Hollywood’s Arrogance, Hollywood’s Hypocrisy

Posted on February 24, 2009
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For years now the self-important, bloated, super rich in Hollywood have been preaching socialism to the rest of us while personally engaging in both the worst form of capitalist exploitation of the masses and a very un-socialist snobbery. I found the following on Red State:

Hollywood Extols National Healthcare While Closing Its OWN Actors Hospital and Long-Term Care Facilities

The self-aggrandizing denizens of Hollywood constantly scold Americans over a lack of national healthcare. It is the biggest failure of American society ever that there is no cradle to the grave program for free health care, they constantly tell us. And now, in keeping with these nearly universal Hollywood “principles,” to prove how Hollywood is far more moral than we lowly citizens of flyover country, and to show that they are better than the great unwashed in the backwaters of America… Hollywood is closing its nearly 90-year-old Motion Picture Fund hospital and accompanying long-term living facilities for aging actors.

Yep, dumping it. Walking away from the facilities for free healthcare for actors. Fuggedaboutit.

Sean Penn has advocated for national healthcare in the U.S. basing his interests upon his close personal friendship with the dictatorial, socialist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. The twin activists of Susan Sarandon and hubby Tim Robbins have claimed that healthcare is one of the most important issues facing the country today. Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars have been heard to lament about how healthcare is something that only the caring, you know, care about, and stuff.

I guess the examples Penn, Sarandon and Robbins so loudly and “nobly” laud, are meant for lesser mortals to follow not for the likes of their own elite! I am even willing to bet that if fatcat Michael Moore is ever in need of serious medical treatment, getting treatment in Cuba will not be a choice he’ll consider.

And now, after 87 years, Hollywood is shutting down the facilities that have given succor and care to some of the most famous actors in filmdom’s history.

Yes, with the millions upon millions of dollars in which Hollywood is awash, they are dumping their own healthcare facilities. So, with the many millions with which they could easily fund it laying untapped, why exactly should everyone else feel that the idea is as important as these actors so commonly claim it is if they even refuse pay the bills for their own kind?

How come these “concerned,” overpaid, producers of nothing more than temporary illusions, prove to be far worse than everything they claim to despise?!?!? Where is their sense of social justice, why can’t these multimilioners themselves show some of the compassion they demand of the overtaxed rest of society? Why is it that the most strident liberals are also the least compassionate when it comes to charity?!?!? Nothing but arrogant capitalists, of the worst kind, is exactly what these buffoons are!!!

Is George Clooney so hurting for cash that he can’t pay a little to the healthcare fund? Is Marlo Thomas in the poor house? Is Ed Asner or Mike Farrell standing in a bread line somewhere?

Interestingly enough, the reason they are closing the facilities is because the trust funds arranged to fund them is running out of money. Sadly, they fail to see that this troublesome situation is just like the federal government’s!

“MPTF is initiating these changes because it’s the right thing to do, but the fact is that we have no choice,” said Jeffrey Katzenberg, chair of the MPTF Foundation Board. “Although we are in good shape today, the acute-care hospital and long-term care facility are generating operating deficits that could bankrupt MPTF in a very few years. . . . If MPTF doesn’t do something now, pretty soon it won’t be able to do anything.”

Katzenberg could just as easily have been speaking of Medicare or Social Security, couldn’t he? The simple fact of the matter is that these sorts of “free” health care programs neither work in the long run, nor are “free” in any meaningful way.

Again, these self-important Hollywood types have nearly unlimited amounts of cash, yet they can’t adequately fund a “free” healthcare system for their own fellows? Then they insist that the rest of us invest in a similar system with the federal government taking the same role that failed for them?

Hypocrites.

Again, these self-important Hollywood types have nearly unlimited amounts of cash, yet they can’t adequately fund a “free” healthcare system for their own fellows? Then they insist that the rest of us invest in a similar system with the federal government taking the same role that failed for them? Obviously they take the rest of us for fools… Unfortunately, they are right!!! As long as we pay to see their their movies loaded with anti-American diatribe, as long as we give weight to their inane pronouncements as if they were coming from the mouths of higher, more intelligent, celestial beings (which clearly they are not!), then WE are nothing but fools, nothing but idiots. It is obvious Hollywood’s false gods do not believe that what is good for their elite should be also good for the rest of us. Are they so arrogant, they fail to understand that if we loose our money we might spend less to watch their movies? Or… are they lining up for an Obama bailout at yours and my expense? Hypocrites indeed!

Chaim

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One Response to “Hollywood’s Arrogance, Hollywood’s Hypocrisy”

Barbara from New York, United States on February 25th, 2009 5:56 am

Excellent post, Chaim!

Let me add a personal note, and something closer to home.

I spent the entire end of January in the hospital. A hospital that has been refused funding to expand. In the meantime at least 2 area hospitals are being threatened with closure by our borough’s politicos and NYC.

Simultaneously, thousands of dollars have been poured into housing projects around this hospital for condos, co-op and apartment complexes to draw more people to our borough.

I spent 12 of my first hours in the hospital in the E.R. Some of it in the LOBBY of the hospital on a stretcher because there was NO ROOM IN THE E.R. There were NO AVAILABLE BEDS. I was told there was a THREE-DAY WAIT for a floor. The only reason I believe I got a bed in 20 hours — is because I knew a couple of the doctors at the hospital personally (both on this hospital’s Board of Directors) and they both saw me on their way to the E.R. for their rounds. Not fair but I believe that’s why.

So my borough (and mine isn’t the only one) wants to shut down hospitals but they continue to build build build more housing for people with money to burn.

We are losing site of the PEOPLE in this country in pursuit of the dollar. Money is our new God and people be damned. Either you have or you don’t.

Hollywood is just a symptom of a much bigger problem. And its a malignant symptom of a depraved mindset.

Don’t get sick in the USA people. If you can help it…