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The Unfinished March and Movement, (Part One)
WorldNews Guest Writer Beverly Darling.
| Good Gawd. I hope she's not related to Dan!... Matter of fact, reading through this, I'm sure she's not... |
If the U.S. government and its people want to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., they should act on his dream of a Poor Peoples March and Movement on Washington, DC for jobs, economic equality, and the redistribution of Pentagon wealth and resources that should be given to the oppressed and unfortunate.
| Any particular reason for that, other than that Beverly would like to be able to hand out somebody else's property as her own largesse? |
Since militarism is built into the fabric of the American society, five Amendments should, without delay, be ratified to the U.S. Constitution.
| Amendments require the agreement of two thirds of the states. Merely saying that they "should, without delay" be ratified, even before being drafted, is mere vapor. What if the people of the several states don't feel like it? What if they're presented but turned down? What will Beverly do then? Rush out into the street waving a pitchfork? Or will she shut her pie hole and acknowledge that her demands are stoopid? |
Amendment 28 would consist of full-employment for those wanting to work and a minimum wage of $10.50 and hour-adjusted each year in accordance with inflation.
| That makes no economic sense at all, despite the fact that government periodically resets the minimum wage, and always higher. It hurts workers because to remain viable each employee must produce $10.50 an hour of value to the company, plus profit, or the employer will have to let him/her/it go. That results in earnings per hour of $0.00 for the terminated employee. Every time the minimum wage is raised, minimally productive jobs that is, starter jobs and part-time jobs disappear. Ask any shoeshine boy. Furthermore, the jobs that barely make expenses, typical of a startup small business, find themselves not quite making expenses, which causes them to go under. People like Beverly like to exhibit their generosity, rather than their good sense. |
Universal and quality health care coverage-similar to what government officials have-should belong to every citizen and would be the 29th Amendment.
| This, of course, comes absolutely free of charge. There's no requirement for extensive changes in the infrastructure of the health care industry and no need to dramatically raise taxes. |
Affordable housing for each family, without the bondage of debt, would be the 30th Amendment.
| Yeah. This also comes free. Pay no attention to anybody who tells you that housing has a per-square-foot cost that's been going up steadily and that there's only so much usable land now constrained by people live Beverly, who invented "smart growth." It'd be just wonderful if the gummint gave everybody a house. I want mine to be nicer than Beverly's, though. And nicer than yours, too. |
Amendment 31 would consist of a true democratic process before the U.S. commits itself to war. The nation, as a whole, must vote with a yearly plebiscite to renew or discontinue the war effort thus keeping the military-corporate elite accountable.
| What if they gave a war and nobody voted against it? Wars are usually conducted for rational reasons of national policy. The fact that you don't like war in general really doesn't govern what the rest of the body politick thinks. We have a republic, in which representatives are elected to consider the national interest and to set its program of action. The president uses the military, the State Department, the CIA, and whatever other tools might be available, to pursue that policy. If people are going to vote on the policy, they should have to take a quiz on what the policy actually is and what steps have been taken to achieve it. |
The 32nd Amendment would place a moratorium on government spending for war and the initiating of any new conflicts, while recognizing every Americans right to follow their conscience-without punishment-including military duty during wartime...
(In Part II, I will discuss the numerous ways that the American Society can be reordered.)
| I can hardly wait. Wonder which junior college has her as a sophomore? |
Balance of this communist kak at the link.
Posted by: Creck Ulagum6581 2006-01-25 |
