ounces. you can slip itright into your pocket. boraxo waterless hand cleanerreally cleans up for us. moore:he had found his calling and wall streethad found their man. you see, the banks and corporationshad a simple plan: to remake america to serve them. but to pull it off would require

electing a spokes modelfor president. and on november 4th, 1980,that's what we did. ...that i will faithfully execute the office of presidentof the united states. crowd:ronald ronald ronald... thank you. moore:it was an historic moment because now corporate americaand wall street were in almost complete control.

see that guy standingnext to the president? you know, the onethat looks like a butler? his name was don regan, the chairman of merrill lynch, the richest and biggestretail brokerage firm in the world. he took the key positionof treasury secretary so he could enact the tax cutsthat the rich wanted. regan then becamewhite house chief of staff as the president started to fade.

then they should give the presidentwhat 43 governors have, a line-item veto. - and...- ( applause ) - you're gonna have to speed it up.- oh. moore: who tells the presidentto speed it up? the man from merrill lynch,that's who. things in america would neverbe the same again. the country would now be runlike a corporation. we're going to turn the bull loose.

( cheering, applause ) moore: and four years later,when reagan ran for reelection, it was all smiley facesand happy talk. i really feel that we're gonnabe better off in the long run. we're on the upward swing and the factories are workingmuch stronger than before. we're back on top. moore: actually,what reagan presided over was the wholesale dismantlingof our industrial infrastructure.

this was not done to save moneyor remain competitive, as companies back thenwere already posting record earnings in the billions. no, it was donefor short-term profits... and to destroy the unions. millions of peoplewere thrown out of work and the remaining workerswere told to work twice as hard. but wages for working peopleremained frozen. the richest americanshad their top income tax rate

cut in half. instead of being paida decent wage, we were encouragedto live on borrowed money until our household debtwas nearly 100% of the gdp. there was an explosionof personal bankruptcies. we found it necessary to lock upmillions of our citizens. sales of antidepressantsskyrocketed as insuranceand pharmaceutical company greed pushed the costof healthcare up and up.

all of this was great newsfor the stock market and for america's ceos. moore:half of flint was now receiving some formof government welfare. during the endof the reagan years, i made my first movie aboutwhat had happened to the country and specifically to my hometownof flint, michigan, the birthplace of general motors. gm was posting profitsof over $4 billion

while at the same time eliminating tens of thousands of jobs. i went to see gm's chief lobbyistin flint, mr. tom kay, to ask him whythis was happening. general motors wouldn't be doinganybody any service if it goes bankrupt. it has to do what it has to do in order to stay competitivein today's economic climate. moore: even if that meanseliminating 18,000 jobs?

even if it meanseliminating 20,000 jobs. - or 30,000?- whatever. - how about all the jobs here in flint?- it could feasibly happen. moore: and it did. nearly all the jobs were eliminated and gm went bankrupt. perhaps more distressing was the factthat the rest of america was now starting to resembleflint, michigan. but there were some citiesthat still took pride in their greatness.

cleveland come on downto cleveland town, everyone come and lookat both of our buildings here's the place wherethere used to be industry this train is carrying jobsout of cleveland see the sun almostthree times a year this guy has at least two dui's our economy'sbased on lebron james buy a housefor the price of a vcr

our main exportis crippling depression we're so retardedthat we think this is art it could be worse, though,at least we're not detroit we're no detroit moore:no, they're not detroit. for 20 years i triedto warn gm and others that this day was coming,but to no avail. maybe now they'd listen. so i went down to the headquartersof general motors

one last time to sharesome of my ideas. you don't have permission.you can't film here. huh? you don't have permissionfrom general motors. - you can't film here.- i'm just going up to see the chairman. no, sir.no, sir. you know, i've been doing thisfor, like, 20 years. i understand, sir. and i have not beenlet into this building for 20 years,

and i think it's about timesomeone just let me in and let me talk to them. i've got some good ideas. 4-7 to 7-6 bravo area alpha. man:go ahead. it's michael moore hereto see the chairman. repeat that. it's the filmmakermr. michael moore. he's here to see the chairman.

- gentlemen.- yes. you need to get prior permission.you cannot film here, okay? but if i can't go in and get permission,what am i supposed to do? i guess they're right.breaking up is hard to do. stop that. don't do that.just go in the building. moore: for 35 years,gm made more money than any other corporation. but eventually,germany and japan rebuilt their car industryand produced vehicles

that were safer than ours,more fuel efficient and rarely, if ever, broke down. in germany, unions help hire and firethe board of directors so the workers have a sayin what's going on. you see, the peopleof japan and germany fight to make sure that eventheir conservative political leaders don't destroy their middle class. so where exactlyare we right now? on the day that general motorsdeclared chapter 11 bankruptcy,

i went with my dad to visitthe ac spark plug plant where he had workedfor over 30 years. - so you worked actually right here.- you'd have to go-- they had a ramp that took youup over that, just beyond that... - just beyond that space there?- yeah. - and then the factory was all over there?- yeah. moore: the whole complexis, like, two miles long. i remember mom bringingus kids in to pick you up. - 2:30 every day.- yeah, uh-huh.

you'd walk out of there,right over in there in fact. and we'd be waitingin the car for you and we'd see youcome down the ramp. we got real excitedevery time we saw you. i was there 33 1/2 years. - 33 1/2 years?- uh-huh. moore: what's your best memory here,being here, working here? my best memory?i think the people. they were a really good bunch.

- you liked the crowd you worked with?- yeah. frank moore:a good place to work. i enjoyed it. but i'm sorry to see it go. moore:shortly before christmas 2008, republic windows & doorsin chicago, illinois, abruptly firedits entire unionized workforce of over 250 people. they were givenonly three days' notice. bank of americawould no longer provide

a line of credit to the company, and so the workers were not paidthe money owed to them. man #1 : my life revolvesaround this job. i live according to my obligationto my job, you know? and it's not just me,it's all of the workers here. we go above and beyond the call of duty for republic. and at the end republic cares nothing for us.

man #2: we found out thatthey're gonna shut the plant on tuesday. we don't deserve whatthey're doing to us, you know? it really hurts because,like i said, this is my second family. so it was-- it really hurts.it really hurts. i'm gonna missall of them, you know? i'm gonna miss themand i don't think anybody on this planet deserves what they've done to us.

moore: scenes like thiswere being repeated all over the country,and no one seemed to mind. zambezi, zambezi - zambezi, zam.- woman: whoo! moore: the president was enjoyinghis final year in office. but as the economystarted to fall apart, he decided it was timeto roll out the c word. capitalism is the best systemever devised. moore:huh. really?

voices from the left and rightare equating the free enterprise system with greed and exploitationand failure. moore:hmm, greed, exploitation, failure? go on, i'm listening. capitalism offers peoplethe freedom to choose where they workand what they do... reporter: pat andrewshas been looking for work. every morning she scansthe classifieds in vain.

there isn't anything in here. i'm not gonna be a gentleman's clubhired dancer either. ...the opportunity to buyor sell products they want. reporter: tom rendonhas avoided layoffs at his sign companyin stockton, california, all because this one wordnow makes up for half his business. if you seek social justiceand human dignity, the free market systemis the way to go.

( applause ) moore: and for those seekingjustice in pennsylvania, free enterprisewas definitely the way to go. wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, has one of the highest ratesin the state of young people locked upin the juvenile home. perhaps it's becausethe good people here employ the practicesof capitalism in dealing withtheir wayward youth.

the county hired a privateprofit-making corporation with a sweet-sounding name,pa child care. it was owned and runby two businessmen, one of whom was robert powell,an attorney and entrepreneur. his good friend judge conahan closed downthe public juvenile home and then gotpa child care to build an $8 millionprivately-owned facility and charge it back to the county

for a mere $58 million lease. let's meet some of wilkes-barre'sjuvenile delinquents. magee smoked potat a high school party. i was very rebelliouswhen i was at this age. moore: matt, he got intoan argument at the dinner table. i threw a piece of meat,as in steak, cooked dinner,at my mother's boyfriend. moore: jamie got in a fightat a shopping mall with her best friend.

i just figured, you know, we just weren'tgonna be friends anymore. moore: and hillary madea myspace page making funof her assistant principal for being strict and havingno sense of humor. and it said some pretty silly,like, 14-year-old-girl stuff. moore: her assistant principalcalled the police. they all appeared beforekindly judge mark ciavarella. these kids were aboutto get their first lesson in american capitalism:

time is money, lots of money. i went in front of the court,in front of mr. ciavarella, and i wasn't even in front of himfor four minutes. i was only in front of himfor, like, two minutes. hillary: the first thing thatjudge ciavarella said to me was, "what makes you thinkyou can do this kind of crap?" i'm sure he knew in his mindwhen i walked in that he was locking this kid upno matter what. he didn't even look at me.

once i entered the courtroom,i didn't have any chance. there was about six kidswho went in front of me. every single kid who wentin front of ciavarella, for all different reasons--some minor, some serious-- got sent away. moore: although wilkes-barre is locatedin the united states of america, here capitalismtrumped democracy. robert powell, one of the ownersof pa child care, cut a business deal with judge conahanand judge ciavarella.

judge ciavarella then stepped uphis conviction rates. many of these kidswere funneled into pa child care'sfor-profit juvenile facility. and for their troubles, the judges receivedover $2.6 million while the owners of pa child carereceived tens of millions of taxpayer dollarsfrom the county. and where did powell goto enjoy all that money? on his private plane

and his yacht,the "reel justice." 6,500 childrenwere unjustly convicted. it was good businesswhile it lasted. reporter #1 : two luzerne countyjudges in big trouble with the law. they're going to jail. reporter #2:some kids were locked up even when probation officersobjected to detention. in there you lose track of timeand you lose track of the date. i was barely keeping track.

it was supposed to be, like--i believe it was, like, two months. and it went from two monthsto nine months. he said originallythree to six months, but somehow i ended upbeing there 11 1/2 months and i never went backin front of the judge at all for him to give me extensions. moore:not only did pa child care pay off the judgesto fill their cells, but their employees were the oneswho got to decide

when a child hadenough rehabilitation. but that makes sense,because any time a governmental unit turns over toa profit-making corporation the duties it should be performing, what do you expect to happen? matt: it makes me feel likean item that they just used to just get moneyand then tossed me aside. i'm just tryingto work on my flying and just trying to preparefor my future

so i can put this all behind me,finally be done with all this. during the whole triali wasn't in control at all, but with flying it's only me. it's just that i just getto do everything by myself. i'm the only one on the control. moore:matt loves to fly and hopes to becomea pilot someday. if he does,he'll get his second lesson in capitalism:

that in america,sometimes you're better off working at mickey d's. - ( applause, cheering )- remember sully? captain sullenberger, who safely landed an airbusin the hudson river - saving the lives of 150 passengers?- ( patriotic music playing ) - man: a true american hero.- ( applause ) moore: he met the mayor.he went to the state of the union. heck, he even wentto the super bowl.

and then he went to congress. sullenberger:flying has been my lifelong passion. but while i love my profession, i do not likewhat has happened to it. - ( music halts )- it is my personal experience that my decision to remainin the profession i love has come at a great financial costto me and to my family. my pay has been cut 40%. my pension, like most airline pensions,has been terminated.

so please do not think i exaggeratewhen i say that i do not know a single professional airline pilotwho wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps. moore: whoa, you clearedthe room with that one, sully. i don't think the congressmenwanted to hear that stuff. - they like you as a hero.- the current experience... ( patriotic music over dialogue ) moore: what wasyour starting pay as a pilot? i made $19,000 the first year.

i was bumped up to about 22,000or 23,000 the second year. last year, gross pay i made $17,600. there's a joke in the airlinewhen we get our wings pinned on us as new-hire airline pilotsthat the company just kinda says, "hey, don't apply for food stampsin your uniform." moore: i don't know about you,but i want the pilot who's got me 30,000 feet up in the airto be paid really well and not sitting up in the cockpitdigging through the pilot's seat

looking for loose change. there was a periodof about four months where i was on food stamps. - you were on food stamps?- yes. - and you were still flying the plane?- yes. with my--with my food stamp card. the lady i talked toin the food stamp office, when i told her i was a pilot,she didn't bat an eye, but she didn't--i knew she didn't believe me.

moore: how have you gotten by?how have you been able to afford things? relying on credit cardsto buy the groceries at times - when i wasn't on food stamps.- oh, really? i have about $10,000in credit card debt just on the necessities, not on the big-screen tvand the stereo. moore: you're using itto buy your groceries and get by. - yes.- do you have any student loan debt? - yes.- how much?

mine is about 80,000. - i took out $100,000.- moore: student loans? and by the time i pay it back,at this rate, it'll probably cost me well overa half a million with interest and fees and penalties. it's something that i don't--i don't like to spend a lot of time thinking aboutbecause it's abysmal. it's one way that i get downreally quickly about my chosen career field

is to think about how much i oweand how little i make. moore: have you had to worka second job to make ends meet? i walk dogs on the side, i distribute monavie juice. i have known pilotsto donate plasma for extra cash. - you mean they give blood?- they-- well-- so they can make extra moneyeven though they're flying an airplane? yeah.they donate their plasma.

so they get the blood back,but you can get paid for plasma. - ( chuckles )- oh, i see. they suck the blood out of you,take the plasma... - give you the blood back.-...give you the-- oh, well then,not such a bad deal. the only reason people stay flyingis because they love it. and managementstake advantage of that. the airlineshave managed to farm out a lot of the flying to commuters

in an effort to basicallybust the unions. you can't compete to a lower and lower levelevery year without skimpingon safety somehow. moore: at approximately 10:15 pmon february 12, 2009, continental connection flight 3407 began its descentto the airport in buffalo. ( sirens wailing ) man: stand by, there's someground communication,

either state policeor sheriff's department. we need to find out if anythingis on the ground. this aircraft was five miles out,and all of a sudden we have no responseto that aircraft. all i could tell you is there wasan aircraft over the marker and we're not talking to them now. moore:no one survived the crash and 50 people lost their lives. the media focusedon the actions of the pilots.

reporter: captain marvin renslowand first officer shaw were chatting about their careers. moore:"careers" is a euphemism for what the pilotswere really talking about: how little they were paidand how overworked they were. there would beno discussion in the media about why we havean economic system that allows a pilot to be paid lessthan a manager at taco bell. reporter:first officer shaw

made between$16,000 and $20,000 a year and at one pointworked a second job. moore: her second jobhad been waitressing at a coffee shop. how are these companiesable to get away with this? ( laughs )i guess that's the point of capitalism. it allows you to get awaywith anything, like making a profitoff the death of an employee. sweetie, i can open it.let's try it with this.

moore:this is irma johnson. irma's husband danworked in middle management at amegy bank in houston, texas. - wanna try to spread it?- no. moore:dan recently died of cancer, leaving behind irmaand their two sons. but unbeknownst to irma,amegy had taken out a secret life insurance policyon dan's life. the bank generously named itselfas the beneficiary

in the event of dan's death. the insurance companythen accidentally informed irma that amegy bank had receiveda check for $1 1/2 million just weeks after dan died. thank you for helping. johnson:they never told me. i wanted to find out, well,why did they purchase a policy for him? - moore: you didn't know about it?- no. and they named themselvesas the beneficiary.

yeah. moore:so your husband's death made them $1.5 million richer? mm-hmm. i know it's not rightfor them to try to profit from my husband's death. when i first realizedwhat was happening, i was in disbelief. - it's hurtful.- i'm so sorry.

um... it's hurtful and i wanted answers. moore: irma contactedmichael d. myers, a local attorney who hadalready been looking into these kind of corporateinsurance policies on their employees. with the normal use of life insurance,where you're guarding against the loss of a loved oneor a breadwinner of the family, you don't want that person to die. with these policies,the companies that buy these

want the employees to die in accordancewith the policy projections. you are more valuable deadto a company than alive. american greetings, rr donnelly & sons,and proctor & gamble are all having problemswith mortality. these four combined programsare running at 50% of expected mortality. these clients are acutely awareof this problem. basically here the brokeris complaining

that not enoughemployees are dying. and therefore the investment returnsare not matching the projections. the broker writesthat ncc is running at 78% of expected mortality. okay, so 78% of the peoplewe expected to die died. but the problem with thatis three of them were suicides. and you can't counton that every year. moore: can you thinkof any other situation were you'd actually wantpeople to die?

combatants in war, i guess. wow, when do you wantpeople to die? i-i don't know. war situations,terrorism situations. drug trials, perhaps.i don't know. i don't know.that's an odd question. moore: i didn't understandhow any of this could be legal. after all, there's a reasonthat there's a law prohibiting me from taking outa fire insurance policy on your house

because i have a vested interestin your house burning down. since attorney myers had beenresearching this for years, i asked him which companieswere profiting from these insurance policies. i don't know,you don't know, because there's no placeyou can go and find out whether your companyis a purchaser - of these types of products.- which ones do you know? the ones that we knowthat have slipped out are

bank of america, citibank, wal-mart, winn-dixie,proctor & gamble, mcdonnell douglas, hershey, nestlã©, at&t,southwestern bell, ameritech, american express-- - this is blue chip you're talking about.- yeah. these aren't fly-by-night companiestrying to do a scam here so they can collect a checkif one of their employees dies. there are probablyseveral million americans

who are covered by one of these policiesor have been at some point. there's a lot of it out there. moore:this is paul smith. he used to be what is knownas a loyal employee. smith: i worked for wal-martfor 18 years and i gave them 1 10%. i mean, i loved that company. and as it turned out,wal-mart took out over 350,000life insurance policies on rank and file associates.

these weren't executives. these were people like my wife,a cake decorator for 18 months. that's the type of people they were takinginsurance policies out on. moore: paul's wife ladonnaleft her job at the wal-mart bakery so she could be a stay-at-home momfor her two kids. smith:she had asthma real real bad. she went intothe emergency room one night and a nurse comes out and says,"are you mr. smith?" and i said, "yes."

and she said, "we don't thinkyour wife's gonna make it." moore:ladonna slipped into a coma from which she wouldnever awaken. her family rushed to the hospital, even though there was nothingthey could do to help. there was a wall hereand ladonna's in the room on the other side of the wall. and jessica kept saying,"where is she?" and i said, "she's right onthe other side of that wall."

and jessica said,"can we cut a hole in the wall so that we can see her?" and that just sticks with me do you remember that? smith: we had to stay in there with her,and so we'd write letters to her. "my dear wife, i miss you morethan any words can possibly say. you are my life. you always see beautyin the simplest things. i've always admired you for that.i wish i could have told you that more.

i want you to come backto me soon. i still have a lot left to learnfrom you, baby doll. your loving husband, paul." you okay, wesley? she was 26 years old. ladonna: you're silly.you're silly. myers: the younger a person is,the higher the benefit is because they're expectedto live longer. women are also expectedto live longer than men.

so the most valuable employeeto the company if they're dead,is a young woman. moore:ladonna's death earned one of the richest corporationsin the world an extra $81,000. i was faced with over $100,000worth of medical bills and a $6,000 funeral and wal-mart didn't offer a pennyto help with that. i did trust them.

and never in a million yearswould i have ever thought that somewhereon a profit statement, "dead associate, $81,000." wal-mart doesn't care about you. when someone passes away, they shouldn't getsomething out of it. myers: the common denominatorto each form of coverage is that when the employee dies, the employer gets paidthe insurance benefits.

they're often referred toas "dead peasant insurance." moore: dead peasants?why'd they use such a creepy name? myers: it's very creepy.i don't know what it means either. dead is clear. that's the worker who's passed away,so they're dead. peasant, i don't know whythey chose that word. i don't know if it hassome historical significance or that's just the way they viewthe relative value of the employees' lives.

dead peasants? yeah, amongst themselvesthat's what they call it. it's insulting to referto my husband like that. ( sniffles ) moore:it turned out that amegy bank had a seconddead peasant policy on dan, bringing their total taketo nearly $5 million. - is capitalism a sin?- father dick preston: yes. capitalism for me and for many of us

at this present moment is an evil. it's contrary to all that's good.it's contrary to the common good. it's contrary to compassion. it's contrary toall of the major religions. capitalism is preciselywhat the holy books, our holy books in particular,remind us is unjust and in some form and fashion, god will come downand eradicate somehow. moore:this was father dick preston,

the priest from flintwho married my wife and me. preston:capitalism is wrong, and thereforehas to be eliminated. moore:eliminated? that might be a little harsh, so i decided to goand talk to the priest that married my sisterand brother-in-law. i'm sure he would havea more balanced approach when it came to capitalism.

it is immoral, it is obscene,it is outrageous. you know... it is really radical evil. it's radically evil. moore: wow, does their boss knowthat they're talking like this? i thought it best to goand check this out with the bishop. bishop thomas gumbleton:the system doesn't seem to be providing for the well beingof all the people. and that's what makes it

almost in its very nature something contraryto jesus who said, "blessed are the poor,woe to the rich." that's right outof st. luke's gospel. moore: how have we put upwith this system for so long? i mean, it's--they talk about-- the system has built into itwhat we call propaganda. i'm in awe of propaganda-- the ability to convince people

who are victimizedby this very system to support the systemand see it as good. we know that american capitalismis morally right because its chief elements-- private ownership,the profit motive and the competitive market--are wholesome and good. they are compatible with god's lawsand the teachings of the bible. moore: for as longas i can remember, i've been told that competitionand profit are good things.

( distorted )they are compatible with god's laws and the teachings of the bible. moore: and if increasing profitsmeans locking up a few kids or cashing in on the deathof an employee... ( distorted ) compatible with god's lawsand the teachings of the bible. moore:...it is morally right to providefor the stockholders. moore:debt, eviction and exploitation. ( distorted )god's laws and the teachings of the bible. moore: what were we reallypledging our allegiance to?

( distorted )the profit motive. moore: and so all good americanscame to act as if they believed our capitalist economic systemwas compatible with the teachings of the bible. ( organ music playing ) when i was a kid,i wanted to be a priest. it wasn't becauseof the fancy getups or the knights of columbusescorts, or even the groovy nunswho were so good to me.

it was because of the priestswho went on the march from selma, or tried to stop the war, or devoted their lives to the poor. they told me quite clearlywhat jesus said, that the first shall be lastand the last shall be first:, that the rich manwill have a very hard time getting into heaven; that we will be judged by howwe treat the least among us; and that there are no peoplemore important to god

than the poor. since that time,it seems that jesus got hijacked by a lot of people who believethat the son of god was sent here to createheaven on earth for the well-to-do. i must have missedthat part of the bible where jesus became a capitalist. man:please tell me, master, what must i doto have eternal life? go forth and maximize profits.

you say the kingdom of heavenis at hand, but when exactly will it come? when you deregulatethe banking industry. - ( voices overlapping )- help me. i've been this way for 20 years. i'm sorry, i cannot healyour pre-existing condition. he'll have to pay out of pocket. moore: somehow, i don't thinkjesus came to earth so he could ring the bellat the new york stock exchange.

and yet,from the very beginning, the rich have claimed himfor their own. when i'm on wall streetand i realize that that's the very nerve centerof american capitalism, and i realizewhat capitalism has done for working people in america,to me that's a holy place. let me add to it. over the whole duration of the iraq warand the terror war, you look at the world's stock marketsand you look at the world economy,

and despite these horrible pocketsof unrest and killing and murdering that we've been describing,it's never been better. the global economyhas never been better and the global stock marketshave never been better, jimmy. it is either a god-given miracle or it has something to dowith the victories of the spreading worldof capitalism or both. moore: they thinkwall street's a holy place. what do you thinkjesus would think of capitalism?

i think he wouldsimply refuse to-- to be part of it. moore: jesus would refuseto be part of it, but he probably hada special place up there for whoever leakeda secret citibank memo about their plan to rule the world. back in 2005 and 2006, citigroup wrotethree confidential memos to their wealthiest investorsabout how things were going.

they reached the conclusionthat the united states was no longerreally a democracy, but had become a plutonomy-- a society controlled exclusivelyby and for the benefit of the top 1%of the population who now hadmore financial wealth than the bottom 95% combined. the memo gloated about the growing gapbetween rich and poor and how they were nowthe new aristocracy

and that there was no end in sightfor the gravy train they were on. there was, though,one problem. according to citigroup, the most potentand short-term threat would be societies demanding a more equitable shareof the wealth. in other words,the peasants might revolt. citigroup lamentedthat the non-rich might not havemuch economic power,

but they do haveequal voting power with the rich. one person, one vote. and that's whatreally scares them-- that we can still vote. in fact, we have99% of the votes and they only have 1%. so why do the 99%put up with this? according to citigroup,it's because the majority of the electorate believe that somedaythey will have a chance

of becomingwell-to-do themselves if they just keep tryinghard enough. the wealthy were pleasedthat so many people had bought into the american dream while they, the rich,had no intention of ever sharing it with anyone. i think capitalism is a lot moreimportant than democracy. i'm not even a big believerin democracy. i always say that democracy is--can be two wolves and a sheep

deciding on what to havefor dinner. moore: this is stephen moore--no relation-- a columnistand an editorial board member of "the wall street journal," the daily bibleof corporate america. look, i'm in favor of peoplehaving the right to vote and things like that, but you knowthere are a lot of countries that have the right to votethat are still poor. democracy doesn't always leadto a good economy

or even a good political system. with capitalism, you are freeto do what you want, to make whatever you wantout of yourself. it doesn't meanyou're gonna succeed. remember, the us constitutiondoes not guarantee happiness. moore:ah, the constitution. all my life i've heard that americais a capitalist country. so i went to see the original constitutionand check out if it was true. i'm trying to see where it sets upour economic system,

like where it says we havea capitalist economy. guard:the jurisdiction. - judicial part of the--- down there? moore: there was no mentionof free market or free enterprise or capitalism anywhere. in fact, all i sawwas "we the people," something about"a more perfect union," and "promotingthe general welfare." welfare, union, we?

that sounded like that other -ism. but no, that's democracy. and i began to wonder,"what would it be like if the workplacewas a democracy?" there's always been a big separationbetween how the country is run and how businessesare supposed to run. moore:it's true. there seems to be a disconnect between our professed loveof democracy

and how we're so willingto accept a dictatorship every day we show up to work. it's not that wayat isthmus engineering in wisconsin. they design and buildrobotic machines for industry. it's a $15 million-a-year business. man:all of the workers are the owners of the business. moore: he's not talking aboutsome bullshit stock option. he means they're the true owners.

man: and it's a democratically-runoperation where every member has one vote and an equal say. - all in favor?- all in favor? man: it takes the moneyout of the equation. moore: by taking the moneyout of the equation so that they can call the shots, they end up making more money. cool, huh? and how patrioticthat they want to extend

their love of american democracyto their job. just imagine if the placewhere you worked was run by youand your fellow workers. you probably wouldn'tlay off your coworkers to increase the valueof your stock, would you? or give yourselfa pay raise while making your coworkerstake a pay cut. man:we don't really do that here. you really can't because everyone elsewould be looking at you

saying, "why is this guyso fricking greedy?" you know,it would be too obvious. the bottom line is you'vegot plenty of people who roll up their sleevesevery day and go to work. but if there's someoneway up there on the chain that collects all the extra money,that's not fair. moore:huh, fairness in the workplace-- what a novel idea. out in california,there's a bread factory

where workers make thousandsof loaves of bread every day man:the more hours you work towards the benefitof the co-op, the more you sharein the profits. man #2:the workers are happy here. no big i's, little you's.everyone's the same. me as the ceo,i get the same share that anybody else does. and that has proven

to be very lucrativefor us as workers. moore: assembly-line workers hereearn over $65,000 a year, more thanthree times the pay for a starting pilotat american eagle. man: i'm just hopingthat people take notice of this typeof organizational activity and start considering itas an alternative. why do you wantto get rich? how many cars doyou really need in life?

moore: clearly, he's not a car guy,but that's okay. his bread factory and hundreds of otherworker-owned businesses are proof that people aren't alwaysmotivated by profit. ( fanfare ) announcer:an historic victory over a dread disease. moore: instead of using his geniusto make a ton of money, dr. jonas salk spentall of his time putting monkey kidneysin a blender trying to find a curefor polio.

and when he did,he decided to give it away for free. this man could have been richmany times over had he sold his vaccineto a pharmaceutical company. but he thoughthis talents should be used for the greater good. and the decent salaryhe made as a doctor and a research professorwas enough for him to live a comfortable life. who owns the patenton this vaccine?

well, the people,i would say. there is no patent.would you patent the sun? moore: yes, we've come a long waysince the days of dr. salk. because today our best mindsare used for something else. where do we send our topmath and science people? into finance. they don't go intoscience in america. they go to wall street. moore: today's students,unlike in dr. salk's time,

can graduate from collegewith a student loan debt of up to $100,000 or more. these students are thenbeholden to the banks for the next 20 years. and the best way for themto pay off these banks is to go to work for them instead of workingfor the common good. black: we've taken people that couldbe enormously productive-- just what we're short ofin america--

and we take them and weput them in an activity that isn't simply lessproductive, but where they'reactually destructive; where actually every day they work,they make the world worse. moore: so what exactly were the topstudents from harvard and other schoolsworking on these days? derivatives... derivatives...derivatives... derivatives... credit default swaps. i can't make any senseout of this.

i might as well quit. moore:that's exactly how i felt when i started hearingthese new terms. so i went down to the new york stockexchange to get some answers. sir, can you explainderivatives to me? can anybody explainderivatives or credit default swaps? can someone explainto me what these are? sir, can you tell me whata credit default swap is? can you explaina derivative to me?

can you tell mewhat a derivative is? - nobody'll talk to me.- i'm just a blue-collar guy. i can see that.hey. - i'm looking for some advice.- yeah, good. you guys got anyadvice for me here? a derivative?credit default swap? moore:i did find one guy on wall street who wasn't a film critic. marcus haupt is an ivy leagueeducated engineer

who was a vice presidentof lehman brothers and spent 15 yearson wall street creating what they callcomplex financial instruments. what is a derivative? a derivativeis a secondary bet on an underlying product. so you may have a stockand you have an option on that stock. and that option on that stockallows you the privilege but not the obligationto buy or sell.127101:04:39,747 --> 01:04:42,773how should we put this?you are allowed to make a decision

of whether or not you want to ultimatelytake that exposure. let me explain it another way.the derivative's price is based on the priceof something else. it's kind of likea second-degree equation. if you think of,let's say... um, maybe i should go back. let me start this over again.let's go back here. moore:i was lost. maybe there's someoneat harvard university

who could explain it to me. yeah, the-- the-- the-- the-- the-- the--the buyer-- so the seller holds the loanand it might default. and they sell off-- somebody-- somebody else-- sorry, let me just back up. i apologize.these are pretty exotic. moore:derivatives are nothing more

than complicatedbetting schemes. here's what the math equationof one looks like. can't figure it out? that's okay.you're not supposed to. they've made thempurposely confusing so they can get awaywith murder. let's say you're a lawyerand you're coming in and you're from the governmentand you're trying to evaluate if these thingsviolate the tax code or not.

if you can figure outwhat they're doing, most likely that wall streetfirm will offer you a job. could i go to wall streetand just ask them to set up a derivativeon anything? yes. believe me,if it's out there there's a derivative on it. moore:so this is what wall street has come to-- an insane casino.

we've allowed themto bet on anything, including our family home. reporter #1 :...the most powerful centralbanker of the 20th century. reporter #2:greenspan has become an economic icon. reporter #3: alan greenspan saysthe economy is hunky-dory. reporter #4: greenspan gone wild.it's like "girls gone wild." what do mick jaggerand alan greenspan have in common? alan greenspan,who at that moment in time was surely thought to bethe smartest man

who had walked the faceof the earth, he starts using a phrase,"tap your home equity," --that americans can taptheir home equity, which is justalan greenspan-speak for "borrow againstyour home." and if you can't repay ityou'll lose your house. it actually started by talkingmostly older americans, people who alreadyhad homes, into refinancingtheir homes

to get them out of houses. moore: yes, get senior citizensout of their houses. the scam to swindle peopleout of the homes they already ownedwas masterful. here's how it worked. first, tell these homeownersthat they own a bank. and that bank is your home. so if your homeis worth $250,000, that makes youa quarter millionaire.

you're sittingon a goldmine. you own your own bank. the bank of you. and you can use your bankto get more money. just refinance. everyone's doing it. of course hidden in the dozensor hundreds of pages of fine print are tricky clauses that allow the bankto raise your interest rate to a numberyou didn't know about,

perhaps so high that you won'tbe able to repay your loan. but that's okay. if you can't pay itwe'll just take your house. of course, before theycould take your house they needed to changethe regulations and the rules. moore:what's this photo i found here? it was in an annualreport of the fdlc. john gilleran, the head of the officeof thrift supervision, which is supposed to regulatesavings and loans,

he's the guywith the chainsaw. and the four othergrinning idiots in the photo are the threeleading lobbyists in banking and the deputy director of the federaldeposit insurance corporation. and they're poised overa pile of regulations. and this is supposedto demonstrate their intentionto destroy regulation. and they succeeded. and now we know what happens

when you destroyfinancial regulation. you produce a financialcatastrophe. a growing familywith a lot of debt; a young couplewith no down payment; a business owner whoseincome was hard to document; every one of them wasturned down for a home loan by three different lenders. i'm with countrywideand i got them all approved. moore:don't be fooled by the pleasant demeanor

and blonde hair. it's the same pitchthe mafia gives you in the neighborhood. ( imitating brando )i know how you feel. you got a lot of debt. you don't have any moneyfor the down payment. you can't findyour documents. it's okay.i'll make you a loan you can't refuse. it's called sub-prime.

you pay no interest now. you pay a little more later. don't worry about later.we'll take care of you. and like the mafia,countrywide, citibank, wells fargo,chase... let's go. ...they would somedaystop by to collect and take your home. randy hacker:i was paying 1,700 a month and making it.

then it went to 2,000.then it went to 2,300. then it went to 2,700. can't do it. moore: these are the hackersof peoria, illinois. randy is a railroad worker and donna worksfor retirement homes. their farm, which hadbeen in the family for over four decades, had been foreclosedon by citibank. randy had had an accidenton the job years ago

and was nowon disability. they absolutely just plainfucking stole everything, my whole life's savingsand everything, by a stroke of a penand a lawyer and a judge. moore: the hackers showed methe foreclosure notice from citibank. what caught my eye was the town from whichtheir mortgage came. it turns out that a companyowned by the big banks has chosen to run60 million mortgages through,

of all places, one ofthe most desperate towns in the united states. this company hiresthe people of flint to send out nearly 60% of all the foreclosurenotices in the country. in what seems to be somesort of cruel joke, my hometown was nowin the service of helping to turnthe rest of america into flint.

typically when a bank forcesa family like the hackers out of their homethey hire professionals to come and clean upthe place. in this case,the bank figured, why pay top dollar whenwe've got a desperate family who will work cheap? in a final humiliation the hackers wentto work for the bank that took their home.

donna: "property is to be turned overin broom-clean condition with all trash, debrisand personal property removed. upon delivery of the keys the pas representative willhand you a check for $1,000." randy:you know, 1,000 bucks to get outof my own house and stuff, i really want to thank them.that was really something. my wife worked for a weekto clean the house up and make sure it waspresentable to somebody else.

i'm glad they did that.i have to thank them. it was awful nice of them. yeah, i'd like tothank them all right. i have one more. oh, that goes toour bedroom door. trying to think what-- that goes that that.i had a lock on it to keep kids out'cause i have guns. and here'syour money, randy.

moore:what you're witnessing is a robbery. i'm starting to understandwhy people, they lose their mindsand start shooting people. i'm not gonna say i woulddo something like that, but i can see howthey get people into that situation where people go in there with bombsand blow them up and shoot at them.

anything that happens to thempeople, they deserve it, is all i can say. i hope something happens-- yeah, well. can't say no more. some road kill right there. moore:this is bob feinberg. he handled all the vip loansfor countrywide, the nation's largestmortgage company.

although countrywidemainly specializes in outrageously high interestloans for low income people, bob's job was to take care of some of the country'stop political leaders. bob: one day one of the biggerbosses called me in the office. he said, "l want youto call this guy." i said okay. and he said,"he's a friend of angelo's." angelo mozilo's the ceoof countrywide.

"give him this rate.waive these fees. and get it locked in.and don't fuck it up." and i was like,"oh, okay." so it wasa special department that handled friendsof angelo. discounts were being given. fees were being waived. and at times paperworkwas being waived. we literally wouldwrite on the file "foa."

these were reallyimportant people. i had richard holbrooke--ambassador holbrooke, donna shalala, people on capitol hill, people thatregulate the mortgage markets, people that regulatewall street, and jim johnson,head of fannie mae, alphonso jacksonthe secretary of hud... senator conrad fromthe finance committee. i had the tv on in my house.i was in the kitchen

and i heard a voicepontificating about predatory lendingand how we have to put an end to it. our nation's financial regulators are supposed tobe the cops on the beat protecting working americans from unscrupulousfinancial actions. bob: senator dodd--christopher dodd-- was speaking. and i just stared atthe television and i was upset. some of these loanshave legitimate uses,

when made to sophisticatedborrowers with higher incomes. i had done a numberof loans for him in which he got discountsand all the things that go with beinga friend of angelo's and all the good stuff. moore: the senate bankingand housing committee is supposed to be the watchdogof the mortgage industry. senator dodd is the chairmanof this committee

and has served on itfor over 28 years. as a friend of angelo he receivedover $1 million worth of discounted loansfrom countrywide. someone next door hereis selling a toxic piece of craploan to somebody. i was required to give the mostsuitable loan to that vip. moore:did you ever feel that what you were doingmight be bribery?

bob: i didn't feel like i wasbribing anybody, no. i was just doing my job.i was the vip guy. everyone in the companyknew who i was. you know, everyone. so it was kind ofa flattering situation. but no, i don't feel like i didanything wrong at all. and if i didn't do it, somebody elsewould have been doing it. moore:that's why we need people like bill black, one of the bank regulatorswho uncovered

the savings & loan scandalin the 1980s. something improper happened and i bet youthe regulators know. moore: one of the leading figures ofthat scandal, charles keating, had an idea on what to dowith bill black and sent a memo outwith these instructions. i asked him who waslooking out for us today. where was the fbiin all of this? the fbi beganpublicly warning

in september 2004 that there was an epidemicof mortgage fraud perpetrated by the banks. epidemic was their word. but when 9/11 hit, the bush administrationtransferred at least 500 white-collarfbi specialists out of dealingwith white-collar crime, even though we were entering

during the entirebush administration the greatest waveof white-collar crime in the nation's history,in fact, in the world's history. the fbi says that 80% of the mortgagefraud losses are inducedby lender personnel. meaning what? meaning not the borrower coming off the street tryingto defraud the savings and loan.

these are frauds led by whoevercontrols the organization. - right.- it's typically the ceo in other words. so did these ceosthink they were gonna get away with it? they have gottenaway with it. moore:yes, apparently they did. and with the presidentialelection just around the corner... - define rich.- 5 million. ...the elites were worried that their crimespree might come to an end. after bilking trillionsfrom the american public

by repossessing their homes, bankrupting themwhen they got sick and convincing themto invest their earnings and pensions in the casinoknown as the stock market, the rich decided to makeone last heist and as their 30-year longparty came to an end, take as much of the silverwarewith them as they could. but first they neededa distraction. and as they learnedafter 9/11,

nothing works betterin the home of the brave than some good oldfashioned fear. and who better to wheel outfor one last scary performance than chicken little himself? oscar voters,for your consideration. good evening. this is an extraordinary periodfor america's economy. the government'stop economic experts warn that without immediateaction by congress,

america could slip intoa financial panic and a distressing scenariowould unfold. more banks could fail,including some in your community. - ( thunder rumbling )- the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the valueof your retirement account. the value of your homecould plummet. foreclosures wouldrise dramatically. and if you owna business or a farm, you would find it harderand more expensive to get credit.

more businesseswould close their doors and millions of americanscould lose their jobs. - ( screams )- even if you have good credit history, it would be more difficult foryou to get the loans you need to buy a car or sendyour children to college. and ultimately our countrycould experience - a long and painful recession.- ( people screaming ) fellow citizens,we must not let this happen. moore: in reality there was noneed for this speech,

because the mainstream media had already drunkthe kool-aid. meltdown.the american financial system is rocked to its foundation. the giant bank crumbles,stocks plummet. - nightmare on wall street.- aig fights for its life. - blood on the floor.- armageddon. a category-five testof our financial levies. what the fuck happened?

have you ever seena dam fail? it starts with a little crack,a little seepage. reporter:with overwhelming support, congress struck downthe restrictions. big bankingis barreling back. black:and it starts eroding and it destroys allthe internal strength of the dam. reporter:poison from the housing mess seeped deeper and deeperinto the banking system.

black:and soon the dam works against itself. the weight of the damand the weight of the water conspire against it. reporter:investors were dumping bear shares leading a huge sell off... reporter #2:the stocks of fannie mae and freddie mac were in freefallthis morning... black:then there's kind of a significant flow. reporter: wall street's losingstreak stretched into its seventh day.

black: and then suddenly you'vegot 60-70 foot sections. a dam exploding. reporter:lehman brothers, bankrupt. merrill lynch,sold in haste. - now aig.- black: just crashing. reporter:the market's year long slide has brought downsome of the biggest blue chips. black:the water starts rushing through. reporter: this morning,washington mutual has gone under,

the largest failurein us banking history. reporter #2:stocks fell off a cliff. the largest single point drop in history. black:it destroys the rest of the dam. and the whole failure looks like it only takestwo minutes. but of course,it's that little hole that's been therefor several years that really destroyed it.

you have this fundamentallyunsound system built ona foundation of sand instead of bedrock. and it was rottedfrom the core. it seems like capitalismis just collapsing on itself. who got rich here? lots of people got richduring this time, primarily the officersand directors of the large banksand savings and loans

and the specialtynon-prime lenders. these people becameunbelievably rich. and members of congress got rich, especially oncethey left congress. a number of them go and workin the financial institutions. sure, and as dorubin and summers. moore:robert rubin, a one-time top executive at both citigroupand goldman sachs champion a change in the law

that allowed commercial banksto get into new areas like investment bankingand exotic insurance products. this made it legalto let citicorp merge with travelers group, a deal valuedat $70 billion, creating the world'slargest bank. after leavingthe clinton administration, rubin worked for citigroup, earning more than$115 million.

summers madehis money where? summers made his moneyas a supposed consultant and in giving speeches at apparently, in some cases, over $100,000 a pop. moore: summers also made $5.2 millionat his part-time job, advising a hedge fund. where did geithner work? geithner has been a failure

at pretty much everythinghe's done in life. most of the institutionsthat destroyed the economy were under his directregulatory authority. how did he get the jobas treasury secretary? by completelyscrewing up his job as president of the federalreserve bank of new york. that makes no sense. of course, it makesperfect sense. this is notnew to washington.

people who will give youthe wrong answer but the answer you wantare invaluable. and they often get promoted precisely becausethey're willing to say and do absurd things. these are the peoplethat promised us that financial deregulationwould make all of us rich. and these are the people whowere personally made rich. moore: it was not surprising thatthe rich wanted to get richer.

but now they had come up witha new and brazen way to do it. just back a big truck upto the department of treasury and take $700 billionof our tax money, no questions asked. i got michael moore here. you know whomichael moore is, don't you? the film director.he's filming me right now. - i got my wife on the line.- oh, hi. how are you doing?baron hill from indiana. how are you, sir?good state.

- we're from michigan you know?- yeah. how did thiscollapse happen? i got home on a friday, everythingwas just fine in terms of the economy. i call back after my planelanded in indiana just to check inwith my office, and all of a sudden we'vegot this crisis on our hands and that i'm gonna have to votewhen i come back monday for a multibillion-dollar bailoutof the financial industry. the word that we gotwas that if we did not act immediately

the economy would collapse,no doubt about it. i felt thatthe announcement of this crisis in september, just a few weeksbefore election, was very suspicious. this is when congressis the most nervous. and i thought, "wait a minute.what's going on here? this is not normal." moore:the leadership of congress

and the bush administration quickly held a seriesof private meetings with the titansof wall street to figure out just how much moneywas needed to cover all the bad betsinvestors had made. a deal was cut with treasurysecretary henry paulson, the former ceoof goldman sachs, whose net worth was estimatedat $700 million when he left goldmanto go and run the treasury department.

i think we saw the best ofthe united states of america in the speaker'soffice tonight. moore:the best of america? or did he meanthe best of goldman sachs? the treasury department, it's basically an armof wall street. all the people in chargewere from goldman sachs. we call it government goldmanin the modern era. moore:that's because there were now numerous

former goldman executivesinside the bush treasury department, as there were under clinton. they worked as powerfullobbyists from the inside to abolishfinancial regulations while we paidtheir salaries. black:treasury secretary paulson-- he wasn't just randomlyat goldman. he was the guy at goldmanwho got them big time into buying these exotichousing derivatives.

so he got goldman ina huge amount of trouble. moore:insane housing derivatives had now destroyed muchof goldman's competition. and with the goldman boysnow calling the shots inside the government,they would ensure that goldman would end up as the kingsof wall street when the dust settled. black:so the last possible people that should be giving adviceto treasury would be goldman.

so naturally paulson, former ceo of goldman,puts them on. and what advice do theyend up giving? well, to use the taxpayers to bail out goldman and other favored financialinstitutions. well, secretary paulsonhas submitted a simple proposalto congress. this is it--three pages.

it's about$1 billion a word. and it is quite simple. secretary paulson getsthe key to the treasury. he's gonna start offby borrowing $700 billion in the nameof the american people, maybe more later.and it waives all laws. all laws! not even court review.pretty simple proposal. we are in a realcrisis situation

that could mushroom into something worsethan the great depression. so i saw fear.one gentleman started to cry. people are telling usthat it's going to be this gigantic calamity. and i'm up for electionin two months. eight weeks awayfrom election, i don't want to make a mistake.what's the right thing to do? heaven help us. if we fail to pass this

i fear the worstis yet to come. and a few memberswere even told that there would be martial lawin america if we voted no. they were ramming thisthing down our throat. they wanted us to vote on itright away without any kind ofthoughtful analysis. - no real hearings?- no real hearings. and i wasn't about to-- i got cornered into voting

for the iraq resolutionbased upon some lies that they made to me and i wasn't goingto go through that again. i will not wait on eventswhile danger is gathering. i will not stand by as perildraws closer and closer. use fear and then youget done what you want. and they createdin this window-- two months before election--this pressure cooker. people understand thatthe house of representatives needs to pass this pieceof legislation.

mr. speaker, my messageto the american people... don't let congressseal this wall street deal. these criminals haveso much political power they can shut down the normallegislative process of the highest lawmakingbody in this land. all the committeesthat should be scanning every word of what is beingnegotiated are benched. and that means the americanpeople are benched too. we are constitutionally sworn

to protect and defendthis republic against all enemiesforeign and domestic. they say it's gonna bey2k all over again. this is the same politicsof fear we are hearing from the fat-cat financialbullies from wall street. why aren't we asking wall streetto clean up its own mess? why aren't we helpingamerican families faced with bankruptcy? why aren't we reducing debtsfrom main street instead of wall street? is this the united states congress

or the board of directorsof goldman sachs? moore:the night before the vote the american peoplein unprecedented numbers flooded capitol hillwith millions of messages demanding thatcongress vote no. the bailout packagewas defeated today, voted down in the houseof representatives. the stock market plunged-- plunged to the singlegreatest point loss

in the dow averagein one day ever. the question is this: is the failure ofthe bailout reason enough to vote all the incumbentsout of office in five weeks? 12 votes killed it. so did the voices of a lotof the american people who called their representativesand said no. then congress voted no. tonight congresshas left town.

moore: it was a rebuke that congressand wall street had rarely,if ever, experienced. it was what the citibankmemo had warned against: that if the peasantsever chose to exercise theirdemocratic rights, the pillaging by the wealthywould be over. so paulson and company headedback up to capitol hill. and faster than you can say"check, please," they cut a backroom dealwith the help of the democrats.

this issue supersedesan election. we need to get this right.we need to do it quickly. i agree with the secretary. it's not gonna openly costall these hundreds of billions. we will recover most of it,maybe all of it. kaptur:the democrats became the delivery manfor a bill for the republicanpresident. the presidents and presidents-to-be made phone calls

and members-- i knowat least two members who have an interestin the us senate, and promises were made. moore:within days, the congress did an amazing about-face and gave the banks the 700-plusbillion they wanted, the people be damned. on this votethe yeas are 263, the nays are 171.the motion is adopted.

it was very carefully plannedto happen when it did, to involve the playersthat it did.186801:32:42,361 --> 01:32:46,354the message was carefully handled. they had congress right wherethey wanted them. you don't think itwas just happenstance? no. this was almost likean intelligence operation that had to be coordinatedat the highest levels. this whole fiascoshows you that there aresome forces--

that are not democratic. right.that are in control. big time. they did a masterful job.very well executed. do you think it's too harsh to call what has happenedhere a coup d'ã©tat? a financial coup d'ã©tat? no, because i thinkthat's what's happened. - a financial coup d'ã©tat?- yeah.

i could agree with that. i could agree with thatbecause the people here really aren't in charge. wall street is in charge. where's our money? i don't know. reporter:citigroup is spending $50 million on a luxury corporate jet. you don't know?but you're the person--

you're in charge of--they put you in charge to find out. reporter:goldman sachs has set aside 6.8 billion for bonuses. but treasury followeda don't-ask-don't-tell policy. they didn't ask the banks what they were going to dowith the money. and not having asked them,the banks are not required to tell. aig poolside meetingsat a valley resort... doesn't make any sense.

we're getting wordthat 73 people received at least$1 million apiece. why would the departmentof treasury not require the banksto tell them what they're doingwith our money? you're going to haveto ask secretary paulson that question. because i've askedthat question in my role as head of the congressionaloversight panel, and so far i haven't gotten an answer.maybe you'll get a better one.

( phone ringing ) woman: good afternoon.hank paulson's office. yeah, this is michael moore. i'd like to talkto mr. paulson. - i'm sorry. your name again?- michael moore. - michael moore?- yup. - ( hangs up )- hello? hello? this is crazy what they're doingwith our money. if i could get themto actually give the money back--

i'd be in favor of that. we're here to get the moneyback for the american people. i understand, sir,but you can't come in. - can you just take the bag?- no. - take it up there?- absolutely not. fill it up.i got more bags. 10 billion probablywon't fit in here. you can't help meget the money? i can't help youget the money.

what would happen if i madea run for it right now? moore:so i went to another bank. we want our money back. i went to all the banks. - you've seen this guy?- yeah. okay, we're here to makea citizen's arrest, actually. just drop itfrom the windows. and everywhere i went... i got the same reaction.

we're actually hereto make a citizen's arrest of the entire boardof directors and the executives here. why don't you speakto my supervisor? - that's him right here.- where's he at? - in the white shirt? blue tie?- yup. - that's him.- receding hairline? they're using the moneyto buy other companies. this is our money.

oh, this isa police officer. i wanted to make a citizen'sarrest of the ceo. - mr. blankfein.- ( chuckles ) but you're here, so maybeyou could help me. - let's do it outside.- $170 billion of our taxpayer money. - you're not allowed in the building, sir.- but i'm here to make an arrest. - i'm here to make an arrest.- make it outside, sir. i can't make it outside.they're upstairs. i'll make an arrest, sir.

you can arrest somebody? if you can arrest somebody,i can arrest somebody. sir, leave the building, sir. who else do you wantto leave the building? your cameraman and your crew.come on out, sir. they don't speak english.donde? these guys have brokenso many laws, you know? this is money.it's theft, it's fraud. i'm gonna take it backto the us treasury

right in this car. it's safe.you can trust me. ( grunts ) there's just these little hints that the unimaginable could occur, which is that... people in general in the united statescould actually become angry

at the wealthy. shame on you!shame on you! shawn:people who became rich in this country in the last decadeswere not even making the thingsthat everybody loved. they were playing games that ended up actuallyharming everybody. ( chanting ) so some kind of diseasehas entered into the economy.

moore: it was unusual for americansto turn against the rich because of the carrot that hadalways been held out in front of us, that we too could beone of them someday. people were starting not to believe that. and that frightened the rich. because off in the distancethey heard something coming and it wasn't another dry martini. it was the friggin' people. we are ready to take this country

in a fundamentally new direction. that's what's happeningin america right now. change is what's happeningin america. moore:holy shit. this was notwhat wall street wanted. what if he won? what would happento their way of life? so they did what they always do. they threw as much moneyat him as they could.

goldman sachs became hisnumber-one private contributor with nearly $1 million in contributions. but yet they still weren't surewhat he would do. how did he really feel about them and their way of life? my attitude is that if the economyis good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. senator obama is runningto spread the wealth. joe the plumber said to him

that plan sounded like socialism. ( russian music playing ) joe:i love america. i want to make sure it stays a democracyand not a socialist society. i really think he's gonna bring socialismif he gets half a chance. i don't trust obama at all. i left europe four decades ago because socialism has killedopportunities there. "someone is going to have togive up a piece of their pie

so someone else can have more." i want all my pie. barack obama is a socialist,it's that simple. moore:the scare campaign wasn't working. in fact, the more they calledobama a socialist, the more he went ahead in the polls. and by using the word so much, it made a new generation curiousabout what that was. for instance, few of them knew

there was actually a socialistin the united states senate. of course he was fromthe gay state of vermont. ( moos ) you say that you're a socialist.tell me what that means. i'm a democratic socialist, which means that the functionof government is to represent middle income and working people rather than just the wealthyand the powerful. one of the things that we've done here,

we've become very religiousin worshipping greed. we put on the front pagesof the magazines guys who have madebillions of dollars. we ignore the cops, the firemen,the teachers, the nurses who every day are doing so muchin improving the lives of people. we've got to change our value system. moore:hmm, that doesn't sound too bad. i mean, it sounds like somethingmaybe we should try. within a few months,

the rasmussen poll reported that only 37% of young adults now favor capitalism over socialism. i hope the economy will... ( people cheering ) at 11 :00 we project barack obama president-electof the united states of america. ( cheering ) moore:just two years earlier

had anyone predictedthis moment, they would have beenconsidered crazy. but that's how fastthings change. it was in an instant a farewell to the old america. the countrywas electrified by his victory. and suddenly peoplewere inspired to do things they neverwould have done before. like the sheriff in detroit

who decided it was timeto 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?i thought that's not what they do. 1-0-1 radio. i thought the free marketis you sink or swim. i just saw them sinkand cry like babies for assistance from everybody else. today i will be stoppingall mortgage foreclosure sales

in wayne county. i cannot in clear conscienceallow anymore families to lose their homesthrough foreclosure sales. moore:what must the banks have thought seeing the law that was set upto protect their interests being subverted? do you think the free markethas failed detroit? well, i mean, i think that the free marketfailed the country. you know, this is crazy.

neighborhoods that arecompletely destroyed because too many homeshave 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 peoplecan do nothing but protest, and then thoseare called revolutions. moore:and sometimes revolutions begin in unlikely places.

wake up. moore:living in the back of a truck after a bank foreclosed onthe 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 familyand this community, we liberate this home for this family. cut the sign down.take it off. - ( applause )- yay!

when i say community,y'all say power. - community!- power! moore: it wasn't longbefore the guy from the bank who had evicted them came back. see this? i want you to go aheadand take a picture of that. you're trespassing. we did an eviction here and the peoplewent back inside the property. yes.so i need police assistance.

when all these houses are empty the value of everybodyelse's house goes down. so if you can keepthese people in this house that will help not only them... so you see, the situation is thatthe people-- if the bank lets them go back inside, then the bank misses the opportunityto sell the house to somebody else. the banks are sellingso many houses right now. well, if the bank lets everybodyget back inside the house for free--

then people will have places to live. moore: people fighting backwas an unusual sight. so nine police carsresponded to the call. considering the neighborhood, the response timewas impressive. - you are not in charge.- i'm not saying i'm in charge. i'm saying she doesn't want to be isolated.you don't have to answer any questions. you don't have to sayanything 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 yearsand y'all gonna put her out? how do you feel putting peopleout of their homes every single frickin' day? you should rather be homeinstead of do something like that. where is the money the federalgovernment put in the bank?

we should be telling you that you'retrespassing because this is our house. ( crowd yelling ) rooted like a tree,rooted like a tree we are here stand up strong... - we did good. we did good.- all right. moore: the police and the manfrom the bank were sent packing. ain't no powerlike 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 saythey have your mortgage, unless you have a lawyerthat 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 findthe paper up there on wall street. so i say to the american people,you be squatters in your own homes. don't you leavein ohio and michigan, in indiana and illinoisand all these other places

where our people are beingtreated like chattel. and this congress is stymied. moore: wow. it's not every day you getto see a member of congress encouraging open rebellion. back in chicago, the workers at republicwindows & doors had a bright idea. they decidedthat on second thought,

it wasn't okay to be firedwithout notice, to be denied their vacationand severance pay and to have theirmedical benefits cut off. so they came up with a plan. tell bank of americaand the owners of the company that it was a new day in america. they weren't goingto leave the building until they were paidwhat they were owed. yes, it was a good old fashionedsit-down strike.

man:we understand that perhaps some bad business dealswere made. but guess what?we don't make business deals. we make windows and doors. why should we be punished? moore: the union organizersand the workers prepared for a police assaultthat was sure to come. i'm gonna take the chance. you're prepared to be arrested?

i am prepared to be arrestedif it's necessary. we've been here since yesterdayand we aren't going anywhere. we are committed to this. moore:it wasn't long before the media showed up. and given the mood of the countrytoward the bailout, even the tv anchors had run outof sympathy for the banks. in chicago, a group of factory workerswatched like the rest of us as taxpayers bailed outthe financial industry. now these laid-off workersare demanding bank of america

spend some of itsbailout money on them. it says "bank robbers of america." look, if we the taxpayersare going to provide a bailout for companieslike bank of america, then the least they can dois use those funds on american workersand companies. woman:$25 billion to bank of america. how do people sleep at nightwhen they act like that? i don't get it.

because what's the pointof bailing them out if there aren't any jobs? moore:the strike went on day after day. the police had not yet come. but the son of a chicagosteelworker did. he just also happened to bethe bishop in chicago. ladies and gentlemen, i am bishop james wilkowski. i know that you are all undergoing

a great trial. you are teaching to our young people that it is just to challengethat which is unfair. i grew up on the far southeastside of chicago and i saw what happened when all the steel millsdisappeared. and i saw the impact that it had

on families. but this time we are with you. and we will not abandon you. in the name of the fatherand the son and the holy spirit.amen. the body of christ. president obama:when it comes to the situation here in chicagowith the workers

who are asking for the benefitsand payments that they have earned,i think they're absolutely right. what's happening to themis reflective of what's happening across this economy. reporter: he said, "what's happening tothem is reflective of what's happening..." reporter #2: he said what ishappening to those workers is reflective to what's happeningacross this economy. i was watching obama's pressconference this morning. i just got out of bed and decided

the best thing i could dowas to feed people. so i brought some food. - i brought some sandwiches.- oh, good. moore: in fact, lots of chicagoansshowed up to support the workers. reporter: the workers have becomea national symbol for thousands of employeeslaid off across the country. reporter #2: the sit-in has grabbedthe attention of politicians who believe it exemplifies an imbalancebetween a wall street that gets government helpand a main street that gets the shaft.

moore:the question started to be asked: was this is the beginnings of a worker'srevolt against wall street? the people united. we'll never be defeated. bail out workers, not the banks.bail out workers, not the banks. moore: pledges of financial supportand food showed up by the truckload. woman: it's really beyondwhat we had at first initially imagined. and so now we're dreaming a little bit we even had a conversation--well, what if we just tried

to run the factory like a cooperative? we don't have any money.we're not capitalists. we're having those kindof conversations and the workers are thinking about itand it's a difficult thing 'cause, you know, if you've beentold your whole life that things are the wayother people tell you they are, to be able to thinki can make it different is quite a big deal. we're all over the national news.everyone is watching you

because they're so inspired by you.( speaks spanish ) moore:after six days of the sit-in bank of america decidedenough was enough. better to pay offthese workers now and hope their littlerevolution goes away. and so the bank and the companyagreed to all the worker's demands. yes we did!yes we did! the average package for each worker will be very close to $6,000.

but this is about morethan just money. it's about what can be achieved when workers organizeand stand up for justice. just to fight--fight fight fight fight fight just to get the most basic thing that people should take for granted and that's legally theirs. we just fight so hard just forthe most basic things in life. moore: it's a fight we knewall too well in flint, michigan.

for it was here that my uncleand his fellow workers first brought down the mightycorporate interests that dominated their lives. it was the day beforenew year's eve in 1936. hundreds of men and womentook over the gm factories in flint and occupied them for 44 days. they were the first union that beatan industrial corporation. and their actions eventually resulted in the creation of a middle class.

but back in these days of the flintsit-down strike, the police and the company thugswere not going to just stand by. after a bloody battle one evening,the governor of michigan, with the support of the presidentof the united states franklin roosevelt,sent in the national guard. but the guns of the soldiersweren't used on the workers. they were pointed at the police and the hired goons, warning them to leavethese workers alone.

for mr. roosevelt believedthat the men inside had a right to a redressof their grievances. seven years later,president roosevelt was too sick to go up to the capitol and give hisannual state of the union address. the president of the united states. it has been my custom to deliverthese annual messages in person. moore: so he gave it fromthe white house over the radio. when it was over he askedthe newsreel cameras to step into his room because hewanted the american people

to see one particular partof his speech. the president of the united statesthen took the radical step of proposing a second bill of rights to the constitution. in our day certain economic truths have become acceptedas self-evident. a second bill of rights under which a new basis of securityand prosperity can be established for all

regardless of stationor race or creed. among these are: the right to a usefuland remunerative job; the right to earn enough to provideadequate food and clothing and recreation; the right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which willgive him and his family a decent living;

the right of every businessmanlarge and small to trade in an atmosphere of freedom, freedom from unfair competitionand domination by monopolies at home or abroad; the right of every familyto a decent home; the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieveand enjoy good health; the right to adequate protection from the economic fearsof old age,

sickness, accidents and unemployment; the right to a good education. all of these rights spell security.. and after this war is won, we must be preparedto move forward in the implementationof these rights to new goals of human happinessand wellbeing. for unless there is securityhere at home,

there cannot be lasting peacein the world. moore: roosevelt would be deadin little over a year. he would not live to seethe end of the war. nor would there be any enactmentof his new bill of rights. had he lived and succeeded, every american,regardless of race, would have had a rightto a decent job... a livable wage... universal health care...

a good education... an affordable home... a paid vacation... and an adequate pension. none of this would come to pass. no american would beguaranteed any of this. but the people of europe and japan got every one of these rights. how did that happen?

after the war, the peopleof roosevelt’s administration went overseasto help rebuild europe. during this time new constitutionswere written for the defeated nationsof germany, italy and japan. the italian constitution guaranteed all women equal rights. and this was 1947. the german constitutionsaid that the state has the right to take over propertyand the means of production

for the common good. and here's what we wrote upfor the japanese. all workers have a rightto organize into a union. and academic freedomis guaranteed. for the next 65 years we would not become the country that roosevelt wanted us to be. instead, we became this... i remember thinkingduring the katrina flood,

"why is it always the poor who have to suffer the misery? why isn't it ever bernie madoffup on the roof screaming for help? or the head of citibank or the hedge fund guysat goldman sachs? or the ceo at aig?" it never is these guys, is it? it's always those whonever got a slice of the pie

because these mentook it all and left them with nothing, left them to die. i refuse to live in a country like this. and i'm no leaving. we live in the richestcountry in the world. we all deserve a decent job, healthcare, a good education, a home to call our own.

we all deserve fdr's dream. and it's a crime that we don't have it. and we never will, as long as we have a systemthat enriches the few at the expense of the many. capitalism is an evil. and you cannot regulate evil. you have to eliminate itand replace it with something that is good for all people.

and that somethingis called democracy. crimes have been committedin this building. i am here to make a citizen's arrest. please come downand step away from the building. do not be afraid. federal prison is a nice place. you know,i can't really do this anymore unless those of you whoare watching this in the theater want to join me.

i hope you will. and please, speed it up. arise ye workersfrom your slumber arise ye prisoners of want,that's right for reason in revoltnow thunders chains of hatred, greedand fear away with allyour superstitions servile masses arise, arise we'll change henceforththe old tradition

and spurn the dustto win the prize so comrades, come on and rally and the last fight let us face the internationale unites the whole darnhuman race so comrades, come on let's go rally unites the whole darn human race no more deluded by reaction

on tyrants only we'll make war the soldiers too will take strike action they'll break ranks and fight no more and if those cannibals keep trying to sacrifice us to their pride each at the forge must do their duty and we'll strike while the iron is hot so comrades, come on, let's go rally unites the whole beautifulhuman race

and the last last fight let us face unites the whole darnhuman race. jesus christ was a man that traveled through the land a carpenter true and brave and he said to the rich give your goods to the poor and they laid jesus christin the grave he went to the sick

and he went to the poor and he went to the hungry and the lame and he said that the meek would inherit the whole world and they laid jesus christ in the grave one day jesus stopped at a rich man's door what must i do to be saved?

take all you own and give it to the poor when the love of the poor shall one day turn to hate when the patience of the workers gives away it would better for the rich if they'd never been born so they laid jesus christ in the grave

when jesus came to town all the working folks around believed what he did say but bankers and preachers nailed him to the cross the people held their breath when they heard about his death and everybody wondered why it was the land lord and soldiers

lawmen they had hired that nailed jesus christ in the sky we would lay jesus christ in the grave lord, lord we would lay jesus christin the grave if jesus preached today like he preached in galilee they would lay jesus christin his grave.