A March On Washington is to take place on Saturday, October 2, promoted by 300 liberal groups–including the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force–to promote the goals of education, justice and employment!
Making clear their opposition to the Senate refusing to get past the filibuster and take action on House bills, the various groups have declared their right to claim they are the inheritors of Martin Luther King., Jr. and his August 28, 1963 March on Washington, rather than Glenn Beck who supposedly “accidentally” chose the 47th Anniversary of the March to hold his Tea Party and conservative gathering on the Washington Mall!
The ideas that the March this Saturday are promoting include: raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks, solving the problem of home foreclosures, creating of infrastructure jobs, and solving the immigration crisis!
Interestingly, various religious groups are supporting the march, including the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the National Baptist Convention, and a number of Jewish groups!
Hopefully, the rally will draw more people than the August 28 March, with debate about how many actually showed up at that rally!
This is horribly advertised…my partner and I planned to go…but you can hardly find out ANY information on mainline news, blog posts, or anything else…I’m afraid only a few thousand will be there…UGH…
The ideas that the March this Saturday are promoting include: raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks, solving the problem of home foreclosures, creating of infrastructure jobs, and solving the immigration crisis!
The first two of these ideas seem to counteract the third. We have had several wage increases in the recent decades that have proved to do very little. It sounds like the altruistic thing to do, but what usually happens is that most of this extra income will be taxed and taken by the government anyway or at the worst it will put those businesses holding on by a thread under for good. The fourth is needed, however if by infrastructure jobs you mean internal improvement (IE new roads, improved buildings, parks, etc) it will only be a very temporary solution. It would also be the second thing on the list that the government would have to pay for and thus the taxpayers. And yes, the immigration crisis must be solved, in a humane but logical manner as well.
Please don’t misunderstand me, I think letting Washington know through mass public action is a wonderful thing. However I feel like a few of those issues you had listed are misguided, or at the very least not as large of an issues as many other things are at this time. Why doesn’t anyone ever want to march to fix our running deficit?
Regards
To play devil’s advocate, wouldn’t raising minimum wage cause unemployment to rise because doing such would cause business’s to seek employment over sea’s for cheap labor such as in china. Minimum wage is a benefit to the eastern world, not ours. Extending unemployment benefit’s will cause American’s lazy as they are to procrastinate further wasting government money, it is already too long as it is. In order to create more infrastructure job’s the government would have to spent more money, with the national debt growing on a daily business is this truly a wise thing to do such when we already have enough pointless infrastructure jobs (type the bridge to nowhere in google). And for solving the immigration crisis the only way for there to be open border’s is to end the welfare state because all they do is drain more money and don’t pay taxes but they get the benefit’s of it and if open border’s can not be done deportation and extensive measure’s to catch illegal’s would be done, this would just waste more time and money.