Entry # 4

I came across a movie today, a Michael Moore film titled Capitalism; a love story. I was appalled at the multitude of examples of corporate and government greed but the one dirty trick that peeved me the most was the fact that corporations can buy life insurance policies on their employees without there employees knowing about it and with no benefit whatsoever to the families of the deceased.What? how can that even be legal? I know I can't buy life insurance for someone else making me the beneficiary without their consent so why is it the rules are different for corporate america? Even more insulting are the names these policies are known as, " dead peasants" or "janitors insurance". Unbelievable! Would you believe there is almost no way of finding out if the company you work for has a policy on you? That's right, it is solely up to the company if they want to disclose that information. I never knew what I did not know until I ran across this film, I wonder what else I don't know. I think I will be looking into some more Michael Moore films, seems like a good place to start.