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What a douche. Wait...no...what a doucheBAG. It's subtle but there is a difference.

he isn't american . he's canadien and he's saying whats wrong with the american society. he claimed that when his family had no money they had to live in a station wagon. i guess that is better then being in capitalist society where u can make more money then u know what to do with it. so now that he has money why isn't he livin in a station wagon in his driveway?

ask the canadian to return all that money... after all he needs to re-distribute that wealth since he's against capitalism he won't be needing all that cash... jim carrey please stfu.

"Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition. Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed.."

I believe Jim Carrey might actually have a point here. Carrey's point seems not to be that capitalism is bad--(as underscored by his willingness to earn tons of money for acting,) but that greed is bad. I agree. Greed is indeed a major contributor to the nation's economic problems, and "capitalism without regulation" indeed won't stop personal greed.

But responsibility will. Carrey notes that Scrooge is a prototypical greedy capitalist who changed his ways and became more generous with his assets. But why did Scrooge change?--was it because the government swooped in and forced him to distributed his riches to the less fortunate? No. It was because Scrooge had a personal epiphany and decided hoarding his wealth was ultimately unsatisfying in the face of poverty.

I think Carrey is actually lauding a conservative mindset here. Aren't we self-identified conservatives the ones who do the most personal contributing to charities and relief organizations? We do this on our own, without being mandated to do so by an authority. Exactly like Scrooge did. Scrooge = a responsible capitalist. A hero.

First Wil Ferrell talks out of his rear about health care, then Jim Carrey does the same on capitalism. What is it with idiots that play complete goofballs on screen that think they have any integrity on real issues?

Hey Jim. Hey Will. SHUT-UP!

His comedy is as old. He is worn out. HE AINT FUNNY ANYMORE,,nothing new same ole same ole. oh and F him. Damn hockey puck

just remember jim carrey is a Canadian.

I need to know what kind of regulation JC is talking about. And what kind of regulations he would like to see on his own greed and negotiations for pictures. In addition, greed is not necessarily bad - it can be a great motivating factor and greed is not at odds with conservatism at all, and certainly not libertarianism. Just check with Ayn Rand.

Well it certainly hasn't helped bridle the greed in hollyweird.

Another Canadian who despises his US achieved wealth?

To add to Reasonable Guy: Carrey is also looking through the lense of Hollywood, which is indeed steeped in greed and ambition, which can cause someone without a moral core to do terrible things to their fellow man. Washington DC, Chicago, and NYC can do the same thing. Power + greed = corruption.

I separate that from honest Capitalism, which I see as taking Capital, doing something innovative and useful with it that is valuable enough for someone to want to pay for it.

It is government intervention and greed for power that is causing this construct to fall apart. It is people who think they are experts like Maxine Waters who believes she can run the oil industry better than Exxon Mobli, it is a petroleum expert like Nancy Pelosi who wants to use natural gas ( a fossil fuel in large part ) to transition away from fossil fuels but without drilling for it, it is people like Carter, Clinton, Dodd and Fwank who support the brilliant financial idea to force the financial sector to make loans to people that can't/won't pay it back. And now they fancy themselves more knowledgeable than doctors and insurance company boards to apply this same deluded wisdom to one sixth of the private economy.

If Jim Carrey can make 20 million a picture then more power to him. If a CEO can make his company billions in profit then he deserves a good chunk of change. That's freedom. People must be able to reach for the stars without the government slapping it back every time they do or hypocrites condemning their efforts.

So Jim, STFU and act. You are not an expert at anything but saying and doing silly things.

For years I've advocated a Hollywood Fairness Tax: $5/movie ticket. All proceeds go to the government to a "fairness fund." I.e., down the rathole with all the other money. Let's test their commitment to their opinions, shall we?

Similarly, why not create a website that would accept ONLY Hollywood money. A voluntary one at that. Stars: send in your money and we promise we'll pass it on to the government. Make impassioned pleas to "do your part to reduce your greed," then keep a counter running of the total take. Should make for fun, hypocritical viewing.

Can't stand limo-libs.

Really can't stand 'em.

A bunch of money falls in this idiot's lap, and then he wants to crap all over other people who are trying to make money doing constructive things.

Jimbo, we know you hate this country, so why the hell don't you move back to that Socialist Paradise, Canada, or to somewhere in Eurabia, like the United Islamic Kingdom, formerly the U.K.? Better yet, donate all your millions to "the poor" and capitalist-oppressed workers of the world and go to Cuba or Chavez-hell, or to Ortega's little Utopia.

What's that? Oh, you'll keep (and spend) your millions any way you choose? And you'll stay right where you are, in the only real "Utopia" on Earth (that'd be the USA)? Gee, I guess that makes you a hypocritical moron, doesn't it? Yep, it sure does.

Alot of folks misconstrue Carrey's point.
He is not balking at capitalism as in people making and keeping the fruits of their labor, he is merely saying that the Wall St Crooks, the D C Crooks and the Powers that be are hoodwinking Americans out of every dime we have, and spending it all on worthless BS that only benefits them and empowers them more.

To kind of add to Reaonable Guy's excellent post, I've always had a decent amount of respect for Jim Carrey (Not counting his hilarious films, and the fact that his MTV Movie Awards appearances are always fun to watch) due to a Youtube video he made in which he pleaded the cause of Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

"Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition. Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed.. . ."
Capitalism is regulated, by the morals of society. So the fact that people succumb to greed is not so much a statement about Capitalism or the Free Market, but rather about the lack of morality of those involved. The Free Market does not corrode someone's moral character- they are faced with temptations and make their own personal decisions regarding what action to take, and still have to be able to look themselves in the mirror at the end of the day. Commerce promotes freedom and presents choices. Unfortunately, not everyone makes the moral or just ones. And I guess that could be what Carrey was saying.

I never watched his dumb movie ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE too dam liberal for i conservative shorebird like me SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

Carrey has no problem with personal greed such as his (individual greed). He just doesn't think corporations should be greedy; i.e. make a profit.

"Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart"

Why? Because there has been an uncontrolled effort by the left to destroy the very nation that has given them everything while they sit on their worthless asses and bitch about it.

I am not a Jim Carrey apologist--in fact, I don't care about him one way or another. However, this unsubstantiated comment seems to be far from the truth:

"Carrey has no problem with personal greed such as his (individual greed). He just doesn't think corporations should be greedy; i.e. make a profit."

A glance at Carrey's charity work indicates he may not actually be greedy. He's contributed to:
* Comic Relief
* Generation Rescue
* Luke Neuhedel Foundation
* National Veterans Foundation
* St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
* Toy Mountain Campaign
Now, I'm not sure if all of those are legitimate, or whether some are fronts for left-wing causes, but Carrey does appear to genuinely care about the welfare of children, and puts his money where his mouth is. That is admirable.

Again, Carrey's opinion of capitalism and corporate greed may possibly be a bit wacky (though I'm still not convinced of this,) but he's not the greedy moonbat pig some of you are making him out to be.

Please replace "pig" with "hypocrite" in that last sentence.

This is really quite funny, (first time Jim's been so in a long time), because the way I see it the waaaay overpaid Hollywood class should be paying us to see their 'stuff' these days.

This idiot says other peoples words and makes millions. He says his own words and is really funny. I'm so fedup with these fools.

What you guys are missing is that regardless of what Carrey makes, we have an option on paying to see his films. That's called entertainment. $4.50 a gallon gas while big oil raped the country didn't fall in that category. Nor does Big Pharma having no bid contracts, Sachs holding the country hostage in order to distribute the wealth among their elite, or Insurance profiteering from coming between our doctors and us in order to send folks home to die.

"andy42302 at November 11, 2009 2:59 PM"

People made public the fact that they don't like "big government", so Liberals in the media put the word "big" in front of everything they want you to hate.

Andy, do you have a problem with LITTLE oil, or LITTLE pharamacuticals?

KHarn, spinning terminologies does nothing to address the problem. My concerns with the failures in the market system has nothing to do with what name those failures are labeled.

Again, Andy the Puke dodges the question and retreats into semantic laden sophistry.

Bravo. Did you burn any flags today along with the rest regular liberal trolls here?

RE: Posted by: andy42302 at November 11, 2009 2:59 PM

"Big Oil" and "Big Pharma" provide essential things that make our way of life better....in fact, they help make modern life possible.

This idiotic knee-jerk Leftist cynicism about the oil and pharmecutical companies is absolutely ridiculous.

When you consider what they provide, it's a bargain for the price.

The Left lives in a fantasy world of utter denial.....and then lecture the rest of us on the "facts".

Fact: Big Government makes more from trafficking in oil, tobacco, alcohol, and games of chance than does the private sector. If moonbats succeeded in shutting down businesses they don't agree with, the massive bloated bureaucracies would swiftly go broke.

Think about what ends up funding so much wasteful bureaucracy and so many pork projects.

Need a new road that nobody will use but will help the property values of a senior congressman? Hike the gas tax.

Need to build twelve new diversity museums? Make those smokers pay.

....and so on.

SK you blame me for "dodging" a question (which has nothing to do with the real issue) while failing to address the issue at all---only to insult. Yet you associate me with a troll. Typical.

TonyD95 says "When you consider what they provide, it's a bargain for the price". If a corporation could corner the market on drinking water and charge $500 per glass, that too would ultimately be a bargain. There's just something amiss in a free world that says people can just die if only the most wealthy can drink. You answer nothing Tony. Typical.

What about Big Robber Barons? Say, Soros? Or Big Stock Manipulators/Bootleggers, like the Kennedys? WTF do you think they get their money from?

Oil and pharma provide useful products. The sole accomplishment of Soros and the Kennedys is to turn food into shit. If I thought that socialism would lead to their executions, I just might come over to your side.

Damn, another body of work I will never watch again.
Another bunch of DVDs off to the thrift store.
Shooting off your mouth has consequences no matter how slight. Screw you for eternity Mr. Kerry.

Btw, that photo pretty much confirms my suspicions of Carrey's origins, suspicions I held long before any of this.

"There's just something amiss in a free world that says people can just die if only the most wealthy can drink. You answer nothing Tony. Typical.
"Posted by: andy42302 at November 11, 2009 6:29 PM"

Oh yes, the Hollywood plot of the EEEVIL rich corporations who want to KILL the very people who WORK for them and BUY their products. You obviously have no conception of how moronic that is.

I suggest you have another drink of the OVER-PRICED bottled water that LIBERALS seem to favor while you think it over.

PS: TEXICO started out with just half a dozen "roughnecks" and about a hundred investors who were PISSED OFF because no oil was discovered for eight years. Yet they broke the monopoly of Standard Oil.
Guys like you would have stopped them from drilling with lawsuits, protests and propiganda.

Andy, you're a useless left-wing tool just like Ghost of Wellstone.

The only thing that might make you different is the fact I don't know whether or not you have pressured a woman into murdering an unborn child.

That and you may troll here because you're a 'slut' as to where GoW is a 'whore'.

RE: Posted by: andy42302 at November 11, 2009 6:29 PM

Zip Code Andy continues using American business as his whipping boy with, "If a corporation could corner the market on drinking water and charge $500 per glass, that too would ultimately be a bargain. There's just something amiss in a free world that says people can just die if only the most wealthy can drink. You answer nothing Tony. Typical."

Your "drinking water" comparison is more valid than you realize......but not in the way you intended.

Exxon Mobil was just about burned at the stake for having the audacity to make $10 billion in a single quarter.....on $100 billion in sales. This is only a 10% profit - I have friends that own a couple of water ice stands that operate at a higher profit margin than that.

Consider that the oil has to be pumped out of the ground, sometimes halfway around the world, then transported, stored, refined, and then distributed as a variety of products, not just motor fuel. All of this takes a lot of very expensive dedicated infrastructure and equipment, a tremendous long-term investment, and a lot of highly skilled and well paid professional and trade labor (a lot of it is union labor in many areas). There is a huge amount of government and regulatory oversight, and the industry has a tremendous safety record considering the sheer pervasiveness and scale of the operation. Just imagine what the industry pays in insurance premiums alone for all that equipment and all those people.

The whole operation is run very effectively, with minimum inventory in an almost continuous process, in spite of the weather, shifting political winds, and economic trends.

What all this means is that we get all of the goods made from petroleum, and inexpensive energy for our homes and businesses. In addition, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, just about anywhere in the US you can pull up to the pump down at your local mini-mart and get all the motor fuel you want FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF BOTTLED WATER.

It's also less than you pay in Europe, and a lot of what you do pay is taxes. The oil comanies also pay billions in taxes in their own right, all "corporate welfare" nonsense aside.

In addition, the price of motor fuel as a percentage of average income is just about as low as it's ever been.

The oil companies do a d#mn good job, and when you look at all the factors and compare them to many other industries, they are hardly ripping us off.

I don't complain about fuel costs, and I have an 8-liter V-10 and an aircraft engine to feed. 100 octane Avgas is over $4.50 a gallon here in the shadow of the Biden mansion.....and thanks to the free market I can have as much as I want, whenever I want it.

Also here in BidenLand are AstraZeneca, Weyeth, Pfizer, and a few other "Big Pharma" companies. Don't even get me started about what it takes to bring a new drug to market.....

Pet detective and Mask are the only memorable movies I can think of Jim Carey making. Everything else I can think of that he did was just dumb and dumbererer. He hasn't gotten a dime from me in his entire career. I only buy movies used.

Ahh, typical Moonbattery. Straw man, BS arguing. The world is just so irresistably simple when you can make other's arguments for them.

Being against "capitalism without regulation" is not the same as despising capitalism. I am very pro-capitalism (what other system has given so much to so many? nothing's close), but I do not believe in Laissez Faire capitalism. I think the question is not whether or not to regulate, but what and how much. It's about balance.

Can I even exist in your simpleton world? For y'all, you're to the right of the modern Republican party, or you're Stalin.

But that's a problem, and this is great example of that. The bereft-of-reality "world view" that's espoused on this site every day is a 4 year old's with no room for measured thought.

Our country really needs a truly conservative opposition party - for that balance I was talking about.

Unfortunately, all we're getting is this nonsense.

I am pro capitalism too, however I do believe that there is a lot of greed going on in the government and in corporate America. I have been reading a great book that talks a lot about the state of America now... "Cancel Christmas," by Rocco Leonard Martino. My eyes have been opened!

Oh how I wish all of the celebrity pundants would become interested in partical physics and leave the politics alone.

SK, if you objective is to make no sense at all, you do it well.
Tony, forgive me if your moving story of the struggles of oil and pharma failed to move me to send them a donation.
Considering how no one wants to touch on Wall Street Banks or Big Insurance, I assume you're just tickled with them as well and think they should be left alone as they too are just eking by?

RE: Posted by: andy42302 at November 12, 2009 4:55 AM

KY Andy From Owensboro keeps flailing away with, "Considering how no one wants to touch on Wall Street Banks or Big Insurance, I assume you're just tickled with them as well and think they should be left alone as they too are just eking by?"

Wilmington, DE is a major banking center, and here in Bidenville we get a close-up look at that industry, too.

The banks make 2-1/2 times the profit on sales that the oil industry makes, with comparatively little in the way of capital investment, etc. Banking giant MBNA started about ten miles from where I am sitting, in an old grocery store.

What would bring the banking industry into line with the rest of the world is competition and the free market......which government regulation prevents. The taxpayer and consumer pay more because of this.

With that said, in general banks do a good job.

Wait he doesn't mean for this to apply to actors!!

Tony, your long suit is obviously not economics. You might want to touch up on history too as you might find the root cause of The Great Depression and the similarities of where we're at today. You may find that deregulation and the "personal greed" may have just been the culprit.
You seem to emphasize profit margin as the one and only factor in business. If you consider a Mom and Pop diner, they may need to make a 40% markup on a plate lunch in order to meet their overhead. Fountain drinks and coffee are often marked up several hundred percent (kinda like a slice of the pecan pie) but that's what's required in order for them to keep their doors open and make a living. Your blinders that focus only on profit margins presents a disillusioned argument.
Skeered to support poor ole Etna, BCBS, Cigna, et al?

Any ideas how to contact these Hollywood a**holes and tell them off?

Watching Andy mop the floor with wingnuts on here and then seeing them slip on their own froth and land on their ass while trying to save face is free entertainment.

Nah, Andy just likes to argue. But he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, unfortunately.

Andy frothed me up and I can tell you it was intense. He has fingers like a sailor.

It's indeed interesting that GOY has previously edited and deleted my post for "threadjacking" yet he/she/they obviously openly endorse allowing homosexual innuendos from their ilk. It's even more disturbing that he/she/they have even excepted pedophilia content.
But to rj's credit, mopping the floor with such garbage as the multiple troll(s) (and the plural is indeed questionable) of this hate site isn't even a challenge.

Andy, your pictures were blurry. Will you resend them after your do some cleanup work with PS? I am excited to see you. Is your email still the same? If not, I will see you over at 4chan later.

RE: Posted by: andy42302 at November 12, 2009 6:05 AM

Kid, in the long term, "Greed" never made anyone a dime. Competitiveness does.

"Greed" is contrary to good business, and will typically put you right OUT of business (unless you have a captive government-regulated monopoly). Just ask the unions - they know all about it.

I know this runs contrary to what your neosocialist pseudoprogressive handlers taught you, and you don't accept reality very well - but that's your cross to bear.

Spend a few years in the real world and get back to me on this......

Oh, and BTW Andy - with regard to Profit Margins, you made my point for me.

The reason that "Big Oil" can function with the relatively small profit margin that they do is because they are very efficient and have a tremendous economy of scale.

Also, for someone who questions my grasp of economics, your correlation of "Markup" to Profit Margin with regards to the small "Mom and Pop" business has a glaring, fatal flaw in it.

Wanna guess what it is?

Anyone care to point this out to Andy? Anybody?

Awww, c'mon - it's right in front of ya!!!

Tony, you seem to distance yourself from the dilemma we're in from the insurance, oh, gotta run, clean upon isle D95B.

And Tony, I have no clue as to your age, education, occupation, or experience (likewise for the multiple characters that you portray or that portray you) but I can assure you that this "kid" has a vast more experience in business, marketing, and the end results of greed than you give me credit for. I'd surmise that my years of experience exceeds you years of existence. But that's just a hunch.

Posted by: andy42302 at November 12, 2009 5:45 PM

Condescending socialist asshole is what you are. If you have so much experience with economics then tell me why do you subscribe to Obamanomics? Simple economics will show that what your people are doing will bring this economy down. Tell me smart guy, how would you go about sparking the job market. What would you do to create jobs Mr. condescending socialist? I would be interested in hearing you solution.

Its easy for this jerk to trash capatalism while suckering people into seeing his pieces of celulous crap

RE: Posted by: andy42302 at November 12, 2009 5:45 PM

Zip Code Andy "surmises": ".....I'd surmise that my years of experience exceeds you years of existence. But that's just a hunch."

No fool like an old fool, Andy - and it means your immaturity and ignorance are now absolutely inexcuseable.

You're also frequently incomprehensible, such as "....clean upon isle D95B."

"Clean......upon.... isle......D95B"

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, G?

Obviously, you are "upon" an "isle" in the middle of....."de nile"...you old misguided neosocialist liberal jackass.

Dave, I have no magic wan that will just wish away the destruction of the Bush/GOP era.
There seems to be a belief here that the answer to problems is to say "no". As Tony says, the banking situation is just fine. He continues to run from commenting on health care. I guess you think that's just fine the way it is too.