Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

Please note I have a new phone number...

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...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Debt is poverty

“Medical poverty,” “student debt poverty,” “home mortgage poverty,” “credit card poverty.”


Go to the grocery store and pay for your food with a credit card... more debt.


Debt is a poverty trap for the working class.


Workers need a raise to a real living wage, not credit cards and more debt.


Whose bright idea was it to give workers credit cards instead of the working class fighting for real living wages derived from the wealth we create?


Now we have millionaire labor leaders pushing credit cards on workers... credit cards emblazoned with union logos... what a farce.


Credit is a trap...


It is intended to make workers believe they have a higher standard of living than what they really do...


Plus, with large amounts of debt hanging over their heads...


Guess what?


Workers are afraid to fight for what they are entitled to out of fear of losing their jobs because they won’t be able to pay the debt collectors.


The solution?


America needs a real raise... a real big raise.


Now is the time to fight for this raise and to organize the unorganized during this profit orgy with the stock market going out of sight.


The money is there; it’s the wealth the working class has created... we are entitled to big raises... real living wage raises in line with the actual cost-of-living.


Real pay; no more credit cards and debt.


What is organized labor waiting for?