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...

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Trump is personally responsible for this mess we are in with this coronavirus and economic recession.

Trump is personally responsible for this mess we are in with this coronavirus and economic recession.


Trump was playing golf and holding racist hate-filled campaign rallies all the while China battled the coronavirus. He should have been building up medical supplies during this time.


There is no reason other than sheer incompetency that an industrialized country like this should have a shortage of rubber gloves, face masks and ventilators.


It was obvious to any thinking person our for-profit free market health care system wasn’t going to be able to cope with this crisis just by observing what was going on in China.


There had been plenty of time to nationalize the entire health care industry to bring it up to snuff but Trump chose not to do this because his friends would have had to sacrifice profits... as a result people now are needlessly dying.


We must never forget that Democrats, including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Andrew Yang, Amy Klobuchar, Chick Schumer and Nancy Pelosi all joined the China haters- Trump, Bannon, Pompeo, Bolton and Elliot Abrams- instead of promoting mutual cooperation so these Democrats share the blame for this mess, too.


Common sense should tell us that a National Public Health Care System should have been put in place to take care of our health care needs and served as a job creating program creating well over twelve- million jobs: you put people to work solving the problems of the people.