Ok some facts from history and how people got from point a to point b [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

we KNOW the new deal worked... so what are you planning to do to ensure the NEXT congress digs this legislation out of the freezer and uses it as a scaffold to rebuild the system?

Now first things first

All of you need to actually use the interwebs and find out what this legislation was... and why it worked.

You can, as always, start with wiki... and go from there

Or you can start here

http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/19/rockefeller_and_morgan/

Nice salon article... if a little dated

But this is the time for all of you to realize that if you want YOUR congress to go there, you need to be your own advocate

You need to contact them

You need to take to the streets

YOU NEED TO ORGANIZE

Lessons from life... you may first want to seat down with a group of friends, and come up with a list of things you want them to do... like oh living wage... worhy goal... the Warner Act has a minimum wage... does not require much to go from a to b... but you need to be organized and contact them, often and early... and be ready to do much more than just contacting the congress critter...

So they won't listen to me!

Stop the damn excuses... because these are revolutionary times... and you folks don't have a plan.. beyond talking a little revolution that is.

Listen, posting on a website is not enough...

In fact, this place has as much power to change the world as a mosquito has to be more than just a little annoying... and can easily be ignored,. So you need to get to the point where you are more than annoying. This means organzing local actions, to be effective and to break the local news... You also need to help people organize to demand things are done... this means seat ins, and all that... and it means designing them in such a way that they cannot be ignored.

Oh and whatever you do... you NEED to keep this peaceful;... not that the OTHER side will do that. This is the way women got the vote, this is the way workers got their rights, this is the way civil rights happened

Oh and when you do that... dress up to a point, and look respectable.. MLK got that and he knew his people needed to do that... there is a reason and it prevents people from ignoring you.

But talking a little revolution at this virtual coffee house is great... but will not get you anything at the end of the day... for that you need to be proactive.

and that is why I will ask once again... what the hell are you planning to do to organize to pressure the powers that be to get what you want?

That plan has to include research as to how OTHERS did that and the appropriate history.

Now my plan would look something like this

Absolute right of labor to organize

No pay of CEO beyond a 40:1 from his or her lowest paid employee

Taxation of the upper 10% at about 70% no exceptions

Any company doing any business with a US govment agency will have to have 100% US sourcing

We must leave trade organizations (GATT, CAFTA, NAFTA)

Tariffs need to come back to make it a fools errand to outsource jobs

We NEED a WPA and we need to fund it right now

We need universal health care, no questions asked

We need to nationalize mission critical industries, ranging from energy to roads to hospitals... not that this will ever happen in this country

We need to regulate the living daylights of the financial system and some aspects, such as guv'ment loans for the SBA shoudl be handled by gov'ment banks

No need for student loans, any person capable and willing of going for a college degree should be able to attend all the way to a Phd... with a government lving stipend

Now none of this comes for free... so we do need national service, sorry folks... but goodies are not for free. It can take many forms, but it is good for the country and to create a we, not a me mentality

We probably will need HIGHER taxes... hate to break this but there is no free lunch

I'd also look at refunding and reactivating the depression era housing authority that allowed the guv'ment to buy bad loans and kept people at home... this is partly what the HOPE expansion is but it is deficient

But hey... I am just a right leaning DLCer that does not understand what we need... really :sarcasm:

And I am wiling to advocate for each and every one of these points, and have done such and will continue to do such. But at this point I am a voice in the wilderness... since we are spending a lot of time talking a little revolution...