Friday, August 04, 2006

Nationalholiday2006 Blog Ending Countdown

It will be moot in about 100 days when the United States of America reaches 300 million in population during the first week of November 2006. Whatever will be accomplished should have been started by now to celebrate and acknowledge reaching 300 million in population. Most of the positive feedback arrived when the blog first started. It is still not too late to do smaller things.

I would like to say that I found a national sponsor for the event but I did not. I'd like to say that I was occasionally swamped with email with any success, but that is not the case, either.

I think the nation is missing an opportunity to acknowledge the arrival of 300 million people in America. I think we missed an opportunity to understand the issues, problems, and solutions we faced during each 100 million gain in population over the years. Today, I strongly believe that we are truly repeating our history and paying a terrible price, especially with labor, big business, international policy, and many other areas. This is really perplexing to me since America's Number One Citizen is a Yale History graduate.

I will continue to use moral suasion (this blog)to try to gain some decent acknowledgement of reaching 300 million people in population in early November 2006 at least until that time.

Below is the first entry of the blog:


During the author's lifetime the population has already doubled from 146 million to about 296 million people today. Our senior citizens born in 1915 or earlier will see the population triple from 100 million to 300 million in 2006. Those born in 1968 will see a population increase of 100 million people next year. We will see another population increase to 400 million in less than 35 years.

We need to reflect on the issues we faced as a nation over the years and celebrate our successes over the years and learn from our mistakes.

Americans love celebrations. If we can give ticker tape parades to World Series champions, the Iranian hostages, and Queen Elizabeth, I don't think celebrating the day or week that we reach 300 million population is too much to ask for. No matter how you evaluate it is a memorable and huge accomplishment.

The author will try to establish a 300 million population blog site to track opinions, milestones, events, print, web, TV, and radio media, and suggested classroom curriculum. This will be the first blog

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