Michael Moore in Madison: America is NOT Broke!

Our country is awash in wealth and cash, but as you know, it's not in your hands. In the greatest heist in history, it has been transferred from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the "ueber-rich". Today, just 400 Americans have the same wealth as half of all Americans combined: 400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot, stock and property as the assets of 155 million Americans combined. If you can't bring yourself to call that a financial coup d'etat, then you are simply NOT being honest about what you know in your heart to be true. For us to admit that we have let a small group of men abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy, would mean that we'd have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that we have indeed surrendered our precious Democracy to the moneyed elite. Wall Street, the banks and the Fortune 500 now run this "Republic", and, until this past month, the rest of us have felt completely helpless, unable to find a way to do anything about it. The nation is NOT broke. Wisconsin is NOT broke. The truth is, there's lots of money to go around, it's just that those in charge have diverted that wealth into a deep well that sits on their well-guarded estates. They know that they have committed crimes to make this happen, and they also know that someday you may want to see that money that