The Anti-Worker May Day Marches (why not to get depressed watching them)

[Confederate Kahanist]

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These marches today are supposed to be part of an international day of protest for better worker rights. But the ones in the U.S. mainly are pushing for de facto open borders that would drive our U.S. workers' wages down toward global averages.

Thus, these marchers are not pro-workers but want the same thing as the greediest, most abusive of business interests.

It can be a little disconcerting to see all those news reports this weekend of tens of thousands (perhaps hundreds of thousands) of illegal aliens and their friends marching openly in the streets demanding rewards for breaking immigration laws.

But take it from somebody who has been working full-time for the opposite cause since 1991 that the noise in the streets isn't the sound that matters in politics.

Even a number of elite media commentators who falsely claim that a majority of Americans support an amnesty are acknowledging that YOUR sounds of protest against all amnesty proposals are the loudest and most deeply felt on Capitol Hill.

They concede that voters passionately committed to amnesty are a lot fewer than you voters who passionately oppose keeping 7 million unemployed Americans out of work while giving permanent work permits to 7 million illegal aliens.

And how is it that they know of your passion?

Well, an awful lot of it is through the tools you use at NumbersUSA -- millions of faxes to Congress, tens of thousands of phone calls, hundreds of personal visits to congressional offices, hundreds of letters to the editor, etc. etc.

Most of the people in the streets today are not regular voters, if they are citizens at all.  They are a very noisy, showy one-weekend story.  But for 14 years, you users of NumbersUSA's citizen tools have become a larger and larger force in American politics.

Every day -- yes, every single day -- you are letting the people in power know that there is an army of regular voters who feel passionately about creating an immigration policy

    * that does NOT harm our most economically vulnerable fellow citizens,
    * that does NOT undercut our ability for an environmentally sustainable future,
    * that does not reduce our individual liberty or deny us self-determination over our preferred quality of life and pursuit of happiness.

It is that constant mobilization of individuals like you -- with no money to be made from your activism -- that cause Pres. Obama, key congressional Democrats and top Republican leaders to say this week that trying to pass an amnesty in an election year just doesn't make sense.

Funny, isn't it how some of them lament that the people will be controlling events through the elections this fall.  If it weren't for those pesky elections that allow the people to weigh in, these Members of Congress surely would be a lot freer to do the bidding of the special interests.  But in an election year, the citizen interests can prevail -- if citizens are speaking up often and strongly enough.

Thanks as always for your frequent and strong voice of reason spoken to the ears of power.  (Click here to use our free tools to speak.)

ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA