QUOTE(brianna @ Dec 25 2007, 03:01 AM)

The reaction of people who think they can get somewhere someday: Awesome!
The reaction of people who want the government to take care of them: Give me their $!
The makers of this video are making a couple of points.
1. He makes in an hour what others make in a year or two.
2. He pays less in taxes.
3. He gobbles up small companies, fires half the workers and rakes a huge profit.
On the first and last point, people get paid according to their contribution to society. He serves as the washing machine for inefficient companies. He takes them over and turns those companies into lean and efficient contributers to the economy. He serves a great purpose and gets paid nicely for his efforts.
Number 2; granted, corporations pay less corporate tax but to buy all those houses he had to declare a personal income almost double the cost of those properties in order to have the cash to buy them. He pays huge amounts in personal income tax, so this one it a plain lie.
It seems the makers of the film were aiming to impress those who buy the Clintonesque drivel. They talk of him as owning all those mansions as though he still owns them all, while they trow in a word that he "owned" them. All in all, this film did more to shed light on an aspect of the economy that is usually bellow the radar. His only crime is that he makes lots of money and they try very hard to make that evil. I suggest they profile George Soros [tzures] next.