Has Anyone Seen the Movie Maxed Out

[mordechai]

Well?

[angelatc]

Yes, I've seen it. And a truck driver asked me if I had seen it, when we Ron Paul supporters were discussing fiscal policy and the NAFTA superhighway.

If you have Netflix, you can "watch now."

[Paulitician]

It looked really boring, so I stopped watching it 10 minutes into it.

[angelatc]

I cried. A couple of times. I thought the scene juxtaposing the collectors over the family of the missing woman was very effective, especially noting the beer bottles on the table.

It's really good for people that don't know anything about fiscal policy. It ties our spending habits (credit card debt, bankruptcy) to the spending the government does (raiding Social Security equates making minimum credit card payments

[mordechai]

The two are connected, because the government encourages bad fiscal policy through it's taxation methods. I found out about our fiscal issues through working in credit and finance.

[hillertexas]

seen it...and made my parents watch it as well

[undergroundrr]

Good movie. It ALMOST ties together the whole consumer credit/national debt ball together conceptually, but didn't quite go that last step. Unfortunately, what most people will get out of it is a simplistic "credit card companies and collectors are evil" message.

[Bradley in DC]

No.

Thanks for the heads up.

[mordechai]

It's on google video right now:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4840432044369494646&q=Maxed+Out&total=8926&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1


By the way, that may be the message many get, but the level of culpability in the finance industry varies depending on the company, and the people involved. Now, when it comes to the Fed, and the government itself..... different story.