One Engineer Saves Us From Ourselves!

Kshama Sawant was born in India in 1973, which means that she is ten years older than me --she is 40!   She is important because she advocates for ideas that are realistic and for people who have a hard time advocating for themselves.

She has just been elected to the Seattle City Council and won over a gentleman who had been on the council for 16 years.  Kshama is a socialist and formally was a software engineer.  She believes in economic equality, expanding public transportation, taxing the wealthy, and especially raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

This picture means that she's been on the news promoting socialism which is the opposite of capitalism.  Socialists believe in cooperative and common ownership of resources.

I like this picture because it represents money becoming more up to date.  This idea would be the first woman on our currency and it represent new forms of currency and would inspire people to put new or current important people on our currency instead of old people that no one remembers.

 

These two pictures represent her not being elitist and fights with the common person for equality.  She also grew up in poverty and understands the struggle of both the middle class and the poor.  My personal hope for her is that she inspires young people to become socialist and to advocate for people who can not advocate for themselves, because she represents what America is suppose to be about -- having immigrants coming here and changing the country for the better…just like it says in our constitution.  This is more proof that socialism is no longer a dirty word and capitalism is becoming the new dirty word!