Fight the War On Greed, and You Could Be In Our Next Video
Robert Greenwald
Henry Kravis is a billionaire, the 57th richest person in America. He acquired this wealth by purchasing public companies with borrowed money. To pay off the debt, he cuts benefits at the company, sells its assets, and lays off employees.
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This get-rich-quick scheme made him $450 million last year. Meanwhile, his tax rate is lower than teachers, firemen, nurses, even his own cleaning staff!
Yet everyday we hear another story, we live another experience, we see another example of the horrific economic pain our country is being devastated by.
It's time all of us started a WAR ON GREED.
Watch the video: http://warongreed.org/?utm_source=rgemail
Use this video as a funny, satirical, and poignant way of raising the issue with your friends, family and colleagues. Then start up your creative juices and figure out what *you* would do if you lived in one of Kravis' mansions for a day during the holidays. Would you feed the homeless? Throw a huge party? Sell everything on eBay?
Post a comment on the Brave New Films blog with your most creative use of Kravis' mansions, and you could be the star of our next video!
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/20619#comments
Yep, we'll pick the best idea and send a crew out to your home to film you challenging Henry Kravis to implement your idea. Then we'll make sure he sees it... and maybe a few reporters too. :)
Please join us in this battle. We plan to make the WAR ON GREED a key part of our work for the year ahead. With the elections in full swing, we must work to get the critical issues of economic disparity into the political dialogue as we have done with war profiteering, FOX, Wal-Mart, and more.
Always fighting,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Films team
P.S. For more on Henry Kravis and other borrow-and-buyout corporations, we've compiled some good background material here: http://warongreed.org/facts.php?utm_source=rgemail
P.P.S. Right now (11am ET), we are premiering the video outside Kravis' home on Park Avenue. Check the blog later, and we'll let you know how it goes!
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