New Way Forward Protest – April 11, 2009
April 11th, 2009This afternoon I visited our beautiful state capital building to observe a ‘New Way Forward‘ demonstration.
I’d heard a rumor that these demonstrations were being organized as a left wing response to the various ‘Tea Parties’ being held around the country.
There we a couple of dozen folks there. It’s not crazy to think that a bank to big to fail is too big. But these folks seemed to think that a smaller private sector and larger government was the answer to our problems. I found this delusion to be very sad.
I did enjoy my visit to the capital grounds, it was really a very pleasant place, lots of kids and families, even two weddings.
I was surprised that its still possible to go into the capital without passing through a metal detector. When I was in High School back when the earth’s crust was cooling the capital was open 24/7, and kids could pretty wander almost anywhere in it.
These nice folks got maybe 40 people at their demonstration. It will be interesting to see how many come to the April 15th Austin Tea Party at City Hall.
Great report. It’s good to get the story from someone on the scene.
I am a refugee from the Peoples Democratic Republic of Austin. Never was I so glad to leave a place as I was to escape Austin!
Whe I was living there (late 1980s) the mentality of the “progessives” was decidedly narrow-minded. I got the feeling that they would love to erect their own version of the Berlin Wall and keep out “reactionary” ideas.
I’d just love to ask one of these protesters (and I’m pretty much unhappy with organizations that are “too big to fail” when that really means that if they fail they get rescued with my money) why they think big government would not be as much a failure as a big bank or other corporation. If companies get “too big to fail” and screw us, why don’t governments, which are way bigger than any corporation?
When I was there a couple of weeks ago, they made you go through the metal detectors when entering the gallery to the legislative session itself.