| I just got home from a preview screen of Michale Moore's new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. Every citizen of this country should have to see this movie. Not only did we get to see the movie, Michael Moore was there and did about 30 minutes of Q & A after the movie. Representative Marcy Kaptur also attended and Representative John Conyers was there for the screening. All I can say is wow. Moore hit the nail on the head, not only Republican heads, but he bonks a few Democrats on the head too. As usual Moore hits all the right buttons and at the end tells the people, this is our country and we have to take it back. He obviously doesn't advocate violence, but he does advocate a peaceful revolution. He calls the corporate criminals out for what they are robber barons. One thing I learned about that explains a lot are what's called "dead peasant" insurance policies. Apparently Wal-Mart used this practice, but has since abandoned it. A dead peasant policy is where a corporation takes out an insurance policy without the insured's knowledge and if that person dies, they collect on the policy. Moore told the story of a woman that worked for Wal-Mart. She had very bad asthma and was only 27 years old. Wal-Mart had a dead peasant policy on her and when she died, Wal-mart got $81,000 and the family got nothing. I helped organize a single-payer town hall meeting last week and someone asked the question, why isn't corporate America behind health care reform? You would think it would be in their economic interest to get behind even a single-payer health care plan. So, it occurs to me, what if corporate America had dead peasant policies on lots of their employees, without anyone's knowledge and they actually had a vested interest in some of their employees' deaths? Wouldn't that explain a lot? Just asking. This is a picture of me with Representative Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, OH. 
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