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[misscitcat]

do you know saint martin?

[sexypinkon]

Telfair Museum's PULSE Festival returns with first U.S. show from Caribbean-based David Gumbs

This year’s festival is headlined by Caribbean-born multi-disciplinary artist David Gumbs in his first solo show at a U.S. museum.

~Sexypink~ This looks like so much fun!

[notanotherbookreview]

“Throughout the presidencies of Washington and Adams, who both professed to desire abolition, the practice of slavery increased, extending without national governmental opposition into what would become Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi."

THE FOUNDING FORTUNES by Tom Shachtman

"This was an American failure, but it should be noted that just then most of the slave-importing trade was British and French: in the decade after the Peace of Paris they made, respectively, 1,073 and 727 slaving voyages to the United States. The expansion of slavery into the new territories also increased as an unexpected result of the awarding of one early national patent, for the cotton gin to Eli Whitney. He had two hopes for his invention: One to make a fortune (which didn't happen because the gin became so necessary it was widely reproduced without paying him royalties.) His second hope was that since the cotton gin enabled one man to do the work of fifty, it would end slavery. In this, he similarly misjudged human greed: In response to the cotton gin planters bought fifty to a hundred times more acreage and purchased more slaves to work them with the new machines."

[notanotherbookreview]

Critics have called a wealth tax 'un-American,' but the idea is as old as the American Revolution

Increasing taxes on the wealthy was the favored method of raising revenue among the Founding Fathers and we could learn from those ideas.

Trump’s new budget makes this so useful!  Among the weathy patriots who funded the long revolutionary war  RAISING TAXES on the wealthy was a good idea, progressive taxation another. Be PATRIOTS!  Pay your share!

[notanotherbookreview]

Tom Shachtman

"Tariffs, taxes on the wealthy, the national debt, regional disparities, keeping manufacturing on these shores, our leaders’ private vs. public interests—these were issues present at the birth of this country that retain startling relevance in today’s world."

THE FOUNDING FORTUNES invites comparisons between those wealthy Americans who financed the long Revolution and set up a new nation with no banking system and war debt. 

[notanotherbookreview]

The One Percenters Always Helped Rule America. They Weren’t Always So Self-Serving.

Many of our Founders were patriotic One Percenters. Today’s heirs to them, not so much.

Pub date today for THE FOUNDING FORTUNES by Tom Shachtman (st.Martins)

[notanotherbookreview]

Tapping America's Wealth to Fund the Revolution: Two Good Ideas that Went Awry - Journal of the American Revolution

“Unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place,” Gen. George Washington wrote from Valley Forge on December 23, 1777,[1] to Henry Laurens, the...

From THE FOUNDING FORTUNES by Tom Shachtman, published 1/20/2020 by St.Martin’s Press. 

[biblenewsprophecy]

COGwriter A storm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands in the US Northeast according to the Associated Press: Severe storm leaves about 700K without