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Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? is stunning audiences across the globe, as it exposes the real truth behind the worldwide economic collapse, tracing its origins to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a money fueled big business makeover of government through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups.
headlines can be directly traced to Powell's real "end game" which was business control of law and politics. Powell's fingerprints are all over Citizens United, the fateful Supreme Court decision which gave corporations and the super rich unlimited ability to shape our elections with virtually unrestricted donations. Heist's step by step detail exposes the systemic implementation of Powell’s memo by BOTH US political parties over the last forty years culminating in the deregulation of industry, outsourcing of jobs and regressive taxation. All of which led us to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the continued dismantling of the American middle class.
Today, politics is the playground of the rich and powerful, with no thought given to the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans. No other film goes as deeply as Heist in explaining the greatest heist of our time. Moving beyond the white noise of today's polarizing media,Heist provides viewers with a clear, concise and fact-based explanation of how we got into this mess, and what we need to do to restore our representative democracy.
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? exposes the real truth behind the worldwide economic collapse, tracing its origins to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System.
In 1933, when America was reeling from a Depression, there was an attempted coup, or at least plans were made. American hero General Smedley Butler helped uncover and squash it before industrialists could pull it off. Today, after Republicans helped bankrupt the country under Bush, they are going to try this time legally. Just look at conservative activist judges and Citizens United. They can now purchase lackey's to work for them, as well as buy candidates
There was never such a thing as the American Dream or america's golden age. The reality is there has always been a strong division of class in the U.S. The peasants vs the rulers.
Everything in this country is designed to maintain this power structure; all this misty eyed romanticism of a past that didn't exist does is to distract the masses from what is really going on.
Last edited by Cascadian Inserection; 09-19-2012 at 11:51 PM..
Definitely a must see. We all know this crap is deliberate and orchestrated, but having it mapped with details out is important.
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The documentary, taken in part from Jeff Faux's book The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future—and What It Will Take to Win, maps out the conscious, deceptively creeping effort that a small group of men at the top of the country's largest corporations took to effectively dismantle every provision that President Roosevelt helped initiate following the Great Depression. In short, the film provides a crisp, succinct answer to a question that nags most Americans: What the hell happened?
It's a classic tale of greed, of losing your bearings in the midst of unchecked opportunity, and the parallels between the Great Depression and the economic catastrophe of 2008 run surprisingly deep. The film insists, perhaps indisputably, that the greatest salvation of the New Deal was its establishment of firm regulations of financial institutions that prevent the proliferation of the kinds of phantom investments that promise high returns on minimal underlying assets. Roosevelt, in other words, drafted laws that were governed by the seemingly radical theory that those in power be held accountable for abusing said power.
Heist is clearly sympathetic to a mode of reform that economists such as Paul Krugman, among others, favor, which stipulates that money must be actively spent in the proper fashions to initiate financial healing. This recovery could begin almost immediately, but it necessitates an overhaul in conventional wisdom that the governing one percent doesn't deem beneficial. At one point, Heist identifies the United States an oligarchy, not a democracy, and you'd have to be staggeringly naïve to offer much argument to the contrary.
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