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by: Michael Moore

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Average Rating: Rating: - Moore, Moore, Moore! As an author with my debut novel in its initial release and an American government/economics teacher in one of the most impoverished high schools in the United States, I love DOWNSIZE THIS! Michael Moore is a brilliant satirist. This book owns a place on my classroom desk, and I often cite passages from DOWNSIZE THIS! to support my ramblings about the current state of the American political ecomony. I especially enjoy using his chapter on corporate criminals where I get a chance to point directly at students (who are wise enough by then to know they are supposed to agree with their instrcutor's positions which are routinely in sympathy with Mr. Moore's) who are using products produced by these "criminals." Mr. Moore's ravings about NAFTA may be growing old in some parts of this nation, but not at my school--rural and Latino--that is less than a mile from one of the "NAFTA HIGHWAYS." I treasure the memory of the day when a state senator came to speak to my class and found himself peppered with questions drawn from material in this book. I recommend DOWNSIZE THIS! highly, as I do Michael Moore's films ROGER AND ME, CANADIAN BACON, and THE BIG ONE as well as the video sets of episodes originally produced for his two television shows. I only wish he'd collect more of TV NATION onto video. I would love to use his Canada episode, his segment on Avon sales in Latin America, and the Coke/Pepsi rivalry in a Mexican village piece in my classroom. Great works all! Rating: - Agree with it all?? No way...but yet... I love Michael Moore. I do not agree with every position that he takes in this book (or his films) as I am not a political party. I am a person...my own person. I am not a "liberal", nor am I a "conservative", yet I certainly believe in selected viewpoints proposed by both sides. For those of us who are our own persons, (and I, perhaps naively so, wish to believe constitute the majority of Americans) this book will neither completely enthrall or completely offend. For the rest of you, liberal and conservative alike, you get exactly what you deserve. This man obviously has what a lot of extremists in this country do not...a compassionate heart, despite a few flaws in his thinking (who among us has no flaws). As for the one star ratings (rantings) in this list, I suspect that they are offered by those who have never and expect never to see minimum wage in their lives, except perhaps when they pay their employees. By the way...those liberals who would wish to own Michael Moore as one of their own, I feel that you are missing the point. In "The Big One" he points out that both Clinton and Dole were non-choices of the common man. Rating: - Yipee! Read this book! You probably won't agree with everything that Moore says - I didn't - but that's because it is at times (as many other one-star reviewers seemed to have missed) as satire as much as it is social criticism. Reasons to read: 1. Moore lives to upset the apple cart - gaurenteed to make you think 2. I love a man who admits to lusting after Mrs. Clinton 3. Damn funny 4. Educational. Moore the documentarian goes to work explaining how corporate welfare works, how what the average multimillionare celebrity spends his day, and in the most amazing chapter how political bigwig Bob Dornan is absolutely freakin' nuts (yes, Dornan is the guy who rallied against abortion but took his own wife to get one - and that isn't even the tip of the iceburg on this guy's irrationality and egotism and, well, nuttiness.) 5. Damn funny. Or did I already say that one? I had so much fun with this that I rented "Roger and Me" - which, like this book, is hilarious and real. 6. Moore is one of the few working authors today not absolutely brainwashed by wealthy and powerful. Keep fightin' for the people, Mike!

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