Stupid White Men
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not one to go America bashing myself, quite like the place, lived there for couple of months here and there...
but the facts in that book paint a really bad picture of americans...
no wonder no US publisher would publish it...
what do people think of the book?
- unknown0
beware of some 'facts'
- unknown0
like?
- Danski0
"never enter an arse-kicking contest with a porcupine"
- thosethat0
it's a bloody good book...
ok so it's one man's perspective...
but at least you get a list of all the sources he's used at the back... so you can kinda see where he's got it all from...
thoroughly recommended read...
- unknown0
read chomsky
- unknown0
for instance:
"two-thirds of [the over $190 million President Bush raised during the presidential campaign] came from just over seven hundred individuals." Given the $2,000 federal limit on individual donations, this claim is obviously false. To back it up, he cites the Center for Responsive Politics Web site (opensecrets.org) and an August 2000 article from the New York Times. As opensecrets.org clearly indicates, however, only 52.6 percent of Bush's total $193 million in campaign funds came from individuals. The Times article Moore references actually states that 739 people gave two-thirds of the soft money raised by the Republican Party (which uses its money for "party-building" activities that support all GOP candidates, not just Bush) in the 2000 election cycle as of June of that year.
"$250 billion the Pentagon plans to spend in 2001 to build 2800 new Joint Strike Fighter planes" and states that "the proposed increase in monies for the Pentagon over the next four years is $1.6 trillion." To back this up, he refers to the Web site of the peace activist group Council for a Livable World. CLW's own analysis of the 2001 budget, however, shows that $250 billion is the total multiyear cost of the Joint Strike Fighter program, not the amount spent in one year. $1.6 trillion, meanwhile, was the total amount of money requested by the Pentagon at the time for 2001-2005. It covers five years, not four, and is a total budget request, not a "proposed increase" over previously requested budget levels. It shouldn't even take this much research, however, to determine that out of the total defense budget request of $305.4 billion in 2001, $250 billion was never intended to go toward one type of plane, nor that an increase of $400 billion per year in military spending was never proposed.
"We're number one in budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP)." When Moore wrote his book last year, the United States was running a budget surplus, as it had for the previous three years.
"[H]e has been able to kick ten million people off welfare," he writes in a list of attacks on the former president. While the welfare rolls did drop substantially while Clinton was in office (although the total number as of June 2000 was 8.3 million), many people left voluntarily to take jobs as the economy grew or for other reasons. Far fewer were booted from the rolls by the five-year limits Clinton signed into law in 1996 or by stricter state limits.
- unknown0
and your saying not to trust those facts?
- unknown0
read the post and you'll see
- unknown0
ok, fair enough...
in the book the bit that got me was the 'us is number one in'
has a list of 20 things like
highest producer of CO2etc...
+ only country besides Somalia nmot to sign the UN's tresty on protection for children
cant refute those?
- unknown0
oh yeah the US govt are the biggest hypocrites, poliicies for everyone else but we wont sign if it may affect our businesses.
- unknown0
Yeah in the US if you disrupt business you will get run out of office. But hey, we got the bombs my bitches. We got the bombs. so bow down.
now.
right the fuck now.
I'm kidding.
but not really. Bow!