Mat This movie opened by illustrating in a very compelling way, why redistribution of wealth might not be the unquestioned good thing that it at first appears. It did this using animated 3D political figures in a classroom setting and quite frankly, from the very off, the animation got in the way of the message. Ten stupid animated segments later, and I was as often left scratching my head and asking what the hell they were meant to be illustrating, as I was left irritated by this pandering to the Jackass generation.Clearly this was not a remotely impartial piece, and whilst it desperately tried to demonstrate that allowing the rich to keep more of their taxes as a means of stimulating growth, it completely ignored the fact that many of the rich, such as bankers, already use their wealth to get tax breaks that the rest of us do not, to say nothing of the fact those same wealthiest few, are then the ones that the rest of the country gives YET MORE MONEY to in bailout when their out-of-control avarice manages to destroy the global economy.No doubt the American economy is desperately broken, but a one-sided piece of disinformation like this, which looks the other way when the failings of the system it espouses are mentioned, is never going to help.To climb out of the pit that the nation has slid into, everyone needs ALL of the information, not just self-serving selections of it.Oh, if I see any more christians talking about "God given this", and "thanks to god that", I think I'm gonna puke. Anyone who still believes in bronze age sky daddies should not be trusted with grown up decisions.As the saying goes, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics". This movie demonstartes how easy it is to use one-sided statistics to prove black is white if you present them right. All of that being said, it does seem fairly obvious to even the youngest child that borrowing at a rate beyond your absolute wildest hopes of repayment is a path to nowhere. No household with proportionally the same debt as the US, would ever be able to get a loan, and they'd be called crazily irresponsible for continuing to do so. So what deal with the devil is being done to lend money to the US?

Right-Wing-Man Most of the ratings here are negative, but hey, what can you do? All of the major news media are Liberal, with the exception of Fox and a few select radio shows that are still on the air waves.Socialism sucks and it doesn't work, it's been proved time and time again. This movie was made simple so the Lefties can even understand it. It illustrates the fundamental differences between the two sides. Hopefully, at some point President Hussein will stop pointing the finger at Bush and start taking responsibility for his own actions. It's comical really... what is our major problem... THE ECONOMY. What does President Hussein do? Virtually nothing except force feed us a healthcare system, so he can stamp his name on it. What a waste of time.All of our current problems started with Jimmy Carter, and then Clinton and Bush. Now we have Carter Jr./Obama. What a lying joker this guy is.Great show, and I appreciate the director of this gem. Thank you.

bigj0420 this film try's to make Reagan look like Christ or something which anyone that remembers the 80's knows is NOT true, but I will agree with what they say about Obama's socialist ways and how he has and will continue to f__k this country up. No, I'm not a republican but let's face it this country going down the crapper and both Bush AND Obama are to blame, they are pretty much the same person anyway right or at least have the same agenda. War = $ not peace. Anyway I still liked it overall you just can't forget all the bad stuff that Reagan did and talk about the good stuff, which he did also I must admit. Obama ball lickers will hate this film but who cares what they think anyway.

bromsk Talking about spending and without discussing how so called conservatives slashed revenue tells only half the story. Aside from WW2, we paid our bills up until Reagan. Lyndon Johnson (D) cut taxes for the top bracket from 90% to 70% in 1964. ***Reagan and Bush 41 cut taxes on the top bracket from 70% to 28% from 1980-1986. That's a 42% tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.*** Clinton (D)raised taxes on the top bracket from 28 to 39%. We ran a budget surplus from 1998-2001.Bush 43 created Dept. Homeland Security (huge) installed the unfunded prescription drug benefit, $700 billion in debt by 2015, and cut taxes for the top bracket to 35% during two wars (?)Obama (D) wants to raise taxes 4% on the top bracket. If that helps us pay our bills, fine. I'm upper middle class. I can handle 4% more taxes to live in a balanced budget USA. For the millionaires and billionaires who don't want to do their part, there's always Dubai. 90% up to 1964 and 70% up to 1981 seems draconian, but 39% isn't anything to cry about. We have the fifth lowest taxes in the developed world.Why anyone in the US middle class would be so horny for Reagan has always baffled me. He talked a good game while he screwed us.If 'conservatives' are so into personal responsibility, how about paying for the roads, bridges, schools, social security, and national security we all use, rather than borrowing tax cuts from our two time 20th Century proxy war opponent?