Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Please note I have a new phone number...

512-517-2708

Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The time has come to stop subsidizing casinos and start collecting revenue.

The Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party is going to be raising taxes left and right to raise money to finance a gaggle of boon-doggles including building the Minnesota Vikings a new football Stadium as poverty continues to rise.

We already have toll booths at state parks and even many county parks and township parks.

Why doesn't the Minnesota State Legislature build toll booths going into all of the casinos?

Just charge the same amount of money it costs to get into a Minnesota State Park.

All current budget problems and the deficit would be solved...

Plus unemployed people could be hired to staff these toll booths and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) which has so enthusiastically championed all of Governor Dayton's tax-increases would gain new members.