LETTERS TO WA STATE SENATORS MARIA CALDWELL and PATTY MURRAY
03.28.20.
With all this taxpayer money going to corporations—and we can safely bet that the "mysteriously named businesses critical to national security" (noted below) includes Boeing—for the sake of the future habitability of our planet we need to advocate for, and pass laws, that assert a proper degree of public say in how corporations prioritize their decision making and business choices.
"The enormity of this bailout is being under-reported. The number you’re hearing is $500 billion. Of that, $75 billion goes to the airline industry and the mysteriously named “businesses critical to national security.” The other $425 helps capitalize a $4.25 trillion, with a T, leveraged lending facility at the Federal Reserve. The taxpayer dollars would soak up any losses from that lending program. The loans won’t be secret anymore, but the oversight is largely after the fact, without subpoena power, and mainly reduced to writing reports. How exactly do you expect a small, underfunded panel to find fraud in a $4.25 trillion lending facility! Especially when the current administration explicitly believes they are not required to turn over anything to Congress."
—David Dayen The American Prospect 03.25.20.
Forty years of rollbacks and expecting corporations to abide by voluntary guidelines has been a complete disaster for ordinary people and the environment. In Washington state this means we have to hold to account, not least, the Boeing corporation, a big provider of jobs, and at least one third funded by government contracts and financial favors (ie public money). To date we have had nil say in the fact that Boeing remains a hub for perpetual war-making, when it should, in my opinion, in the current time be retro-fitting to make ventilators, and in the near to mid-term, be nationalized as part of The Green New Deal to make products that help us all have a future.
sincerely
Danbert Nobacon
Twisp WA
98856
lyrics
NIGEL: Hey We’ve known each other for a while. I’ve been meaning to ask you?
REBEKAH: Wait! Wait! What’s that? It’s like, It’s like this buzzing in my ear.
NIGEL: It’s probably just a Mosquito! …
REBEKAH: No. You don’t hear it? Aaagh! Maybe it’s tinnitus? My grandma had tinnitus. It’s like ringing now.
NIGEL: Wait … Your right … I do hear something. Sounds like a couple of blocks away. Someone’s car alarm going off?
REBEKAH: Oh. Jeez. It’s my cell phone … Hi! Yeh, no I was just talking to— to my friend … no I’m fine. Yeh. He’s—. Yeh whatever is up your butt too. Sorry about that.
NIGEL: No problem, but—
REBEKAH: But what?
NIGEL: Now you got me hearing it. It’s like—this … constant humming
REBEKAH: It’s gonna drive me frickin’ nuts.
NIGEL: White noise. Just have to try to ignore it.
REBEKAH: Droning on and on.
NIGEL: Hey no. Listen. It’s music in the distance now.
REBEKAH: Yeh? … You might be right. And somebody’s laughing
NIGEL: Ya Ya Ya Ya! What’s the joke pal? Sounds like a party?
REBEKAH: Yeh it’s a party alright. Fireworks! But it’s not July already?
NIGEL: Oh I remember now. Maud and Jerry across the street are having a BBQ. You fancy—er’ ?
REBEKAH: Mm? Sure Let’s—.
NIGEL: Course I can smell it now.
REBEKAH: Brats!
NIGEL: No. That’ll be the kids out back playing soccer.
REBEKAH: Somebody must have moved the goalposts though
NIGEL: Yeh I can’t even see them.
REBEKAH: Ohh! Cos it got so smokey all of a sudden.
NIGEL: Must be from the grill.
REBEKAH: I can’t see … My glasses. Aaagghhh! All fogged up.
NIGEL: What the—? You don’t think the house is on fire?
REBEKAH: Holy Crap! What was that?
NIGEL: Sounds like a war going on …
REBEKAH: Nah! I didn’t see anything on the news about it?
On second thoughts though?
NIGEL: Jeez … in both speakers!
REBEKAH: Surroundsound War!
NIGEL: Phew. Smoke’s clearing at least.
REBEKAH: And some peace and quiet at last (pregnant pause) Weird. I smell Marshmallows now.
NIGEL: Me too. Wars? Schmores.
REBEKAH: No, no no no no! It’s coming back again.
NIGEL: Maybe it’s like a secret track?
REBEKAH: You think if we turned it up, we might—?
NIGEL: I—. No. Jerry has a pretty expensive rig. And he’s real precious about his stuff. Don’t wanna blow the speakers.
REBEKAH: I suppose. Where is Jerry anyway? And where the party go all of a sudden?
NIGEL: What?
REBEKAH: There goes the neighborhood … like a forgotten dream
NIGEL: Hey! What’s that you got on your phone?
REBEKAH: It’s a new app. Well it’s a new version of an old app.
NIGEL: What does it do?
KIRA: You know. It like takes the— like the temperature.
NIGEL: You mean like—?
REBEKAH: Yeh. Well no. See look … its flashing green we’re good.
NIGEL: But look it says “WAR down in the mix.”
REBEKAH: No that’s a typo. See spell-check. WAY down in the mix. There we go. Situation normal.
NIGEL: You think it’s good now?
REBEKAH: The app says it is.
NIGEL: Just a bit of white noise?
REBEKAH: Yeh. Dust on the needle.
NIGEL: Way down in the mix?
REBEKAH: Situation Normal.
NIGEL: I guess.
REBEKAH: So, what was it you wanted to ask me about?
credits
from MESMERICA - EXPECT A CIRCUS,
released June 19, 2020
DANBERT NOBACON voice, sound effects
KIRA WOOD CRAMER voice,
ANNA DOOLEY violin
MELL DETTMER sound effects
NIGEL HUNTER midi keyboards
Danbert Nobacon & The Axis of DissentTwisp, Washington
Danbert Nobacon 'freak music legend,' 'mischievous political goblin,'got an associate degree in the science of children’s
play in England in the 1990’s whilst moonlighting in the punk rock band Chumbawamba.
The new album "Kochtopus's Garden—Now That's What I Call Capitalism—The Musical" lands on Mayday 05.01.24....more
supported by 5 fans who also own “WAR DOWN IN THE MIX”
Exceptional punk music! I love sloppy punk, but this manages to be clean without without losing any energy at all (maybe even getting more of it in the process!). Can't recommend it enough and show them to everyone I know zacharypinkham
supported by 5 fans who also own “WAR DOWN IN THE MIX”
I was surfing YouTube and this got looped into my music video mix... seen them live in Detroit for the 2024 North American tour and they crushed it! Awesome band full of energy and fun to watch! nagzxxx
