March for Jobs and Freedom – 50 Years Later. Seems it’s Time for Another One.

August 28th, 2013

As the United States seems to be one of the few nations in the world where discrimination is illegal, much of the credit can surely be given and traced back to the historic efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Fifty years to the day of his famous march on Washington and speech at the Lincoln Memorial, MLK remains the perfect role model of how to effect peaceful and worthwhile change.  Fifty years later, however, it seems we are long overdue for another March for Jobs and Freedom – albeit for somewhat different reasons which reflect the changed circumstances of OUR nation and its leadership.  

It is clear that many of the nation’s jobs have expatriated overseas with no sign of returning.  And many of OUR American freedoms have also clearly dwindled as exemplified by OUR government spying on tens of millions of its own citizens.  Additionally, discrimination still legally exists as well – because purely economic discrimination remains entirely legal.  Of course, economic discrimination can then act as covering pretext for any discrimination one can envision. 

Many of OUR existing woes regarding jobs and freedoms are due to the efforts of OUR government.  Many of these current policies even seem to have eclipsed much of the strides made by MLK and others like him.

The policies of OUR government have fostered the expatriation of American jobs.  The policies of OUR government and elected officials have allowed for the boundless spying on the American people.  And, the policies of OUR government have allowed for the continuation of economic discrimination against any and all.  

As such, the time appears at hand to remind OUR government that it exists for the American People and does not exist to be pitted against the People.  Therefore, I believe the time has come for a modern March for Jobs and Freedom to stand against the policies of OUR government that have allowed for the prostitution of OUR jobs, the denigration of OUR freedoms, and the continuation of economic discrimination throughout OUR land.  

Adam Vernon Trotter

See:

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom

I Have a Dream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream

Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs

Include Soup Kitchens in the Next Federal Stimulus Bill to Address Rampant, Widespread, and Ever-Increasing Poverty in Our Nation?

September 23rd, 2010


Given these days of endless unemployment benefits for those that were lucky enough to become unemployed at the proper time for these endless benefits, I have to ask, what about those that became unemployed before the endless benefits were approved and are not privy to such benefits? Given that we seem to be emerging as a welfare state, maybe its time we bring back the soup kitchens of the 1930’s Depression to ensure the populace and their children don’t starve – regardless of whether these folks qualify for food-stamps or not. And, what of those that are unable to walk around with their hand-out for free money from the government such as with endless unemployment benefits? Soup kitchens might be the answer. Furthermore, maybe its time we begin to ‘set in for the long haul’ and address the rampant and ever-increasing levels of poverty in our nation. To ensure that people can eat, soup kitchens seem to be an idea whose time has returned.


Clearly, entire industries and segments of the economy have gone away with no return in sight. And, with as many as 75% of the workforce unemployed or under-employed, we are blessed with a government that has become so out of touch with reality that it likely relies on organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The NBER is widely reported to have claimed the ‘recession’ has ended as of sometime last year. I mean…, this bureau – though merely a nonprofit organization - seems as useless as the Federal agency that was supposed to be controlling the off-shore drilling over the recent years – the MMS (Minerals Management Service, Dept. of Interior). (See: http://engineeringandcommerce.blogspot.com/2010/06/deepwater-horizon-bp-us-mms-agency-why.html , also See: http://www.nber.org/cycles/sept2010.html)..

I understand that much of any macro-economic condition is a likely result of perception. That is, if the banks, businesses, and general public were to believe that the economic situation was better, banks would lend money to businesses again, businesses would likely hire additional employees, and many would begin spending additional monies which would likely help to end the current recession/depression. Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy type of thing. But I think the timing for such an orchestrated smoke-screen of deception (or tepid inspiration) by any economic reporting agency or by the Federal government has long since passed.

Of course, maybe the recession has long since ended for the wealthy that surely became smart enough to follow the lead of the Federal Reserve System and put all their money in gold – surely the wealthy and The Fed have made unimaginable profits of late with the never-ending devaluation of the U.S. Dollar. And maybe the ‘recession’ is over for the corporate leaders that refuse to hire employees and prefer to work their current employees ‘to the bone’ with massive amounts of overtime to squeeze more profits – as productivity is reported to be at an all time high! (As one example see: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/09/20/san-francisco-fed-warns-job-quashing-productivity-to-remain-hot/ . ) But those wealthy folks were likely never seriously affected by the on-going ‘recession’ like the average citizen anyhow.

But with the numbers of people living below the poverty level reported to be at an all-time high and looks to ever-increase for the near-term future, maybe its time we start to rethink everything! (See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17poverty.html, and see: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html . ) Soup kitchens would seem to be an idea worth considering.

Adam Trotter / AVT

Want a Stimulus Bill that May be Attractive to All? Pay-Off the Nation’s Student Loan Debts!!!

September 2nd, 2010


With any upcoming U.S. Federal stimulus funds, why not pay-off the citizenry’s student loan debts and give the up-and-coming generation a fighting chance to get ahead in the modern era of decreased labor demand, minimal American manufacturing, a decreased dollar value, inflated educational costs, inflated prices, and stolen birthrights?

…And such a plan seems like a ‘win – win’ situation….

…‘cause…

All the stimulus monies would go directly to the banks and financial institutions, just as previous stimulus monies have essentially been awarded up to this point in time…..which, of course, will keep the banks very happy and such would likely please the politicians that seem to care foremost for the banks and secondarily for their constituents. Additionally, not having to pay the massive student loans would free up money for recent graduates; money with which they may likely buy property and bolster the currently devastated real estate markets.


Adam Trotter / AVT


PS. If the Federal government and The Fed can not figure out simple things like this, they should be aware that I am available for consulting. :)

Get Our American Jobs Back, Before It’s Too Late!!!

March 6th, 2010

Hey elected U.S. officials and national leaders, now that’s its been forty years or so that you have made allowances for our industries to move off-shore, before its too late, maybe you could revisit this matter and have our industries bring our jobs back!??!! Union leaders, you know, it wouldn’t hurt you to assist with this request as well! Maybe its time you mature beyond your self-centered and egotistical paradigms of the last fifty years and look to act for the benefit of the nation. No more free U.S. government insurance/support for operating overseas! I ask: Are you determined to see our nation become another of the many bygone superpowers with nothing for citizenry other than the ‘haves and have nots’ like the rest of the world?

Now that you ‘leaders’ have allowed our penny-hungry corporate-types to teach our core competencies of manufacturing to countries whose governments have never seemed to like us much to begin with, maybe you should entice those firms to bring their operations back here. Obviously those U.S. corporations would prefer to operate off-shore where they can pollute as much as they want, pay their workers slave wages, and not worry for a moment about any rights of their off-shore employees. [For instance, I seriously doubt that one would see many disabled employees working in any off-shore factory of an American corporation. Hardly. Injured on the job? They likely throw injured and therefore under-performing overseas workers out onto the street.]


To put it in other terms that you ‘leaders’ may better understand: If all our industries [and jobs] are off-shore, when you find a larger or more profitable war to fight, you may someday need a domestic manufacturing base in addition to merely needing a destitute populace to send to fight that future war. Do you remember back in the day when the U.S government would not buy foreign made products to put on the aircraft carriers? Do you remember when the products for the Army had to be American made? I do. What percentages of products on the warships are foreign made today? Bring our jobs back before it’s too late!! Please?

Adam Trotter / AVT



PS. Digression: In addition to giving away much of our competitive advantages in manufacturing, you ‘leaders’ seemed to enable other nations to steal all the defense-related national secrets they chose to steal. In general, you ‘leaders’ don’t seem to be very good judges of character – as evidenced by supporting the emigration of our jobs! In particular, concerning the safeguarding of national secrets, poor judgment often seems a rampant plague to the ‘leadership’ at the Department of Energy and the CIA. Not surprisingly, the level of poor judgment in any given Federal agency seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of access given to the people to review the actions of that poorly-managed agency.


See Also:
http://adamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/2009/12/vice-president-biden-v-majors-of.html