Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
05.16.2020
Transform, Part I
There is no going back to the way things used to
be. We have to move forward and transform. The good old days were not that
great to begin with, and there are better days ahead of us if we can muster the
political will to make it happen.
Our so called “way of life” left to many people on
the fringes, outside the margins, it denying to many of us, the full franchise
of citizenship.
We had the greatest economy in the world, with the
largest consumer base, and we acted like we were in a perpetual state of
scarcity.
We acted like we could not afford to educate our
people, allow us all to vote, provide for everyone’s basic health care, and
ensure that everyone is fed, housed and clothed.
It was ridiculous, and we have arrived at the most
absurd outcome when COVID-19 broke down that fragile system.
We need a radical transformation of society, and
the economic engine that drive it.
Listen to me now; if anyone says that we cannot
afford the work that needs to happen, politely inform them that they are
ignorant.
Let them know that we can pay for the emergency
relief funds that were just passed simply by undoing the Trump tax cuts. We can
pay for the next round by undoing the George W. Bush tax cuts, bringing us back
to the rate of taxation that we had under Bill Clinton, when the economy was
booming and we were paying down the National debt.
We can go deeper than that.
We need to put tens of millions of people back to
work, rebuilding our roads and bridges and a network of High Speed rail.
We need to bring textiles and other manufacturing
back to the United States that we will never be dependent on our strategic
adversaries for the supplies we need in an emergency.
We need universal health care, public education
through college, we need an army of engineers to reinvent America, and no one
can be left behind.
We need to transform; and we can do it. We need to
start now.
We need a standard of living that allows one parent
to remain at home raising their kids, dad or mom, it does not matter but we
need to reduce the number of bodies on the manufacturing floors, in the
offices, in the bars and restaurants.
We need small classroom that allow teachers to
teach and provide for their safety as well as their students, we need to put
those teachers to work and raise a generation of Americans who are critical
thinkers, problems solvers and forward looking.
We need that green new deal.
We need a new agronomy.
We need to transform; we can do it. If we stand up
and exercise our rights as citizens, we can vote in the women and men that will
make it happen.
Listen!
There is a division in America, there are people
who do not want change. Those people are telling you straight to your face that
you should be willing to die for their lifestyle, go to work, get sick and die.
These people are so ignorant that they believe they should throw away their
lives as well, and the lives of their parents, the lives of their children.
They have been conditioned to view their self worth
as inextricably linked to their consumer habits. They think of themselves as
disposable, garbage, trash, unworthy of an education, unworthy of being cared
for, whose value is linked to how much gasoline they burn, and corn syrup they
eat, how much meet they can throw on the grill.
This has to change, we have to make the change
happen.
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