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Contents * Featured Articles Calendars of Events Communication with Our Members Opportunities Petitions Commentaries from Our Members Shankar Narayan: It’s Time to Legalize Pot Sharon
Abreu: It Is Time for Single Payer Health Care Rich
Austin: Misinformation about Health Care Reform Linda
Jansen: Netanyahu’s Phony Call for Peace Jack
Smith: Compare Our 2000 Response to Iranian’s. Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef Another Cost of Health Care Reform* State and Local Links
to the Beef Featured Advocates: Washington CAN & Sound Alliance* Transportation 2040 Plan, But No Housing 2040 Plan Nation and World Links to the Beef Why Did Workers Quit Getting their Productivity Gains?* Not Just More Jobs. We
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Restore Our American Dream More on Conservative opposition to our
American Dream Washington State’s 5 Major Needs ·
Federal
Funding for Health and Education · Substitute
a Progressive Income Tax · Replacing
Conservative Legislators Quote of the Week If we can’t discipline
ourselves, the world will do it for us.
William
Feathers
Calendar of Events
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Communication
with Our Members
To obtain a public health insurance
option, a robust cap and trade greenhouse emissions bill and other reforms, it
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Several thousand of our members can make a difference by sending the
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Opportunities
Useful
Websites: contacts, maps, community organizing tools, and more.
Access
to jillions of political cartoons.
Download
Sightline Institute’s climate policy primer ‘Cap and Trade 101’. About
Sightline.
Conduct your own home energy audit.
See all of President Obama’s
weekly (Saturday) addresses.
Petitions
Pledge
to refuse to sign the referendum which would repeal same sex couple rights.
Sign
a petition indicating what health care must provide children.
Ask
your senators whether they support a public health care option.
Three senators
ask you to sign their petition supporting a public health insurance option.
Tell your congress
members to support a public health insurance option.
Tell
your senators to support a public health insurance option.
Tell
senators Murray and Cantwell to support a public health insurance option.
Tell your congress
members to support the Safe Schools Improvement Act to penalize bullying.
Tell
your senators to vote for the hate crimes bill.
Tell
your house member to support a stronger American Clean Energy and Security Act.
Tell
your house member to support a stronger American Clean Energy and Security Act.
Tell
your senators to require EPA to disclose locations of toxic coal ash sites.
Tell
congress to ban mountain top removal coal mining.
Tell
EPA to provide science based regulation of fuels.
Tell
your house member to support immigration reform.
Tell
your senators to remove funding for unneeded airplanes from military
authorization bill.
Tell relevant house
members to protest Peru’s abuse of indigenous protesters.
Commentaries
From Our Members
Shankar Narayan: It’s Time to Legalize Pot
Published by
Your front-page article on marijuana legalization
["More are asking: Is it time to legalize pot?" June 16] certainly is
timely. However, it failed to mention important, relevant bills pending in the
Washington Legislature.
House Bill 1177, sponsored by Rep. Dave Upthegrove and
11 other representatives, would reclassify adult marijuana possession from a
misdemeanor carrying mandatory jail time to a civil infraction imposing a $100
penalty that could be paid by mail. The companion Senate Bill 5615, sponsored
by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, was voted out of committee with a bipartisan
"do pass" recommendation. Both bills are alive for the 2010 session.
The fiscal note for SB 5615 prepared by the state's
Office of Financial Management reports that its passage would save $16 million
and generate $1 million in new revenue each year. Of that, $590,000 would be
earmarked for underfunded treatment and prevention services.
When more and more Americans are questioning the
wisdom of treating marijuana use as a crime rather than a public-health issue,
we should not overlook local opportunities to enact change. Shankar
Narayan, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington legislative director
Sharon Abreu: It Is Time for Single Payer Health Care
I support single payer health care because I believe
it is the only way for all Americans to have decent health coverage and it will
cost a lot less than our current system. The majority of Americans want this system and
if we are to be truly represented it is time for Congress to approve a single
payer expanded Medicare for all system in the
Our current system is not only wasteful but it is
unethical in that insurance companies deny coverage and treatments to those who
need them and makes decisions based on their bottom line - decisions that ought
to be made by doctors and their patients. A single payer system will relieve
small businesses (and large ones) of the burden of having to provide their
employees' health coverage.
Employees will benefit by having access to better
health care. And all Americans will benefit because our health coverage will no
longer be tied to our jobs. If a company lays people off, those people will
still have their health care. It will give the American people more freedom,
allow for more creativity in our society, and protect people from losing their
health care due to layoffs. Anything less than single payer will be inadequate.
Sharon
Abreu
Rich Austin:
Misinformation about Health Care Reform
The discussion about health care reform is fraught with disinformation
and misinformation.
Take, as an example, the phrase "universal health care". All that hackneyed rallying cry for retreat
means is that everyone would be covered.
It does not describe a type of coverage. "Building on what
we already have while including everyone" means some people would
[still] have Band Aid and aspirin coverage, while others would have full
coverage for everything imaginable, just like now. Universal simply means "all".
Another red flag is "basic health care". Who gets to decide what is basic? A more
honest term (if, in fact, honesty is even an issue with the movers and shakers)
would be "all medically necessary care". Who would decide "medically
necessary"? Under the terms of HR
676 - a single payer bill pending in Congress, - medically necessary care is
described as evidence based care.
Medical providers would make the call, not bean counters working for
insurance companies, or bureaucrats.
And, of course, we have the so-called "public option". Too many people of good will have fallen for
the public option claptrap. They are
supporting the public option concept without ever seeing it! That's like
signing blank mortgage papers.
Republicans and their "Blue Dog" bunk mates are telling us
that single payer would cost more than a trillion dollars annually. Wow!
Does that mean we'd save $1.7 trillion dollars each year? Here in 2009, $2.7 trillion will be spent on
heath care, and the future looks even more bleak and expensive if we "keep
what we have". Prices are going up!
Under single payer we'd actually spend less that $2.7 trillion, yet
everything would be covered for everyone.
How? First of all, the hundreds
of billions of dollars currently wasted on "administrative
expenses" in the private sector would be saved and would be enough
to fund the presently uninsured. Those
"administrative" costs run anywhere from 27% up to 35%. Medicare, on
the other hand (i.e. single payer) only spends about 4% on administration. Rich
Austin
Linda Jansen: Netanyahu’s Phony Call for Peace
Published by
Thank you so much
for the extremely clear picture you painted of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s request for peace with
Jack Smith: Compare Our 2000 Response to Iranian’s.
As we think about the courageous Iranians who stand up
to what they believe to be a rigged election.
Didn't the same thing happen in 2000 when Bush and
Cheney stole the election and our Nation for eight years? We sat
by and watched on TV. Which nation is more Democratic? Jack
Smith
Liberals
and Democrats
Government Watch
Also go to Whitehouse.gov.
Press Coverage
President
Obama’s is effectively using the media, to the chagrin of Conservatives. At a press conference, Obama
addresses Iranian protests, building a clean economy and heath care reform. More
Obama comments on Iran. President Obama defends a
public health insurance option. In
his weekly address, Obama discusses his proposals to protect consumers from
commercial abuse.
The Importance of Fathering
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Responsible-Fatherhood/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Town-Hall-on-Fatherhood/
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20286116,00.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-te.md.obama20jun20,0,7583940.story
Financial Regulation
Should we
give the Federal reserve more power without making it more accountable? Financial
regulations won’t be enforced unless those who fail to enforce them are fired. For
more.
Climate Change Impacts
Our
White House released a report showing the regional impacts of climate change. House
cap and trade bill is ready for vote.
Reasons
why the cap and trade greenhouse emissions bill is flawed.
Other Presidential Actions
President
Obama signs tobacco regulation bill. Obama
gets drug companies to reduce their prices by $80 billion.
Another Cost of Health Care Reform
Three House
Committees (Ways and Means Committee,
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Committee on Education and Labor) are
cooperating to write a health reform bill.
In the Senate, two committees (Finance Committee and
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee) are writing separate
health reform bills. It appears that
the Finance Committee bill with contain the least robust public option. It will have to be reconciled with the other
Senate bill. The result will have to be
reconciled with the House bill.
I believe that
the result will be a bill with a robust public health insurance option. See
Dean Baker’s arguments for the necessity of a robust public health insurance
option. In spite of the political
costs, the Republicans will vote against it.
Money will be found to fund the health care reform, satisfying the
fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats, such that most will support it, at
least enough to pass it. Note that public
opinion supports a public option.
Private
insurers, pharmaceuticals and many businesses will oppose any health reform
bill with a robust public option. The
Obama administration has invited them to join in deliberations, to delay their
coming out it full opposition. This
strategy appears to be working so far.
A major cost of health care reform is that
the Obama Administration is delaying action on major labor issues, including especially the Employee Free
Choice Act. It hopes to avoid
alienating business until health care reform is passed. Whitehouse.gov doesn’t even list labor as one
of the issues which the Obama Administration is addressing. For more.
Failure
to reform health care will severely wound Democrats in 2010 elections. For
more.
Health
care reform bills are still being drafted, so final bill is uncertain.
Nurses and
progressive Democrats support a single payer system.
A
health reform bill with a public health insurance option will be less
expensive.
A
majority of Americans want a public health insurance option.
Doctors Group informs
Blue Dog Democrats that single payer health insurance is most cost effective.
Public
health insurance option isn’t enough to stop abuses. Need single payer.
Commercial media
mostly ignore single payer as a health care reform alternative.
ND
Democratic Senator Kent Conrad may support public insurance option instead of
cooperatives.
Here’s the Beef
Supreme
Court decisions are affected by judge’s political views.
A
new populist coalition is emerging.
Are
lobbyists successfully gutting reform bills? For more.
Congress
members who are deciding health care reform have financial interests in
affected companies.
Former
Bush staff are making out like bandits.
For more.
Conservative
lies about hate crimes.
Congress
should investigate and report causes of our economic bubble and collapse.
Some
criticisms of President Obama’s financial regulation proposals.
A mixed review of Obama
Administration’s proposed financial regulatory reforms.
Obama supported military
appropriations bill oriented to pork instead of defense.
Five steps to eliminating
‘Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell.’
Environmentalists
split on supporting good, bad and ugly cap and trade bill.
On Friday, June 26, house
will vote on American Clean Energy and Security Act. For
more.
Fish and Wildlife
Service nominee has failed to support endangered species act.
Congress
may waste several billion purchasing useless cold war oriented fighter jets.
Anti-war
activists plan to challenge Democratic congress members who support Afghanistan
war.
Middle
East Arabian dictatorships are nervous about Iranian protests.
While
President Obama is right to avoid supporting Iranian protesters, Liberals
should support them.
Obama
Administration is bringing its first trade case against China.
State
and Local
Featured Advocacy Group ---
·
Washington
Can and Sound
Alliance have been featured before.
Sound
·
Provision and
protection of civil rights for
immigrants.
·
Universal
affordable access to affordable quality housing
·
Universal
affordable access to quality health care
·
Universal
affordable access to quality education
·
Creation of sustainable
living wage green jobs, oriented to
energy conservation and reduction of green house emissions.
Although new, with only a few
active alliance members to date, Sound Alliance is already claiming that its focused
efforts have produced progress, especially concerning green jobs.
Unlike Sound
·
Its leadership
training program
·
Its focused
strategies concerning the five priority issues listed above
·
Its recruitment
of trained members into advocacy task groups to implement focused strategies
Unlike Sound Alliance’s
focused priorities and strategies for each priority, Washington CAN’s values
are very general. Washington CAN
indicates its values (not priorities) as:
·
Economic, racial, gender and social justice for all.
·
Shared community and collective responsibility.
·
Respect for diversity and building strong communities.
·
Decent quality of life for all.
·
Change relations of power so all individuals can
significantly impact decisions that affect their lives.
·
Truly democratic society with open honest
participation by all.
Unlike Sound Alliance, Washington
CAN doesn’t define specific priorities and create advocacy groups. It doesn’t train members and recruit them
into advocacy groups. Instead Washington
CAN implements various advocacy efforts (primarily asking its members to
indicate through communication with lawmakers or letters to the public their
support for various proposals).
I believe that Washington CAN
could much more effectively involve its members through adopting some of Sound
Alliance’s practices, including specifically training of their members and
recruiting them into advocacy groups which focus upon realizing specific
reforms. I also believe that Sound
Alliance and Washington CAN should cooperate closely. Joint advocacy efforts would benefit from the
efforts of many of Washington CAN’s 30,000 members. I think they could easily agree on many
priorities. I think they could benefit
from joint training. Through their
door-to-door recruitment, Washington CAN could continue to reach many less
socially and politically active people that are not members of the
organizations that participate in Sound Alliance.
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Transportation 2040 Plan, But No Housing 2040 Plan
It seems obvious that the lack of affordable housing
near jobs and shopping centers creates urban sprawl, commuting, congestion and
pollution. A housing plan which provided
appropriately located affordable housing would point the way toward reducing
urban sprawl and the rest.
Our
region’s V ISION 2040 plan treats
affordable housing only in generalities, with no specific statistics
concerning how much housing in various price ranges should be available in the
various parts of our region. It indicates
that providing affordable housing is the responsibility of local governments.
The
recently released Transportation 2040 DEIS indicates that the transportation
strategy is designed to support the regional economic strategy and regional
growth strategy expressed in VISION 2040.
It assumes the existence of commuting and attempts to alleviate it. Instead of examining how the location of
affordable housing might affect transportation, Transportation 2040 only concerns how transportation may affect
the location of housing. There is no
suggestion that it might be cheaper and more beneficial to spend money to
create affordable housing than to spend the same amount on transportation to
deal with its absence.
Could focus upon transportation instead of affordable
housing be due to the greater benefits of transportation projects for public
transportation departments and private contractors?
Here’s the Beef
Seattle
Times supports public health insurance option.
Washington’s
coal fired park is creating haze over nearby national parks.
Puget
Sound ranks high for cancer risk from toxic air pollution.
Northwest prisons cut
waste. Prepare inmates for green jobs.
More federal money
for cleaning up Puget Sound. Victoria
will treat its sewage.
Using
cow manure to produce methane fuel may produce cap and trade revenue.
Some
people are spending more time, less money using a clothes line.
Green
jobs can include tree thinning to reduce forest fires and restore vibrant
ecosystem.
Innovation
in Klamath County helps its economy.
Both Seattle and
Vancouver, BC have many metropolitan amenities (and also Bellevue).
In
Seattle, integrating light rail and bus service provides an alternative to
travel by automobile.
Due to climate change, Pacific
NW birds are moving north.
Oregon and other states are passing
progressive tax measures.
Nation
and World
Why Did Workers Quit Getting their Productivity Gains?
·
Oil shocks of
1973 and 1979 produced stagflation.
Costly oil increased inflation.
More money diverted to foreign oil suppliers reduced demand and
increased unemployment.
·
Inexpensive
quality foreign auto and other imports competed with domestic producers,
causing unemployment.
·
Deregulation
began under President Carter and escalated under president Reagan created opportunities
for non-unionized startup businesses, which paid low wages.
·
President Reagan
initiated anti-union business activities, including many illegal abuses.
·
In the era of
junk bond takeovers, pressures to achieve short term profits produce massive
layoffs of employees who contribute to long term productivity of companies.
·
Moving manufacturing
production to foreign countries, with low wages, little worker safety
regulation, and few environmental safeguards reduces the number of
manufacturing jobs.
·
Off shoring of
white collar jobs reduces such jobs in
·
When the number
of jobs decline, unemployment increases and businesses can lower their wage
scales.
·
In the absence of
sufficient public health and retirement benefits, businesses have provided
them. But with increasing competition,
many businesses have reduced or eliminated these benefits.
To
restore fair earnings to our workers, we need to:
·
Maintain low
unemployment through maintaining sufficient credit, but not excessive credit
which would create speculative bubbles.
·
Reduce trade
imbalance through reducing oil consumption by changing to non-carbon based
energy usage.
·
And by making
American business more competitive through reducing their health and pension
costs, stimulating innovation and improving the health and training of our
workers.
·
Shift the FICA
(jobs) tax to a VAT or other tax to reduce costs of creating jobs.
·
Encouraging other
countries allow unionization and require worker and environmental protections.
·
Reduce pressures
for short term profits by changing our tax laws to encourage equity instead of
loan financing (as occurred before 1986 tax changes).
·
Increase taxes on
high earning people who create less demand for domestic goods and services than
would occur if the revenue was used for public investment or for tax reductions
for less wealthy and poor people.
·
Reduce
unemployment by increasing the number of jobs through stimulating
infrastructure and green jobs.
·
And by enabling
more people to afford school and volunteering.
(But reduce the number of people incarcerated for minor offenses.)
·
Increase
protections for unionizing through more legislation and enforcement.
Chuck
Collins’ book Economic Apartheid in
America presents detailed strategies for realizing these goals and for
dealing with the underlying obstacle of excessive corporate power. I strongly recommend reading the last chapter
of his book.
I am
disgusted that our Obama Administration (which is doing so many things right)
is giving little attention to most of these reforms. See the next commentary.
Not Just More Jobs. Better Jobs.
Our
priority and President Obama’s priority is restoring our economy, especially
creating more jobs. But to sustain our
economy and our families, these jobs need to be good jobs. They need to pay a fair proportion of what
the worker produces. They need to
provide safety protections. They need to
include health and retirement benefits until our government offers better
alternatives.
They
should include mentors whose responsibility is to ensure that those they mentor
succeed. They need to provide training
and career ladders for advancement.
These jobs need to time flexible and include paid vacation time, sick
leave and time for various family responsibilities.
To
obtain and guard these benefits, workers need to be able to unionize. Existing labor laws should be enforced. Where necessary, penalties should be
increased and more laws added. Steven
Greenhouse’s The Big Squeeze provides
an excellent description of the defects in our present system and remedies
which are needed.
For more, read the preceding commentary.
I am
surprised that our Obama Administration has so far almost completely ignored
these issues. Whitehouse.gov doesn’t
even include labor among its list of issues to be addressed. Although the Lilly Ledbetter Fair
Pay Act was signed only 9 days after President Obama assumed the
presidency, no other labor legislation has yet followed. We have seen no action concerning the Employee Free
Choice Act. The U.S. Labor Department reports
what it does; but I find no proposals for reforming our labor
situation. Nor do I found that labor
unions are applying pressure upon the Obama administration for reforms. Let me know if you find these.
What began as a protest against the fraudulent election returns has now
escalated into an attempt to eliminate the undemocratic influence of
The struggle for Iranian democracy may be long and hard, but present
events are a major impetus to eliminating the theocratic stranglehold.
American Jews Oppose More West Bank Settlements
A poll
shows that 72% of American Jews support
Here’s the Beef
Medicare enrollees are far
more satisfied than people with private health insurance. For
more.
Pesticides
may be causing Parkinson’s disease.
Rhode
Island will be first state to license medical marijuana shops.
Climate
legislation would cost average consumer $175 per year, much less than GOP estimates.
International
action to counter global warming is imperative.
United Nations pushes countries
to take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Scotland passes the
world’s most ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction bill.
Vehicle
exhaust causes premature births.
Commercial media
expression of anti-immigrant sentiment is stimulating anti-Hispanic hate
crimes.
What
you can do to discourage hate crimes.
The
stupidity of forcing airline passengers to remove their shoes, but not their
bras.
Human Rights First
reports that U.S. detains asylum seekers
Ecuadorian
President Correa’s liberal policies have improved Ecuador’s economy.
Like
previous mass rallies, Iran’s rallies change the popular understanding of who
is the majority.
Iran’s Democracy movement
has a martyr. Religious leadership may
split.
Dissenting
Iranian religious leaders want to restore Iran’s reputation.
Dissenting
Iranian religious leaders may persuade military to avoid harming protestors.
U.S.
encouragement of dissonant movements has backfired.
Pakistan campaign
against Taliban moves into South Waziristan tribal areas.
Our
Liberal Spirit
Intentional Budgeting
I
have long maintained a similar budget, such that I seldom have to carefully
monitor my expenditures. Each year, I
spend $30 apiece for 50 magazines and organizations that I support, for a total
of $1500. I spend another $25 a month to
support each of three organizations: Sightline, Economic Opportunity Council
and Center for Economic Policy and Research for another $900. During political campaigns, I donate about
$500, with the average donation equaling $50.
The total donations are $3000. I
also give gifts to my family members during the year, totaling $500.
I
used to give to public radio and television, but when they began showing
advertisements (including those of major corporate abusers), I quit. I spend another $100 per month to buy books,
mostly from Amazon.com, Edward R. Hamilton or used book sales. For many years, I spent $3,000 a year on
overseas and domestic travel, but I am traveling less for expenditures of less
than $1000.
My
budget has been able to include the above $5700-7700 per year because I spend
much less than most others do on housing and cars. I haven’t owned a house since 1990, paying
only a $500 a month to my wife as for rent and utilities plus doing much home
and yard work. With two exceptions, all
of my cars have been at least 8 years old when I purchased them. I used the only new car that I bought for 15
years. My total automobile expenses
(including depreciation) are $300 per month.
I
spend $50 per month for clothes. My half
of our groceries costs $150 a month. Another
$50 per month goes to entertainment, mostly eating out. The $20,000 a year total of the above leaves
$5,000 for miscellaneous small items and a few larger ones and some
savings. I use a credit card to make
most purchases, but pay it off every month.
So I pay no interest.
Other
people will have various priorities, most of them different from mine. But it is useful to know what you spend, so
you can monitor and change it if need be.
A budget also protects us from impetuous purchases which often turn out
to be unsatisfying.
Recommended Books – See our list of books for liberals
Steven Greenhouse, 2008, The Big Squeeze. Tough Times for the
American Worker.
Chuck
Collins, 2000, Economic Apartheid in
These two books are added to
many other
books that address the issue of increased American economic inequality. I highly recommend The Big Squeeze for its comprehensiveness, evidence and ease of
reading. In its last chapter, Economic Apartheid in America contains a
comprehensive description of strategies for reducing economic inequality and
insecurity, including reducing political inequality.
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