Michael Moore bemoans US wealth, poverty paradox

WASHINGTON: Michael Moore, clad in customary baseball cap, a black T-shirt, baggy trousers and white sneakers, strolled into the neo-Gothic splendour of Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall and began to preach.

We as Americans have allowed a very small group of people to be highly skilled practitioners of one of the seven deadly sins,” he told his youthful and multinational audience on Friday, “and that sin, of course, is greed.”he Oscar-winning filmmaker, author and scourge of the American Right was schooled by Roman Catholic priests and after noting that Georgetown, whose main campus is in the eponymous, wealthy district of the US capital, was founded by Jesuits he scolded the inequalities pervading the modern day United States.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was growing up in the motor city of Flint, Michigan, the rich paid high taxes, but still lived well, he said. So too did the not-so-rich who had good homes, free education and job security.He name-checked Bono on poverty, and Matt Damon on clean water for the developing world. With a US football metaphor, he scolded Obama for doing too little, too late.He added: It doesn’t have to be divided evenly  that would be impossible with 300 million people  but at least fairly.