Right! And also remember that our once wonderful interstate highways
were built by Eisenhower's administration, on the grounds that in time
of war we would need to move tanks quickly. There is very little of
what we call Progress, that was not developed for the benefit of
Profiteers. But hey, that's the American Spirit at work. And now I'd
best get to work.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/23/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And remember that it was the automobile industry and the fossil fuel
industry that convinced us that having huge numbers of gas guzzling cars,
owned by individual people was a better way of transporting all of us than
electricl rail lines which is what we had and what were being increasingly
built before we were convinced to privatize our transportation system. Once
upon a time, there were interconnecting trolley car lines from New York City
to New England.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 10:36 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Dick Gregory
Good Wednesday morning, Miriam ET AL,
Fifty four cents of every dollar is just the amount of our tax dollars being
directly handed over to the military. But that does not begin to address
the cost of Eternal War. Just the reduction in repair of our infrastructure
costs countless dollars in laid off workers, damage to vehicles on broken
roads, time lost by people attempting to travel to and from jobs,
contaminated drinking water from old lead pipes, corrosive fallout from
industrial pollution that erodes everything it falls on, contaminated
waterways that are killing the sea life around them, and on and on. Fifty
four cents of each dollar ensures that teachers are continuing to be
underpaid, as are public medical workers and special services to the
elderly, the blind, the babies born into poverty. There will be the
assurance that our inner cities will continue to crumble and that crime will
continue. There will be the need to increase police forces to "keep the
peace" and to enforce the Law of the Oligarchy. Think of all that this
Eternal War is costing us working class Americans while we sit in long
smelly lines of traffic crammed together on roads built to handle traffic of
1950.
Think, as you pull into your crumbling side street and weave among parked
cars crowded along roads too narrow, think of those folk more fortunate than
you, the ones who are benefiting from your labor, living high on the hill
behind gates, above the smog and the noise and are unconcerned about
congestion. And as you look around at the steady decline of your
surroundings, think of how that fifty four cents of every dollar is keeping
you safe from Terror, and defending your American Way of Life.
Could it just be that we, the People who put up the fifty four cents on
every dollar, are being suckered?
And now our new Emperor has informed us that we must "trust him" to send our
sons, daughters, brothers and sisters off to protect us from Terror, with no
idea of how long they must put their lives on the line to protect our
decaying nation.
I want to wake up and find that this has all been a terrible nightmare, and
that Donald Trump is nothing more that a forgotten bathrobe hung on the
closet door.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/23/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Phyllis Bennis says that 54 cents out of every federal dollar is spent
on the military and war. The Lighthouse in NYC, used to have posters
all over the city, showing a beautiful blind girl, looking needy and
pitiful, with a plea for funds to help her and people like her. But as
time passed, the services disappeared and the Lighthouse get building
new and fancier buildings.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 9:17 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Dick Gregory
And a very warm August 22 to you Bonnie. We were just in Port
Angeles, enjoying a bit of a breeze and around 83 degrees. We worked
with a delightful woman whose vision is not holding up too well, and
whose husband has Parkinson, as does our son-in-law Don. So when I
read Abby's remarks I went to where my emotions churn. I do
understand that so many health conditions are very complex, and we are
just scratching at the edges. But the money that is raised is not
always wisely spent. Our state organization, WCB, raised large
amounts of dollars through a group that solicited old automobiles and
gave WCB about 10% of the gross profits for the use of our name. Even
once the 10% was in our account, we did not always use it wisely.
Charities waste great gooey gobs of dollars. Even so, the Pentagon
wastes more...lots, lots more. So I heard the frustration in Abby's
remarks.
Frustration that translates in my own mind as one of anger over the
lies that are often lain upon us by promoters of charities, and of
Presidents who lie that their wars will make us safer and keep us
free. But in the understaffed clinics and medical centers there are
men, women and children dying for lack of care. Even as those in your
profession and in ours.
Currently we are so over invested in military bases and weapons of
murder that the Emperor Trump could not back out without causing a
major crash, even if he wanted to...which he does not. So yes, I
watch my son-in-law slowly dying, and my sweet daughter battling
Rheumatoid Arthritis, and I must tell you, I have no faith in this
boastful, vain, self admiring Emperor. And I thought that George Bush II
was embarrassing!
We should all be frothing mad at how uncaring the government is toward
the working men and women...and even madder at the transparent lies
they shower upon us, believing that we are so easily schmoozed.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/22/17, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why isn't there a cure for a lot of things? Alzheimers? Other
dementias?
MD
is a hereditary condition. It's main victims are boys, and they
rarely live past seventeen. There are a few variants that attack
females, and the girls will often live longer than their male
counterparts. But look at how long it has taken to begin to find
counters to many cancers, which are far more common and are not as
inevitable as MD is, Abby. Perhaps that we are beginning to conquer
at least some cancers we will be able to stop the muscular
degeneration of MD as well.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even
the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!