From Great Performances: Michael Buble
Monday, February 29, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Today's "Gilded Age" and This Presidential Election (Guest Post)
"Not nearly enough has been said about the tax cuts for the rich now being proposed by Trump, Cruz, and Rubio. They’re larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever before proposed. 5 things you need to know:
1. Trump’s proposed cut would reduce the top rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent – creating a giant windfall for the wealthy (at a time when the wealthy have a larger portion of the nation’s wealth than any time since 1890).
2. The Cruz and Rubio plans would abandon our century-old progressive income tax (whose rates increase as taxpayers’ incomes increase) altogether, and instead tax the amount people spend in a year and exclude income from investments. Such a system would burden lower-income workers who spend almost everything they earn and have few if any investments.
3. Cruz also proposes a 10 percent flat tax, which would lower tax rates on the rich and increase taxes for lower-income workers.
4. The Republican plans also repeal estate and gift taxes – now paid almost entirely by the very wealthy, who make big gifts to their heirs and leave them big estates.
5. These plans would cut federal revenues by as much as $12 trillion over the decade -- but neither Trump, Rubio, or Cruz has said what they’ll do to fill this hole. They'll either explode the national debt, or have to cut Social Security, Medicare, and assistance to the poor (they’ve called for more military spending).
Bottom line: If any of these men is elected president, we could see the largest redistribution in American history from the poor and middle-class of America to the rich.
This is class warfare with a vengeance."
--Professor, author, columnist, economist Robert Reich.
Friday, February 26, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016
How Long America?
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Entertainment Overnight
From local artist Stephen Locke.
Time Lapse Torrent; Supercell
Storm Stock Footage
One of the many things to appreciate about the Midwest, I think. Enjoy.
Links: Stephen Locke
Sunday, February 21, 2016
What Hope Looks Like
In light of Donald Trump leading in the polls and two elections for the presidency just now and all the shootings around the nation yesterday and today, I give you hope.
From a friend's Facebook page and post today. Friend Kevin Deen put this up. He lives in Waldo.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Since When, America?
From a friend's Facebook post today:
* that is as inclusive as possible
* that works effectively for all its members
* that provides opportunity equally regardless of accidents of birth
* that places the rights of people above the rights of corporations.
* that protects its resources for future generations
* that treats its citizens equally before the law
* that protects its most vulnerable members
* that cooperates in preference to dominating
* that values education and wisdom
become a "radical" idea?
Thanks, Doug.
6 Responses to Sanders Skeptics
From Professor, economist, writer, political commentator Robert Reich.
He's for you, folks. He's for you and me.
#FeeltheBern
Friday, February 19, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Guess Which Republican Presidential Icon Said the Supreme Court Vacancies Need To Be Filled
None other than very Republican and Conservative and Right Wing icon President Ronald Reagan himself said Congress should do its job, especially regarding the Supreme Court and any vacancy.
Ironic, huh?
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Maybe The Donald WAS Set Up by the Democrats
I remember, months ago, seeing ideas floating around on the interwebs and Facebook, with the idea that maybe Donald Trump was a willing set up by the Democrats to take the Republicans down.
I tell you, with all The Donald says and does lately and what he's said and done in the last few months, it's getting more difficult to believe that isn't maybe true.
Following are all headlines I saw just yesterday, last evening, all from and n The Donald:
Donald Trump Hilariously Slams the ‘George W. Bush Kept Us Safe After 9/11’ Line
I tell you, it's getting difficult to believe The Donald wants Republicans to vote for him.
The One Sure Thing On This Presidential Election
Speaking with friends this weekend on our 2016 presidential election, I've come to the only one, sure conclusion.
If any person says they know how this election is going to turn out, they are wildly, wildly wrong.
This is, without doubt, one of the most quirky, even bizarre, unpredictable elections of the last 50 years, at least, and likely longer. To say they know the outcome shows they know little.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Huge Supreme Court News Breaking
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
dead at 79
The news was first reported by My San Antonio. Scalia was 79.
He was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan.
It will be fascinating, now, to see the fight that erupts between President Obama and the Republicans in Congress about and for his replacement. The President no doubt already has a "short list" of people he would have on the Court. He will no doubt select someone with an impeccable background. Regardless, the Republicans will have to be against him or her. They "let him have", so to speak, a woman already with Justice Sotomayor. They likely won't let him put up another female.
Rest in peace, Justice Scalia.
Link: Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates
Friday, February 12, 2016
What Needs To Happen With And For Energy
I've said for a long time this is what needs to happen. We need to power our cities with our skyscrapers.
For starters.
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Entertainment Overnight -- Okay, Go
Best work in music videos, hands down, every time by these guys.
We Have To Close This "Revolving Door"
So Done
Done with candidates.
Done with debates.
Done with the two political parties (though done with one far more than the other, truth be told).
Done with announcements.
Done with campaigns.
Done with announcements, all of it.
And even ignoring we have, still, a little more than half of this month to go, ignoring February, we have 9 more months of this to go until the actual November election date.
Don't get me wrong, however. I still know how important this election is and I'm still engaged and still decidedly for my candidate for the presidency but holy cow. These things go on and on and on.
We should be better than this.
We should be smarter than this.
And we are.
Or we could be.
I've written about this before. We could fix this and rather simply. Probably not easily but simply.
The Problems With Our Government--and Our Elections
Too many Americans likely don't know that's what the Brits did or that that's how they run their elections---or that we could.
Could you imagine elections that don't last 2 years? I know I could. How much better, how much improved would that be?
We wouldn't have to waste all this time and all the money we do on the elections.
Government officeholders wouldn't be perpetually running the next election race, just to get re-reelected.
We wouldn't have to go through this nonsense.
What Is It That's Different About This President, Anyway?
Last week, this took place:
Then, this, yesterday.
Agencies of the U.S. government make regulations to implement acts of Congress – such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation limiting carbon emissions from power plants, under the Clean Air Act. Sometimes plaintiffs challenge the legality of such a regulation, arguing the agency exceeded what Congress intended – as plaintiffs have done in this case. Occasionally, plaintiffs ask the courts to put the regulation on hold until the courts have fully considered their lawsuit – arguing they’ll otherwise suffer irreparable harm while awaiting a ruling. Often, as in this case, the lower court refuses. But never before in history has the Supreme Court overruled a lower court that refused such a stay, and decided itself to put a regulation on hold. Yet that’s what the five Republican appointees on the Court did yesterday evening -- blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark regulation. They gave no reasons.
The result is to freeze the heart of Obama’s climate policy until the courts have fully considered its legality. When might that be? The D.C. Circuit’s Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments for July 2, so a ruling from that court could be early next fall. The Supreme Court might then hear an appeal in late 2017 and decide by 2018. Of course, the five Republican appointees might then decide the regulation is illegal, or by then a Republican president might simply refuse to put the rule into effect. (Several Republican candidates, including Marco Rubio, don’t believe carbon emissions are contributing to climate change.)
In this case, the five Republicans on the Court decided that the plaintiffs – coal companies, power plants, utilities – will suffer irreparable harm over the next two or three years if the regulation is put into effect. But what about the irreparable harm to the environment from two or three more years of gunk being spewed into the atmosphere? Why should harm to profits take precedence over harm to life on earth? What planet are the five Republicans on, anyway? --Robert Reich
What is it?
I'm trying to think.
What is it about this President, this one President that's different that Congress treats him differently than any other.
Let me see...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
The Republican, Right Wing Nightmare Kansas Has Become
Along with Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback wanting to take money from the state's pension fund in order to pay for his and the Republican Party's fiscal screw ups and nightmares, there's this, too:
I won't paste the entire article here, describing what these irresponsible putzes are doing or trying to do but here's a snippet:
Brownback’s plan takes $28 million, or 1.5 percent, out of elementary and secondary education, including $5 million from Johnson County schools. The districts taking the biggest hits will be Olathe, Shawnee Mission and Blue Valley. The Republican governor also sliced more than $16 million, or 2 percent, from higher education.
So much for the education and growth of our children for our own and their futures, huh?
It's a pretty important article. I would absolutely recommend any and every adult Kansan read it and see what these chuckleheads are doing or trying to further do to your state and take from your children and even you, yourself.
Really, Kansas. You're better than this. You were always smarter, much smarter than this.
Could we dispense with that whole "trickle down", cut the taxes for the wealthy and corporations idea now, locally and nationally?
Please? Finally? Forever?
Meanwhile, seems the Republicans just don't have anything going right for them over in our neighbor state:
Could we dispense with that whole "trickle down", cut the taxes for the wealthy and corporations idea now, locally and nationally?
Please? Finally? Forever?
Meanwhile, seems the Republicans just don't have anything going right for them over in our neighbor state:
Director of Governor's Council of Economic Advisors arrested after DUI
Put another way, this news makes much more sense:
For a "Brownback advisor" to be drunk.
Yes, I have to say, that explains a lot.
It explains, maybe, the last several years of governance in Kansas.
How Is What Kansas Governor Brownback Wants To Do Even Legal?
Kansas Governor Brownback and his very Republican cohorts are at it again. Some more.
They haven't screwed up the state enough so they've come up with yet another terrific idea. Have you seen this?
Brownback defends using public pension funds to fill Kansas budget hole
This is incredible.
There they are, Kansas pensions---people's money, retirement money, at that, just sitting there, like a big pile of rescue for Governor Sam "I Can Screw Up Anything" Brownback and he wants to tap into it, take money away from and out of it, and all because he and the Republicans in his state slashed taxes for the rich and corporations, screwing up Kansas' budgets.
This is conceivable, sure, just as sure as the first robbery by one person from another ever was.
What it also is, however is unconscionable.
He and his Kansas Republican Party screw up, they deplete the state's coffer and budgets and so what does he want to do to fix his empty bank accounts?
He wants to take money from former and current Kansas state employees pensions and all because, well, hell, it IS just sitting there, after all.
I ask again---how in God's name is this even legal?
Why can a sitting state governor arbitrarily tap into an already set up retirement fund of working people when it has and had nothing, ever, whatever to do with a state's budgeting or taxes?
And more, is there no one in Kansas to stand up and call this out for the blatant, ugly, irresponsible, misplaced theft and wrong that it is?
No Kansas Churches or clergy or ethicists or ANYONE in the entire state who cannot and will not call him out on this?
Anyone??
Bueller?
I ask again, how is this legal? Why is this legal? Can't it be made illegal and soon as possible so this highly immoral travesty doesn't take place and so it can't possibly happen again, in the future?
Anyone?
At least there's this. At least our own Kansas City Star is standing up against this theft, this nonsense.
Anyone?
At least there's this. At least our own Kansas City Star is standing up against this theft, this nonsense.
Don’t let Gov. Sam Brownback delay payments for Kansas pensions
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The Super Bowl Ad They Wouldn't Show
The Super Bowl ad they wouldn't show----but should.
We took their land from them and we took their food and their culture and religion.
Then we gave them guns. And alcohol.
"Redskins" has got to go.
Link: Change The Mascot - Launched By The Oneida Indian Nation
Monday, February 8, 2016
How Do We Fix the Broken Government? (Guest Post)
Author/economist/professor Robert Reich writes:
The Chicken and the Egg
At the core of crony capitalism lies a chicken-and-egg dilemma:
How is it possible to get big money out of politics when the political system is controlled by big money?
Even candidates who pledge reform but depend on big money to get elected give up on reform. Bill Clinton said he’d clean up the system but once in the White House did no cleaning (in fact, he offered the White House’s own Lincoln Bedroom to wealthy campaign-donors). Barack Obama bemoaned the role of big money but in 2008 became the first candidate of a major party to decline public financing — and the spending limits that went with it — since the system was created in 1976, after the Watergate scandals, and has since done nothing to stem the tide.
Since the Supreme Court's “Citizens United" decision, that tide has been washing away what's left of our democracy. By the 2012 election, donations from the richest 0.01 percent were 40 percent of all campaign contributions.
The only answer is a citizen’s movement that propels a candidate into the White House who’s not only committed to ending crony capitalism, but whose campaign is based on small donations. That movement is occurring right now, and that candidate is Bernie Sanders.
Since the Supreme Court's “Citizens United" decision, that tide has been washing away what's left of our democracy. By the 2012 election, donations from the richest 0.01 percent were 40 percent of all campaign contributions.
The only answer is a citizen’s movement that propels a candidate into the White House who’s not only committed to ending crony capitalism, but whose campaign is based on small donations. That movement is occurring right now, and that candidate is Bernie Sanders.
We All Know What the Big Problem In Government Is
If you think about it, we all know what's wrong with our government.
It's the money.
It's the money buying our elections, buying our representatives, buying their---our---legislation and so, buying our laws and finally, our government.
It all radiates out from there.
I thought of it again today, when I saw this:
The POLITICO 100: Billionaires dominate 2016
So far in the 2016 election, the 100 biggest donors have contributed $195 million ― more than the $155 million contributed by the two million smallest donors combined (according to an analysis of campaign data by “Politico.”) The five Republican members of the Supreme Court who in “Citizens United” contended they were protecting the First Amendment rights of Americans were obviously doing no such thing. They were drowning the First Amendment rights of the vast majority.
The top twenty are below. (The “Politico” article lists all 100.) They have not donated out of the goodness of their hearts, or their concern for a better America. These are investments -- no different from their other investments. If their candidates win, they will get substantial returns.
1. Wilks Family $15,000,000
2. Robert Mercer $12,500,000
3. Hank Greenberg $10,010,000
4. Toby Neugebauer $10,001,000
5. George Soros $8,025,000
6. Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein $6,550,000
7. Norman Braman $6,100,000
8. Kelcy Warren $6,000,000
9. Paul Singer $5,608,213
10. Tom Steyer $5,042,744
11. Haim and Cheryl Saban $5,000,002
12. Diane Hendricks $5,000,000
13. Robert McNair $4,500,000
14. Steve & Alexandra Cohen $4,000,000
15. Jerrold Perenchio $3,972,127
16. Mike Fernandez $3,370,520
17. Ken Griffin $3,150,000
18. Ronald Cameron $3,055,000
19. Larry Ellison $3,000,000
20. Donald Sussman $3,000,000
And that's just the top 20. Can you imagine giving or being able to give 3 million or 5 million or 12 or 15 million dollars away, just so you could get the governement representation and legislation you like and want? Heck, most of us would like to imagine what it's like to even HAVE 1 million dollars, let alone the luxury of being able to give it away.
And Left, Right, Republican, Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, we all know what the problem is in government in our nation. Everyone but the already-wealthy and corporations know what the problem is, know how to fix it and want the solution, too.
And Left, Right, Republican, Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, we all know what the problem is in government in our nation. Everyone but the already-wealthy and corporations know what the problem is, know how to fix it and want the solution, too.
And so, to do this, to truly Get the Big, Ugly Money Out of Our Election System and Government, we have got to do at least two things. We have to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizen United ruling first and then end campaign contributions. Entirely. All of them. Enough of that talk of ending "dark money" that we don't know who is giving. End it all. Shut it down. It's totally doable.
But it has to come from us. We have to demand it. We have to end it And we have to end it soon as possible.
The Failed Brownback/Republican Experiment That Is Kansas Gets Yet More National Press
When your very failing and failed economic and taxation policies of and for your state cut the state's financial coffers drastically so you have to cut state spending budgets and steal money from children's funds, literally, you're bound to get some press. Bad press. We've seen it repeatedly, understandably, coming out of Kansas.
Well, they just got more today, this time from The New York Times and economist Paul Krugman.
The Time-Loop Party
...there’s the assertion that taxing the rich has terrible effects on economic growth, and conversely that tax cuts at the top can be counted on to produce an economic miracle.
This doctrine was tested more than two decades ago, when Bill Clinton raised tax rates on high incomes; Republicans predicted disaster, but what we got was the economy’s best run since the 1960s. It was tested again when George W. Bush cut taxes on the wealthy; Republicans predicted a “Bush boom,” but actually got a lackluster expansion followed by the worst slump since the Great Depression. And it got tested a third time after President Obama won re-election, and tax rates at the top went up substantially; since then we’ve gained eight million private-sector jobs.
Oh, and there’s also the spectacular failure of the Kansas experiment, where huge tax cuts have created a budget crisis without delivering any hint of the promised economic miracle.
With all this coverage of the debacle that is Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's and his Republican Party's rather large economic and governing failure, how long will it be until Kansans finally, finally wake up and vote all those people out of office over there in Topeka?
It can't be soon enough those poor things.
From Kansas: Letter to the Editor
I saw this letter to the editor to the Editor of the Lawrence Journal-World yesterday, Sunday, out on Facebook.
Letter: Sad state of affairs
To the editor:
I became an avid newspaper reader in 1939 and have maintained that practice into my eighth decade. In all that time, through wars and depression, I have never been as concerned about our political system. From the deadlock in Washington to the would-be oligarchs in Topeka, I believe our democracy is threatened. I will limit this letter to two immediate concerns.
Our education system is under attack. In our state, the teaching profession has been decimated by the failure to fund schools and the removal of teacher rights. As a retired teacher at Lawrence High School, I am concerned about the exodus of good teachers and the quality of education for ALL our youth. Democracy is dependent on an educated and informed electorate.
After retiring, I secured a position as a bailiff in the district court. In 23 years, I worked for a number of judges, some still on the bench and some retired. Every one of them, in my opinion, was well-qualified and fair-minded. Training to correctly interpret and apply the law is a long and difficult process. Our current administration would change a fair method of selecting judges to make it political. It appears to be a clear violation of the separation of the powers of our government.
So what next? Shall we build a wall around Kansas to prevent a mass exit of teachers, judges and our youth? Maybe we could fund it without raising taxes by transferring funds from education, transportation or anything that would benefit those of us who are not wealthy.
You can't say it any better than that.
Mr. Brownback? Kansas Republicans?
Sunday, February 7, 2016
A Way to Help Fix America
A way to help fix America. A way forward, to Get the Big, Ugly Money Out of Our Election System and Government. It's not the ultimate plan I'd want or that we could do by ending campaign contributions completely and making them, campaigns, only 1 or two months long by law but this would be a good--no, great--start.
You can join the group and find more about them (us) at the following links.
And this, obviously, is their YouTube channel.
We can do this. We must. And this change has to come from us. It's the only way it will change, for the good, for good, for the people.
No one but the already-wealthy and corporations aren't for getting the legalized bribery out of our election system and government. At least on this, a large percentage of Americans agree.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Quote of the Day -- Albert Einstein
'''There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. It is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people.
I do not intend to be quiet about it.'"
Albert Einstein, Lincoln University, 3 May 1946, as quoted by J. W. Woods, in "Lincoln U. confers degree on Einstein," Baltimore Afro American, May 11, 1946, p. 2, col. 5 (continued from p. 1, col. 5). No version of this statement appears in the "On race and prejudice" section (pp. 309 ff.) of Alice Calaprice's The ultimate quotable Einstein (Princeton University Press, 2010). Other versions:
"'There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.'"
As quoted by Fred Jerome and Rodney Taylor, in Einstein on race and racism (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 142, citing the Baltimore Afro American (above).
Source: Liber locorum communium
Further Tragedies From Missouri and Kansas Republicans
This is why Missouri needs Republicans out of office in Jefferson City.
Recipient of large campaign donation checks unmoved by calls for ethics reform
We, Missouri, are the only state in the Union that doesn't have limits on campaign contributions.
It's shameful.
It's stupid.
It's irresponsible.
It's certainly not for the people.
It's legalized bribery and it needs to end and soon as possible.
And here's a quick, terrific example of why Kansans need Republicans out of office in Topeka:
That's brilliant, huh? A man might abuse his wife or partner but can still get weapons due to the Republicans actions.
Republicans clearly, clearly need to be voted out of both state houses.
Let's get busy.
Links: Jeff City Gift Takers, Ranked
The Jeff City Gift Culture, by the Numbers
If you aren’t worried about the future of Kansas, here are some reasons to start
Pretty Incredible Kansas City and American History
Dang, Kansas City. Did you know this part of our history?
I just ran across this on a friend's Facebook page. Once I saw this, I had to search it out so I did just that. I came up with this, quickly.
Rector, Sarah (1902–1967)
The Black Past: Remembered
A bit from this link:
Sarah Rector received international attention at the age of eleven when The Kansas City Star in 1913 publicized the headline, “Millions to a Negro Girl.” From that moment Rector’s life became a cauldron of misinformation, legal and financial maneuvering, and public speculation.
More here:
Remembering Sarah Rector,
Creek Freedwoman
It was fascinating and initially sad but fortunately turned out well, overall. Rather than copy and paste it all here, I highly recommend going to one of the article links here and reading. It's incredible Kansas City history but American history on a larger scale, too.
Additional links:
The Unlikely Baroness | This Land Press
Friday, February 5, 2016
Hate Liberals?
Is that you?
You hate "libruls"?
They're--we're--libtards?
Really?
"Liberals got women the right to vote.
Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote.
Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty.
Liberals ended segregation.
Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.
Liberals created Medicare.
Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act.
What did Conservatives do?
They opposed them on every one of those things...every one!
So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor."
--Matt Santos, character in The West Wing
They opposed them on every one of those things...every one!
So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor."
--Matt Santos, character in The West Wing
Conservatives, also, under the George W. Bush administration, got us into two, count 'em, two wars and crashed the economy, too, by the way. And by economy, I don't just mean the US, national economy, I mean the world economy. There was very nearly a global, economic meltdown.
More.
--President John F. Kennedy
They, Liberals, are for the people, first and foremost.
So yeah, call me a Liberal. I'm good with that.
The Kansas City History Too Few Know
The Kansas City, Missouri Public Library group does some wonderful things with presentations that need to be more well-known and probably, possibly, hopefully attended. There's one coming up that I believe more Kansas Citians should know about, attend and learn from. It's this one.
Desegregating the Swope Park
Swimming Pool
Perfectly timed for Black History Month, of course, this gives us insight into the not-that-long-ago past of the city when more of the us were centered around Swope Park and that the main, biggest swimming pool was segregated.
That's whites only. White people only. No blacks. Something unthinkable today, still unconscionable then but the law and practice of the land.
Not only is it terrific, even important history we all should know and never forget but none other than Thurgood Marshall, Jr. is going to be on the panel, discussing the topic.
Some information on the event.
Nearly three years before the Supreme Court’s ruling against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka – the commonly acknowledged start of America’s civil rights movement – the burgeoning struggle for equality was stirred by a 1951 case in Kansas City. The local branch of the NAACP filed suit, successfully, to force the city to end racial segregation at the Swope Park swimming pool.
The plaintiffs’ lead attorney was a future Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. His son, Thurgood Marshall Jr., joins longtime Kansas City activist and former mayor pro tem Alvin Brooks
in a discussion of the case, examining the arguments on both sides, the social context of the times, and the elder Marshall’s role in the outcome. KCUR-FM’s Steve Kraske moderates the conversation.
Co-presented by KCUR and the Federal Court Historical Society of Western Missouri.
Here's a little history on the pool, too, prior to the event.
The WPA gave $400,000 to build the Swope Park swimming pool, a state-of-the-art facility with a refreshment stand, dressing rooms, and space for 3,000 people. The pool opened to white Kansas Citians in 1941, and after a heated court battle it opened to the black community in 1954.
That WPA is, of course, for those too young to know, the Works Progress Administration. You know, our own Federal government, of all of us, supposedly.
It was right around this time, in 1954, when the Swope Park pool opened for blacks AND whites of the city--heaven forbid!--that the "white flight" began in earnest, sending all the honkies and crackers out to the hinterlands of Southern Kansas City and over the state line to Johnson County. God forbid we live together.
So once again, NPR, National Public Radio is also stepping up, with the Library, to bring and present this material to and for us all.
Kudos and many thanks to KCUR, the Kansas City Public Library and all for bringing this to us.
Here's hoping for a great turnout.
Oh, It's "Wealth Distribution", All Right
Right Wingers and Republicans always claim that taxing and taxes and government regulations and other things from Democrats or Progressives are "wealth redistribution" and that they and we want nothing whatever of it.
But they're all for this kind of weath distribution, for sure.
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