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Politics Done Right with Egberto WilliesSaturday 12:00 Noon Central/1:00 PM Eastern Call In, talk and/or Listen: (646) 929-2495 Listen On Computer/Smartphone Live/Podcast: HERE This week’s showThis week was consumed with talk of going to war again. While every moral and ethical person must feel the pain and suffering of maimed and killed Syrians in their civil war, entry into this war by America will make things no better. This war is likely between several groups of authoritarians that do not have the interest of everyday Syrians at hand. Unfortunately the drumbeat to war does nothing more than drown out the civil war here at home. While we are not killing our citizens with napalm, chemical weapons, bombs, or guns, we are killing them nonetheless with policies that kill over time whether it is from a corrupt healthcare system or a dysfunctional economic system. This week fast food workers continued their protest demanding a hike in the minimum wage to a living wage. Unfortunately unless all Americans engage to demand that ‘we the people’, the government makes it law, it will go nowhere. With unemployment high, there is always someone else ready to take the crumbs. That is the reason why the Right Wing does not want to extend unemployment. They want that pool of the unemployed that is willing to accept any wage including slave wages. We will talk about all these issues on the program today. Give me a call. Let’s talk. My Blog Posts Of The Week
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Sir, it was my pleasure to have a few moments of your time on the phone today. I got to express my favorite line of there are two types of people in this world those who have money work for them and those who work for money. Ownership vs workers…you know the game and the rules. Keep up the good work.
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I enjoyed having you on the show. Please come back and please share the same link so others can listen to the podcast. They will hear your most excellent engagement.
-Egberto
I can’t participate with your program so choose this means of communication. I don’t agree with your views “another war” …meaning our upcoming attack on Syria. This is not another war…it’s another battle battle within a war. We both know that only hard won freedom has a true and lasting value. The conflict within Iraq is an example of that…the battles being fought there are not freedom per say…we gave them that…it’s now for freedom of religion, and when enough blood is shed maybe the general population will stand up and say ..Enough! Now to the battlefield that is Syria…fighting for freedom (whatever their motives) is a good thing in the long run. If this civil war was left to just the Syrians without outside help or influence …well then fine let ‘er run. But this is not the case, both Russia and Iran are deep into it supplying manpower and conventional weapons. So one could argue that the same could be to help the other side. But when genocide is introduced, then it’s time to step in and NOT win the war for them…but bring things back to an equal fight. In the long run it will be the general population that settles this…It’s kind of funny but I can think back to another war for freedom where a third party stepped in and changed the course of the war…Viva la France
Egberto, I cannot escape the impression that what we are seeing goes back to age the old question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” It should be a “no brainer” for a christian. But in a world where “the end justifies the means” carries ever more weight, paying too much attention to it, more often than not, turn into a very pronounced disadvantage.