Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

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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...

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Capitalist selfishness; can we cure this disease? Working class consciousness is the anti-dote.

Capitalist selfishness permeates our society and even infects the working class. We see this with Obamacare. Some workers praise it because they benefit from it and don’t consider others who are left to fend for themselves.


We saw this same kind of selfishness expressed by the crooked and corrupt millionaire leaders of the Culinary Union in Nevada, lacking all class consciousness, who would deny other workers health care because they are making (and stealing) millions of dollars from managing their union’s health and welfare funds.


The only real health care reform that will benefit all working people just like public education does would be a National Public Health Care System...


Publicly funded.


Publicly administered.


Publicly delivered.


I challenge anyone to refute that this would be the best health care system for the working class.
Free health care for everyone provided through a network of neighborhood and community health care centers... just like public education.


Much better than we have now; and better than this campaign gimmick being pitched by the Bernie Sanders and his Democratic colleagues and middle class Greens being called “Medicare for All” which even if implemented maintains a market-driven for-profit health care system.


Working people need to think this through for themselves and not be so quick to grab onto these campaign gimmicks... that is all they are: gimmicks intended to trick you out of your votes getting nothing in return until you get another worthless promise come the next election.


“Medicare for All” has been used as a campaign gimmick by the Democrats since 1948... used them as a cheap trick to hoodwink workers to vote for Harry “Atom Bomber” Truman instead of the progressive Henry Wallace who had a real plan for full employment with real living wages providing the American people with things required to live a decent life like socialized health care.


And, just like with Harry “Atom Bomber” Truman... we now get this slick talk about health care reform along with the introduction of another round of anti-Communist red-baiting... from the Wall Street Democrats who are no better than Trump... and these Wall Street Democrats still deliver wars along with the Republicans even when they promise peace... another of their campaign gimmicks.