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re: article on rising income inequality
A lot of the rising income inequality can be blamed on the failure of the Obama Administration and the Democrats to enforce affirmative action in public works projects... especially those projects which received stimulus funding.
The Native American Indian Labor Union #12 in Bemidji Minnesota is presently suing in court to try to get affirmative action enforced on a massive construction project, the Bemidji Regional Event Center because federal, stale and local officials refused to implement and devise an affirmative action program thus denying over a hundred jobs to Native American Indian workers who are suffering 55% and more unemploymeny rates on three nearby reservations with the city of Bemidji, Minnesota having a 25% Native American Indian population suffering an 85% rate of unemployment and poverty.
The rising income inequality has a most pernicious racist age to it given institutionalized racism that is going largely unmentioned by almost everyone.
Yours in the struggle,
Alan L. Maki
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnnesota, 56763
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Socialized health care as a job creating program…
A socialized health care system based on the VA (Veteran’s), the Indian Health Service, the National Public Health Service and free community health care clinic models would be a job creating program since it would require some 30,000 community-based health care centers across the United States; thus creating well over 6 million good-paying, decent jobs and those employed would be doing useful, meaningful work... combined with a very vigorous enforcement of affirmative action in hiring this would go a long ways towards alleviating the racist poverty plaguing the inner cities of urban areas and that of Indian Reservations... a racist poverty that is the result of years of institutionalized racism.
The money for such a socialized health care program can be found by ending these dirty imperialist wars and closing down the more the 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil... of course, single-payer universal health care would also create many jobs; but, not as many as a full-fledged public health care system providing no-cost health care to the American people.
This is the health care system the American people need and what the American people want:
Create jobs and provide health care at the same time.
Yours in the struggle,
Alan
Let’s talk about the politics and economics of livelihood for a real change.
The money for such a socialized health care program can be found by ending these dirty imperialist wars and closing down the more the 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil... of course, single-payer universal health care would also create many jobs; but, not as many as a full-fledged public health care system providing no-cost health care to the American people.
This is the health care system the American people need and what the American people want:
No-fee/no-premium, comprehensive, all-inclusive, universal national public health care; publicly financed, publicly administered and publicly delivered.If anyone doubts this is what people want, I suggest the politicians do what is done in a democracy--- hold a fair election providing the American people with ALL options… what could be more democratic?
Create jobs and provide health care at the same time.
Yours in the struggle,
Alan
Let’s talk about the politics and economics of livelihood for a real change.
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