New rules.

Our local supermarket, H.E.B., part of a huge chain, announced today that it will only be allowing one member from a family to enter its stores at the same time.

Working people are entitled to a seat at the decision-making table.

I’m going to keep re-posting 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.

A questionable democracy.

We have the right to vote.


The problem with this is that we allow our employers to select the candidates we then vote for.

A conversation with Republican Congressman Roger Willams.

I tried to have input into the Coronavirus Stimulus legislation prior to its passing. I asked Congressman Roger Williams (Republican, Texas, 25th District) if those of us on Social Security would get the $1,200.00 check like everyone else. He said, “Don’t worry you will get your check just like everyone else.”


Another lie from this Trump supporter.


In fact, millions of people, including those of us on Social Security, will have to jump through multiple hoops in hopes of getting these “stimulus checks.”

Nothing but lie after lie.


How come Republican Congressman Roger Williams just couldn’t tell me the truth in the first place when I called to talk to him?


What we need is a very simple and straight forward piece of legislation providing every adult in this country $2,000.00 a month along with providing $100.00 a month for every child in the family.
We can win this through an organized mass struggle.


Talk about this with family, friends, fellow workers; anyone who will listen.


Write letters.


Circulate petitions.


Demonstrate.


Don’t vote for anyone unless they commit to vote for this.


Members of Congress had a choice:


Provide us with a living income or try to overthrow the democratically elected governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua... members of Congress like Roger Williams voted to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to send thousands of troops and the U.S. fleet to do this dirty work instead of providing us with a living income to get us through these troubled times as the capitalist economy collapses.


I bet Congressman Roger Williams won’t have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a stimulus check to bail out his automobile dealership.

Talk about your arrogant muddle-headed upper middle class intellectual snobs...

David J. Albert who is an adjunct at Austin Community College said that since I don't have a PhD I'm not as smart as him when it comes to history and what we need in this country.

"Professor" Albert is a local Democratic Party hack pushing "vote Blue no matter who" which means he is a big Joe Biden fan... and, just like Biden "Professor" Albert is a red-baiting anti-Communist.

I suggested we should have a public debate over this idea people should be expected to, "vote Blue no matter who."

The esteemed "Professor" Albert refused to debate me.

Democracy.

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.

Democrats and the "New Deal" and another Big Lie.

Democrats would like us to believe support for Joe Biden is like support for the New Deal.


In fact, it was Democrats just like Biden who fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal.


The other problem with this thinking is that it perpetuates a great big lie.

The lie is that Roosevelt and the Democrats gave us the New Deal.


Nothing could be further from the truth.


Everything Roosevelt did was too little too late.


Roosevelt told leftists he sympathized with their demands for reforms but then, instead of voluntarily pushing these reforms through Congress, he challenged them to “make me do it,” thinking these impoverished working class leftists with very limited resources, would never be able to organize the kind of powerful mass movements to make him do it.


The Democrats never gave working people anything unless we fought for very specific solutions.
Anyone who thinks they are going to get anything from a Joe Biden Administration doesn’t know anything about historical facts or working class movements.


This “Vote blue no matter who” crap assumes Democrats will give us something in return for our votes; it never has worked that way, it won’t now and it never will.


We can’t even rely on these Democrats to bring forward a very simple piece of legislation to save working class families from the worst capitalist system collapse by bringing forward a single-issue piece of legislation that would provide every adult with $2,000.00 a month and provide every child in the family with $100.00 a month.


Big business and small business can bailout themselves; they live in and love the private banking and credit system so let them borrow the money they need from their banker friends... tax-payer dollars should be used to bail out the working class.


And make no mistake about this:


We are not asking for a handout like big business and small business are... they have contributed nothing to the wealth of the Nation...


All we are demanding is what we are owed for the wealth we have created and not been paid for.

Just keep your mouth shut and "vote Blue no matter who."

You know, I constantly get invited to all the Democratic Party FaceBook groups and their front-groups pushing all kinds of campaign gimmicks instead of real solutions to our problems.


All of a sudden when I ask why the Democrats haven’s brought forward a piece of single-issue legislation without anything else tied to it except for $2,000.00 a month for every adult and $100.00 for every child I am being blocked from these FaceBook pages I was invited to.


They wanted to show big numbers of supporters but they don’t want people to voice their opinions and concerns... just keep your mouth shut and vote blue no matter who.

We have no voice in Washington.

Something to think about:


The working class of this country has no voice to lobby for us in Washington.


Hint:

Maybe this is a big part of the reason we always end up holding the shitty end of the stick even though we create all the wealth?

Insurance premiums take a jump.

Just received notice that my Medicare Supplemental insurance went up over 20%.


So much for Trump’s great for-profit driven free-market health care scam.

The capitalist economy is collapsing.

Can any thinking person still argue that the capitalist economy is not in the process of collapsing?


But, the source of the problem is a crisis of overproduction- in other words, workers are so underpaid they can not afford to buy back what they have produced.


The coronavirus did not cause this economic collapse but was a factor in making the crash come faster and harder.

It’s going to be a long, long time before the capitalist economy “rebounds.” Many people will now suffer as Wall Street tries to place the burden of this economic crisis on the backs of the working class... but the richest of the rich will make huge profits from the misery they have created by being so greedy.


Like with the coronavirus, many of the filthy rich will suffer the consequences of the monopoly capitalist economic crisis, too; but they will not suffer like working class families even though they will cry the loudest.

NPR and China

Listened to NPR take up Steve Bannon’s line that included a racist, anti-Communist diatribe of outright lies and slander against China.


Shameful.


Disgusting.

NPR = Neo-liberal Public Relations.

Where did U.S. foreign policy go wrong towards China?

I have been listening to different Democratic Party groups and politicians...


They have joined Trump-Pompeo-Bannon-Bolton in a viciously racist anti-Communist red-baiting attack on China and the Chinese people.


This China bashing has grown to a level more severe and pernicious than that of the McCarthy era when liberal-minded, and progressive-minded, public officials employed to carry out U.S. foreign policy regarding China were hounded out of the State Department and other government posts because they told the truth that Mao’s Communist Party had the overwhelming support of the Chinese people after first helping the United States drive the Japanese imperialists from Chinese soil and then driving out the reactionary Chinese nationalists.

No country, in spite of many twists and turns and setbacks- and such massive opposition and pressure from the imperialist countries- has ever lifted so many people out of poverty and developed an advanced economy so quickly.


This scandal of driving these far-sighted public officials from government and public life involved those known as “the China Hands.”


And U.S. foreign policy towards China has been mired in a reactionary agenda ever since for over 70 years which has been detrimental to both our own people and the Chinese people and the rest of the world which is now detrimental in fighting the coronavirus as we can all see.


It is up to working people to assert our voices for developing good relations with China and the Chinese people.


We will need this friendship with China to extract ourselves from this collapsing capitalist economy.


It’s probably too late to do anything together in way of fighting this coronavirus and we are going to pay dearly for this anti-China policy.

The system is rigged against working people.

Are you willing to suffer, and see your family and friends suffer, so these billionaire Wall Street oligarchs can try to save their rotten capitalist system?


As you can see, Republicans and Democrats have no problem agreeing to bailout the Wall Street banks and huge monopolies even though they can get their own loans almost at no interest now...
These same politicians who are bailing out Wall Street, again, turn around and tell us to use our own credit cards to survive- with loan-shark interest rates of over 20% as they pretend they are going to make miserly payouts to us which only end up going into the coffers of big-business, too.

What is with all this anti-Communist China bashing... and its history?

At this time it is very important to understand the historical roots of the very chauvinistic, jingoistic, racist, right wing reactionary ideology towards China being embraced by this thoroughly corrupt Trump Administration and its Nazi-like ideologues including Steve Bannon, John Bolton and Stephen Miller.


This book, "The China Hands," is a must read for anyone who wants to really understand where this insane hatred of China, the Chinese people and their Communist Party is coming from, from 1948 to today.

And this very pernicious campaign of hate towards China, its people and their heroic socialist revolution must be understood if we are going to get our country off the path to war.


I can’t stress enough the importance of this book towards understanding and grasping what is going on and why it is going on.


The Chinese Communist Party, in spite of many problems and zigs and zags that come along with creating a new socially and economically just society after decades of brutal imperialist occupation and exploitation, has never deviated from its peaceful pursuits and attempts a good relations with everyone including us here in the United States... obviously the same can not be said for U.S. imperialism and the other centers of imperialism...


Read this book and learn about our own country’s sordid history towards China before joining our Wall Street enemies in condemning a heroic people and their accomplishments...

Censorship

There is widespread censorship taking place in this country right now.


Trump is setting the tone for this; you may have noticed the way he picks certain reporters to viciously attack and demean? This is the signal he is giving for wider censorship.

Bernie Sanders and Danish social democracy...

Bernie Sanders is big on the Danish model of social democracy, or so he says, so I wonder why he isn’t proposing the Danish scheme for paying unemployed workers here in the United States?

More about "lines"

Remember when they told us socialism resulted in long lines waiting to purchase bread?


How long of a line do you have to stand in now to get a loaf of bread, a dozen eggs and a gallon of milk?


Lines, lines, lines... do we judge a society by the length of lines at the grocery store?

How long did you have to wait in line to pay for your bread, eggs and milk... in this great America?

Thinking about "American exceptionalism."

Once again we see “American exceptionalism” being brought forward as Trump and the politicians demand we must put up with scarcity and capitalists looking to make a quick buck from our problems.


We are being told we must put up with scarcity, empty shelves and long lines because these are “unusual and unprecedented times.”


Well, stop and think and consider this:

U.S. imperialism intentionally imposes “unprecedented and unusual times” on people in other countries through all kinds of embargoes, tariffs and sanctions because they dare to challenge Wall Street’s imposed social order.


Think about all of this while you are waiting in line to purchase the Wall Street monopolies’ over-priced bread, eggs and milk now being... yikes! RATIONED?

Remembrances...

I remember when the over-paid capitalist pundits and capitalist Sooth-Sayers used to mock the socialist Soviet Union because they had a shortage of toilet paper...


Now look who is rationing toilet paper...


And we don’t even get free health care, free public education through university, a guaranteed job, a living Social Security income, affordable housing and dirt-cheap public transportation along with free child-care and long fully paid vacations at the finest resorts.

Wall Street gets the help... workers get shit.

Little help for the working class which creates the wealth that will be used to bail out the Wall Street monopolies... and working class families will spend their checks very quickly trying to survive and everything we spend for the necessities of life will go straight into the coffers of big business.


No wonder the Wall Street investment crowd loves this deal... its a two-trillion dollar profit orgy for them.


What working class families require is $2,000.00 per month for each adult plus $100.00 per month per child... nothing less approaches social and economic justice.

Instead of funding militarism and wars we should be looking for a huge peace dividend.


In fact, this two-trillion dollars will not stimulate the economy it will just result in inflation as big business raises its prices to rake in profits as quickly as possible.

The deal includes direct payments to many Americans, and aid for both large corporations and small businesses.

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Deal reached on $2-trillion coronavirus stimulus bill — largest by far in U.S. history — Los Angeles Times

The deal includes direct payments to many Americans, and aid for both large corporations and small businesses.

Living wages stimulate the economy not Wall Street bailouts.

The only thing the two-trillion dollar stimulus bill is going to stimulate is a round of inflation as the Wall Street monopolists raise prices to rake in profits as quick as they can.


A real stimulus bill would have funded a National Public Health Care System which would have created over twelve-million new jobs and the money would have circulated through society while providing the American people with free health care which would have been another stimulus to the economy since people would be spending so much more of their hard earned money to meet their living expenses instead of paying for health insurance... again, this money would then prime the economic pump some more.

Where should this two-trillion dollars come from? It should come from ending this insane militarism and these dirty wars... another form of government spending that does about as much good as pissing away the wealth of the Nation while stimulating inflation, too.


We need to face the reality that these Wall Street bribed politicians in Washington aren’t capable of ever making any decision that benefits people and society... their one and only concern is Wall Street’s profits... and Trump admits this every time he opens his mouth... the only thing he cares about is that Wall Street ticker-tape. Trump cares more about the health of Boeing and Carnival Cruises than he does the health of the American people... if this were not true the checks would have already been mailed out to us... and they wouldn’t be a miserly one time deal since what American working class families need, and are entitled to, is $2,000.00 a month for each adult and $100.00 a month for each child in the family.


It’s because of the screwed up priorities of this Wall Street government that there is a shortage of ventilators but no shortage of bullets and bombs. And it’s because of these screwed up priorities that we are going to end up with a stimulus package which only stimulates inflation instead of the economy.

There is no one who would die to save this rotten capitalist system.

What kind of morons are these people?


There is no one who would die to save this rotten capitalist system.

Fox News’ Brit Hume defended comments from Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick Tuesday night, saying it is “entirely reasonable” that elderly Americans could be fine with dying amid the coronavirus outbreak to save the U.S. economy.“The utter collapse of the country’s economy — which m...

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Fox News’ Brit Hume: It’s ‘Entirely Reasonable’ the Elderly Would Want to Die to Save Economy

Fox News’ Brit Hume defended comments from Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick Tuesday night, saying it is “entirely reasonable” that elderly Americans could be fine with dying amid the coronavirus outbreak to save the U.S. economy.“The utter collapse of the country’s economy — which m...

Act now!

Close the gaps... $2,000.00 a month for every adult and $100.00 a month for every child in the family... argue about the rest later.

Degenerate politicians

So, now we have a gaggle of the filthy rich and their over-paid hacks coming forward, none of whom have ever worked a day in their lives, telling older workers they should be volunteering to work even though they may get sick and die in order to save this great free-enterprise capitalist system.
Our response should be:


Let these morons do the work themselves.

Sema Hernandez speaks her mind beautifully.

I think Sema Hernandez, who sought the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate in Texas,  stated this beautifully... more people need to speak up similarly:





“As I said before, I’m going to tell you uncomfortable truths instead of comforting lies. How many times has politicians used nice words as they stabbed us in the back?


Decorum and civility are used to keep us in line with the patriarchal systems of oppression.

I’m more offended by the political corruption happening right before our yes, the silence and lack of accountability than by vulgar language.


My priorities are 100% in line with the oppressed. I also express the anguishing pain and anger many politicians don’t because they are not living like the rest of us. They are not impacted by poverty like the rest of us.”

A system rigged against the working class?

Kind of sounds like workers don’t have any say in anything. No worker’s party; no mass movement means no seat at the decision-making table... everything is decided by the Wall Street monopolists who are the exploiting employers. Never mind rigged elections the whole rotten system is rigged against the working class.