I wonder if Biden intends to get rid of the odious warmongering liar Elliott Abrams since all the Bush backers who supported Biden are urging him to keep Abrams on?
Abrams has to go.
Those who would have us believe the worst is behind us make a big mistake...
Or, they are intentionally trying to mislead us.
I think the solutions to our problems will be found in more working people beginning- daring- to think out loud.
We simply can’t afford to allow the employer class to continue doing our thinking for us... their “thinking” is what got us into this mess.
Something you may want to mull over while the politicians are deciding what’s good for you...
“Democracy” is a word that gets bandied about in a very superficial and bastardized manner in this country by very well paid politicians, pundits and professors alike when it comes to politics.
Consider this, though... something these “smart people” hired to do our thinking for us don’t seem to want to ponder:
What are the only two qualifications which merit one being considered a legitimate candidate for any public office in this country in which it is a boast that “We the People” are in power because we “elect” people to represent us?
The only two qualifications required for public office are thus;
1. One must have accumulated great wealth in order to have reached...
2. Fame.
Isn’t there something very perverted when the only two qualifications one must have to compete for public office are FAME and FORTUNE... which, automatically rules out anyone honest person who works for a living becoming a candidate?
Fortune and Fame are the only two qualifications required to be considered a legitimate candidate for public office here in the United States, the world’s greatest bastion of democracy according to those whose job it is to make sure no “lowly” person whose ideas are the result of experience as a worker ever gets a public hearing... especially if those views articulate the collective thinking of the working class in which one expresses the dangerous idea that only labor, with no little amount of help from Mother Nature, creates all wealth; which challenges the very bedrock of what is passed off as democracy where only those who have gained great wealth by exploiting labor and raping Mother Nature have the qualifications for public office.
If this isn’t true that only those who have achieved a level of fame based on their accumulation of tremendous wealth are credible candidates for public office, how does one explain there are no working class candidates tolerated when it comes to electoral politics in this country?
Can it possibly be, that of the tens of millions of working people in this country who comprise the overwhelming majority of the people in this country, not one single person who works for wages has ideas worthy of being considered as part of the national political discourse?
How can it possibly be that of the tens of millions of workers in this country no worker has ideas worthy of consideration?
How is it that ONLY the voices of those who have reached a certain level of fame based on the fortunes they have accumulated have ideas worthy of consideration for “We the People” to “elect” to public office?
Or, is it more of a “selection process” for us instead rather than an “election process” based on real competing ideas?
How can this be a democracy when one must qualify for public office based on wealth and fame instead of real life experience and ideas gained honestly working for a living?
It should be obvious, if not becoming obvious, to most people that capitalism is in deep social and economic crisis.
In fact, we might say the politicians fiddle with the most irrelevant as the system crumbles leaving many people in poverty while a complete moron who is unpredictable because he is a psychotic is at the helm placing us all in grave danger as he has the power to launch nuclear war.
If you aren’t scared yet you probably aren’t paying attention to what is going on.
Without a concerted militant struggle by the working class for a Basic Income Guarantee, a Minimum Wage more in line with the actual cost of living, a needed increase in monthly Social Security checks and eliminating student debt- how will working class families get the things they are entitled to from the Biden-Harris Administration in order to get through, and survive, this mess we are in?
Judging from the looks of the choices Biden and Harris are making in choosing personnel for their coming Administration, this is turning out to be another Administration with little to no sympathy or empathy for working class families who are suffering more than anyone else.
As a class, the working class, we, along with our friends and allies who will also benefit from these very modest reforms, we propose, need to gear up to fight for what we are entitled to; or, once again, Wall Street billionaires are going to prevail as they get bailed out first while we suffer only to be told after the Wall Street billionaires are bailed out that there is no money to resolve our problems.
Make no mistake, we are entitled to this relief.
This is not unfounded speculation... Joe Biden has a clear track record of putting corporate interests before the needs of working class families in spite of his opportunist campaign rhetoric to the contrary.
We need to speak out forcefully:
People before profits!
We can’t dilly-dally and procrastinate in organizing thinking the Biden-Harris Administration- given time- is going to do anything for us after the way they are quickly, without consulting working people, bringing in a bunch of crooked and corrupt Wall Street merchants of death and destruction loyal only to the Military-Financial-Industrial Complex to run the country in cahoots with the politicians in Congress who have also proven their loyalty, time and again, to Wall Street.
We obviously will not get a seat at the table where decisions are made unless we vigorously demand a voice in the decision-making process.
Democracy requires the working class to have a voice in the decision-making process.
We have suffered four long years without any voice or input in the Trump Administration which enabled Wall Street to gorge itself feeding like a bunch of gluttonous pigs at the public trough all the while claiming “big government” should not intervene to help working class families through this economic crisis exacerbated by the corona virus pandemic; we can’t endure four more years of being beat down during this economic collapse and continued coronavirus pandemic by another Administration which campaigned for our votes claiming to be on the side of working people.
Working people need this immediate relief right now without delay... any delay will result in more needless suffering and misery.
Bail out workers, not Wall Street:
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich, a tax on stock market transactions, Federal Stimulus Funds for public needs and a Peace Dividend.
We need to make our voices heard through concerted and organized action.
Sign and circulate out petition at the link below and don’t forget to validate your signature as requested in the e-mail you will receive to complete the signature process:
To those who say much more is needed in the way of reforms, we agree. We will work together with everyone struggling for peace, to defend public education, for real health care reform in the way of a National Public Health Care System, to stop foreclosures and evictions, for full employment legislation which requires the President and Congress to be responsible for attaining and maintaining full employment with real living wage jobs.
We will either have a country bent on an imperialist policy of militarism and wars or we will have a country dedicated to taking care of the needs of the people; we can’t have both.
Let’s pool our efforts and strengthen the working class in this struggle to get our families through this mess.
Together we will win.
YOU work hard.
YOU deserve real living wages.
YOU deserve free public transportation and the environment requires it.
YOU deserve free health care delivered through a National Public Health Care System.
YOU deserve free child care.
YOU deserve proper social care and a real living Social Security income in your retirement years.
YOU deserve adequate paid vacations.
YOU not only deserve all of this but YOU are entitled to all of this because WE are the WORKING CLASS...
WE create all the wealth.
WE are entitled to peace rather than having the wealth we create squandered on this senseless militarism and these dirty imperialist wars...
And like free public transportation, peace will contribute in a big way fighting climate change and global warming.
WE can have everything WE deserve and are entitled to if WE educate ourselves and use this education to fight for a better world.
WE can create a better world through a cooperative socialist commonwealth.
The choice is OURS:
Socialism or a rapidly declining standard of living.
Peace or war.
Socialism or extinction.
OUR common enemy is Wall Street not OUR fellow workers around the world.
Long ago, as World War II was ending and the United States government began developing a thoroughly reactionary aggressive imperialist foreign policy enforced through the threat of nuclear war at Wall Street’s behest in relation to the Soviet Union, the emerging new socialist China and those peoples struggling to free themselves from colonialism and imperialism, concerned and alarmed far-sighted thinkers and politicians like the progressives Elmer Benson- the former progressive socialist Governor of Minnesota, Henry Wallace and his liberal friend Democratic Senator Claude Pepper who was a ranking member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee along with the distinguished peace and civil rights activists W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois together with working class leaders including Harry Bridges, Wyndham Mortimer, Coleman Young, Claudia Jones and Ernest DeMaio who formulated and proposed an alternative agenda with the thinking that if the United States government would focus on creating a better life for our own people the increasingly aggressive and war prone United States government would not have the will, nor the capacity, to wage wars and meddle and intervene in the affairs of other countries... thus, the United States would become a voice for peace, reason, sanity committed to a foreign policy of mutual respect and cooperation with the rest of the world.
The shameful undemocratic smothering and repression of progressive voices- in and out of the United States government- towards the emerging socialist revolution in China at its early stages of the late 1940’s and early 1950’s has been all but forgotten; intentionally covered up and hidden from public view today… the case of “the China Hands” should become common knowledge if we are going to right the wrong foreign policy course of our government lest we become entangled in a disastrous new world war which could lead to a nuclear conflagration resulting in a horribly destructive nuclear winter.
These voices of sanity and reason in the past were smothered with anti-Communist repression; anti-Communism is, once again, being used in a very sinister and undemocratic way to smother progressive voices of reason for peace and cooperation among nations.
In the past, common people from all walks of life made their voices for peace known in all kinds of international peace movements including the “Ban the Bomb” movement; later the anti-Vietnam war movement and then the huge mass movements of the peoplevall over the world opposed to Bush's War in Iraq. Such movements are needed today more than ever before. People wrote letters to the editor and politicians, they petitioned governments and they marched through the streets to make their voices heard. Again, forcing our government to focus on human needs and the health of the planet will help to prevent wars and contribute to putting an end to this insane militarism which is robbing us of our jobs and the basic necessities of life ranging from education to housing and health care. We must focus on putting people to work at real living wage jobs solving the problems of the people. This is the way forward.
The voices for peace embodying sanity and reason provided good advice back then and such thinking is what we need in this country now more than ever before.
There is a universal world-wide consensus that for the common good of all people and for the health of the planet: all wars must end; that people’s needs and the health of the planet must come before corporate profits.
As a life-long activist, it is with this in mind that I have joined with others in bringing forward this very minimal and basic set of four urgently required demands intended to help working class families through this capitalist economic collapse exacerbated by this coronavirus pandemic:
Members of the Socialist Connection Action Network (Socialist C.A.N.), of which I am a member, propose an emergency action agenda for all people’s unity around these very minimal and basic demands; we seek to work with all individuals and organizations to attain these goals:
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00 an hour.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich, a tax on Wall Street transactions and profits, Federal Stimulus Funds for public needs along with a Peace Dividend.
We have launched a campaign involving petitioning and letter writing to get this movement underway and to put pressure on Congress and the President to enact this as legislation.
We need your help.
Please copy, post and distribute as widely as possible.
Contact:
Alan Maki
512-517-2708
red_finn@live.com
For twelve years Democrats and Republicans have been using the financial resources and levers of government to assist and bailout Wall Street from this mess we as working people have had no voice in nor part in creating.
Now it’s time to bailout working class families.
We are not asking for a handout since we create all the wealth with no little amount of help from Mother Nature.
Every campaign of this nature requires many people helping to educate people.
Every campaign of this nature requires “all hands on deck.”
Every campaign of this nature requires the broadest possible unity in activity and action of as many people and organizations possible.
Together, we can win.
Bail out workers, not Wall Street.
Petition to the President of the United States and members of Congress…
This time bail out workers instead of Wall Street.
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 per month increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00 per hour.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich, a tax on stock market transactions, Federal Stimulus Funds for public needs and a Peace Dividend.
Millions of people are suffering because of this economic crisis that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
We urge you to act now without delay.
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Bail out workers, not Wall Street:
Judging from the looks of the choices Biden and Harris are making in choosing personnel for their coming Administration, this is turning out to be another Administration with little to no sympathy or empathy for working class families who are suffering more than anyone else.
As a class, the working class, we, along with our friends and allies who will also benefit from these very modest reforms, we propose, need to gear up to fight for what we are entitled to; or, once again, Wall Street billionaires are going to prevail as they get bailed out first while we suffer only to be told after the Wall Street billionaires are bailed out that there is no money to resolve our problems.
Make no mistake, we are entitled to this relief because we have created the wealth.
This is not unfounded speculation... Joe Biden has a clear track record of putting corporate interests before the needs of working class families in spite of his opportunist campaign rhetoric to the contrary.
We need to speak out forcefully:
People before profits!
We can’t dilly-dally and procrastinate in organizing thinking the Biden-Harris Administration- given time- is going to do anything for us after the way they are quickly, without consulting working people, bringing in a bunch of crooked and corrupt Wall Street merchants of death and destruction loyal only to the Military-Financial-Industrial Complex to run the country in cahoots with the politicians in Congress who have also proven their loyalty, time and again, to Wall Street.
We obviously will not get a seat at the table where decisions are made unless we vigorously demand a voice in the decision-making process.
Democracy requires the working class to have a voice in the decision-making process.
We have suffered four long years without any voice or input in the Trump Administration which enabled Wall Street to gorge itself feeding like a bunch of gluttonous pigs at the public trough all the while claiming “big government” should not intervene to help working class families through this economic crisis exacerbated by the corona virus pandemic; we can’t endure four more years of being beat down during this economic collapse and continued coronavirus pandemic by another Administration which campaigned for our votes claiming to be on the side of working people.
Working people need this immediate relief right now without delay... any delay will result in more needless suffering and misery.
Bail out workers, not Wall Street:
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00 an hour.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich, a tax on stock market transactions, Federal Stimulus Funds for public needs and a Peace Dividend.
We need to make our voices heard through concerted and organized action.
Sign and circulate our petition at the link below and don’t forget to validate your signature as requested in the e-mail you will receive to complete the signature process:
To those who say much more is needed in the way of reforms, we agree. We will work together with everyone struggling for peace, to defend public education, for real health care reform in the way of a National Public Health Care System, to stop foreclosures and evictions, for full employment legislation which requires the President and Congress to be responsible for attaining and maintaining full employment with real living wage jobs.
We will either have a country bent on an imperialist policy of militarism and wars or we will have a country dedicated to taking care of the needs of the people; we can’t have both.
Let’s pool our efforts and strengthen the working class in this struggle to get our families through this mess.
Together we will win.
I present this for discussion and your consideration:
Long ago, as World War II was ending and the United States government began developing a thoroughly reactionary aggressive imperialist foreign policy enforced through the threat of nuclear war at Wall Street’s behest in relation to the Soviet Union, the emerging new socialist China and those peoples struggling to free themselves from colonialism and imperialism, far-sighted thinkers and politicians like the progressives Elmer Benson- the former progressive Governor of Minnesota, Henry Wallace and his liberal friend Democratic Senator Claude Pepper who was a ranking member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee along with the distinguished peace and civil rights activists W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois together with working class leaders including Harry Bridges, Wyndham Mortimer, Coleman Young, Claudia Jones and Ernest DeMaio who formulated and proposed an alternative agenda with the thinking that if the United States government would focus on creating a better life for our own people the increasingly aggressive and war prone government would not have the will, nor the capacity, to wage wars and meddle and intervene in the affairs of other countries... thus, the United States would become a voice for peace and mutual respect and cooperation with the rest of the world.
The shameful undemocratic smothering and repression of progressive voices- in and out of the United States government- towards the emerging socialist revolution in China at its early stages of the late 1940’s and early 1950’s has been all but forgotten; intentionally covered up and hidden from public view today… the case of “the China Hands” should become common knowledge if we are going to right the wrong foreign policy course of our government lest we become entangled in a disastorous new world war which could lead to a nuclear conflagration resulting in a horribly destructive nuclear winter.
These voices of sanity and reason in the past were smothered with anti-Communist repression; anti-Communism is, once again, being used in a very sinister and undemocratic way to smother progressive voices of reason for peace and cooperation among nations.
In the past, common people from all walks of life made their voices for peace known in all kinds of international peace movements including the “Ban the Bomb” movement. Such movements are needed today more than ever before. People wrote letters to the editor and politicians, they petitioned governments and they marched through the streets to make their voices heard. Again, forcing our government to focus on human needs and the health of the planet will help to prevent wars and contribute to putting an end to this insane militarism which is robbing us of our jobs and the basic necessities of life ranging from education to housing and health care. We must focus on putting people to work at real living wage jobs solving the problems of the people. This is the way forward.
The voices for peace embodying sanity and reason provided good advice back then and such thinking is what we need in this country now more than ever before.
There is a universal world-wide consensus that for the common good of all people and for the health of the planet: all wars must end; that people’s needs and the health of the planet must come before corporate profits.
As a life-long activist, is with this in mind that I have joined with others in bringing forward this very minimal and basic set of four urgently required demands intended to help working class families through this capitalist economic collapse exacerbated by this coronavirus pandemic:
Members of the Socialist Connection Action Network (Socialist C.A.N.), of which I am a member, propose an emergency action agenda for all people’s unity around these very minimal and basic demands; we seek to work with all individuals and organizations to attain these goals:
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00 an hour.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich, a tax on Wall Street transactions and profits, Federal Stimulus Funding for human needs along with a Peace Dividend.
These reforms will stimulate the economy by putting money in the pockets of working people who will spend this money for the things they need which will restart manufacturing thus putting people back to work.
These reforms should be universal... for everyone; the wealthy who don't need such help would pay back the money and benefits they receive through taxation so those who need the help would get it and those who don't require such help would not get it.
We have launched a campaign involving petitioning and letter writing to get this movement underway and to put pressure on Congress and the President to enact this as legislation.
We need your help.
Please copy, post and distribute as widely as possible.
Contact:
Alan Maki
512-517-2708
red_finn@live.com
For twelve years Democrats and Republicans have been using the financial resources and levers of government to assist and bailout Wall Street from this mess we as working people have had no voice in nor part in creating.
Now it’s time to bailout working class families.
We are not asking for a handout since we create all the wealth with no little amount of help from Mother Nature.
Every campaign of this nature requires many people helping to educate people.
Every campaign of this nature requires “all hands on deck.”
Every campaign of this nature requires the broadest possible unity in activity and action of as many people and organizations possible.
Together, we can win.
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