As I've said before, Michael Moore is an opportunist. He sees his media stature and his book tour as an opportunity to call the attention of a wider audience to the Occupy movement.
Rachel Maddow interviewed him while he was visiting the Tattered Coverbookstore in Denver. In the second half of his two-part interview, Michael and Rachel talked about the transaction tax as a source of federal revenue. It would be small, a half a penny on each dollar of derivatives or stocks and bonds, that would bring in a minimum of $350 billion a year. And the financial institutions that would collect it and send it on to Washington would, no doubt, get to use it as a float for however long it was decided they could keep the money before sending it on.
You'd thing it would be a win/win. Unfortunately, some of our banksters don't seem particularly adept at figuring out where their interest lie. So, there's going to have to be a bit of concerted prompting from below.
I should note that Michael hardly got to mention his new book, "Here Comes Trouble," in the interview. What many people are probably hoping for is more free time to actually pick up a book and read it. The banksters have got us all running from pillar to post so there aren't enough hours in the day for leisure activities like reading and making music and playing with our kids. Some of our friends in the leisure class don't seem to understand that looking for non-existent jobs and waiting on public servants to dole out the necessities of life takes more time than doing productive work. But then, that's probably because the unearned income class doesn't have a clue what being a doer means.
Perhaps, for people who like to arrange the world in pairs, we should partner the "Party of No" with a "Party of Do." And, you can pronounce that any way you like. "Dough" (dõ) sounds good to someone who's keen to free money from being the "last taboo." Regardless of what Wall Street may think, it's the people's money (dough) they're playing with. And abusing.
How? Well, the purpose of money is to be spent. So, when people hoard it in their vaults, that's abuse. The money is not being used right. It's not right to hoard money. That's why greed and gluttony are two of the seven deadly sins--self-defeating in the long run. More evidence that the banksters do not know where their self-interest lies.