Downsize This! : Random Threats from an Unarmed American

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Summary: Liberal Swill
Review: Book title should be: Random Threats from an Uneducated American by Michael Moron. The comedy value of this book is lost in the ignorant and irrational view of reality held by Mr. Moore. Classic liberal fear mongering, class envy and white male guilt are so pervasive that any laughs are quickly squelched in disgust. This book might be useful for leveling off a piece of furniture with a broken leg

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Summary: Liberal Swill
Review: Book title should be: Random Threats from an Uneducated American by Michael Moron The comedy value of this book is lost in the ignorant and irrational view of reality held by Mr. Moore. Classic liberal fear mongering, class envy and white male guilt are so pervasive that any laughs are quickly squelched in disgust. This book might be useful for leveling off a piece of furniture with a broken leg.

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Summary: A handbook for The Revolution
Review: Middle-class America is mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore! Michael Moore takes an unflinching look at who benefits from "right-sizing" and who pays, dearly. I would have rated this book a 12, but for the O.J. chapter

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Summary: A quick glimpse of the big picture
Review: When you're wondering why you always seem to find yourself at the bottom of the hill it all rolls down, there are people who will tell you that "you just don't see the big picture." Mr. Moore reminds us that WE ARE the big picture -- and that the distractions they throw at us are coming hot 'n heavy

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Summary: MOORE PAYS TRIBUTE TO BLUE COLLAR AMERICA
Review: Michael Moore's book, Downsize This! kept me laughing-this is true. While his research and figures are more likely than not inaccurate, his message is clear. Corporate America acts selfishly and recklessly, deliberately ignoring the needs of its workforce. However, after watching Moore's documentary "Roger & Me," the book's message is painted even more vividly. Moore is a compassionate individual, who through his non-violent and matter of fact style investigation, is the voice of reason, as well as the voice of those who are rarely listened to. He makes no excuses for his beliefs, and this attitude is suprisingly refreshing in today's pseudo-sensitive world. Moore's sharp wit and style make Downsize This! an excellent break from the monotony of the "Datelining" of America. Read the book, rent the film-you won't be sorry you did...just don't take everything TOO literally. One must wonder what the evening news would be like if Moore did the reporting. hmmmm. My guess is that the ratings would fly

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Summary: America's Leading Gadfly Strikes Again!
Review: Moore, former editor/publisher/reporter for The Flint Voice and The Michigan Voice, has returned to the printed page to skewer what's wrong with America. His critiques of both the left (the chapter on the Michigan Militia) and the corporate (his list of "America's Most Wanted") make the book a must-read for persons of every political persuasion. Even Bob Dole was borrowing from Michael Moore by the end of the campaign. Read the book, see Mike in person, and take over your local political party

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Summary: What you don't know WILL hurt you! Read this book!
Review: Michael Moore writes a much-needed book aiming at many follies in the United States. From his Welfare Mamas to OJ to the next country we should attack, Moore takes us for an interesting journey through the "Post-American Dream Era" where people are nothing more than money and the environment is something that hinders a corporation's progress. If any sense can be made out of today's nonsense, Moore takes the best shot of anyone.

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Summary: The new definition of "Mistaken:" "See under "Moore, Michael
Review: This book is easily one of the most completely ill-conceived, poorly-thought-out, rambling pieces of meretricious drivel it has ever been my misfortune to come across. Until I read _Downsize This!_ I had never thought that I could disagree with anybody as completely as I do with Moore. There is something factually wrong, stupid, economically illiterate or incredibly naive on nearly every page. Michael Moore apparently thinks that his private vendetta against Big Business for _daring_ to get rid of workers whose services are no longer needed, or who have priced _themselves_ out of the labour market with tactically-brilliant, strategically-disastrous strikes, justifies attacks on all sorts of targets, whether or not they have anything to do with the plight of "downsized" workers. He rails against the NRA repeatedly, despite its total lack of connection to the economic changes in our country, because he doesn't happen to like guns. He howls against those who would restrict immigration, even though the very people for whom he claims to speak and for whom he claims his heart bleeds night and day _themselves_ do not support unlimited immigration. He apparently thinks that the relationship between worker and boss should be like that between liege subject and liege lord in medieval times, or at least like that in Japan, except that the obligations should all be on the employer and the rights should be solely the province of the employee. What makes Michael Moore such an expert on everything? What is he? A film maker! A man with a camera and a chip on his shoulder! If I offered him ignorant advice on how to make a slanted documentary, he'd tell me to go to hell. Why should his statist notions be of any interest to anybody? He apparently thinks that workers _own_ their jobs. _I_ own _mine,_ but I work freelance. Tenure doesn't work in academia; why would it work anywhere else?

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Summary: The funniest book about the American workforce in the 90's
Review: Michael Moore is right on target! This book addresses all of America's concern with a tongue in cheek humor that reminds me of Will Rogers and Mark Twain. Put this book on the top of your top ten list. It should be required reading for all Americans.

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Summary: Thoughts of a very funny prankster
Review: A funny rambling book to tickle your wish that the world can be changed. Special fun seeing the bounced checks to Pat Buchanan. Welfare Mothers = CEO's bailouts and subsidies. Mr. Moore has a great sense of how funny and tragic this age in America is. Both the spirit and style of Roger and Me and TV Nation now comes to print. Buy it