(Please note: per suggestions I have added a few things; I welcome further suggestions and discussion)
I’m going to keep re-posting (I call this digital leafleting and you can
help leaflet [share]) this from time to time because people keep asking
if they can share it... you can share anything you want from my page:
Republicans and Democrats in Congress backed and bribed by Wall Street
are making the decisions affecting working people and working class
families without any input from us; this is in no way acceptable. We
must let them know by way of asserting ourselves that this is
unacceptable. As working people we are entitled to a seat at the
decision-making table- this is our lives we are talking about.
It
is not right or just or acceptable in any way, shape or form that only
our employers have a seat at the decision-making table.
How do we
get a seat at the decision-making table when we are arrogantly excluded
from the process by politicians who have the unmitigated gall to help
our Wall Street employers, bankers and vulture capitalists before
helping those of us who create the wealth? We need to raise so much hell
until we get a seat at the decision-making table.
Think about this:
Usually a government professing to be democratic will invite all
concerned and affected parties to fully articulate their problems
through a series of hearings held in locations convenient for many
people to attend.
Conclusion:
That this has not been done
because the wealthy in power would be embarrassed to hear that they have
been selfishly hoarding for themselves the wealth we have created and
they don’t want this very fundamental and basic injustice of the
capitalist system to be exposed lest they be forced to turn this wealth
over for the common good of all in order to prevent mass misery and
suffering of those of us who have created this wealth.
We must
never forget that it is we, the working class with no small amount of
help from Mother Nature who create ALL wealth and we must constantly
remind these politicians of this because they would rather all of this
not be publicly discussed...
Out of sight is out of mind!
As workers we must never forget this and we must assert our views and our demands for justice...
Right now at this moment of crisis with the capitalist economic system
in a state of collapse exacerbated by this coronavirus pandemic we must
insist our livelihoods and our rights be protected...
First and
foremost this requires every adult be provided by the government with
two-thousand dollars a month and every child in the family be provided
for with five-hundred dollars a month at least as long as this crisis
continues... and, by rights, justice requires this be made permanent.
Let us state in no uncertain terms that we as working people bear no
responsibility for the economic crisis or the coronavirus crisis since
we have had no seat at the decision-making table when it comes to
economic policy or health care policy and this has to change and it
needs to change now in order to avoid mass suffering and despair...
democracy and the most basic and fundamental rights require no less...
so let’s have an end to this hypocrisy of the wealthy few making all the
decisions in this country.
Any thinking person, except for the
most ethically and politically corrupt, can see and understand there is
something drastically wrong with denying the majority of the people-
those of us who create ALL the wealth- a seat at the decision-making
table.
We also need legislation to be advanced for a National Public Health Care System...
Publicly funded.
Publicly administered.
Publicly delivered...
Based on the model of public education.
We should probably be thinking in terms of building some kind of huge
massive “people’s lobby” in order for us (working people) to become
participants in the decision-making process.
We should be thinking in terms of a huge Peace Dividend to pay for it all along with a very hefty progressive tax on the rich.
As for the National Public Health Care System, the present Medicare payroll tax will more than pay for this.
Maybe we should consider a really novel idea.
Something like a “We the People” kind of government?
Perhaps we need some kind of “people’s lobby” to push this through to reality:
https://www.facebook.com/100002118322023/posts/3139513512795895/
Not that I want to be accused of inciting revolution like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson did.
