The Inside Job of Corruption

The film Inside Job was a little confusing due to the fact that I knew very little about politics or really anything about the economical crisis that the nation was in. The recession that had swept this nation had affected nearly every home, including mine. Being kept in the dark about the seriousness of the situation, my parents had done their best with what they had been given, only cutting back on what was not needed, such as eating out or buying new clothes. The horror of the hand-me-down phase in my angst teen years appeared to rock my world, until I realized that many of my friends were in the same situation. I learned back in high school that the US has been in a recession for quite some time, and that we have over a 16 trillion dollar debt, something that won't be paid back in our lifetime, if ever. The Inside Job provided an outlook that still shocked me: we're in far deeper than I had thought. The lying scoundrels sitting in the White House were ready to take all that was "theirs," or so Charles Ferguson claimed, the film's director. Whether or not that this is true, or if they want to actually try to help get the nation out of its debt, is not the way that Ferguson wanted viewers to see it as. Ferguson clearly made the goverment as the evil devil that is controlling our lives. We, as middle to lower class citizens, have no say as to what is going on, other than the fact that we vote for these monsters into office. They are the ones profitting off of our misfortunes. We give more and more money in the form of taxes, trying to survive in this cruel world, and these government officials plunder it. They then take it all and do whatever they want with it, becoming some of the richest men alive. It makes me sick to think that our federal government is so corrupted.

This movie is claimed to be used to educate us, if not also infuriating us into action.