Online Gift Shop Owner Recommends National Holiday for Reaching 300 Million in Population on or about November 3, 2006
Bob Crawford, Owner of VSQI Gifts (www. vsqigifts. com), an online store based in Cranford, N. J., announces recommendation for national holiday for reaching 300 million in population on or about November 3, 2006.
Cranford, NJ (PRWEB) June 8, 2005
Bob Crawford, Owner of VSQI Gifts (www. vsqigifts. com), an online gift store, recommends everyone to contact their state and national leaders to endorse a national holiday on or about November 3, 2006 to celebrate and acknowledge when the United States of America population reaches 300 million individuals.
Currently the U. S. population is about 296,272,671 individuals. According to U. S. Bureau of the Census statistics for the U. S., there is one birth every 8 seconds, one death every 13 seconds, one international (net) migrant every 26 seconds, for a net gain of one individual for every 12 seconds. With 512 days approximately when the population reaches 300 million, the Bureau of the Census can probably fine-tune the exact date and time.
The last 100 million-person mark (200 million) was reached in 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson was in office. This was the time of the astronauts circling the moon, The Great Society, and Vietnam. According to whitehouse. gov, “First he obtained enactment of the measures President Kennedy had been urging at the time of his death--a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. Next he urged the Nation "to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor." The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times augmenting or amending, rapidly enacted Johnson's recommendations. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.”
Earlier, President Johnson was the Senate Majority leader (a Democrat) during President EisenhowerÂ’s (a Republican) time in office where Johnson helped Eisenhower obtain passage of valuable legislation such as the Federal Highway Act of 1956. It took decades for the highways to be built. There was a time when Democrats and Republicans could work together, amicably. Maybe the National Holiday of 300 Million can bring all of us closer together to realize we are more alike than unlike.
America reached the 100 million mark approximately in 1915 during the Woodrow Wilson administration. According to whitehouse. gov, “Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices."
Whitehouse. gov continues, ”Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day. By virtue of this legislation and the slogan "he kept us out of war," Wilson narrowly won re-election.”
The United States needs a National Holiday to reflect on a 300 million population. It is a giant milestone. We should celebrate with parades and speeches. We should try to identify the baby born at the instant the population reaches 300 million, or perhaps we should have one for each state and provide gifts like we do for the New Year’s babies. There is enough time for PBS to produce a documentary just like they did in 1999 when Linda Harrar produced “6 Billion and Beyond”, hosted by Blythe Danner when the world population reached 6 billion. Lets drop the New York City Times Square ball on the specified day and time. Schools can have 300 million population programs. Lets hold a National Fair with exhibits and entertainment. Starting now, there is enough time for everyone to reflect on where we are as a country and where we should be going. Is it possible that the trend lines for where we are heading are where we really should be going? Our authors, television and newspaper columnists, political leaders, religious leaders, bloggers, and others should get into the act. Lets have fireworks demonstrations and a national concert. Is it possible we have left things undone for our 300 million people and are ignoring to prepare to meet the challenges of 400 million population? Maybe it is time to think outside of the box.
It will take about 38 years for the population to increase from 200 million in 1968 to 300 million in 2006 and as few as 33 more years to reach 400 million. It is time to celebrate our citizens, define who and where we are as a people, and who and where we want to be.
For more information, please visit http://vsqigifts. com (http://vsqigifts. com).
About VSQI Gifts:
VSQI Gifts was founded in September 2002 as a subsidiary of VSQI Merchandise LLC and offers items such as gifts, home and garden décor, collectibles, wedding favors, bath and kitchen accessories and holiday decorations to consumers, fundraisers, resellers, civic organizations and businesses. Owner Bob Crawford spent 30 years previously in information technology at Fortune 100 companies. VSQI Gifts has tripled its sales each year on the Web.
Contact:
Bob Crawford, Owner
VSQI Merchandise LLC dba VSQI Gifts
16 South Avenue West, #103
Cranford, New Jersey 07016 (mailing address only)908-233-8341
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