BRIGHTMOOR INSTITUTE

The purpose of the web site, the cyber institute is to examine the conditions of the worker, AND MAKE THE CASE FOR A LARGER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-WHO HOLD THE PURSE STRINGS.

I will consider the course of events in Brightmoor (NW Detroit) while I lived there.

Brightmoor is an area that has been destroyed as a viable neighborhood. Twenty-five years ago it was like Mayberry.

I am open minded and intellectually honest, if not too well educated. I will do my best to explain what happened there. This is a future goal. For now this page examines the following:

Please browse the page and comment. 

YOUR INPUT IS ENCOURAGED my email is: joecolemanbrightmoor@yahoo.com

my blog is at http://joebearhughes.blogspot.com

have a great rest of the day

PRIVATE OPULENCE-PUBLIC SQUALOR

Above is a phrase from a John Kenneth Galbraith book. He wrote many books about economics and advised President Kennedy. he was a Harvard man and stood about 6'7" tall.

The US is a very rich nation. It is therefore puzzling why we don't have public, one-payer health insurance like the established European states. Germany has used the same cradle-to-grave medical plan it now has since the Kaiser ruled in the 19th century. It even survived the 3rd Reich.

What is it about us? I believe politics have disintegrated to the level of selling chewing gum and dish soap. When the candidate spends more time on "gay" marriage than he does the ability of the system to provide for the sick, aged and infirm; it is worse than George Orwell 1984 time. It is a disaster.

I am a loyal American, to my knowledge no other people live under such a good and liberal constitution. This is by definition a liberal democracy. The denigration of the word liberal in the popular speech is sad. No matter who is in power the US is a giving nation-in relation to the contributions of any other nation.

How is it that we seeming cannot offer health care and we run deficit budgets?

It is not generally talked about that the constitution calls for a member of the House of Representatives to sit for no FEWER than 30,000 people.

Presently we have 435 members in the House. Many states have more senators than congressmen or congresswomen.

This number is fixed by Public Law number five of the 62nd Congress (PubL 62-5) a 1913 federal statute that tailored the final number to what was deemed then to be the capacity of the Capitol Building. In this time of building hockey rinks in Phoenix and a whole city out of thin air like Las Vegas; harnessing our representation to the size of any physical structure is unnecessary and gives the terrorist element the notion that we are so attached to these symbolic things that we could be damaged by the loss of them.

We ought to show the world that we can evolve; that the nature of self government is vital, alive; and that violence will not have the last word in this world; that the ability to organize our lives and live together is stronger than our resort to harm, no matter how justified it seems.

The worries about campaign finance would be erased if the elections became so unpredictable they couldn't be bought or foretold; let the chips fall where they may. 

The loss of our charismatic leaders of the sixties to bullets is something we have not come to terms with. Are we to accept that the most popular and inspired leaders must all meet a similar end? That is if they make any headway and grasp the ring of power? Click on image of RFK to access truth telling about those assassinations.