Posted on 09/28/2010 10:41:43 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
In Washington this Saturday, I will join tens of thousands of Americans to march for jobs, justice and education. The march is called together under the banner of One Nation: Working Together, a large coalition of more than 400 organizations.
Why do we march? We march for hope. We've seen the politics of fear. Fear that America is in permanent decline. Fear that America is being changed for the worse. Fear that the president is not a citizen.
One Nation calls us back to positive purpose. This nation can't go return to the ideas that drove us off the cliff. We can't allow entrenched interests to control our government and weaken the common good. We can't listen to those who stand in the way of change.
The vast majority of Americans understand the need for reform. We have to create jobs and put people to work, invest in renewable energy and capture a lead role in the green industrial revolution that is sweeping the globe. We need to empower workers and hold bankers accountable.
We can't be misled by misleading arguments. Consider the debate about taxes. Under the Obama proposal, the wealthiest Americans -- those who make more than $250,000 -- will get the same tax breaks as everyone else on the first $250,000 of their income. But it doesn't make sense to borrow an extra $700 billion over the next decade to give them an additional tax break for the money they make over $250,000.
We march for the unity that is the strength of our diversity -- young and old, black and white, yellow and brown, men and women, immigrants of different generations, small business owners and workers, teachers and students, the poor and the affluent, people of all faiths. A quilt like my mother used to make: many patches of many colors and textures, bound together by a common thread to make something of beauty and warmth.
We choose common ground over racial battlegrounds. We march so that children -- all children -- can have a fair and healthy start in life, and a world-class education from pre-K to college. We march so that workers -- all workers -- can fairly share in the profits and productivity that they help to create.
The New York Times suggests that our agenda is as extensive as our coalition, but we know the big changes we need. Jobs now. A commitment to world-class education for all. Justice even for the powerful; opportunity even for the poor. We represent an America confident enough to address the challenges it faces and overcome the powerful interests and lobbies that stand in the way.
This march will reflect the emerging reform majority that showed its potential in 2008. That majority is committed to transforming America, not taking it back to an idealized past that never existed. That majority works for a government by, for and of the people, not an instrument for the moneyed and the powerful. We've heard the voices of reaction. We share the same anger about our current condition, but like our founders and each succeeding generation, we look to make America better, not take it backward.
So this Saturday, we will march to revive hope. When our spirits are broken, our faith surrenders. So we must march. We can survive broken sidewalks and broken buildings. We cannot survive the collapse of spirit. In these difficult hours, you can't fight fate with fists and guns. You fight fate with faith. Faith is the substance of what is hoped for, evidence of what is unseen. Even with our backs against the wall, we can see a new heaven and a new earth -- the old one passes away. We have been down, but the ground is no place for a champion. We are one nation, if we make it so. We are a nation of hope if we keep hope alive. And so we march on 10-2-10, and we will march to the polls on 11-2-10.
So many marches-—so little time. I’d like to go to this, but can’t make it this time.
The RATS and Racebaiters have nothing to offer but hatred and resentment.
“Cut his n*ts off.”
Of course I meant that I’d like to go as a protester to them and carry a snarky sign attacking the march—forgot to mention that.....
Detroit is UNBELIEVABLE ! ! ! !
Guaranteed Rat attack ... BS quote follows ...
“invest in renewable energy and capture a lead role in the green industrial revolution that is sweeping the globe.”
Isn’t he blatantly stealing Alvin Greene’s campaign platform? Jobs, Justice, and Education, right?
This is being done so often now, these marches(of this ilk) are losing completely any relevance.
Mr. Jackson: Isn’t it better to teach a man to fish, instead of GIVING him the fish?
“The War on Poverty” has created a perma underclass.
Nice going, chump.
Aren’t they having too many rallies as counter demonstrations to Glenn Beck?
A lot of the liberals may sit this one out and go to Jon Stewart’s rally on Oct. 30th. That’s the big one right before Halloween and election day, which was supposed to put Glenn Beck in his place. And that’s the one which voters will have freshest in their minds as they go vote on November 2nd.
Why are the liberals never called to account for the failures of the war on poverty?
We have spent many trillions of dollars on various anti-poverty programs in the past 40+ years. And the results are questionable at best. And at worst, we have evidence that all the gov’t programs didn’t do anything to lift people out of poverty, revive the inner cities, improve schools, and all the rest of the wonderful goals of the war on poverty.
Good points, all, Dilbert.
I don’t think either one of these rallies will draw flies.
After all, how does one really and truly “restore sanity” by endorsing socialist policies.
Socialism has never worked - anywhere.
Wow so they won't be voting for the Dems this time? LOL They had better find a better message because this one makes people mad that they think we are that stupid!
More good points!
But now that something for nothing has been given away for decades, it will require a stout heart to reduce those entitlements.
I used to work in a northeastern legislature, and once anyone made a move to bring spending into line, wow, did those phones ring!
More marches! Bring it on!
These fools who have never had an original idea in their lives, are competing to “show up” Beck and his wildly successful Restoring Honor rally.
What they haven’t figured out is that if they have too many “marches” in one month, people will get burned out and lose interest. No matter how many they hold, it would be a miracle if ALL their efforts put together drew as many as Beck drew on just one day.
That's write, ass-wipe; those "ideas" were the welfare mentality, trampling of the Constitution and its intent, and creation of a politically-correct society that was criminalized when it called a spade, a spade.
I think “tens of thousands” will be an overly optimistic prediction.
Compare black unemployment to where it was during the Million Man March. Then consider the enthusiasm gap.
Sharpton could only come up with 3,000 to “defend” MLK’s legacy from Glenn Beck. How will Jesse get tens of thousand to go to DC for a bitch session?
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