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...

Monday, April 6, 2020

Democrats and the "New Deal" and another Big Lie.

Democrats would like us to believe support for Joe Biden is like support for the New Deal.


In fact, it was Democrats just like Biden who fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal.


The other problem with this thinking is that it perpetuates a great big lie.


The lie is that Roosevelt and the Democrats gave us the New Deal.


Nothing could be further from the truth.


Everything Roosevelt did was too little too late.


Roosevelt told leftists he sympathized with their demands for reforms but then, instead of voluntarily pushing these reforms through Congress, he challenged them to “make me do it,” thinking these impoverished working class leftists with very limited resources, would never be able to organize the kind of powerful mass movements to make him do it.


The Democrats never gave working people anything unless we fought for very specific solutions.
Anyone who thinks they are going to get anything from a Joe Biden Administration doesn’t know anything about historical facts or working class movements.


This “Vote blue no matter who” crap assumes Democrats will give us something in return for our votes; it never has worked that way, it won’t now and it never will.


We can’t even rely on these Democrats to bring forward a very simple piece of legislation to save working class families from the worst capitalist system collapse by bringing forward a single-issue piece of legislation that would provide every adult with $2,000.00 a month and provide every child in the family with $100.00 a month.


Big business and small business can bailout themselves; they live in and love the private banking and credit system so let them borrow the money they need from their banker friends... tax-payer dollars should be used to bail out the working class.


And make no mistake about this:


We are not asking for a handout like big business and small business are... they have contributed nothing to the wealth of the Nation...


All we are demanding is what we are owed for the wealth we have created and not been paid for.