Boycott Jim Carey

Anyone who thinks greed is bad is boycottable? Really?

No biggie. Proud to say I’ve never spend a dollar to see any of this idiot’s films. Usually turn the channel if he’s guesting on any show. Just can’t stand him.

I’ve always “boycotted” him. I’m not amused by a grown man constantly making faces, and I think his movies are juvenile.

Larry, I agree with Jim Carey. Pure capitalism does not exist. It has never existed. Granting lands to the railroads, or as we’ve seen lately, rescuing financial institutions, is not pure capitalism. Greed is what motivates us all, there’s nothing extraordinary in what Carey says. Sometimes government can have a positive role helping investors, and other times, government must step in and regulate investors to discourage abuses. It will never work perfectly because we’re dealing with human beings, but we must not stop trying.

I look forward to seeing Scrooge with Jim Carey. He’s a great actor and I admire him as a person.

gawd, Larry, you really are reading way too much into that statement. I think we need protection against your over inflated ego and sense of self.

But isn’t the problem that our elected officials aren’t regulating, they are in bed with the folks and making the rules so they can manipulate and use the people and our tax dollar for their personal gain?

Let’s look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The t.a.r.p. bailout. Car bailout, now, Obama’s Government Motors for the two who took Obama (our tax dollars) help, Ford Motors for the Capitalist one.

I’ve been “boycotting” Jim Carey for years. I find him juvenile, untalented and way overpaid. But then I think most Hollywood types are untalented and overpaid.

But for Carey to be talking down “capitalism” and “greed” is a joke.

He and the other hypocrite mentioned upthread, Michael Moore are definately snapping at the systems that has made them wealthy.

I cannot believe that someone upthread called him a “great” actor. Holy moly how low of a standard can you set?

Return to Canada, give all your money to charity and get a job at some nonprofit. If you must have a car, buy a Toyota Corolla circa 2001. Get yourself a split level ranch (1br/1ba, nothing fancy). Oshawa is nice – its pretty close to Toronto and they MIGHT even have a Starbucks by now. Then get back to me about greed and ambition.

Better yet, just STFU and “act”, if you can call what he does acting. I know actors love talking, but why does anyone listen?

Larry,
Agree 100%. I’ll skip this fools movies. What an Asshole. Why is everyone in Tinsel Town such idiots.

Until The Great Depression, the country had suffered from many economic “Panics,” meaning a run on banks due to fear. Having finally had enough, the Great Depression led our forebears to regulate the banks. This worked well until the 1980′s when President Reagan deregulated the Savings and Loans. We all know how that turned out. Later a bi-partisan effort repealed the post-Depression era Glass Steagall Act and we are where we are today because of that.

As a self-employed Certifed Public Accountant I’m part of our capitalist system. But unfettered, free market capitalism has proven to lead to monopoly, robber barrons and “too big to fail” institutions. Just consider the fact that health insurance companies are exempt from Anti-Trist and you will understand why one or two companies control 90% of the market in many states…Two own 68% of the market in my state. With reduced competition we have higher premiums.

I have a simple solution: If the taxpayer has to pay for the train wreck, then the taxpayer has paid for the right to regulate the railroad.

I don’t pay much attention to what actors/entertainers have to say about real life. While they’re of course entitled to their opinions and the right to express them, the very nature of their work, the lavish compensation they receive for it, plus the effect of celebrity on their lives makes them impossible to relate to, so their opinions seem suspect.

Having said that, I can only quibble with Carrey’s remark: what we need is enforcement. All the regulations in the world are meaningless if regulators refuse to enforce them and instead look the other way. And that’s what’s been happening. The financial industry has basically bribed politicians to appoint and empower regulators who hear, see and speak no evil. The same politicians have then bailed out the oligarchs when their greedy schemes backfired.

I can’t believe people still go to see movies anymore. Personally, I have been boycotting them for years. I refuse to spend my hard earned money and give these people more power.

Yep, Larry, we should show Carey just how “evil” capitalism is by not showing up for his movies. He owes all his frigging wealth to capitalism, and he and all the others in Hollywood should be lauding, it instead of constantly deriding it. I also think that actors are very adept at practicing greed, since so many of them demand absolutely outrageous sums of money in exchange for work.

Larry – your way over the top on this one – sounds like a personal vendetta on your part.
I admire most of your posts, but, this one? Uh…Uh.

Greed, massive greed mostly on Wall Streets part and the sub prime mortgage lenders, unregulated, is why we are in the state we are now.

Jim Carrey is exactly right, he nailed it. He is simply stating how capitalism can be abused!

No way boycott Jim Carrey. – In these dark days, we need his brilliant comic genius to give us a reason to laugh. I adore this man. We need laughter all the more NOW.

Carey should just go back to Canada and stay there.

Most of us are tired of lefties from Canada coming HERE to make the money that they couldn’t make in their own quasi-socialist country and then attempting to ruin what little good government we have left here.

Carey – go home and stay there. We don’t need you or your idiotic advice.

i feel a low key ongoing anger toward the hollywood “elite” and their naive self righteous bull. i so don’t give a flip what these overpaid under achiving nobodies think.

wow… this blog was all goo-goo over the Yankees winning the world series… professional athletes are just as guilty as actors when it comes to being OVERpaid..

Well, no. I guess I don’t get it.

There’s nothing wrong with being successful and being rewarded for that success. Success and wealth are good. The capitalist system is one of the best anyone’s come up with for rewarding and encouraging effort and creativity, to everyone’s benefit.

The problem comes when success reward involves something that’s inherently harmful to others, or to society, or to the very system that you’re working within.

Like any other system or game, capitalism requires rules and regulations that protect the players and the integrity of the game itself. You can’t let the playing field become overrun with greedy predators.

Jim Carrey is a freak, has always been a freak, and has peddeled himself to other freaks in his freakish movies. Jim Carrey wasn’t acting in those movies, that is his true nature and character, he is an idiotic idiot. But no one should wonder at this, he was born of those who begin the years of enlightenment beginning around the mid and latter 1950s, the years of LSD. Jim Carrey is and has been dependent on prozac — nough said. Which is generally the case of those addicted to drugs while still in the womb. Anyone who puts any stock in what Jim Carrey has to say would also revel in the revelations of Pee Wee Hermon.

I’m so tired of wealthy people lecturing me about the evils of capitalism. Any one of those wealthy people are welcome to give up their money and try living on the bottom under “socialism”. They can try to live off of food stamps. They can get on a five yr waiting list for public housing. They can have the government in their business and up their behind 24/7.