Boycott Jim Carey

Anyone who thinks greed is bad is boycottable? Really?

Don’t get me wrong, Larry — I agree with you about the comment, it’s glib, shallow, wrong-headed and pretty emblematic of dogmatic leftism in Hollywood. But…a boycott? Because Carrey is a liberal actor trying to make a point that fits in the with the “repent your evil ways” vibe of the movie he’s out there promoting?

Seems a bit over the top to me.

I had said last year during the elections about Hollywood… Boycott them period. No more movie tickets and no more DVD purchases until we get an adequate apologies from Hollywood for the contempt celebrities show for this country, for the American people and the American way of life. Right now we have our hands full trying to hold onto our republic and our freedoms, we don’t have time to coddle overpaid celebrities. No more. Here’s to somebody seeing this that has the ability and that has the will to pull this off. No more… until Hollywood apologizes sufficiently for their arrogance. And yes, let’s see how much these guys make per movie in India or China. Pack your bags Hollywood and give it a go. No more.

Over the top is berating the American people and the American way of life. That is over the top for somebody that makes millions to make dumbass faces and gestures in a dumbass movie ripoff of an American classic story. Hollywood has nothing in common with mainstream America at all right now. They campaign against the American system that has made them successful, they campaign against eating beef, they campaign against drilling for oil so that we might be self sufficient, they laud the health care systems of Cuba and they are constantly threatening to go to Canada if we don’t appease them. Screw them. Boycott Hollywood from here on til at least next year. No movie tickets and no DVD’s for Christmas. No more.

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.

Thanks Larry! You’re right! You know what a little self-denial and penance is in order. I used to give up things I liked for Advent when I was a child. Jim Carey’s new movie is at the top of my list this year to abstain from in the up-coming Advent Season. I think it will help my problem with greed and I know it will help Jim Carey live with his conscience.

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

“A Christmas Carol” is an “American classic story” Uh, not. It’s an English classic story that has been remade many, many dozens of times. And your notion that “Hollywood has nothing in common with mainstream America” is, and always has been, absurd. Hollywood — by which I mean, loosely speaking, the film and television industries — has played a central role in defining mainstream America for many decades. The values you (presumably) subscribe to, and believe embody mainstream America, have been reinforced countless times by Hollywood films and TV shows. Granted, the stars themselves tend not to live those kinds of lives, but truthfully, very rich people do. Homespun conservative values are much easier to live by when you can’t afford to be a decadent evildoer. That’s the way of the world, my friend. Always has been, always will be.

I’m trying to think offhand of any time that a consumer boycott of a particular star or the industry in general was successful. Nothing’s coming to mind.

I have never thought that Jim Carey was funny, so boycotting him will not be difficult.

Most of them are indeed juvenile. I recommend “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotlight Mind,” probably the best Jim Carrey film.

Spotless Mind, rather. Sorry for the error.

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.

Oh, is that the one where if you break up with someone, you can have your memories erased? I think I heard of that one. I did watch the Cable Guy, because I like Matthew Broderick so much, and the whole time I kept wondering if Matthew was going broke buying expensive, prostitute-looking (IMO) outfits for Sarah Jessica Parker, and had to agree to make the movie to pay for it! lol

Really – are you kidding, Larry. First, with everything going on in the world and our country right now, you’re getting upset about something Jim Carey says?? As Seth Meyer and Amy Poehler would say on SNL: “REALLY? REALLY?”

Also – um – I thought our system WAS capitalism with regulation which is what Carey is supporting in his comment. Are you saying you want Capitalism WITHOUT regulation? Because that’s not the American system we have had, nor is it the system we’ve had for over 100 years.

This seems like seriously manufactured fury over a nothing statement, seemingly only in order to insult him for being Canadian.

I liked him in the remake of Dick and Jane and the Majestic.

However it’s a BIG turn off when Hollywood types rail against the very thing they benefit from. It makes them look dumb and dummer. LOL …. sorry…

“Mr Demille, I’m ready for my close-up”

Sunset Boulevard (1950) delusional…

Capitalism, by its very nature is monopolistic, exploitative and mostly motivated by greed. I am referring of course to capitalism in its early stages in Europe. Through the years, we have allowed capitalism to be interchanged/equated with free enterprise which relies on competition in a free market. Capitalism does not like competition and would subvert the free enterprise system wherever/whenever it could. Today, we have loosened anti-trust regulations meant to regulate the monopolistic/greedy tendencies of capitalism and preserve free enterprise. Unfortunately, ever since Reagan and all the de-regulation, mega mergers (“too big to be allowed fail”) were allowed and we are now reaping the consequences. Even the political checks and balances established in the constitution no longer seem to function as intended by the framers. Let’s not treat capitalism and free enterprise as if they are one and the same.

When you find someone not involved in capitalism who generates employment for others, you come right back here and let us know …. well other than that feeding trough funded by tax payers.

With so many other films to see …

Hey … where do you shake out when groups like Moveon are using their bully pulpit?

When we don’t vote from the ballot box, we are allowed to use our feet. Free enterprise isn’t guaranteed a profit …

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.

I have to agree with many of the comments here. The mortgage bankers who signed-off on sub-standard loans weren’t really thinking about how wonderful it was that they were helping a low-income family buy their first home. They were thinking of all those nice, fat fees and interest. Yeah, they were helped along by all those nice, fat senators who were taking their cut from ACORN.

delete, delete, delete, dump

Jim Carey is right. All extremes are bad; therefore, extreme capitalism is bad. We’re living it. Do you like it?

I concur!

The far looney loser left has succeeded in stirring up the fire in the extreme & moderate wretched right. The rest of us will eventually weed them out. It takes too much damn time though.

examples of the weeding

cunningham – crook
delay – redistricting crook
foley – pervert
harris – butt kisser vote stopper
hastert – enabler of perverts
jefferson – crook
cheney – oil crook & illegally shooting someone while drunk shooting ducks
bush – illegal right turn out of afghanistan into iraq
edwards – sticking it to Hillary while being a man whore
kerry – traitor
Dodd – traitor
barney – pervert & traitor
Pelosiosaur – punk enabler
obambam – punk, america hater
the list just keeps going and going and it doesn’t MATTER anymore who is in charge it seems. The dirt keeps coming.
not to mention the dirt and crooks in HOLLYWOOD and the fact NONE of them should open their mouth for fear of sticking their huge foot in

Damn! I hope Mr. Carey isn’t about to go Muslim on us! Sounds like he’s pretty angry and may have a few screws loose.

Capitalism, by its very nature is monopolistic, exploitative and mostly motivated by greed.

Not bad. The only Marxist buzz word missing here is “alienation”.

I have always thought that he has more than a few screws loose anyone who thinks what he does is funny I just donot see the humor. It’s plain stupid. Let him go to some 3rd world country and see if he can live the American way there. I just wish people would stop supporting these arrogant jerks. Iknow I have.

I’m surprised you give any credence to this man, Larry. Why not focus on his fellow traveling hypocrite, Michael Moore? And in other news, Eliot Spitzer is about to give a talk at Harvard on … wait for it … Ethics.

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 TARP bailout. Car bailout, now, Obama’s Government Motors for the two who took Obama (our tax dollars) help, Ford Motors for the Capitalist one.

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.

“Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition.

Ambition should never be coupled with greed. Ambition is very different from greed and that’s where Carey slipped. But he is right about ‘chaos’ growing day by day.

I say the reason American life is falling apart is because of the public school system. More so because of the regulated aspect of the public school system. The teaching of subjects by teachers obviously is good enough to prepare many for the challenge of ambitions. But the social and psychological aspects of an education are destroyed by the secularized aspects of it.

But don’t worry. Public education will continue even more so in the future until only foreigners will be able to politely say ‘please.’

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?

And soon enough you will hear that Malik Hasan will create and become president of an association against personal jihadism and violent terrorism. And get millions of donations and funds from ‘stimulus grants.’

What we need is more people to commit crimes so that they can later head an association against crimes and go around signing books, giving lectures and being hired to teach law enforcement about criminal behavior.

Larry’s point is that Carey himself does not live by his vacant words. Maybe we should regulate Hollywood and put limits on how much boorish movie or TV actors make for a living. Maybe that way we can keep the price of going to the movies down to a reasonable level so that any American family can attend (not that I think there are many good movies out there).

Once again Carey reflects the abuse of celebrity and the vacuum of intellect that is Hollywood.

Hollywood capitalists pretending otherwise, how quaint.

Hollywood does have that reputation and it is generally true. I do however recall Hillary had some support from Tinsel-town during the sham election. So I wonder how much of a monolith of extreme theoretical leftism is Hollywood really? I say theoretical, because I don’t really think Travolta wants to give up his private jet for the common good. I don’t know his politics, just using as an example.

Carey’s comment is another example of blind support for the agenda of Prez Obama and his minions in the Democratic party.

I think boycotting the capitalist enriched Carey is a GOOD idea.

His movies suck anyway.

I am sure that part of the money that this
capitalist enriched person and his fellow actors
contributed a lot of money to the candidacy of then Sen Obama.

Depending on what day of the week it is, they are, afterall, Americans and they do vote. They also have way too much money and therefore can afford to contribute heavily to campaigns.

So you hold your nose and take their money and their vote if you can.

The majority are uneducated and pretty shallow so they tend to go with the hottest trend which last go around was Obama.

I’m not particularly fond of Jim Carrey, and never have been, but frankly, I don’t think this little snippet accurately reflects the article, or Carrey.

Capitalism without regulation….Glass-Steagall wasn’t bad. Repealing it was what was bad. So, Carrey is completely right. And, by the way, if you don’t like the FDIC, then maybe you ought to think again. That’s “regulation” too, you know.

Wikipedia:

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.[1] Some provisions such as Regulation Q, which allowed the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts, were repealed by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.[2][3]

It’s not such a radical idea, after all. Regulation of Wall Street would have been a great thing to have; instead the regulation that had been in place for decades was eliminated, and 5 financial entities exempted from the regulation altogether; that’s when the derivatives poison was unleased into the system.

I was completely against ANY bailout for ANY company/financial entity. I believe in a free-market; because in a real “free market” capitalist system, Goldman Sachs and AIG would be dead right now.

We don’t have a real “free-market” capitalist system in the least; even before Obama came along, we were EXEMPTING SOME FAVORED ENTITIES from regulation, while regulating everyone else. And, we were not allowing the corrupt, the criminal, and the stupid to just fail, thereby wiping their debt away, so the smart, the innovative contributors to society could thrive and lead the way.

We’re still propping up ZOMBIES, who are still SUCKING the lifeblood out of our economy at the expense of the rest of us.

They should be ARRESTED. Now, that’s regulation I could live happily with.

And, Michael Vick should be cleaning toilets in public bathrooms, not getting $Million dollar contracts to play football. The guy’s a liar, and a sewer-dweller.

Jim Carrey is right, and even though I’ve been “boycotting” him for years as a result of my “free-market” choice not to spend money on his “products” I think calling for a boycott over his comments is silly.

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?

The majority are uneducated and pretty shallow so they tend to go with the hottest trend which last go around was Obama.

That does seem to be a priori, although other than the pronouncements of certain idiots as anecdotal evidence, I wonder how you could quantify that assertion?

I tend to think just as in the rest of the population there are people of all political stripes in Hollywood, perhaps leaning heavily towards the left. If I am correct, we should be encouraging the non-lefties of Hollywood to let their voices be heard.

Me too Annie I have no idea how people find this clown entertaining! His job should be sweeping the stage.

bingo.

Also bingo. See my first comment in thread. Writing a column over that innocuous statement is just weird.

lol some excellent examples.

Sarah could pull a boycott of Hollywood off. You would see mainstream America stand in solidarity with something like this. This is something we can still control… how we spend our money. Too big to fail? We would see now wouldn’t we? Screw Hollywood they can all move to Canada… better yet India… no better yet Cuba and take their smarmy Anti-American sideshow with them. Cmon I don’t care if the story of Scrooge started in England. Americans have seen that movie every Christmas season for as long as I can recall. You might not think that makes it a classic, but it is by now part of American culture. Yes, this is a cheap ripoff of that culture. Does Carrey making dumbass facial expressions and gestures add anything to this or just take away from it? I say it takes away. But it will make him millions in dirty American capitalistic dollars.

I agree, Larry.

A fish doesn’t even know it is wet.

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

I think the outrage you’re feeling against Jim Carrey is over the top. But at the same time I understand where the knee jerk reaction came from.
You have yet another Hollywood millionaire talking about the evils of greed, when they hit the lottery everytime they make a movie.
Also that his statement sounds like he’s heard it some place and is just repeating it like a well trained parrot than a thinking rational individual.
That being said what he stated didn’t sound so completely utopian and pie in the sky. I certainly don’t want to return to the days of the robber barons.
But I don’t to toil for the government all my days making bunch of government workers rich.
I long for the days of Clinton. Seemed we had an equilibrium then. Instead of the extremism of Bush and Obama.

I think many of us are still smarting from going from one extreme administration to the other, and when one of these Hollywood Bozo’s make a political pronouncement it pisses many of us off. I agree on voting with my wallet even if its largely only a symbolic gesture.

A boycott is only effective if organized, but I do support Larry’s mini-boycott.

I don’t see Larry calling for an organized boycott. I see him sharing a personal statement.

Sorry, Larry, I don’t get it:

“Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed…”

This is just a statement of fact, a recognition of reality – why does this enrage you?

It’s like being pissed off that the sky is blue.

There seems to be a cult in this country that you can’t say a bad word about capitalism without being accused of enjoying drowning kittens, sorry to see you get caught up in this.

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.

there’s something skeevy about him. I could never stand to watch him, he’s over the top, no subtlety or nuance whatsoever. I’m surprised France hasn’t awarded him the medal yet.

There is something wrong when Hollywood preaches against greed, capitalism while they are making millions for what ‘acting’. They all need to get real. We should boycott Hollywood. All movies, tv programs, and entertainment magazines. Give them a taste of their own preaching!

No we are not living extreme capitalism. A system that allows slavery is an example of extreme capitalism.

John Garfield must be rolling in his grave.

Yes I am going “Scrooge” this year too and for years to come!

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.

Like yolu too PO your very wierd commenting on a blog daily that you never seem to agree with.
Talk about wasting your employers time. WOW you get paid for not only wasting space here blogging at your employers expense. Talk about FREELOADIG?

Capitalism without regulation…

That doesn’t currently exist in the United States. I work for an S&P 500. Over the past year my job duties have expanded to include compliance. I have no experience in this field nor did I expect to be doing this work. But Sarbanes-Oxley requires it. Our shop supervisor was never a Safety Auditor. Someone has to stay on top of the numerous and ever-evolving federally mandated safety requirements – and he was the only one at our site who even was remotely qualified.
All Carrey ever had to do for a living was act like a major jackass and get paid for it. I’d like to see him get a normal 9 to 5 job and see how he’d handle the pressure, he probably wouldn’t last a week.

Thought we all ready had 2 houses full of the people you describe “Goverment” remember them?

“Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why?

Last week when I went for a blood test at a lab, the attendant had to use a calculator to give me change from 30 dollars for a 27.69 purchase. He could not figure out my change without the calculator.

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CUNY’s got math problem: Report shows many freshmen from city HS fail at basic algebra

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/11/12/2009-11-12_cunys_got_math_problem_many_freshmen_from_city_hs_fail_at_basic_algebra.html

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.

they hit the lottery everytime they make a movie.

He doesn’t even have to star in a movie ever again. He could live nicely from the royalty checks rolling in. How’s that capitalism working out for YOU Mr. Carrey?

Nah, SJP earned 23 million last year. Jennifer Aniston: 15 million.

And only Brad Pitt seems to be putting his money and time where his mouth is…

Another classic: Julia Roberts hired 350 – yep – 350 bodyguards for protection of her family while filming in India.

Does anyone really think that these people have a handle on reality?

Generic comment to follow, no need for anyone to get paranoid or suffer delusions of grandeur.

Maybe its just me but it appears folks like to pick fights with Larry dissecting every last possible nuance even if one is only implied. He obviously could give a rat’s ass. On the one hand some are saying Larry is making a mountain out of a mole hill, but to this observer these moles are making their own mountains in the process.

I guess what I an saying is coming to the blog with the attitude “How can I tear Larry down?” is transparent and obvious. Like the dude is providing a valuable free public service. Perhaps throw him a thank you or compliment on occasion? Its not as if you never agree with him.

Thanks!

That doesn’t currently exist in the United States.

Thank you. It does not and has never existed in pure form. Then again neither has communism. But just look at how many people now work for the government… counting beans or traversing red tape for a living… only to retire early with full health benefits that none of the rest of us in the private sector can even afford anymore. What is becoming unsustainable isn’t capitalism… but government.

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.

I know how the left loves to make Uncle Ronnie the evil all do-er, but S&L’s were in trouble long before Ronnie showed up, and it got worse under Carter’s horrendous economic policies. The first deregulation passed in 1980 and then the 2nd on in 1982. Oh, and the 2nd one had overwhelming congressional support and was co sponsered by…wait for it……Chuckie Schumer and Stenie Hoyer!

SMOKIN’!!!!

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.

“I wonder how you could quantify that assertion?”

Los Angeles is a haven of a number of natural disasters: earthquakes, mud slides, wild fires, wolves, mountain lions, and celebrities.

The way I can quantify it is that I have known a lot of them and they exist in their own reality – divorced from the real world. Understand that in L.A. the only major industry is entertainment and the city revolves around the people who are the most influential in that industry. To them education was never a priority since they excelled without it. Also out there celebrities are never questoned about their opinions by people who do know better. So an idiot remark made like that of Jim Carey is not going to be questioned by his agent, or his business manager, or the head of a studio – no one.

Exactly. Carey nailed it -

Jim Carey always was a Moron and a freak. Just like the rest of the freaks that voted for this bad generic version of a president who doesn’t like capitalism but thinks he needs a few $mil for a book he didn’t write. Carey has just proved that he hasn’t been acting at all in the movies he has made, that is his true character, a frigging idiot.

Craig, What type of computer are you typing this at? What software does it use? What server is helping you transmit your messages? Where are you sitting and what are you wearing? What did you eat at your last meal and where did you get it? The benefits of capitalism are all around you–like water. You are a fish and you don’t even realize you are wet.

The evils you are referring to come from corporatism, favoritism, and government cronyism. The evils you are referring to are NOT the products of mutually beneficial trade agreements between consenting parties.

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.

Actually what you have seen of Carey in the movies he has made isn’t acting at all. It is his true character, the man is a freak who has cashed in by selling himself to other freaks who see themselves in him. He always was a disgusting piece of recycled dog food as far as I am concerned. Just another product of the beginners of the LSD society of the mid to late 1950s. Probabely the reason Jim Carrey was dependant on prozac.

I’m with you! We cannot afford our mortgages and gas and food so why waste our money giving it to these ungratefull leftie loons.
No cd’s, dvd’s, movies, let them eat cake with Obama and Chavez!

Jim Carey is a HAS BEEN. ZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Carey should be boycotted for the dumb movies he makes, not for his personal opinion on capitalism. Face it, capitalism has gone wild and needs some regulations to prevent economic crises based on “too big to fail” memes. (And I’m not talking about a socialist take over of national companies, etc.) I I have no problem with his comment, although if he had said that BO is doing a good job then that would be another thing altogether. This said I’d like this country to get back to basics — democracy and the kind of capitalism that is beneficial to Main St as well as Wall St.

Sarah could pull a boycott of Hollywood off.

sarah who?

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.

palin!

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the comment you wrote obot is weird as well.

OK — maybe I missed it. He says “Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed…” That’s “without regulation.” By personal greed, I suspect he was thinking of people like Mr. Maddoff. What he did not say in the article (so far as I could see) was “I hate capitalism” or “Capitalism has caused all our problems” or “Capitalism is evil.”

I personally agree that capitalism does need appropriate regulation and the lack of effective regulation has in part led to our current problems. Just my opinion.

djmm

lol… that’s funnier than any jim carrey movie.

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..

That someone from Hollywood is shallow is not exactly a news flash. But, put me in the camp of both capitalism and regulation. Greed, which also goes by the name of enlightened self interest, is what drives innovation, productivity and prosperity. It is also the source of many problems when not regulated.

Under Bush there was way too little regulation.

Under Obama there is way too little capitalism.

For instructions on how to strike the right balance go to Wikipedia under: “Clinton, William Jefferson, U.S. President”.

Personally, I think Carey hit the nail squarely on the head.

Much of what’s gone wrong with our economy can be traced back to greedy, unprincipled people who have put their own personal gains ahead of everything else, with no regard for the consequences to the very system they’ve exploited.

Personal fortunes have been made by relocating abroad millions of manufacturing jobs, thousands of factories, and ultimately entire American industries, for instance. Not only are the jobs and industries lost; we wind up sending overseas US dollars to buy the products we can no longer make for ourselves. Not curtailing that seems like one handy means for a capitalist system to commit suicide.

We’ve also let 12 million+ illegal aliens enter the country to work for substandard wages and benefits, competing for the jobs that remain. Fortunes have been made by exploiting that pool of cheap labor, while simultaneously offloading the consequent social costs onto the American taxpayer. Some get rich, but it’s going to come back to bite the rest of us.

Let’s not even talk about what greed without concern for consequences has accomplished within the nation’s financial and investment industries. On Wall Street, some of the worst actors have been the most highly rewarded.

I think any problem with Carey’s statement comes from a misinterpretation of what it is he’s actually criticizing.

No, it comes from an appreciation of the hypocrisy inherent in his statement. After all, who is the arbiter of what is greedy? I think Carrey is the greedy one for not just donating his cut of his latest movie’s profit back to the movie theaters so they can just give out free tickets to the audience as a wonderful Christmas present.

If he’s going to proselytize against greed, why doesn’t he engage in some redistribution of his own wealth? And aren’t his employers corporate entities themselves? Jim Carrey is a GREEDY capitalist tool.

Get it?

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.

…when success and reward…

Sorry about that.

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.

Let me explain something about how Studios treat the Jim Carrey’s of this world — he gets his $20 million up front and because he can demand this of the film studio for his services, a bunch of very talented actors, with very accomplished careers are stuck working for minimum scale (making it hard to feed their families) to compensate. This happens all the time. They take the job cause they need to work and if they don’t, someone else will.

You may say it’s what the market will bear, but there are few movie audiences who would go out to a film to watch any actor by him or herself for two hours with a bare light bulb shining on his or her face — with no other supporting cast or tech people holding them up and making them look good.

Considering Mr. Carrey understands very well the meaning of poverty, as his family was homeless for a while growing up, you’d think he’d say, gee, why don’t you pay me $18 million — and spread out the other two to the people making me look good. Most do not do this.

It is mighty hypocritical of limousine liberals to talk about the evils of greed while their agents are demanding their “special water” and three trailers, etc. Even those who mean well will never be in a position to live under the policies they trumpet for others. Health care is a good case in point. They may want universal health care so everyone can have some kind of coverage, but since they are rich enough to afford concierge doctors, they will not feel the meaning of rationing of the HMO runaround.

I don’t know how much Mr. Carey gives to charity. Is he greedy? I don’t know. But I suspect he is not cheating people like Mr. Maddoff appears to have done — he appears to make his money honestly, according to the precepts of the capitalist system. I see nothing wrong with the actual words that came out of his mouth, given their ordinary meaning in the English language. The key is “without regulation.”

I suppose you may read into these words whatever you like. I decline to do so. There is so much else to worry about.

djmm

I agree, Craig, I don’t get it either. I actually agreed with Carrey, although I don’t think he’s much of an actor and wasn’t planning on watching Scrooge. I’ve seen that movie – in it’s multiple releases – enough. I did like The Majestic, however.

Thank you, Surfered. Great comment.

Wait, are you saying regulated capitalism is bad? Unregulated capitalism is what got the U. S. into this terrible economy. Why should corporations go unregulated? Corporations are run by people; under the Fourteenth Amendment corporations are treated as persons in courts. Can you imagine a society where no one had to follow any rules? No morals? No ethics? Why would anyone assume corportions can regulate themselves?

Sorry, but there are numerous examples throughout our history of corporations going unregulated and economic depressions always result.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both experimented with LSD. One gave the world PCs and the other Macs. I suppose this shows just how unpredictable the long-term effects psychedelics can be.

No one gave the world sub-par software and the other gave bulletproof computers.

Depends on the batch of LSD.

The guy is an actor who does not live in the real world. Who really cares what he has to say.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Regulation keep people from starting new businesses. Regulation forces companies to do things they would normally not do. Hence the housing bubble. When ever government gets involved in picking the winners and loosers they end up creating a Depression. Did you know that before FDR started messing with thing in the economy through regulation and such there never been a depression! The great depression it self was only possible because the government tried to regulate the money supply through the Federal Reserve.

So please read up on things before you comment.

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I’ll try to remember the virtues totally unregulated trading when the derivatives market spontanously blows our financial and monetary systems into confetti.

…the virtues of totally unregulated trading…

As someone who lives and works in the industry, I really am tired of having an individual quote by a celebrity followed by a blanket condemnation and calls for a boycott of Hollywood.

There are people here from everywhere with every kind of political opinion. A lot of hard working people live and work here. Just as in sports, there are individuals who make loads of money but making movies is hard work and the crew works harder than the stars. Directing is no cakewalk either.

So agree with Jim Carey. Or disagree with Jim Carey. But he is an individual, folks. The rest of us here are just trying to make a living.

BTW – I was producer & director on an American version of Christmas Carol. I hope I that film contributed to universalizing the impression of it

Oh Gawd.

Oshawa is nice – its pretty close to Toronto and they MIGHT even have a Starbucks by now.

Why is everyone in Tinsel Town such idiots.

And someone said LARRY was over the top!!

I think I’ll go to bed before someone starts attacking blondes.

Capitalism is based on greed and is dead in the water. It is a no brainer that it cannot take us into the future. Rather than throw tantrums over this, why no apply ourselves to the question; what will?

You’re an idiot

Capitalism is NOT based on greed, but the ABUSE of capitalism is. There are countless laws dealing with that abuse. Capitalism is quite simply the free exchange of goods and services between mutually agreeable parties. In every exchange there is an implicit contract; I’ll give you this for that, and that is the heart and basis of free market Capitalism. When that contract is broken, or there has been deception in the exchange, Capitalism isn’t at fault, the person causing the problem or the deception is to blame, and they’ve more than likely broken a law and should be compelled by authorities to answer for their crime. But blaming Capitalism for the mischief created by those who abuse it, is like blaming freedom for the crimes committed within a generally free public. The more freedom a society has, the greater the possibility that that freedom is abused by shady individuals, so more vigilance must be given to balance out the interplay between socially acceptible behavior and criminal behavior. That’s the trade off we must accept if we wish to be free individuals. Capitalism is a form of, and integral part of freedom, and in order to have a free society, the only reasonable form of economy that could be in harmony with that free public is of course, free market Capitalism, the two concepts are inseparable.

And a statement like “Capitalism is based on greed and is dead in the water”, could only come from a rabid communist, or someone to stupid to find their way into tomorrow.

Capitalism is NOT based on greed, but the ABUSE of capitalism is. There are countless laws dealing with that abuse. Capitalism is quite simply the free exchange of goods and services between mutually agreeable parties. In every exchange there is an implicit contract; I’ll give you this for that, and that is the heart and basis of free market Capitalism. When that contract is broken, or there has been deception in the exchange, Capitalism isn’t at fault, the person causing the problem or the deception is to blame, and they’ve more than likely broken a law and should be compelled by authorities to answer for their crime. But blaming Capitalism for the mischief created by those who abuse it, is like blaming freedom for the crimes committed within a generally free public. The more freedom a society has, the greater the possibility that that freedom is abused by shady individuals, so more vigilance must be given to balance out the interplay between socially acceptable behavior and criminal behavior. That’s the trade off we must accept if we wish to be free individuals. Capitalism is a form of, and integral part of freedom, and in order to have a free society, the only reasonable form of economy that could be in harmony with that free public is of course, free market Capitalism, the two concepts are inseparable.

And a statement like “Capitalism is based on greed and is dead in the water”, could only come from a rabid communist, or someone to stupid to find their way into tomorrow.

I believe you meant to say – too stupid – and not “to stupid”. You really want to get your grammar and spelling correct when deriding another’s intelligence.
I am not a rabid Communist, nor am I a laid back type of Communist. I hate to disappoint you, but I am not any type of Communist at all. If I were, I would not be posing the question, “what comes next?
; because I would be fairly certain of what comes next.
It ie easy to feel fearful and threatened about what comes next, but it ia also challenging and exciting.
When faced with those two sets of feeling, I prefer the later.

Well Miss Prissy grammar queen, if you wish to deride MY simple typo rather than consider the argument, you should be more vigilant with your OWN abyssmal contribution to typographical and grammatical idiocy. Your previous comment is littered with a multitude of mistakes, and I’ve got a big fat rock aimed at your glass house. Your pathetic, non-responsive statement borders on illiteracy!

Canada does not want him. He’s an American now. He’s your problem.

I can’t even believe how many commenters are clueless about the regulations imposed on businesses from the local level all the way up to federal.To make blanket statements such as: “we’re living in extreme capitalism”, “capitalism without regulation”…
leads me to believe they’ve never held down a job in the real world. They certainly never owned a business.
and ziggy:
For you to automatically conflate the world “capitalism” with derivatives trading is intellectually dishonest. Anyone in business intending to generate a profit is a capitalist -from the mom and pop convenience store to the recent art school grad who wants to launch her own clothing line. It’s not just Warren Buffett and Jack Welch.

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.

I wasn’t trying to equate derivatives trading with the activities of average business owners. If anything, we’re talking stark contrasts, in terms of both the typical level of ethics and the actual nature of the enterprise.

Your average, hard-working business owner deals in the honest exchange of real goods and services for actual dollars. People can invest in such enterprises, based upon sound judgements as to their likely success. That’s good capitalism.

So far as I can understand it, derivatives trading commonly involves the marketing of unbacked paper representing highly leveraged or even purely imaginary value, generally totally hidden from the sight of regular investors. There’s imaginary value involving unknown degrees of risk pervading the entire economy, running at the level of trillions of dollars, and nobody is watching. It’s the sort of thing that could easily destroy a capitalist system.

Franklin Raines walking away from Fannie Mae with millions in his pocket is a pretty good example of the abuse, don’t you think ziggy?

Exactly what is “a no brainer”? I have a sneaking suspicion that in today’s vernacular, it means someone who voted for and still supports Obama.

Mariem, may we use your picture as a visual depiction of “a no brainer”?

What can I say? Weasels to the right of us, and weasels to the left…

Let’s not forget Barney Frank, D and his complicity in the greed.

Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s not forget Obama’s(D) part in suing banks that didn’t give loans to unqualified buyers, which in turn added to the mess.

Capitalism in a pure form is beneficial. Capitalism in the bastardized form is still better than socialism, although much more fraught with fraud.

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Short and simple, to the point. I agree.
There’s way to much outrage here over a comment that’s a fact, and has nothing extraordinary in it.
I see no reason boycotting someone over a fact they’ve stated that is believable.

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Agree completely.

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