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

Living wages stimulate the economy not Wall Street bailouts.

The only thing the two-trillion dollar stimulus bill is going to stimulate is a round of inflation as the Wall Street monopolists raise prices to rake in profits as quick as they can.


A real stimulus bill would have funded a National Public Health Care System which would have created over twelve-million new jobs and the money would have circulated through society while providing the American people with free health care which would have been another stimulus to the economy since people would be spending so much more of their hard earned money to meet their living expenses instead of paying for health insurance... again, this money would then prime the economic pump some more.


Where should this two-trillion dollars come from? It should come from ending this insane militarism and these dirty wars... another form of government spending that does about as much good as pissing away the wealth of the Nation while stimulating inflation, too.


We need to face the reality that these Wall Street bribed politicians in Washington aren’t capable of ever making any decision that benefits people and society... their one and only concern is Wall Street’s profits... and Trump admits this every time he opens his mouth... the only thing he cares about is that Wall Street ticker-tape. Trump cares more about the health of Boeing and Carnival Cruises than he does the health of the American people... if this were not true the checks would have already been mailed out to us... and they wouldn’t be a miserly one time deal since what American working class families need, and are entitled to, is $2,000.00 a month for each adult and $100.00 a month for each child in the family.


It’s because of the screwed up priorities of this Wall Street government that there is a shortage of ventilators but no shortage of bullets and bombs. And it’s because of these screwed up priorities that we are going to end up with a stimulus package which only stimulates inflation instead of the economy.