A minor nit to pick regarding Social Security, plus Moore’s “patriotism”

In the middle of a conversation we were having with my in-laws about how they receive their SS payments, something occurred to me: Moore has told another little lie, and keeps telling it over and over again.

Fact: 80% of the people who receive Social Security do so via Direct Deposit.  80% of the people that receive Social Security do not receive checks every month, but rather automated wire transfers.  Using that example to prove that a single-payer healthcare system is easy to run in America is absolutely ludicrous.

Supplemental Fact: Those same 80% never see a piece of mail that “arrives on the same day every month.” Of the 20% who do get a physical check mailed to them, you can find hundreds - if not thousands - of examples of checks arriving late, for the wrong amounts, etc.

Sure, it’s a small detail, but one Moore has been relying on heavily to “prove” that Special Free Super Cheap Universal Health Magic For All can be done, done well and done by our federal machine exclusively.  He’s using a half-truth and a small lie to try to convince America to enact the largest socialist program in the history of the nation.

By the way...the next time you hear Moore say he loves America, here’s some proof, by his own words, that he’s lying.  Mikey took part in a Q&A (heavy on the Q, very very light on the A) over at Crooks & Liars.  Here’s what he wrote that, in my opinion, proves he has never and will never love the United States of America as it was founded and exists today.  First, when asked about his next project, he said:

If you look at the other films in order, you can see a theme and pattern, but much more I can’t tell you yet.

Later, in response to someone asking him to clarify, he wrote:

The theme i referred to that exists in all my films is the economic system that we live under. It’s unfair, unjust, and not democratic.

And there you have it.  Moore believes that our entire economic system is wrong.  Of course, it’s the reason we exist as a separate nation - we wanted a free market, and we were sick and tired of our market being controlled by one dottering old madman thousands of miles away.  We fought a war to establish, among other things, our right to have a free market economy.  It’s one of the cornerstones of this great country, and Michael abhors it.

His desire has always been to see socialism established in the U.S. in any way possible.  It’s the central theme to every film and most of his television and written projects as well.  It’s why he overlooks Castro’s horrible abuses and murderous past to champion him as a man of the people.  In Moore’s mind, human rights can only be abused by those of a right-wing persuasion.  Anything to the left is inherently good, and the further left you go the better.  Unions should be able to bankrupt a company.  Guns belong only in the hands of the state.  Government should dole out your healthcare.  F911 was the aberration, and that was about capturing lightning in a bottle.  The radical hatred of Bush wasn’t going to be marketable for very long.

Moore wants to literally destroy one of the cornerstones of the United States of America.  It’s not just about healthcare.  He wants the government - or rather, a far left government - in charge of everything. I do not believe Moore loves the United States of America.  I believe he’s in love with the idea of turning it into the People’s Republic of America.