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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

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Monday, April 20, 2020

The capitalist economy was collapsing long before the coronavirus.

Trump was no surprise; he is part of Wall Street’s plan to manage (in a dictatorial authoritarian way) a collapsing capitalist economy.


The economy was collapsing long before there was a corona virus.


In fact, Wall Street is using this corona virus as an excuse for government intervention on the side of Wall Street to manage the collapsing capitalist economy.


In fact, without the current government intervention, albeit too little too late and giving money to the rich instead of the poor, this capitalist economic collapse would probably be even worse than it is now... as hard as it is for anyone to admit that Trump’s intervention may have softened the collapse in the very short term. Trump was no surprise; he is part of Wall Street’s plan to manage (in a dictatorial authoritarian way) a collapsing capitalist economy.


Trump needed an excuse for government intervention because none of the capitalist economists would have agreed to this massive government intervention in trying to prop up a capitalist economy on the skids to oblivion.


Now, what Trump is doing is totally stupid because he is stealing the wealth created by the working class and funneling even more money through this stimulus bullshit to the richest of the rich and what are these people going to do with these trillions of dollars?


There was only one way to stop this slide into an economic abyss; and this would have been to tell the truth about the capitalist economic collapse and announced that trillions of dollars were going to be transferred from the rich back to working people who produced this wealth in the first place so they could start buying the necessities of life and this would have primed the economic pump and helped prevent the kind of misery Wall Street has decided to put the people through.


We have very stupid people blinded by their greed managing this collapsing capitalist economy (people who believe government has no business managing the economy but who are so damn greedy they are going to take advantage of their power to grab even more for themselves).


The coronavirus has very little to do with what is going on with the economy... it is the excuse they use because these people in power refuse to admit their capitalist system is in big trouble and none of these people in power are competent to bring us out of this crisis... they even lack the competence to save their own rotten system.


Every single economist said we were into a recession long before anyone ever heard of the coronavirus...


And what did those in power do to try to dig us out of this economic mess?


Just what they did to try to protect us from the coronavirus...


They lied and deceived...


The economy was just fantastic.


There was nothing to worry about with the coronavirus.


Are you getting it yet?


These goddamn politicians and pundits and professors don’t give a flying fuck about you....
Yet you listen to them and you vote for them.


They have so overwhelmed you with blaming everything on the coronavirus that you can’t even think.

Consider this:

What will corporations do with six-trillion dollars of government bailout?

Think about this:

What would workers have done had each and every worker in this country received a check for $40,000.00 instead?

A question:

Is there any way for us to know what Wall Street is doing with this six-trillion dollars?

Conclusion:

We know what workers would have done with forty-thousand dollar checks... they would have spent this money for things they need to live better lives and this would really have stimulated the economy.