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59feel as though they will take care of them by presenting them with upliftingadvertisements and promises. People then seek Countrywide, receive a loanand later find out the interest rates are off the charts and they can no longerafford it. At this point, Countrywide then goes on <strong>to</strong> seize the person’sproperty and leaves them with nothing. This supports Reich’s statementbecause we are allowing companies like Countrywide <strong>to</strong> act like they careabout providing homes <strong>to</strong> everyone when in reality they just want you <strong>to</strong> fallin<strong>to</strong> their trap so that they can make as much profit as possible from you. Itis a very unfair and undemocratic process, that Moore and Reich wouldagree needs <strong>to</strong> be reformed.Both Professor Robert B. Reich and Direc<strong>to</strong>r Michael Moore would agree that<strong>to</strong> reform this system Americans would need <strong>to</strong> stand up and remindcorporate leaders and their political representatives, that in our democraticform of government the people are in charge and the people make theultimate decisions on what policies and regulations are implemented. Reichshows his support for this idea when he says:Citizens living in democratic nations aren’t similarly constrained [asnon-democratic nations]. They have the ability <strong>to</strong> alter the rules of thegame so that the cost of society need not be so great. And yet, we’veincreasingly left those responsibilities <strong>to</strong> the private sec<strong>to</strong>r- <strong>to</strong> thecompanies themselves and their squadrons of lobbyists and publicrelations experts- pretending as if some inherent morality or corporate

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