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Instead Of The Government Spending $400,000 On Immunisation, We May Get Far Better Health Outcomes If We Spend $100,000 In Some Other Way, On Nutrition For Example...when You Have An Expenditure On Getting Your Community Healthier, Then The Resistance To Many Childhood Diseases Is Stronger.

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Michael Moore

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Instead Of The Government Spending $400,000 On Immunisation, We May Get Far Better Health Outcomes If We Spend $100,000 In Some Other Way, On Nutrition For Example...when You Have An Expenditure On Getting Your Community Healthier, Then The Resistance To Many Childhood Diseases Is Stronger.

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I Get Called 'controversial' All The Time.

No 22-year-old Should Have To Enter The Real World Already In A Virtual Debtors' Prison.

It Turns Out Cuba Has This Incredible Healthcare System For A Very Poor Country.

I Don't Want To Involve Myself In The Various Arguments About Why Israel Was Created . . . . . I Want To Deal With The Situation At Hand Which Is The Ongoing Killing On Both Sides. . . . . . . It's True That There's Also Much Oppression Of Palestinians In Arab Countries, Where Palestinians Aren't Allowed To Vote Or Own Property And Are Treated As Second Class Citizens And Pawns In The Fight Against Israel. But I'm Not Going To Spend My Time On This Since There Is Isn't A Whole Lot I Can Do About It.

This Book, 'stupid White Men,' Has Sold Now Over Four Million Copies Worldwide. Probably About Half Of That May Be In The U.s. And Canada, And The Rest, Overseas.

I've Been Encouraging Documentary Filmmakers To Use More And More Humor, And They're Loath To Do That Because They Think If It's A Documentary It Has To Be Deadly Serious - It Has To Be Like Medicine That You're Supposed To Take. And I Think It's What Keeps The Mass Audience From Going To Documentaries.

You Know He's [george W. Bush] There Illegally. You Know He Was Not Elected Either By The Popular Vote Or By The Vote In Florida.

You Share Things With People And I Think Information, And Art, And Ideas Should Be Shared.

The Money To Fund Great Things And Innovations And Programs Is Gone In Our Lifetime; It's All Gone To Debt. So We Won't Be Able To Solve Global Warming Or Have The Transportation That We Needed For The 21st Century. We Should Be Supporting People With Great Ideas, But It's Gone, And Now It's Gotta Be Paid Back With Interest To Banks In China.

I Say Stupid White Men Are Always The Problem. That's Never Going To Change.

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