There needs to be some very large changes in order to get our country back on track, and keep up with the changing types of jobs, climate change, healthcare, and the cost of living to include food, fuel and Social Security.
One thing the current administration could do to help out the elderly is to undo Reagan’s taxing of Social Security followed by a cost of living increase. We need to start lowering the age eligibility for Medicare to at least to the age of 50 and eventually to Medicare for All.
We need a universal basic income (UBI) in order to save our capitalist system. People have to have money to spend for without it the capitalist system withers on the vine and dies. Taxes paid on sales should stay within the city and county to fund fire departments, law enforcement, streets, parks, among others necessities.
As usual, the republicans will scream, ‘how do we pay for treating our citizens with respect’ or ‘we can’t afford it.’ The same tired garbage they always trot out when they suddenly want to be fiscally conservative because Democrats are in office.
We start by using the money we would have been using in the Afghanistan war, tax the rich, tax the churches, and bring back the money in offshore accounts and tax them, and return the inheritance tax. We also need to tax the use of our Commons. Why should companies make millions off what belongs to all of us? Our roads, air waves, air space, among others and placed that money into an account to for the UBI.
It is time we all educate ourselves on how government works and what type of government we want or need. Then what type of people we want elected to make our government work. We also need to know what we need and be ready to fight for it, not only for us, but for our children and grandchildren. We must teach them the tools to make and keep a middle class and keep a world that is livable.
With all the disinformation out there, we have our work cut out for us.
We have an election in two months, where the hell are the building Trade Unions? Members and organizers should be touting their wages, benefits and seeking out new members and union shops. So far, I’m only hearing crickets. While the Trade Unions sit back, the UAW have been striking and winning big benefits for their members. Then there is the Teamsters, who have taken on the Holy Grail—Amazon, the corporation. Again, just crickets from the Trade Unions. Then there is the Minnesota State model—-we can win more together than we can on our own. So why are all unions not working together? Why are all unions not talking with each other? There are two months left until the election—an election that could conceivably be the death null of unions. If we lose this election to the GOP, Trump and Project 2025, our unions will be destroyed and we’ll be back to the days of trying to make ends meet as the GOP will cut our wages, benefits will be eliminated and there will be nothing we can do abou...
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