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...

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Nothing complicated or controversial about nationalization.

People keep asking me:


“How do you nationalize an entire industry?”


This is not complicated; it’s been done successfully over and over again around the world and right here in this country... one of the best examples being the Tennessee Valley Authority building, owning, managing and operating a vast network of energy producing plants... very successfully at that.


The government just takes the industry out of private hands and investors and instructs the management to keep operating.


The only thing that changes is the government becomes the owner instead of private profiteers and Wall Street investors.


What is so complicated about this?


The entire health care industry, including the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries should be nationalized immediately with the intent to create a National Public Health Care System modeled around public education: publicly funded, publicly administered, publicly delivered.
Why is this even controversial given the complete failure and breakdown of this for-profit free market health care system that has collapsed, just like the capitalist economy itself?


The best example of why we need such remedies is that we have a crooked and corrupt president like Trump making decisions based on his own person financial investments using this health crisis to line his own pockets instead of what is best for the American people.