Michael Moore for President!!!

"Who, me? I stand by what I said. Dick Clark's wages did not result in the girl being shot, which is what was implied in the chain of events."

Let me make it simple for you. The mother was working two jobs, both minimum wage. She worked long hours, day and night. It took 60 mins by bus just to get to one job. Despite this effort, she didn't make enough money to pay the rent on her apartment so she was evicted. She also didn't make enough to hire a babysitter to sit with her kid at least five nights a week so she could work at Dick Clark's mall. Therefore she moved in with her brother because she had no other option. Moore's point is that the Welfare to Work program meant that she had to work or lose her welfare. That put her in this impossible situation. And because employers pay minimum wage only, many working class people are condemned to poverty wages. Those who criticise the mother for leaving her kid with her asshole brother REFUSE to discuss why she was put in that position. They blame the mother, the brother, the kid etc but refuse to look at the wider social reasons and consequences. Moore's point is, is this a fair system? Should someone working two jobs and long hours still not make enough money to pay the rent or spend time with her kid? If your attitude is "fuck `em, that's life" then fair enough. But if you want to get involved in a debate about the issues of BFC then at least stop misrepresenting whay Moore is actually saying.

"Dick Clark should be thanked for participating in a government approved program to let welfare recipents work. If he gets to pay them smaller wages, so be it."

You can suck up to the rich all you want, but don't expect Moore to be so docile.

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