Comments on: WALL-E: Slaying Corporations or Saving Capitalism?

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:31:31 +0000

Wall-E totally looks like the robot from “Short Circuit”… minus the cheesy 80′s style of course

By: Why Wallstreet Is Scared of Obama

Why Wallstreet Is Scared of Obama — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:25:33 +0000

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/SuperModels/WhyWallStreetIsScaredOfObama.aspx

This article on Wallstreet is exactly why I’m voting for Obama…

During times of economic turndown, big corporations can hold their prices in line (assuming raw materials don’t rise) and demolish little companies, thereby increasing their profits.

I once sat across a business table a few years ago from the CEO of a publicly traded company who was my direct supervisor. He flew down on that fateful NASDAQ black Friday to pull the plug on our business venture the week before we were going to hire 40 people.

The guy says, you got a great concept, you’re on schedule, you’re on budget and you’re making the right decisions, but as of this morning Goldman Sachs says they’re not underwriting any IPO’s for the immediate future. And that’s the only reason we wanted in. So we’re pulling the plug today….

To which I replied, “You guys running these large companies are playing with people’s lives.”

“You may be right.” He replies. End of story.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:08:45 +0000

Politically, Wall-E appears to not be an attack on Govt-in-itself but on authoritarianism in the face of rational choice. Gov’t is a center of power, just like Corporations are and only people with a political bias toward either vehicle would make the inference that what is highlighted is their pet specifically. For all you know, it could be an attack on Laissez-Faire Capitalism whereby the State withered away and was replaced by a consolodated private-entity that conditioned the market into replacing the role of the state but without the nusience of democratic participation

By: It's doo doo, baby!

It's doo doo, baby! — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:05:47 +0000

Um, it’s a children’s movie. Lay off the smack, kids.

By: Mande

Mande — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:59:59 +0000

Getting at the heart of Wall-e’s warning about government ownership is the recent federal takeover of IndyMac – and today’s news that 90 more banks are at risk of the same thing.

http://money.aol.com/news/articles/banking/_a/banks-at-risk-of-failing-nearly-doubles/20080714112509990001?icid=200100397x1205813471x1200268529

Prepare for lift-off, kids…we’re going to space.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:13:51 +0000

Tim, if you’re a fan of Rod Dreher’s “Crunchy Conservative,” you’ll love his blog over at Beliefnet. Anybody who’s seriously interested in politics, religion and/or culture should check it out.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:07:43 +0000

For an incredible rightwing take on leftist consumerism, take a look at this book: http://www.amazon.com/Crunchy-Cons-Conservative-Counterculture-Return/dp/1400050650/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216062363&sr=8-1
cool stuff!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:56:21 +0000

Very astute, Mande. I believe you and I are pretty much on the same wavelength. In an act of shameless self-promotion, I direct your readers to my own piece on the same subject, here: http://www.lcweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=647&Itemid=1&ed=20

Wally is definitely not your typical Hollywood hatchet job of conservatism.

By: FWFIV

FWFIV — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:03:41 +0000

Mande-
Great post, very interesting observations of the movie’s themes.
We should be careful what we wish for concerning government.