Incremental Change was not good enough almost 20 year ago when I wrote to the US House of Lords, Kennedy and Kassebaum, and was told by Mick Moran that my five basic pillars, er, principles were "too radical" and ny Dean Rosen, who would later go to work for a British Pharmaceutical Company, that the Senator said, "We have to do things incrementally".
Here it is twenty years later, and I have gone far beyond just stating the basic principles.
Yet, all we get is BS out of DC. Of course, DC cannot do it by themselves. I believe that is the first thing we must recognize.
I have been trying to get my health plan clear and communicated to everyone, but that is a very difficult charge (even worse than Anthony Mason ;-) ) given a limited stage and the frustration of non-response to my efforts.
Oui? Si?
See? We? d
Kelp!
I need somebuddy
Kelp!
Everybuddy!
- with the greatest respect to John Lennon
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation. and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples Equity Union
Eugene, OR
(541)343-3808
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
ProvidersUnion: Posted to “Michael Moore”
I ain't fakin'.
Now, here's the "prescription". All the Physicians and Allied Health Workers and the Owners and Workers of Hospitals and Insurance Companies join that Union and face the FACT that their revenue levels be reduced by, let's say 30 to 40% in the next ten years and staffing levels cut to a similar, yet somewhat less, amount.
There will be unemployment compensation for all workers and eventually for the uninitiated a lesser guaranteed income. All efforts by the Union working within and with other sectors would be to try and guarantee placement and/or re-training.
For example, there needs to be an increased presence in the field of wellness education and wellness policy and program implementation. I am not "talking" about the early screening shams, I am writing about environmental/public health issues. There will also be need for the ethical practice of sorting out what is really medically necessary and beneficial relative to the terrible fraud and abuse practiced by the medical profession and rammed down our every orifice by the medical industrial complex.
Enough for now.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples' Equity Union
Eugene, OR
Now, here's the "prescription". All the Physicians and Allied Health Workers and the Owners and Workers of Hospitals and Insurance Companies join that Union and face the FACT that their revenue levels be reduced by, let's say 30 to 40% in the next ten years and staffing levels cut to a similar, yet somewhat less, amount.
There will be unemployment compensation for all workers and eventually for the uninitiated a lesser guaranteed income. All efforts by the Union working within and with other sectors would be to try and guarantee placement and/or re-training.
For example, there needs to be an increased presence in the field of wellness education and wellness policy and program implementation. I am not "talking" about the early screening shams, I am writing about environmental/public health issues. There will also be need for the ethical practice of sorting out what is really medically necessary and beneficial relative to the terrible fraud and abuse practiced by the medical profession and rammed down our every orifice by the medical industrial complex.
Enough for now.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples' Equity Union
Eugene, OR
12/7/09 Post to AFL-CIO Blog
Yes, Cherry, you are correct.
There have always been these tendencies relative to Labor/"Management" Relations, and the real exclusion of thinkers, organizers, agitators, and brave strikers and fighters who often if not most of the time had the best interests of workers and the benefit of the poor, and more recently the natural environment/resource base in their minds, their hearts, their bodies.
You are right that Organized Labor has been, as we so colorfully say "blown out of the water", particularly in the last thirty years. I would venture a guess that many if not most who built the once strong labor movement in the USA, if alive, would admit that their complicity with Capitalists after they achieved a relative parity was a huge strategic mistake.
Did you know that Lawrence Summers, who was Clinton's Treasury Secretary and Geithner's boss and mentor, before the latter became Chief of the Federal Reserve of the Empire City was one of Ronald Reagan's Chief Economic Advisors?
Anyone who had a good introductory Economics course would know that Say's "Law", which supply-side economics is based on, is totally fallacious.
We now find ourselves in the very precarious position of a post over-supply side economy, where the off-shoring has deadened demand and accompanied by an imploding finite resource supply.
That's all for now.
It looks like the best we can do, these days, is keep chippin' away.
I have a sincere Cynical hope that that will change soon.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples' Equity Union
Eugene, OR
There have always been these tendencies relative to Labor/"Management" Relations, and the real exclusion of thinkers, organizers, agitators, and brave strikers and fighters who often if not most of the time had the best interests of workers and the benefit of the poor, and more recently the natural environment/resource base in their minds, their hearts, their bodies.
You are right that Organized Labor has been, as we so colorfully say "blown out of the water", particularly in the last thirty years. I would venture a guess that many if not most who built the once strong labor movement in the USA, if alive, would admit that their complicity with Capitalists after they achieved a relative parity was a huge strategic mistake.
Did you know that Lawrence Summers, who was Clinton's Treasury Secretary and Geithner's boss and mentor, before the latter became Chief of the Federal Reserve of the Empire City was one of Ronald Reagan's Chief Economic Advisors?
Anyone who had a good introductory Economics course would know that Say's "Law", which supply-side economics is based on, is totally fallacious.
We now find ourselves in the very precarious position of a post over-supply side economy, where the off-shoring has deadened demand and accompanied by an imploding finite resource supply.
That's all for now.
It looks like the best we can do, these days, is keep chippin' away.
I have a sincere Cynical hope that that will change soon.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples' Equity Union
Eugene, OR
Equity Union Inculcation - Attempted Post on Moore's Website
Yes, but even mutual insurance companies are not the answer because there is nothing mutual about the make-up of their portfolios.
An Equity Union is a better idea in that the participants could be, if the for-profit exploiters were not allowed to lie and steal and cheat and exploit their way through their lives. In other words, if we could get a voluntary consensus for world unity and cooperation with the locus being every individual/every local community, inter-community, inter-regional, and world round based on the principles of meeting needs and reasonable wants in an inclusive, humane, equitable, wellness-oriented, quality of life, peaceful and sustainable principled manner based on a plan and implement modus operandi.
Such would constitute a true mutual.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
An Equity Union is a better idea in that the participants could be, if the for-profit exploiters were not allowed to lie and steal and cheat and exploit their way through their lives. In other words, if we could get a voluntary consensus for world unity and cooperation with the locus being every individual/every local community, inter-community, inter-regional, and world round based on the principles of meeting needs and reasonable wants in an inclusive, humane, equitable, wellness-oriented, quality of life, peaceful and sustainable principled manner based on a plan and implement modus operandi.
Such would constitute a true mutual.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Relative to Unemployment Compensation: to AFL-CIO Blog
I had a form of unemployment compensation (Private Disability), which paid 60% of my previous income.
After about one year, the Private Insurer insisted that I apply for Social Security, saying that they would cut off my benefits, if I did not.
After my Social Security came through, the application and approval process took about six months, but SSDI paid me back wages, the Private Insurer carved out the Social Security, making it approximately a 50-50 proposition for about another year.
Then the Privates dropped out. My income, however, did not halve, because in my particular situation the Social Security was not taxable.
Structural unemployment should be viewed as a disability (of the system).
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples' Equity Union
Eugene, OR
(541) 343-3808
After about one year, the Private Insurer insisted that I apply for Social Security, saying that they would cut off my benefits, if I did not.
After my Social Security came through, the application and approval process took about six months, but SSDI paid me back wages, the Private Insurer carved out the Social Security, making it approximately a 50-50 proposition for about another year.
Then the Privates dropped out. My income, however, did not halve, because in my particular situation the Social Security was not taxable.
Structural unemployment should be viewed as a disability (of the system).
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Peoples' Equity Union
Eugene, OR
(541) 343-3808
Monday, December 7, 2009
An Open? Letter to Michael Moore Prompted by a Health Care Reform Essay
I'm getting tired of not being "heard" and with your incessant inculcation concerning what we already have, a certain consensus on, the need to have a single, or more accurately, double payer health care system.
When you all rail against the Medical Payer Corporations that have diversified into Medical Provider Corporations and vice versa, you are accurately scratching the surface of the health problem and the problems associated with the Capitalist system.
But, we must use this potentially valuable resource that Buffy is providing us and do more than futilely scratch away at the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and all associated "we're only in it for the money" Leviathan.
I'm tired of being ignored with respect to my working plan for a libertarian socialist alternative of world unity and cooperation, which will fundamentally change the ways and means that resources are allocated to meet the needs of people in an inclusive, humane, equitable, wellness, quality of life, peaceful, and sustainable manner.
I appreciate a good laugh as much as anybuddy, and Michael is incisive with his humor and his critical assessment. But we need to do more than expose and criticize. We need to provide a workable alternative. I have done this and will continue to try from my proletarian platform to get my words "heard".
I don't think that a MikeMorin.org website is what we need. In lieu of that is a cooperative amalgamation and alliance, perhaps a PeoplesEquityUnion.org, that would be a good start but not enough.
Michael. I love your work and I love you, but we must go beyond (yet still include) the target marketing of the protest/disillusioned and concerned with the disenfranchised, perhaps majority (i.e. the competitive anti-establishment "vote") and work to establish a working cooperative pro-active alternative plan and implement ecological economic redevelopment modus operandi.
Now, it is unrealistic of me to think that Michael reads every post, but those who do, can you please see that it is important that he reads this one and, if possible, the others that I have posted on this website?
We're One
but we're not the same
we've got to help each other
got to work together
-Bono
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
peoplesequityunion@earthlink.net
(541) 343-3808
When you all rail against the Medical Payer Corporations that have diversified into Medical Provider Corporations and vice versa, you are accurately scratching the surface of the health problem and the problems associated with the Capitalist system.
But, we must use this potentially valuable resource that Buffy is providing us and do more than futilely scratch away at the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and all associated "we're only in it for the money" Leviathan.
I'm tired of being ignored with respect to my working plan for a libertarian socialist alternative of world unity and cooperation, which will fundamentally change the ways and means that resources are allocated to meet the needs of people in an inclusive, humane, equitable, wellness, quality of life, peaceful, and sustainable manner.
I appreciate a good laugh as much as anybuddy, and Michael is incisive with his humor and his critical assessment. But we need to do more than expose and criticize. We need to provide a workable alternative. I have done this and will continue to try from my proletarian platform to get my words "heard".
I don't think that a MikeMorin.org website is what we need. In lieu of that is a cooperative amalgamation and alliance, perhaps a PeoplesEquityUnion.org, that would be a good start but not enough.
Michael. I love your work and I love you, but we must go beyond (yet still include) the target marketing of the protest/disillusioned and concerned with the disenfranchised, perhaps majority (i.e. the competitive anti-establishment "vote") and work to establish a working cooperative pro-active alternative plan and implement ecological economic redevelopment modus operandi.
Now, it is unrealistic of me to think that Michael reads every post, but those who do, can you please see that it is important that he reads this one and, if possible, the others that I have posted on this website?
We're One
but we're not the same
we've got to help each other
got to work together
-Bono
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
peoplesequityunion@earthlink.net
(541) 343-3808
Friday, December 4, 2009
Unemployment and Social Security: AFL-CIO Blog
First of all, the reported unemployment rates (though reportedly relatively high) are a gross misrepresentation of the workers' and potential workers' plight.
I would guess that you all know that the unemployment rate is only the number of those who were working covered by unemployment compensation funds that they are now collecting, unless they got “fired”.
I'm not an expert on this, but if I remember correctly, the law in Massachusetts was that only firms with 25 employees or more were required to pay into the State fund.
At least, fortunately, we have a Democratic majority in Congress, so there has been Federal Extensions on the time limits associated with most, if not all, State Unemployment Programs.
Secondly. Tricky Willy Clinton, to manies potential or actual benefit, eliminated or reduced that villain with a terrible name, Welfare, while putting many if not some of those manies on Social Security. Social Security tends to be overly miserly to those truely in need and unnecessary for some, if not many, of the elderly.
Based on recent reports, I have roughly calculated that 1 in 5 citizens of the USA are receiving Social Security "compensation".
So you see, Virginia, the seasonal stimulus is not anywhere close to being true.
Besides, manufacturing is industrial, whereas people are much more happy workers when they have the opportunity and education to be artisan industrious.
In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
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