You know, if GM just cut it's product lines that were losing the most money, they wouldn't be doing so bad. I mean they have 48 vehicles across all of their 'Brands' it's ridiculous, it's simple, cut the brands that are costing you money keep the brands that are losing you money.

Your reflection is as one sided as the current situation.

While thousands of hard working Americans were being laid off, executives gave themselves million dollar bonuses.
Now the executives are getting laid off, and what happens?
Those same executives get those same multi-million dollar golden parachutes! HAHAHAHA!!! What a JOKE!

And then there is you.....
Years ago you were painted as a fictitious film maker, your movies are accused of containing 'lies' and fancy editing.
And now, that the truth is revealed in the near destruction of America's financial and manufacturing system, are you finally hailed as the working man's hero? .......no!

Life's not fair, Mike!

But hang in there.....WE NEED YOU!!!!!

"Later, I stopped by the National Archives to stand in line to see the original copy of our Constitution."

Did it say anything about the president being in charge of all corporations and responsible for the welfare of all citizens? Have you even read the constitution?

"thanks to General Motors and an economic system rigged against them."

General Motors gave into unions, which distorted the labor supply, in return for government handouts and less regulation. 2 against 1. The threat of strikes and regulation is part of their demise. You idiot. You'd rather the whole company go under just so everyone would be equal. You want Obama to rig the economy for the little guy, ignoring the fact that the big guys ACTUALLY supply the jobs.

Ever consider not rigging the economy at all? I suppose your friends in Washington wouldn't have much to do it that ever happened.

Time to hang it up Moore. There is no conspiracy against you or the little guy. There is just human behavior - greed (wall street fat cats AND power hungry politicians - Dodd, Frank) - imprudence (mortgage brokers ignoring income b/c they thought home prices would rise forever AND people buying homes they couldn't afford).

You can't regulate human behavior just like you can't regulate gravity. When will you and your ilk ever learn?

What a strange reading of the situation. Obama fired Wagoner precisely because he had not laid off enough people, cut enough brands, closed enough plants, and so forth. You can blame Wagoner, to some degree, for taking the business in a direction that was not sustainable or profitable, and thus caused workers to be in a worse position. But this isn't why he was fired--he was let go because he wasn't able to create a plan that would make the company profitable. And by any account, this kind of plan would involve making union members' lives a great deal worse, at least in the short term.

Was this article sarcastic? Am I missing something here? Making workers' lives better in terms of job security and salary, as you seem to advocate here, would have driven GM to bankruptcy even quicker.

I applaud probably 80% of your films, but this piece just seems way off base.

I agree with wbishop12 (minus perhaps the profanity). I find it appalling that GM spent a $23 million golden parachute for its CEO while tottering on the edge of bankruptcy and threatening to throw out its workers' contracts. Why on earth spend that much money rewarding the incompetence of a departed CEO instead of the hard work of employees who still work there?

But whatever, I understand your sentiment anyway. Great job (Michael) for hanging in there despite the criticism through the years - you've been fighting for the little guy and warning us for years. Haha and on the "painted as a fictitious film maker," in the same vein as Stephen Colbert's quote "Reality has a well-known liberal bias," in the Bush-administration world we're hopefully leaving behind, the [factual] product of hard work and meticulous research, vetted by (I'm guessing) anal-retentive lawyers (if they're anything like ours) is "fiction" - and very dangerous fiction at that.

wbiship12, and your ignorance is surpassed only by your homophobia. "MarineLtFAG??" Really?

I am a democrat, but Mike's nonsense makes me sick. He puts no blame on the unions that got the workers $70 an hour for assembly line work. How was that supposed to be sustainable? No matter, just blame management. I am embarrassed to him as a member of my party.

[Was this article sarcastic? Am I missing something here? Making workers' lives better in terms of job security and salary, as you seem to advocate here, would have driven GM to bankruptcy even quicker.] is what Maverick.

That is Michael for you, get everyone wound up but no solution. I don't think he shares the profits he makes from his movies, with the people he interviews in his movies.

Profit sharing may have worked, along with sticking with the money making brands.

[The price of GM's credit-default swaps, which are insurance in case the carmaker can't pay back its loans, have soared in the past month. They now cost a premium of 12 percentage points of the value of the debt that they insure, four times what they cost in January.] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50/b3963114.htm?campaign_id =rss_topStories

I would have been more impressed if he fired him before he gave the auto companies $26 billion.