Good ideas!

Mike, you have some good ideas, and a couple of bad ideas here.

I would include - Never vote for an incumbent.

Also, Close all 700+ military bases on foreign soil.

Also, Pay reparations to all we have harmed in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc by imposing a Reparations Tax on US citizens.

Also, How can you STILL be supporting the Democratic Party? Why are you not an Independent, or Green, or Socialist??? You know what they say about people who keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.

This is a great Never Give Up-Fight Back "To Do" list. Thanks, Michael Moore!!

"I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do" Michael Moore

The joys of Capitalism.

Overall, other than the "take over your democratic party" idea, these are all excellent ideas, many of which I (and many of you) already do... I would add, demand a re-writing of the constitution to remove the "winner take all" political system we currently have and replace it with a parliament that is more representative of the population as a whole (i.e. If the wealthy represent 1% of the population they should represent 1% of the Senate, NOT 100% of the Senate).

Furthermore, I would add that the laws that gave corporations the rights of individuals and that require them to maximize short-term profits be rewritten so that corporations may exist only to serve the public, NOT the investor class.

Hope you all are well today... all these ideas are feasible, but they will require a massive public movement. Let's get working on it!

Michael Moore, I strongly salute you sir ! Thank you for making it CRYSTAL CLEAR that WE MUST MAKE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT LISTEN. I can't tell you how much stronger I feel that you are reminding each and everyone of us to do our part. I get mercilessly attacked for reminding others that Congress must be made to listen but I'm not giving up even if they want to. I may not ever run for office but I always help a politician who sounds more receptive to win. THANK YOU MIKE ! YOU DA MAN !

Don't listen to the cynics doing their Obama trashing. Keep up the good work and continue to remain FOOL PROOF BULLET PROOF as always ! YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!

Point 1-5 is very well taken. Since 1964 the oil companies have been the recipients of an oil depletion allowance that lowers their tax rate. The only problem with the logic is that the oil being depleted is not their own, but belongs to the public. The logic of oil depletion demands that it should itself be taxed since depletion raises the cost for competitors to enter the field. We should not only repeal the oil depletion allowance and demand the payment of all taxes in arrears, we should charge an equal oil depletion tax on top of that and demand its payment as well. The funds would be used to fund the public transport proposals given and repair infrastructure.

Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."

Excellent list of things to do. Needs some tweaking but pretty good.
Michael Moore wants to energize people with these ideas to TAKE OVER their local Democratic Party apparatus, organize in numbers and demand change. If authentic progressives will not organize under one umbrella Party (and too many of them seem too 'resistance is futile,' nit-picky, lethargic or elitist to do so) then Moore's local grass roots take-over idea is the next best thing.

His other good idea is CONSTANT REGULAR CONTACT WITH CONGRESSIONAL REPS BY LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE VOICING THEIR DEMANDS ALONG WITH THREATS OF FUNDING AND RUNNING NEW PRIMARY OPPONENTS OR TAKING THEIR VOTES ELSEWHERE re their DLC infected representatives in Congress. If enough of us did that, then they would have to start listening. HERE IS THE THING FOLKS: You don't need to pay long distance fees to call your rep in Congress. Simply google: "toll free 1-800 number to Congressional switchboard." Google will come up with several current and recent numbers. Just write them down and test them one-by-one until you find a free working number. Takes about five minutes. There is no need to feel intimidated about voicing your concerns for your country and your family with these reps and political aides. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING FOR YOU--NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. If even a million people did this once or twice a week around any one issue, then we would have already solved several of the big problems confronting this country. This and low power FM radio are the two greatest technological opportunities we have and we very foolishly do not use them.

Moore's weakest idea is the media one about creating a blog (yawn). Tweeting and Facebook are also tertiary ideas. Tweeting is better suited for tactical street organization than strategy and the proof of that is the spurious and craven arrest of a tweeter by the FBI in Pittsburgh. If THOUSANDS OR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF US used tweeting in street events to evade police brutality and LRAD sound cannons (an un-Constitutional Weapon of Mass Maiming that can permanently deafen or brain damage its indiscriminate victims) the FBI wouldn't have the manpower to target enough people to stop it.

A REAL MASS MEDIA STRATEGY: WE NEED TO BLANKET EVERY MEDIUM TO LARGE CITY WITH PROGRESSIVE LOW POWER FM RADIO STATIONS TO EMULATE CORPORATE MARKET PENETRATION AND THEN COMBINE STATIONS/MESSAGES AROUND KEY ISSUES. The FCC is finally moving to make access to these stations easier at the local level and if progressives and liberals don't seize this idea--sooner or later the "Christian Right" and the outfits that air Rush Limbaugh and his ilk will. If that happens I will continuously taunt all the lazy-ass pwog whiney do-little bitches on this site who constantly piss on everything but never offer up a single solitary idea about how to improve anything until they start having blue State nightmares about Barbara Bush clones in majorette uniforms with sound cannons herding them into the Super Dome to have their gametes removed with twirling drain snakes to the amplified tune of Santa Dog by the Residents.

Message one to your Reps: Contrary to the immoral, anti-American, anti-Christian opinion of oil man T. Boone Pickens, the United States is not "entitled" to Iraq's oil because we chose to illegally invade Iraq based on false pretenses of non-existent WMD and so bloodily and expensively botched our attempt at military grand theft. We are, conversely, morally obligated to pay reparations to the people of Iraq and to help fund them in the rebuilding of the infrastructure we wantonly obliterated. Then demand a reason for why the U.S. is still in Iraq at all. Tell your rep or his or her aide that we deposed the dictator Saddam Hussein years ago and have no military purpose whatsoever for keeping 120,000 troops in Iraq. In six years there we have failed to resolve any of the underlying conflicts that sustain post-invasion violence there and still have no coherent plan to do so. We cannot afford endless wars of attrition based on seizing control of another nation's oil in hopes that the enemies we have created over there will someday, somehow just hand control of their oil fields to us. That war is already estimated to have a final cost nearing $5 Trillion dollars.

The schizophrenic nature of Michael Moore is that he makes great films but his politics leaves a lot to be desired. He urges people to call their congresspeople and demand that they back H.R. 3200 while apparently having no regrets about stabbing Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers and every decent American in this country in the back by not advocating that Americans and Congress get behind H.R. 676, which is a plan for a single payer health care system in this country.

Fix the Democratic Party, or as others have called it: "change the Democratic Party from within" is a quest for fools without a backbone like Michael Moore. It is the never ending dream scenario that has been spoken, talked about, and disguised with other ulterior motives since 1993 when it first appeared in their lexicon. It is a prescription to wander the maze of emasculation, disempowerment, and irrelevancy.

It asks us to continue to bath in stupidity as the Democrats continue to fill the vacuum vacated by the Republicans, who have moved so far to the right, they no longer speak to progressive Americans taking action in the world. In fact, we now have a two Repulican Parties, one, tilted ideologically to the extreme they smell like fascists.

Now, the New Democrat Party is well right-of-center and looks absolutely nothing like the Democratic Party of FDR. In fact, if FDR and his brethren were to visit planet Earth, they would not recognize what passes for their once nobel party. It is a party that has morphed into weakness. In our contemporary moment they are merely pawns in the corporate takeover that was completed in the first year of the Clinton Administration when Rubin (a Goldman CEO) was named by Clinton as an architect of assimilating the Democratic party into the corporate fold like the Republican long before, to do the bidding, along with the transformation of the duopoly into oligarchy. Why do you suppose they are both in the pockets of corporations - in fact - you even point this out in your film aliebet weakly and without bite.

The Democrats are weak and ineffective corporate 'yes' men & women (with very few exceptions) who rarely listen to the voice of the people. Did you forget the other assertion in your film concerning TARP, when the people overwhelminly demanded the program be halted, and as you noted so eloquently, that the Dems and Republican cut a deal behind closed doors?

If you actually believe the Democrats can be changed from within, then you are not only living in a delusional dream world, but your praxis proves your own conservatism which you propagate under the banner of a watered down tripe.

Michael, perhaps an hidden hubris now controls your success as you speak in contradictory ways while talking out both sides of your mouth.

Why not take your tripe over to the Huggington Post where the sheeple will bow down and pay homage to your fantastic ideology married to the forces you negatively critique.

We don't need any more pretenders over here, along with your little band of groupies