Saturday, June 4, 2011

Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future wrote me asking for suggestions for their upcoming conference...

Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future wrote me asking for suggestions for their upcoming conference...

by Alan L. Maki on Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 8:18am
This was my response---

On health care reform, I advised Robert Borosage:

The only solution to this entire health care mess is a National Public Health Care System-

* No fees/no premiums.

* Comprehensive, all inclusive; pre-natal to burial; including eyes, dental, mental.

* Universal- everyone in; nobody out.

* Publicly Funded and Financed.

* Publicly Administered.

* Publicly Delivered.

Pay for a National Public Health Care System by ending these dirty wars; taxing the rich; and, a pay-roll tax just like Social Security.

I asked Robert Borosage:

Why should we have to go through all of this incremental crap--- when Wall Street wants trillions of our tax dollars they insist on "getting it now?"

I told Robert Borosage:

The time has come for the working class to insist on "getting real health care reform now."

I explained to Robert Borosage:

Here we are living in the wealthiest country in the world with a President and Congress that think nothing of squandering our tax-dollars and the wealth of our Nation on dirty imperialist wars and millions of people lack access to health care with Obama delivering the "Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry Bail-out and Profit Maximization Act of 2010" and there are still liberals, progressives and leftists supporting this Wall Street health insurance salesman posing as a President.

For a real progressive alternative agenda, I proposed to Robert Borosage that the Campaign for America's Future discuss this:

A program for real change...

* Peace--- end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and shutdown the 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil. 

* A National Public Health Care System - ten million new jobs. 

* A National Public Child Care System - three to five million new jobs. 

* Works Progress Administration - three million new jobs. 

* Civilian Conservation Corps - two million new jobs. 

* Tax the hell out of the rich and cut the military budget by ending the wars to pay for it all which will create full employment. 

* Enforce Affirmative Action; end discrimination. 

* Raise the minimum wage to a real living wage 

* What tax-payers subsidize in the way of businesses, tax-payers should own and reap the profits from. 

* Moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. 

* Defend democracy by defending workers' rights including the right to collective bargaining for improving the lives and livelihoods of working people. 

* Roll-back and freeze the price of food, electricity, gas and heating fuels; not wages, benefits or pensions. 

* Wall Street is our enemy.

How is Barack Obama's Wall Street war economy working for you? 

Let's talk about the politics and economics of livelihood for a real change.

I suggested to Robert Borosage he spend more time reading my blog instead of paying attention to all the studies from the "think-tanks" funded by Wall Street philanthropists who profit from the wars, the health care mess and all of our other problems:


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Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
 
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763

Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-5541

Primary E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net

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