A look for underlying causes and trends

[Gerry]

<<I do think the difference between minimum wage and actual cost of living represents slave wages.<<

In Santa Fe there is a city minimum wage, $9.00 per hour and increasing to $9.50 next year. If you live in Albuquerque and ride the bus to work and back you could probably get by on this...But if you live in Santa Fe $9 isn't going to buy you much of a life. However, it is a good gesture.
G

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:39 PM
  Subject: Re: A look for underlying causes and trends


  Igor,
  Stop spouting off like the taliban. I wasn't talking about free anything, just the effect of free hate radio, as opposed to pay-per-listen for liberal views. Free speech ain't what it's cracked up to be.
  I do think the difference between minimum wage and actual cost of living represents slave wages. I also believe that capital punishment is institutionalized lynching.  Thirty three percent of the inmates on death row are black, and they only number ten percent of the population. The south went Republican in response to LBJs  civil rights legislation. Liberals became elitist when JFK brought some class and style to the White House, with a Brain Trust in tow. Know-nothings weren't gonna put up with all that evolving crap. It's about racism and a deepseated longing for a return of slavery--that's the lure of the Republican renaissance, marching to the tune of right wing hate radio screed.
  How about that Kinky Freedman,
  FM

  Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:

    Nothing worth its salt is free. 

    FM: How about being able to work in a hate free environment?

    Of course we all want free roads, no tolls, 
    free schools, no taxes please, free police, free firemen, free 
    food,..........yep


    Charlie Loving



    >From: Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com>
    >Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
    <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
    >To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
    <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
    >Subject: Re: Fresh Air America, not on KOKE AM in Central Austin
    >Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:26:35 -0700 (PDT)
    >
    >Clark, et al,
    >If our society sanctions the death penalty for some criminals convicted 
    of killing why don't we execute corporations when they kill the populace, 
    with faulty products that they know are faulty, practices that pollute, 
    carelessness re job safety, etc.?
    >Harris County is where 55% of all persons on Texas Death Row were 
    sentenced. Could it be the Capital of Punishment? Houston, we have a 
    problem...
    >
    >Somehow here in Central Austin we can only get KOKE AM driving around in 
    a car--it doesn't come in on the house radios. I heard that means we have to 
    get cable radio to listen to Air America. How can they keep the broadcast 
    from coming-in indoors and yet transmit into a car radio in the same area? 
    Roger, help! Radio Shack tried to sign me up. It's just like Real Time with 
    Bill Maher makes liberals need to subscribe to HBO. They want us all hooked 
    up to our favorite liberal talk shows ONLY IF WE SHELL OUT MONTHLY tithes. 
    How come is it more expensive being a liberal than a rabid hate driven 
    conservative? I protest.
    >
    >At election school a couple of women were wondering if they could 
    initiate a class action suit against an employer who demeans, browbeats and 
    otherwise takes out agression on underling employees merely calling it a 
    "management style." I often ran into this as a temp. Many 
    supervisors act like their mission is to be an up close and personal abuse 
    machine. The women worked as UT staff, and I know exactly what they were 
    talking about. People who really need their jobs often have to put up with 
    an abominal amount of daily psychological abuse just hanging on to them. 
    Read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickled and Dimed.
    >
    >I believe that hate radio effects human conduct.
    >
    >FM
    >
    >clarksantos at earthlink.net> wrote:
    >Living is a privilege, not a right. Lets operate more like a humane
    >society or glue factory and get rid of all the gimps and stove-ups who
    >live in the beautiful hotel owned "Restful Villas" or 
    "Garden Heights"
    >as a blow to greedy doctors, drug companies and corporate profiteers.
    >This process will help Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and provide
    >many nice parking places close to the doors of all enterprises.
    >
    >Survival of the fittest has been established for eons. If your body
    >tends croak on second hand smoke, then so be it. If you can't afford
    >it, cut it off or unplug it! If you don't like society subtly fucking
    >you for profit or control, withdraw, move, change societies, or all of
    >the above!
    >
    >El Patron
    >
    >
    >
    >On May 2, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Harry Edwards wrote:
    >
    >Sorry folks, smoking is a privilege, not a right. Think public health
    >when you think of the ban. It has been proved again and again that
    >smoking, first- and second-hand, kills. Would you take seriously an
    >ordinance whose punishment was only a slap on the hand? The public
    >health issue is largely ignored in the debate over this proposed
    >ordinance.
    >
    >Two good people whom many of you knew, Kit Teele and Jim Groenewegen,
    >died of lung cancer after many years of smoking. People choose to smoke
    >and I do not favor taking that choice away. But they can keep their
    >smoke out of my air and that's what this ordinance tries to address.
    >
    >Harry Edwards
    >
    >On May 2, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Peggy Jennings wrote:
    >
    > > This morning I heard two sides to the current proposed smoking 
    ban.
    > > I understand the dangers of secondary smoke and know a few 
    musicians
    > > that
    > > have died of lung cancer, too.
    > > Smoking ban or not I am not likely to make any live club rich. My
    > > bedtime is
    > > way too early and my spending is limited.
    > > Both commentaries had good points. I am torn on this issue.
    > >
    > > The thing that gets me is the criminalization and high fines
    > > associated with
    > > the ban. Fines and punishment apply to both clubs and individuals. 
    It
    > > is
    > > not just this issue. Th ere are several issues working their way
    > > through city
    > > commissions that seem to have the same remedy.
    > > I am weary of the "there ought to be law and let's make the 
    fines high"
    > > attitude.
    > >
    > > Any advise on how to vote???
    > > Peggy and Charley
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "Harry Edwards"
    > > To:
    > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:37 AM
    > > Subject: Fresh Air
    > >
    > >
    > >> Just heard that R. Crumb will be on Fresh Air this afternoon: 
    3 pm on
    > >> KUT. twisty
    > >
    >



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