(Akiit.com) Each year, the trustees of Social Security and Medicare issue their report delivering the news, invariably dismal, about the financial condition of the nation’s two largest entitlement programs. This year, in the report just issued, it’s worse than usual. Last year, the trustees forecast that Social Security and Medicare’s hospital ...
(Akiit.com) “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” Benito Mussolini When you look at professional sports, especially pro football in the US, you notice a pattern; almost every stadium is named after a corporate entity. Take a look at the NFL stadium ...
(Akiit.com) It’s that time again. It occurs every year around the same time like clockwork. It’s election season. Political signs infiltrate Black neighborhoods, placed by campaign operatives hoping you remember their respective political candidate come election time. More importantly, these political operatives are hoping your familiarity with their respective candidate will ...
(Akiit.com) The most recent unemployment rate report seems to contain nothing but good news. The overall unemployment rate is down to 3.8 percent, the lowest that it has been since 2000. The Black unemployment rate, at 5.9 percent, is lower than it has ever been. With the white unemployment rate at ...
(Akiit.com) Unfortunately, there have been a large number of terrorist attacks that have occurred in this millennium. Of course, 9/11 was one of the worst terrorist attacks of all time, and since then trains and buses have been targeted in numerous countries across the world. In light of the attacks that ...
(Akiit.com) For anyone committed to constitutional government, California looks like a lost cause. The political battle rages between the radical-extreme and moderate-extreme. People and businesses are being driven out of the state. Yet at least one sensible candidate has picked up the banner of good government for November. Election law attorney Mark Meuser ...
(Akiit.com) Remember Obamacare? The fight is far from over on the future of the Obama-era health insurance overhaul. Republicans are making a last-ditch effort this year to turn the program and the money over to the state. This isn’t full Obamacare repeal, but it would make a world of sense. States ...
(Akiit.com) Several recent polls, plus the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism. That, I believe, is a result of their ignorance and indoctrination during their school years, from kindergarten through college. For the most part, neither they nor many of their teachers ...
(Akiit.com) White folks calling the police on innocent Black people has been in the news a lot lately. You had a White student named Sarah Braasch at Yale University calling the police on a fellow Black student, Lolade Siyonbola, who she didn’t know, who had fallen asleep in the study lounge; ...
(Akiit.com) The murder of a Baltimore County police officer by a 16-year-old black male with an extensive criminal past has sparked national outrage. Officer Amy Caprio, 29, was run over and killed after she responded to a 9-1-1 call and approached a group of black males suspected of burglarizing a home ...
(Akiit.com) “Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.” – Whitney M. Young The Main Street Marshall Plan, the National Urban League’s comprehensive blueprint for addressing lack of opportunity ...
(Akiit.com) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, our community was under a full-fledged attack. Crack was in our streets, it was in our schools, it was in our parks, it was in our playgrounds, and for some, it was in our homes. The epidemic wasn’t just affecting one part of ...