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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

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Thursday, February 6, 2020

A thought about reforms.

I constantly get apologists for the Democrats lecturing me about how we can’t enact broad sweeping universal reforms, or even very modestly reform existing legislation like Social Security.


They tell me we should be satisfied with “baby steps” and “incremental reforms.”


Here is my answer to this self-serving crap:


If these Democrats really believed in “incremental reforms” and “baby steps” they would have been making sure the Minimum Wage and Social Security was kept in line with the actual cost-of-living ever since these pieces of legislation were enacted.


Instead, these Democrats dumped Claude Pepper the most forceful advocate for maintaining the Minimum Wage and Social Security as real living incomes and they helped destroy the plans for Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” by supporting the war in Vietnam... then they stabbed George McGovern in the back and supported Nixon.


And now these Democrats counsel us to be “patient” that if we elect them they will take “baby steps” and implement “incremental reforms.”


Now that they want our votes, just like Obama did, they claim they are for everything that will solve our problems. Are we supposed to believe them this time around? Why?


Somebody tell me why we are supposed to believe any of these Democrats who are trying to convince us that they are going to work for us.