Busy night tonight; phone has been ringing off
the hook with calls from people wanting to know what happened at this
evening's National Steering Committee of the Justice Party meeting...
same old crap working people are always subjected to by
these well-heeled politicians. This is my post which explains things. I
got all kinds of calls like this one which I posted my response to in
the Justice Party forums:
Wow! that was quick. Just got a call
from Sally Robbins in Superior, Wisconsin who has, like a lot of people,
been following this discussion.
http://justiceparty.websitetoolbox.com/post/Full-Employment-requires-more-than-repeating-the-words-quotJobs-Jobs-Jobs.quot-6149484
Sally is asking me why I am no longer a member of the Justice Party and its National Steering Committee.
Another good question.
Let's just say me and Rocky Anderson don't see eye-to-eye on where he
wants to take the Justice Party and the controversy centers around the
progressive ideas I have been posting and commenting on here.
Rocky Anderson for quite some time has been peddling this thinking that
the Minimum Wage figures can just be pulled from a hat for political
expediency without considering cost of living factors and apparently he
doesn't have the stomach or the moral and political courage to take on
our Wall Street enemies who reap super profits from paying workers
poverty wages.
Rocky can post the contents of our e-mail
exchanges on this issue if he so chooses. I think it would make for some
pretty good transparency.
Rocky thinks it is
appropriate we should all be working for poverty wages. He has proposed
the Minimum Wage should be a miserly poverty wage of $10.00 an hour
without any connection to cost of living factors--- although he does
agree with me that the Minimum Wage should be indexed to inflation; but,
most importantly, he is opposed to making the government legislatively
responsible for maintaining full employment.
So, this evening
we had this argument out at the meeting of the National Steering
Committee--- and, wouldn't you know what happened? Us progressives lost
the battle.
I don't want to place words in Rocky Anderson's
mouth so he is welcome to come on here and explain his position in his
own words lest he accuses me of distorting his position.
If I
am wrong regarding his position on full employment and the minimum wage
at least people can read for themselves his own views--- after all, it
isn't me running for public office. If we have his position here in
writing then we have some accountability should he ever again be elected
to public office.
Fair enough?
How about it Rocky?
You have been reading this post and the comments and responses very
closely... like they say: Rocky Anderson, come on downnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!
And if Rocky Anderson wants to deal with any other problems he has with
me I would suggest he start another forum topic about any of that and I
will be happy to respond to his post/s.
But, let's try to stay
on topic here under this post--- full employment, the Minimum Wage,
cost of living and standard of living and how these dirty imperialist
wars--- including one of the very dirtiest imperialist wars Rocky
supported... that savage U.S. led N.A.T.O. war against the people of
Yugoslavia--- which, like all these dirty imperialist wars killed people
while killing our jobs.
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Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
Notice: I am no longer a member of the Justice Party or the Justice Party's National Steering Committee
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net