Saving Our Democracy: July 4-10, 2019

Jul. 02, 2019

3:20 p.m.

The Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump regime, as well as other activities that seek to thwart social justice. To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com.

Saturday, July 6

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of Lincoln Memorial Drive and Michigan Street, noon-1 p.m.

Every Saturday from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action of Wisconsin to protest war and literally “Stand for Peace.” Signs will be provided for those who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee post protest.

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee @ ComedySportz Milwaukee (420 S. First St.), 8-10 p.m.

With Donald Trump and Republican attacks on health care, immigrants, the environment and more, we need progressive laughs now more than ever. Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is a monthly progressive political comedy show featuring some of Milwaukee’s top liberal and progressive comedians. Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is hosted by comedian, cartoonist and talk radio host Matthew Filipowicz. Comedians on the July 6 bill include Jason Hillman, Mary Collie, Marcos Lara, Jen Durbent, Brittany Tillander and sketch comedy group The Accountants of Homeland Security. In addition, Laughing Liberally Milwaukee features interviews with a local activist, journalist or political figure. This month’s guests are Leslie Fillingham and Chad Trepanier who will discuss protecting abortion access and standing up to hate at Abortion Access Front’s upcoming Garbage Fyre Festival.

July 9-13 (Tuesday-Saturday)

90th Annual LULAC National Convention and Exposition @ the Wisconsin Center Convention Center (400 W. Wisconsin Ave.)

The League of United Latin American Citizens invites all to participate in the 90th Annual LULAC National Convention & Exposition from July 9 through July 13, 2019. Speakers include: Tony Evers, governor of Wisconsin; Mayor Tom Barrett; Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator; Marianne Williamson Author, Activist; former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro; Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator; former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke; Senator Amy Klobuchar; Director of the United States Census Bureau Steven Dillingham; Catherine Alicia Georges EdD, RN, FAAN, AARP’s National Volunteer President; South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore.

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To save "Left-Wing" Democracy, tell what "creates jobs"

Quit talking about "rights" and "equalities", you get labelled as "extreme left".
Quit keying on "charity and "redistribution", you get tagged as "tax us, spend on them."

Tell people how "Job Creation" really works, from bottom up, not top down.

Tell them how nobody with money to invest is going to create a job just because they have money. The truth is they only spend that money when they believe that there is even more money out there that they can pull in.

What I just said is "Paying Customers lined up at the door."
I did not say "broke Customers in need of services."

The purpose of ANY business is to "make money... for the owner!"
Nobody is going to start a business:
1. to pay a worker, unless there are enough customers ready to pay more.
. . if customers can't pay more, then workers must be paid even less.
2. to pay a supplier, unless there are enough customers ready to pay more.
. . if customers can't pay more, then suppliers must accept less.
3. to provide value to a customer, unless the customer pays more than it costs.
. . if customers won't accept less, then no deal, no business, nobody gets hired.

But in all of that, there must be enough differential between paying customer and paid worker + paid supplier to leave enough left over for the owner to take a profit... (with as little "trickle down" as possible.)… or the owner-investor won't even bother. They aren't in this for "non-profit."

Tell the voter how the "private sector" was only built to move MORE money up than it is ever willing to move down. That is why the downward flow is only a "trickle", only a fraction of what was "redistributed UP."

Tell the voter how a "global" corporation will keep as much of their profits outside the US as possible, "repatriation of profits" will never happen. They will not bring any of it back in except just enough to pay for the US part of their lifestyle. The rest stays out of the country, invested out there for further growth that is not subject to US taxes.

Tell the voter how a "handout" to a person who makes less than $100K is going to spend all of it here in their local US community, but "corporate welfare" or a "tax cut" to the top 10% is not spent on "Main Street", it is invested somewhere else like "Wall Street". -- Which one of those methods creates more "Paying Customers" and therefore "creates jobs"?

In fact, the lower down these handouts are given, the more levels of workers it must go through on the way up to the top, thereby providing opportunities for many levels to earn a welfare avoiding wage.

Just remember that "money is not wasted", even a street dealer's profits are spent in town, in legal, tax paying establishments. This is the ultimate form of "laundering" illegal money back into the taxable system. Note also that American corporations really do not care what color hands money passes through on its way to corporate coffers. Deal with it!

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 5 years ago

Politics reflected in the Movies

I saw a movie over the weekend, the re-released "Avengers: Endgame", the follow-up to the previous "Avengers: Infinity War" where the villain "Thanos" had wiped out half of the people.

Thanos had an idea where he thought he was doing good. He believed that we are too populated, and that half the population must be eliminated, so that there will be room to grow for the rest.

Where have I heard that kind of thinking before?

We have a roughly 50/50 split between Republican and Democrat in this country, where many of the people say "Which side are you on? You cannot be on the fence with this!" It is an attitude that settles out like "there is not enough room in this country for all of us, so one half has got to go", even to the point of economic genocide or physical banishment. (hint, the poor are too poor to move away.)

How many of you prayed that "AIDS" back in the 1980s would wipe out every last Gay man?
Or Ebola would wipe out all of Africa, hoping to take American blacks with them?
Or crack cocaine would take out all urban city dwellers?

How many of you hoped that ending "Welfare" and "Obamacare" would result in a massive die off of an entire class of people you really did not want to ever face?

How many of you on the left, listening to popular "protest music" remember a line from a song that said "Tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more"?
-- Why did it say "no rich" and not "no poor" as the end goal?
-- Was that an admission that all the money in the world is not enough to feed everyone?
-- Did it really promote "genocide of the rich"?

Back to that "Endgame" movie. A line said by Thanos was:
- "I thought that by eliminating half of life, the other half would thrive."
Thanos followed with:
- "As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what CAN be."
... he was criticizing people for not taking advantage of the freed up space. Criticizing how even the real "patriots", the Avengers themselves, found their lives empty when so many of their own had been killed in the process of cutting numbers down to size. So depressing they gave up on being Avengers.

This is only a fiction story from comic books you say, cannot possibly be real life?
Where do the fiction authors get their inspiration from?
By watching real life in all its ugliness of human behavior.

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 5 years ago