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Please Join Me In Washington:
I need help with the Forgotten American March on Washington DC. While the Forgotten American is busy nurturing his or her family, growing a business, or earning a paycheck: legislators and bureaucrats deftly siphon away thousands of their hard earned dollars each year. The combination of a numbed victim and the smooth subtle theft, slowly bleed the Forgotten American.
Legislators and bureaucrats use our stolen money to enrich various groups, charities, fraternities, or industries they are beholding to. This money oils the loudest squeak and pays for political grease. Economist Henry Hazlitt says the Forgotten Americans are, "the ones who are always called upon to stanch
the politician's bleeding heart by paying for his vicarious generosity."
My Forgotten American March idea is the result of: a James Bovard article and Henry Hazlitt's book Economics in One Lesson. Mr. Bovard's article, The Right of Resistance, was published in the August 2000 issue of Ideas on Liberty. It explored past political resistance, or the lack thereof, and how each had a very different result. Mr. Bovard also discusses nonviolent resistance. Less than 5% of the American public actively protested the Vietnam War, but look at the impact they had. Dr. Martin Luther King had a very similar and lasting impact.
The most important influence that prompted me to call for a Forgotten American March was Henry Hazlitt's book. In it, he quotes William Graham Sumner's 1883 essay about the Forgotten Man. Here is the quote.
"As soon as A observes something which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X or, in the better case, what A, B and C shall do for X. What I want to do, is to look up C. I call him the Forgotten Man. His is the man who is never thought of. He is the victim of the reformer, social speculator and philanthropist, and I hope to show you before I get through that he deserves your notice both for his character and for the many burdens which are laid upon him."
Here are my initial thoughts on the Forgotten American March on Washington. We definitely need to do this in Washington DC where we can loudly and forcefully tell the federal bureaucracy to get their boots off of our necks, their hands out of our pockets, and start reducing the size of government or get the hell out of the way. I also envision celebrity speakers like Jesse Ventura, James Bovard, Walter Williams, and John Stossel. We could also invite speakers from various taxpayer organizations. Naturally we'd have music, food and tee shirts.
Send me an email if you'd like to help organize such a march.
I need your ideas and don't have a clue how to get this off the ground. I thinks it's time we rudely introduced about 3 million taxpayers to the legislators, politicians and bureaucrats in Washington.
Wes Alexander
Forgotten Americans are everywhere.
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