An open letter to:
The organizers of the “Minnesota Tea Parties.”
What kind of ideas do you people have if you are afraid to debate and fear the ideas of others?
You are no better than, certainly no alternative to, Barack Obama and the pathetic Democrats and the even more corrupt and disgraced Republicans.
Come on, put your ideas up against a real socialist.
I challenge you to hold debates in everyone of the Minnesota communities where you had your big-business/Wall Street financed “Tea Parties.”
Just give me the dates and times and I will be there to debate any of you on the issues you claim to be so concerned about.
It is easy for you to rant and rave against the perverted caricature of socialism you have created without having to sit side by side with a socialist and debate the issues.
Here I am… let’s have at it… or are you afraid to put your ideas out where they can be challenged in the “public square.”
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
When I try to post this message on the Tea Bagger's blog I keep getting this message with my posting never posted:
Please Note: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
What I see in your Tea Party “movement” is:
1. racism
2. vicious anti-communism
3. warmongers
4. people sucked in by Wall Street
5. a gross distortion of “patriotism.”
I would encourage all of you to read “Citizen Tom Paine” by Howard Fast and his other historical novels on the American Revolution to get some kind of basic grounding and understanding as to what constitutes fighting for freedom, justice and liberty.
You really have a very shallow understanding of the issues.
For instance—
Why no mention of this “little” fact:
Our government is wasting trillions of dollars maintaining over 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil dotting the globe in countries where we have no business when, instead, we should be establishing 800 public health care centers spread out across the United States providing free health care for everyone.
It is easy for you all to say things like you do using assumed names and monikers… I am wondering if you would dare to say such pathetically stupid, harmful and hurtful things if you had to sign your real names and provide contact information?
I would challenge any of you to debate these issues: anytime, anyplace anywhere.
Any takers?
Bak, bak, bak, bak, baaakkk, bak, bak, bak, baaaaakkkkkkkk.
Just a bunch of chicken shit patriots.
Give me a call if you can converse intelligently.
Alan L. Maki
218-386-2432
Alan L. Maki
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell phone: 651-587-5541
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
Check out my blog:
Thoughts From Podunk
http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Plan: Free high-speed Net access across U.S.
Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Plan: Free high-speed Net access across U.S.
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The Federal Communications Commission took the first step last week in developing a comprehensive plan to give all Americans high-speed Internet access.
At a meeting in Washington, the commission put out a request for comments from the public and industry. The FCC will assemble its plan and present it to Congress by next February, as ordered in the economic stimulus package passed this year.
During the Bush administration, Democrats and consumer advocates called on the government to take a more hands-on approach to speed adoption of broadband, pointing to the higher uptake and Internet speeds available in some other countries.
"Despite the widespread recognition that high-speed Internet services are necessary, this is the first time a government agency will take a comprehensive look at the situation and recommend a course of action to remedy our rapidly declining broadband ranking," Gigi Sohn, president of advocacy group Public Knowledge, said Wednesday.
Internet service providers have stressed that freedom from regulation gives them incentive to invest. But they also could gain from government involvement. The stimulus package contained $7.2 billion in funding for broadband projects, and the development of the plan could mean there is more to come.
"Creating a climate for investment in advanced broadband networks should be Job One at the FCC," said Susanne Guyer, senior vice president for federal regulatory affairs at Verizon Communications Inc., the country's fourth-largest ISP.
Republican FCC commissioner Robert McDowell agreed that the country can do more to improve access to broadband, but pointed out that the number of broadband lines grew 17 times from 2000 to 2007.
"Let's be sure to recognize what has gone right at least as much as we analyze any shortcomings," he said in a statement.
According to instructions from Congress, the plan should address both the price and availability of broadband. When the Pew Internet and American Life Project asked households in 2007 and 2008 why they hadn't signed for broadband, those two factors ranked second and fourth, respectively. The largest factor, given by more than half, was that they didn't see the point.
Plan: Free high-speed Net access across U.S.
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The Federal Communications Commission took the first step last week in developing a comprehensive plan to give all Americans high-speed Internet access.
At a meeting in Washington, the commission put out a request for comments from the public and industry. The FCC will assemble its plan and present it to Congress by next February, as ordered in the economic stimulus package passed this year.
During the Bush administration, Democrats and consumer advocates called on the government to take a more hands-on approach to speed adoption of broadband, pointing to the higher uptake and Internet speeds available in some other countries.
"Despite the widespread recognition that high-speed Internet services are necessary, this is the first time a government agency will take a comprehensive look at the situation and recommend a course of action to remedy our rapidly declining broadband ranking," Gigi Sohn, president of advocacy group Public Knowledge, said Wednesday.
Internet service providers have stressed that freedom from regulation gives them incentive to invest. But they also could gain from government involvement. The stimulus package contained $7.2 billion in funding for broadband projects, and the development of the plan could mean there is more to come.
"Creating a climate for investment in advanced broadband networks should be Job One at the FCC," said Susanne Guyer, senior vice president for federal regulatory affairs at Verizon Communications Inc., the country's fourth-largest ISP.
Republican FCC commissioner Robert McDowell agreed that the country can do more to improve access to broadband, but pointed out that the number of broadband lines grew 17 times from 2000 to 2007.
"Let's be sure to recognize what has gone right at least as much as we analyze any shortcomings," he said in a statement.
According to instructions from Congress, the plan should address both the price and availability of broadband. When the Pew Internet and American Life Project asked households in 2007 and 2008 why they hadn't signed for broadband, those two factors ranked second and fourth, respectively. The largest factor, given by more than half, was that they didn't see the point.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
A question for Robert Borosage and Barack Obama about the Big Three bailout
The Campaign for America's Future refused to allow this question to be posted on its web site in response to an essay by Robert Borosage supporting the bailout of the Big Three:
Borosage's essay can be read here:
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008125012/hoover-time
Comment: Notice that Robert Borosage completely omits the enormous profits made by the Big Three... these profits are the wealth created by workers and stolen in the form of profits from both auto workers and society.
This tremendous wealth has not disappeared simply because Robert Borosage and Barack Obama choose not to talk about this wealth.
Question: Why has Robert Borosage and the Campaign for America's Future ducked the issue of nationalization of the auto industry?
Comment: What tax-payers finance, tax-payers should own.
Alan Maki submitted the following Letter to the Editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune which refused publication:
Why should tax-payers bailout an industry that made such enormous profits over the last 90 years; and, then, took those profits--- wealth created by workers--- and invested those profits in cheap labor markets overseas knowing full well what was going to happen?
Borosage's essay can be read here:
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008125012/hoover-time
Comment: Notice that Robert Borosage completely omits the enormous profits made by the Big Three... these profits are the wealth created by workers and stolen in the form of profits from both auto workers and society.
This tremendous wealth has not disappeared simply because Robert Borosage and Barack Obama choose not to talk about this wealth.
Question: Why has Robert Borosage and the Campaign for America's Future ducked the issue of nationalization of the auto industry?
Comment: What tax-payers finance, tax-payers should own.
Alan Maki submitted the following Letter to the Editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune which refused publication:
November 12, 2008
First Wall Street Bankers. Now the Big Three automakers. Who is coming for a handout and free lunch next? The lobbying industry?
The government is prepared to let the St. Paul Ford Twin City Assembly Plant and two-thousand jobs go down the river because there was no money to save this one plant and now tax-payers are being told, not even asked, that they will be bailing out the entire auto industry.
Obviously free enterprise has failed. Why should tax-payers bailout the Big Three when in a few months the price of each of the Big Three's stocks should be less than one-dollar a share.
Tax-payers will have the opportunity to purchase the entire automotive industry for a real bargain for far less than what the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing us.
A board consisting of all the stake-holders could be brought together and we could finally produce quality products which are environmentally friendly... not to mention affordable.
Capitalism hasn't worked; socialism will.
The Big Three cry poverty after they have taken the wealth created by North American workers and invested that wealth in quest of cheaper labor and resources overseas.
I don't believe politicians would even consider turning over one penny to these greedy corporations without even having had the opportunity to see their books... all the books, including their international operations.
What tax-payers finance, tax-payers should own.
Nationalization under public ownership is the solution to the problems of the auto industry.
The time has come to put People, Jobs and the Environment Before Corporate Profits!
Alan L. Maki
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell phone: 651-587-5541
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
Check out my blog:
Thoughts From Podunk
http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
An Alternative to the Campaign for America's Future
This blog, the Campaign for America's Socialist Future, is intended to be a socialist alternative to the Campaign for America's Future headed up by Robert Borosage.
The Campaign for America's Future is intended to provide the Democratic with a cover for continued inaction concerning the problems faced by the working class.
The Campaign for America's Future is where muddle-headed, middle class intellectuals gather to pontificate about the problems of our country behind coming up with all kinds of schemes to frame "progressive" policy directions but never offer any concrete solutions to real problems.
America's future under capitalism is very bleak as far as the plight of working people and the working class is concerned.
Politicians, Democrats and Republicans, do everything possible to cover up and conceal facts and statistics from working people.
Barack Obama and his staff were fully aware that our Nation was far into a very deep "economic downturn" much worse than your "garden variety recession" for well over a year before the Election yet Obama with held the economic facts from the American people and only began discussing the economy once information began to slip through the cracks.
Most Americans eligible to vote no longer even bother to vote anymore because they have been so marginalized by the capitalist system.
Recently I, along with dozens of other Marxists, were prohibited from posting our views on the Campaign for America's Future's web site as Obama attempts to tighten control over ideas and free expression in our country at the behest of his Wall Street handlers.
A progressive agenda requires:
1. That real solutions to the problems of working people and the working class be clearly articulated;
2. Education on the issues;
3. Organizations be initiated to work for the solution of problems;
4. Unity and mass, militant struggle on the part of working people and the working class;
5. The building of a popular people's front bringing together all of those with a variety of problems in a way that gives us the strength to stand up to Wall Street and the military-financial-industrial complex.
For our own survival there are two organizational requirements:
1. We need to develop a vast network of socialist clubs in our communities and places of employment;
2. We need to build an alternative to the Democratic Party, which is part of the "two-party trap."
The Campaign for America's Future fears the socialist alternative to capitalism and seeks to create some kind of kinder, gentler more humane form of capitalism. Quite frankly, all of our problems stem from the fact that exploitation of man-by-man is an integral part of the capitalist system. Common sense tells us that as long as the corporate drive for profits is primary to everything else we are not going to be able to solve our most basic and fundamental problems.
Capitalism is now well on its way into being mired in a never-ending, deep, economic depression from which there is no escape.
Working people on every continent have been quick to realize the severity of this economic crisis because every day of their lives is a day of crisis of one sort or another... something that the muddle-headed middle class intellectuals are not able to comprehend from their Ivory Towers and offices in Washington D.C.
On this blog we will be analyzing those muddle-headed, middle class pontifications emanating from the Campaign for America's Future in a way that projects a real progressive agenda.
The time has come to talk about the politics and economics of livelihood and the needed working class action which is not limited to the electoral arena but includes it.
The successful militant struggle and initiative of Republic Windows and Doors workers in Chicago standing up for their rights and refusing to back down until they received from their crooked, corrupt and politically and financially well connected employer what they were entitled to helps show the way.
Alan L. Maki...........The Podunk Blog
Cassandra James.....Detroit Woman
Benny Rairdon........The Struggle Ahead
Jeff Sippila............The Lunch Pail
Rita Polewski.........The Minnesota Problem
The Campaign for America's Future is intended to provide the Democratic with a cover for continued inaction concerning the problems faced by the working class.
The Campaign for America's Future is where muddle-headed, middle class intellectuals gather to pontificate about the problems of our country behind coming up with all kinds of schemes to frame "progressive" policy directions but never offer any concrete solutions to real problems.
America's future under capitalism is very bleak as far as the plight of working people and the working class is concerned.
Politicians, Democrats and Republicans, do everything possible to cover up and conceal facts and statistics from working people.
Barack Obama and his staff were fully aware that our Nation was far into a very deep "economic downturn" much worse than your "garden variety recession" for well over a year before the Election yet Obama with held the economic facts from the American people and only began discussing the economy once information began to slip through the cracks.
Most Americans eligible to vote no longer even bother to vote anymore because they have been so marginalized by the capitalist system.
Recently I, along with dozens of other Marxists, were prohibited from posting our views on the Campaign for America's Future's web site as Obama attempts to tighten control over ideas and free expression in our country at the behest of his Wall Street handlers.
A progressive agenda requires:
1. That real solutions to the problems of working people and the working class be clearly articulated;
2. Education on the issues;
3. Organizations be initiated to work for the solution of problems;
4. Unity and mass, militant struggle on the part of working people and the working class;
5. The building of a popular people's front bringing together all of those with a variety of problems in a way that gives us the strength to stand up to Wall Street and the military-financial-industrial complex.
For our own survival there are two organizational requirements:
1. We need to develop a vast network of socialist clubs in our communities and places of employment;
2. We need to build an alternative to the Democratic Party, which is part of the "two-party trap."
The Campaign for America's Future fears the socialist alternative to capitalism and seeks to create some kind of kinder, gentler more humane form of capitalism. Quite frankly, all of our problems stem from the fact that exploitation of man-by-man is an integral part of the capitalist system. Common sense tells us that as long as the corporate drive for profits is primary to everything else we are not going to be able to solve our most basic and fundamental problems.
Capitalism is now well on its way into being mired in a never-ending, deep, economic depression from which there is no escape.
Working people on every continent have been quick to realize the severity of this economic crisis because every day of their lives is a day of crisis of one sort or another... something that the muddle-headed middle class intellectuals are not able to comprehend from their Ivory Towers and offices in Washington D.C.
On this blog we will be analyzing those muddle-headed, middle class pontifications emanating from the Campaign for America's Future in a way that projects a real progressive agenda.
The time has come to talk about the politics and economics of livelihood and the needed working class action which is not limited to the electoral arena but includes it.
The successful militant struggle and initiative of Republic Windows and Doors workers in Chicago standing up for their rights and refusing to back down until they received from their crooked, corrupt and politically and financially well connected employer what they were entitled to helps show the way.
Alan L. Maki...........The Podunk Blog
Cassandra James.....Detroit Woman
Benny Rairdon........The Struggle Ahead
Jeff Sippila............The Lunch Pail
Rita Polewski.........The Minnesota Problem
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