Hardball: Michael Moore on 'Dead Peasants Insurance'

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC Hardball w/ CHRIS MATTHEWS - Sep. 29, 2009: Matthews Interviews Filmmaker Michael Moore About His New Movie "Capitalism - A Love Story."

MOORE: Corporate American, amongst themselves, they don't want this to be public, they take out life insurance policies on the employees - big companies, Proctor and Gamble, McDonnell-Douglas, Hershey...

MATTHEWS: Do they bet on unhealthy people dying?

MOORE: Yes, and they name the company as the beneficiary. So, the sooner an employee dies, the more money obviously the company can make...

MATTHEWS: Can you sign a living will or something that says nobody can insure my death and make money off me going?

MOORE: No, but Rep. Gutierrez (?) from Chicago, he saw the film over the weekend, and I believe he's submitting a bill outlawing this.

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[Cetacea]

1. Thank you for posting this!

[Beaverhausen]

2. here is a link for more - he mentions this in the closing credits of the movie

http://deadpeasantinsurance.com/

link to companies known to have such policies on their employees
http://deadpeasantinsurance.com/which-employers-bought-policies-on-the-lives-of-employees/

[Triana]

3. I wish tweety would have stopped interrupting him and let him talk!

Else, why bother having him on?! Tweety treated him OK but he kept yapping and interrupting him! Jeeeze. Still a fairly decent segment with MM.

[Joe the Liberal]

5. Lol I know......

Tweety is a guy who loves to hear himself talk, I don't think Moore even managed to finish a sentence because of all the interruptions.

[earcandle]

4. May lady justice rule out and the regulations be ushered back into their place in our republic.

[ProfessorPlum]

6. Jesus, Tweets, let the man talk already.

[Umbral]

7. Matthews is a wretched interviewer. He's an irritation as soon as he opens his mouth. nt