Typical Hollywood Limousine Liberal.
I don’t see him donating his income to raise the pay of all the grunts who
help make his movies.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/22/ben-affleck-goes-npr-
complain-about-overpaid-ceos-not-overpaid-movie-sta
Ben Affleck Goes on NPR to Complain About Overpaid CEOs — Not Overpaid
Movie Stars
By Tim Graham | December 22, 2010 | 08:23
Tim Graham’s picture
On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, actor Ben Affleck was selling his new movie
about corporate layoffs, Company Men, and anchorman Steve Inskeep carefully
led the left-wing actor onto a soapbox to lecture about the immorality of
American capitalism and financiers who do nothing but "move money back and
forth":
INSKEEP: There’s a line in Company Men that’s staying with me. Tommy Lee
Jones is at a corporate conference table. Someone else at the conference
table is discussing their plans to lay off a bunch of workers. And nearly
all the workers being laid off are older, which could be construed as being
wrong or illegal. Someone at the table says: "Oh, no. This is going to pass
legal scrutiny." And Jones responds: "I always thought we aimed for a
little higher standard than that."
AFFLECK: That speaks so perfectly to people’s feelings about our country.
It’s like it’s just about getting by, or people can like let people go if
they can get away with it, that there’s no deeper sense of right or wrong.
The banks shouldn’t — people shouldn’t make such a giant profit off just
moving money back and forth. And CEOs’ pay shouldn’t be 200 times the
average worker. It used to be nine times.
NPR didn’t have the contrarian populist toughness to ask about whether that
sentiment about overpayment counts for movie stars that make $250,000 for
simply showing up at a casino grand opening.
But then, Affleck somehow this resentment of "giant profits" and overpaid
CEOs is universal, and is shared by the Tea Party:
Okay, maybe it’s legal and maybe it passes muster with shareholders. But
there’s something about us that fundamentally feels it isn’t right. And I
think that’s the frustration that you feel on people speaking out from the
left. I think it’s the same frustration you hear from Tea Party activists.
And that tells you that it’s common to the entire spectrum of American
people. We have a deep sense that what’s happening is wrong and unethical
and that we are in decline because we’ve lost our moral compass.
Tea Party people have a sense of America in decline, and unethical
leadership — but they were protesting in Washington, not outside a
factory, or an overpaid Hollywood actor’s house. Earlier in the interview,
Affleck joked that if he were remaking Armageddon, he would have had an
easier time financing his new movie, but the money people had seen the
Iraq-war movies tank over and over again, and weren’t that interested in a
depressing movie about layoffs:
INSKEEP: The movie "The Company Men" features many stars, including Tommy
Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner. Yet Affleck told us it
was hard to find financing.
AFFLECK: There’s some nervousness about making a movie about people who
have lost their jobs, because the knee-jerk reaction is, oh, well, nobody
wants to see that. And I think the subject matter was a tremendous
stumbling block. Some people likened it to Iraq war movies. When Iraq was
the thing in the national consciousness that was the most painful, a lot of
people wanted to avert their gaze. And people thought, well, this is going
to be the same kind of thing. And so there were a lot of concerns.
Now, I still did get it financed, but it wasn’t – you know, if it had been
about an asteroid crashing into the planet, I think they would have had a
much easier time.
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– Jane Galt
"Remember that there is no such dichotomy as ‘human rights’ versus
‘property rights.’ No human rights can exist without property rights. Since
material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and
are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result
of his effort, he does not own his life. To deny property rights means to
turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the ‘right’ to
‘redistribute’ the wealth produced by others is claiming the ‘right’ to
treat human beings as chattel." — Ayn Rand
In article <Xns9E577CEA0ED90JaneGaltthegulch…@216.196.97.142>,
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"Jane_Galt" <Jane__G…@GaltsGulch.xyy> wrote:
> Typical Hollywood Limousine Liberal.
> I don’t see him donating his income to raise the pay of all the grunts who
> help make his movies.
> http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/22/ben-affleck-goes-npr-
> complain-about-overpaid-ceos-not-overpaid-movie-sta
> Ben Affleck Goes on NPR to Complain About Overpaid CEOs — Not Overpaid
> Movie Stars
> By Tim Graham | December 22, 2010 | 08:23
> Tim Graham’s picture
> On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, actor Ben Affleck was selling his new movie
> about corporate layoffs, Company Men, and anchorman Steve Inskeep carefully
> led the left-wing actor onto a soapbox to lecture about the immorality of
> American capitalism and financiers who do nothing but "move money back and
> forth":
> INSKEEP: There’s a line in Company Men that’s staying with me. Tommy Lee
> Jones is at a corporate conference table. Someone else at the conference
> table is discussing their plans to lay off a bunch of workers. And nearly
> all the workers being laid off are older, which could be construed as being
> wrong or illegal. Someone at the table says: "Oh, no. This is going to pass
> legal scrutiny." And Jones responds: "I always thought we aimed for a
> little higher standard than that."
> AFFLECK: That speaks so perfectly to people’s feelings about our country.
> It’s like it’s just about getting by, or people can like let people go if
> they can get away with it, that there’s no deeper sense of right or wrong.
> The banks shouldn’t — people shouldn’t make such a giant profit off just
> moving money back and forth. And CEOs’ pay shouldn’t be 200 times the
> average worker. It used to be nine times.
Ohhhh. That’s different. When a person spends the best years of their
life in college, work their way up the ladder, and finally make it to a
CEO who earns a 4 million dollar bonus for a years work; that’s wrong.
But if some high school kid drops out of school and becomes an actor
making 10 million dollars for one film, or a comedian who has a hit
television series making one million dollars per episode, that’s okay.
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Barock Insane Obama: The greatest joke America ever played on itself.
ray <xxxray…@aol.com> wrote :
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> In article <Xns9E577CEA0ED90JaneGaltthegulch…@216.196.97.142>,
> "Jane_Galt" <Jane__G…@GaltsGulch.xyy> wrote:
>> Typical Hollywood Limousine Liberal.
>> I don’t see him donating his income to raise the pay of all the grunts
>> who help make his movies.
>> http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/22/ben-affleck-goes-npr-
>> complain-about-overpaid-ceos-not-overpaid-movie-sta
>> Ben Affleck Goes on NPR to Complain About Overpaid CEOs — Not Overpaid
>> Movie Stars
>> By Tim Graham | December 22, 2010 | 08:23
>> Tim Graham’s picture
>> On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, actor Ben Affleck was selling his new
>> movie about corporate layoffs, Company Men, and anchorman Steve Inskeep
>> carefully led the left-wing actor onto a soapbox to lecture about the
>> immorality of American capitalism and financiers who do nothing but
>> "move money back and forth":
>> INSKEEP: There’s a line in Company Men that’s staying with me. Tommy
>> Lee Jones is at a corporate conference table. Someone else at the
>> conference table is discussing their plans to lay off a bunch of
>> workers. And nearly all the workers being laid off are older, which
>> could be construed as being wrong or illegal. Someone at the table
>> says: "Oh, no. This is going to pass legal scrutiny." And Jones
>> responds: "I always thought we aimed for a little higher standard than
>> that."
>> AFFLECK: That speaks so perfectly to people’s feelings about our
>> country. It’s like it’s just about getting by, or people can like let
>> people go if they can get away with it, that there’s no deeper sense of
>> right or wrong. The banks shouldn’t — people shouldn’t make such a
>> giant profit off just moving money back and forth. And CEOs’ pay
>> shouldn’t be 200 times the average worker. It used to be nine times.
> Ohhhh. That’s different. When a person spends the best years of their
> life in college, work their way up the ladder, and finally make it to a
> CEO who earns a 4 million dollar bonus for a years work; that’s wrong.
> But if some high school kid drops out of school and becomes an actor
> making 10 million dollars for one film, or a comedian who has a hit
> television series making one million dollars per episode, that’s okay.
Only because they’re socialists, so anything they do is ok.
Any means to an end.
–
– Jane Galt
"Remember that there is no such dichotomy as ‘human rights’ versus
‘property rights.’ No human rights can exist without property rights. Since
material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and
are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result
of his effort, he does not own his life. To deny property rights means to
turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the ‘right’ to
‘redistribute’ the wealth produced by others is claiming the ‘right’ to
treat human beings as chattel." — Ayn Rand