Don't take my work for it, watch it on RED BOX or where every you can find it before they remove it like are removing workers rights in Wisconsin...
Greed is a nonpartisan issue.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marsha..._b_752219.html
Both parties are in favor of it.
If the financial crisis of 2008 has shown anything, it's that deregulation -- a free-market idea championed by Republicans and Democrats alike -- has exactly the opposite effect of what is promised.http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/10/08.../08inside.html
Ultimately, it also proves the primitively atavistic nature of human beings: that altruism is an unnatural societal construct and that self-interest is the natural impulse of the human animal. Take away the rules and, rather than benefiting everyone, it benefits only those in the position to exercise power.
It's like the long-refuted notion of trickle-down economics: Given the opportunity to keep more of their money instead of paying taxes, corporations and businessmen don't use that money to create jobs and send more money downward to those in the lower-income brackets. No, they follow human nature and hoard as much for themselves as possible.
Which brings me to Charles Ferguson's compelling, infuriating and comprehensive documentary, Inside Job. In a little less than two hours, Ferguson shows the roots of the near-collapse of 2008, examines the steps that were taken that brought it about, points fingers (with evidence) at the various corporate and financial sector villains who made it possible and those who benefitted most -- and offers a fairly bleak assessment of what the future may hold under an Obama administration grossly infected with the same players who helped it all happen in the first place.
Ferguson's film is the best kind of lecture: one that lays out his thesis, then offers more evidence than you've seen previously to support and bolster his argument. Like the best of these films -- whether it's the flamboyant work of Michael Moore or the careful examination of An Inconvenient Truth -- Inside Job explains complex ideas with a clarity and skill that make them comprehensible to anyone willing to pay attention. But Ferguson does it in a way that doesn't dumb things down to the point of being simplistic.
The key fact comes early: that, under the Reagan administration, financial restraints and regulations -- which had prevented any serious financial crises since Glass-Steagall was enacted after the start of the Great Depression -- were swept away in a flurry of misguided (or, more accurately, perfectly guided) attempts to give business (particularly the financial sector) a freer hand.
But when your main product is the production of profit -- as opposed to the manufacture of goods -- and most of the rules have been removed, what's to keep greed from giving way to malfeasance? As Ferguson shows over and over, the financial-services sector metastasized like a cancer on the economy, creating complex and dangerous financial instruments to fatten the bottom line without paying attention to the risk to the individual investor or bank customer.
As I was watching “Inside Job,” Charles Ferguson’s meticulous and infuriating documentary about the causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 2008, an odd, archaic sentence kept popping into my head. The words come from the second chapter of “The Scarlet Letter” and are spoken in frustration and disgust by an old Puritan woman who watches Hester Prynne, publicly disgraced but without any sign of remorse, making her way from Salem’s prison to a scaffold in its market square. She “has brought shame upon us all ...” the anonymous woman remarks. “Is there not law for it?”Should these rapists be in jail or or do us again? Who has OBama hired to stop them? The same people who BUSH, CLINTON and BUSH hired who raped us the first time?
“Inside Job,” a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. The betrayal of public trust and collective values that Mr. Ferguson chronicles was far more brazen and damaging than the adultery in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, which treated Hester more as scapegoat than villain.
The gist of this movie, which begins in a mood of calm reflection and grows angrier and more incredulous as it goes on, is unmistakably punitive. The density of information and the complexity of the subject matter make “Inside Job” feel like a classroom lecture at times, but by the end Mr. Ferguson has summoned the scourging moral force of a pulpit-shaking sermon. That he delivers it with rigor, restraint and good humor makes his case all the more devastating.
He is hardly alone in making it. Numerous journalists have published books and articles retracing the paths that led the world economy to the precipice two years ago. The deregulation of the financial services industry in the 1980s and ’90s; the growing popularity of complex and risky derivatives; the real estate bubble and the explosion of subprime lending — none of these developments were exactly secret. On the contrary, they were celebrated as vindications of the power and wisdom of markets. Accordingly, Mr. Ferguson recycles choice moments of triumphalism, courtesy of Lawrence H. Summers, George W. Bush, Alan Greenspan and various cable television ranters and squawkers.
Even as stock indexes soared and profits swelled, there were always at least a few investors, economists and government officials who warned that the frenzied speculation was leading to the abyss. Some of these prophets without honor show up in front of Mr. Ferguson’s camera, less to gloat than to present, once again, the analyses that were dismissed and ignored by their peers for so long.
Dozens of interviews — along with news clips and arresting aerial shots of New York, Iceland and other disaster areas — are folded into a clear and absorbing history, narrated by Matt Damon. The music (an opening song, “Big Time,” by Peter Gabriel, and a score by Alex Heffes) and the clean wide-screen cinematography provide an aesthetic polish that is welcome for its own sake and also important to the movie’s themes. The handsomely lighted and appointed interiors convey a sense of the rarefied, privileged worlds in which the Wall Street operators and their political enablers flourished, and the elegance of the presentation also subliminally bolsters the film’s authority. This is not a piece of ragged muckraking or breathless advocacy. It rests its outrage on reason, research and careful argument.
MORE INCASE YOU COULD NOT BELIEVE IT THE FIRST TIME!
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct...e-job-20101015
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/12/317...infuriate.html
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/ent...nside-job.html
http://www.gmanreviews.com/2011/03/0...side-job-2010/
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/movi...ll_street.html
