Michael Moore has a message for Republicans: just because he's wealthy doesn't mean he can't stand with those angry with America's economic system.
The documentary filmmaker, who has been active and vocal in the Occupy Wall Street movement since it began in September, posted on his blog on Thursday a response to conservatives who criticize the seeming juxtaposition between his personal wealth and his involvement in a movement that seeks to balance fiscal inequity in the United States.
Noting that he was once an unemployed striver in Flint, Michigan, Moore laid out a basic set of guidelines that he has followed since the success of his film "Roger & Me" in 1989. Included were paying his full taxes, give a large chunk of his money to charity and avoid owning stock on the principle that he'd make money from work, not on the fiscal wrangling of Wall Street that hurt so many members of the middle class.
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