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"The reason people aren't backing Obama on the public option, Moore said, is that "he's only going halfway with this public option. He needs to remove the private, profit-making insurance companies from the table."
In his new film, Moore focuses on the investment house Goldman Sachs as a main beneficiary of capitalism's largesse. He notes that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and senior White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers are proteges of Robert Rubin, longtime Goldman executive and President Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary.
"The fact that Geithner and Summers are part of this administration makes everything that happens open to question and needs our vigilance," Moore said, "because, literally now, the foxes are guarding the henhouse." "
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I suppose it takes fame to say what many of us already think.
JKM
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