Bill, copyright immediately, get Michael Moore to finance it. (copyright to keep in public domain, not your pocket.)
All the animators losing their jobs will jump at the chance to work on it.
Gene Coyle
Bill Lear wrote:
I'd like to propose a project for this list. Let's make a short animated movie that demonstrates how the top 1% of the population is impoverishing the rest of us.
Opening Scene: A scene of relative plenty, a happy middle class, the toiling poor. The wealthy scheme together and use their marionettes to construct a force field. This field sucks wealth from the happy middle class and the poor in a whirling vortex. Result: more hours worked, more misery everywhere but at the top, suspicion, greed permeating all around, and the wealthy laughing like pigs. The vortex sucks cash, time, opportunities, and political freedoms. The whirling vortex has a voice over of Ashcroft, Bush, Reagan, Dole, and other pseudo-conservatives preaching their gospel.
Details: fill in how this is done through conscious policy decisions. Show how people can't actually see the vortex: they only see that government is robbing them by taxing them. They don't see the huge wealth transfer to corporations and the wealthy.
Time length: no more than 5 minutes.
Artists: Matt Weurker and others?
Ok, who wants to carry this forward?:-)
Bill
