I Want Your Money
I Want Your Money
PG | 06 July 2010 (USA)
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Two versions of the American dream now stand in sharp contrast. One views the money you earned as yours and best allocated by you; the other believes that an elite in Washington knows best how to allocate your wealth. One champions the traditional American dream, which has played out millions of times through generations of Americans, of improving one's lot in life and even daring to dream and build big. The other holds that there is no end to the "good" the government can do by taking and spending other peoples' money in an ever-burgeoning list of programs. The documentary film I Want Your Money exposes the high cost in lost freedom and in lost opportunity to support a Leviathan-like bureaucratic state.

Reviews
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
smastison This is blatant Republican propaganda; heavily edited chops of Reagan and animated satire included.We get it: spending and dishonest government is a problem. What the film seems to miss, is that there's essentially no difference between the Republican and Democratic party. The last 20 years have taught us that the Republicans and Democrats are both willing to madly invade other countries, engage in irresponsible deficit spending, and impinge upon the civil liberties of the American people The criticism is good enough; but solutions are lacking in this film.The animation is entertaining, the narrator is borderline obnoxious, and the facts are obviously skewed to promote a questionable political agenda. Of course, this is what the political landscape of the United States looks like to a tee; stare long and hard America--these are your "representatives."
Mat This movie opened by illustrating in a very compelling way, why redistribution of wealth might not be the unquestioned good thing that it at first appears. It did this using animated 3D political figures in a classroom setting and quite frankly, from the very off, the animation got in the way of the message. Ten stupid animated segments later, and I was as often left scratching my head and asking what the hell they were meant to be illustrating, as I was left irritated by this pandering to the Jackass generation.Clearly this was not a remotely impartial piece, and whilst it desperately tried to demonstrate that allowing the rich to keep more of their taxes as a means of stimulating growth, it completely ignored the fact that many of the rich, such as bankers, already use their wealth to get tax breaks that the rest of us do not, to say nothing of the fact those same wealthiest few, are then the ones that the rest of the country gives YET MORE MONEY to in bailout when their out-of-control avarice manages to destroy the global economy.No doubt the American economy is desperately broken, but a one-sided piece of disinformation like this, which looks the other way when the failings of the system it espouses are mentioned, is never going to help.To climb out of the pit that the nation has slid into, everyone needs ALL of the information, not just self-serving selections of it.Oh, if I see any more christians talking about "God given this", and "thanks to god that", I think I'm gonna puke. Anyone who still believes in bronze age sky daddies should not be trusted with grown up decisions.As the saying goes, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics". This movie demonstartes how easy it is to use one-sided statistics to prove black is white if you present them right. All of that being said, it does seem fairly obvious to even the youngest child that borrowing at a rate beyond your absolute wildest hopes of repayment is a path to nowhere. No household with proportionally the same debt as the US, would ever be able to get a loan, and they'd be called crazily irresponsible for continuing to do so. So what deal with the devil is being done to lend money to the US?
Right-Wing-Man Most of the ratings here are negative, but hey, what can you do? All of the major news media are Liberal, with the exception of Fox and a few select radio shows that are still on the air waves.Socialism sucks and it doesn't work, it's been proved time and time again. This movie was made simple so the Lefties can even understand it. It illustrates the fundamental differences between the two sides. Hopefully, at some point President Hussein will stop pointing the finger at Bush and start taking responsibility for his own actions. It's comical really... what is our major problem... THE ECONOMY. What does President Hussein do? Virtually nothing except force feed us a healthcare system, so he can stamp his name on it. What a waste of time.All of our current problems started with Jimmy Carter, and then Clinton and Bush. Now we have Carter Jr./Obama. What a lying joker this guy is.Great show, and I appreciate the director of this gem. Thank you.
bigj0420 this film try's to make Reagan look like Christ or something which anyone that remembers the 80's knows is NOT true, but I will agree with what they say about Obama's socialist ways and how he has and will continue to f__k this country up. No, I'm not a republican but let's face it this country going down the crapper and both Bush AND Obama are to blame, they are pretty much the same person anyway right or at least have the same agenda. War = $ not peace. Anyway I still liked it overall you just can't forget all the bad stuff that Reagan did and talk about the good stuff, which he did also I must admit. Obama ball lickers will hate this film but who cares what they think anyway.