This is the letter that I will send to Congressman Al Green on Wednesday, 12 noon, Houston time. I am looking for recommendations.
Sincerely,
Ed
We are seeing the greatest wealth disparity in human history. The One Percent have lobbied for low taxes and then put their money in tax havens. Warren Buffett´s secretary pays a higher tax percentage than he does.
The One Percent are happy to distract people from this fact. They are happy when the people who do not have $400 for an emergency are paying attention to homosexuals, immigrants, addicts, black people and gun restrictions.
I ask AOC and Bernie Sanders to run for president to bring out these issues. How many Americans know the following?
The bloated Pentagon Budget is equal to the next 9 countries in line.
The US has more prisoners per capita and in absolute numbers than anybody else.
People in the European Union pay about half what we do for health care.
The US has about 5,500 nuclear weapons.
There are obvious solutions.
Cut the Pentagon budget by 50%.
Abolish the War on Drugs. Regulate most drugs as we do for tabacco and alcohol.
Copy some health structures from the European Union.
Tax the rich as we did when Ike was president.
Keep 1,000 nuclear weapons and decommission the rest.
Make a world without war. Start a Second Marshall Plan to end poverty everywhere and reverse global warming.
Hire people from the Lincoln Project to make commercials that are brutal and factual.