I just listened to Rabbi Peter Berg at the Ebenezer Baptist Church as it celebrates its 137th anniversary. Sen. Warnock introduced him with a story from 1965 when Rabbi Jacob Rothschild rallied temples to sponsor an interracial celebration of MLKJ’s Nobel Peace Prize which launched Atlanta as a metropolitan city, “too busy to hate.”…
…I was interested in a factoid you shared in Las Vegas yesterday. “3.4 million people with Medicare would have saved an average of nearly $70 on shingles, tetanus and other vaccines last year had the Inflation Reduction Act been in effect — a total savings of about $230 million.” I hope the right people were listening to that one….
…“A Silent Sangha? Buddhist Monks in Post-coup Myanmar.” It included the idea that we are seeing “a break from the past, when monks played a significant and vocal role at moments of political crisis (making) room for youth – particularly young women – to take on prominent roles in the struggle.”
…So, all the press on your $6.8 trillion government spending plan, $31.4 trillion debt, etc., is not my favorite topic, but it is inescapable. I’m grateful that you have some brilliant Black women working on this with you. It’s too bad that Cecilia Rouse is returning to Princeton sometime soon. Luckily, Shalanda Young remains….
…Poor financial literacy may bring us all down as most Americans also do not understand that Social Security is unsustainable in a country of baby-boomers. When you are 92, Social Security’s main trust fund will run out of $$ because we’ll have too many elderly folk getting benefits & not enough younger folk paying into the system. …
