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Posted: July 23, 2013
Might be just a coincidence. But we notice Detroit’s filing for bankruptcy
comes at more or less the same moment filmmaker Michael Moore has filed for
divorce.
We get the differences between the two cases. Detroit is an anti-capitalist
Michigan city. It is going Chapter 9 because it followed policies that
largely reflect Moore’s economic preferences: an animosity toward business,
a faith in high taxes and a belief in government as the solution.
Moore, of course, is not a city but an anticapitalist Michigan filmmaker.
Unlike Detroit, he has not let his ideological swipes at the free market
interfere with his own effort to prosper. Thus, he has amassed a net wealth
estimated at $50 million.
Over the years, the Hoover Institution’s Peter Schweizer has chronicled the
gap between Moore’s messaging and his money-making. In his book “Do As I
Say (Not as I Do),” Schweizer devoted a whole chapter to Moore, noting his
use of non-union labor, his travel by private jet and the investments he
made in lucrative but liberally incorrect stocks such as Halliburton.
Now, the breakup of any marriage is a sad event. So there’s no joy in the
news that Moore is splitting from his wife of nearly 22 years. The silver
lining is that, given his penchant for profit, they can each count on having
millions in assets even after everything is divided up.
Schweizer sums it up this way: “If the city of Detroit had in its public
dealings been as open to capitalism as Michael Moore was in private dealings
, it might be another Silicon Valley instead of another dying industrial
city.” |
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