Rumors are running rampant around Washington that a ground swell of support is foot, to change Labor Day, in 2014, to a new Holiday. One well known Senator, who opted to not be named, stated, "We have no workers anymore, we have "welfare recipients," and, I might add, many, many more of them, let us celebrate a day for them."
Various names have been brought forward. One young lady in Detroit stated, "We already got Thanksgiving, let's just combine the two into one, I be really thankfull fo all the welfare I get, With all my kids, I be makin over a hunert thou a year, and yea, you bet labor, I've had 11 kids, an they be paying me to go to college an i only got two more years till i be dun. What do ya mean degree?"
When a questionnaire was included in Welfare Checks determining how many might participate in such a "Welfare Parade," almost 47 million answered that they would be willing to march. Harvey Klockman, one of the organizers stated, "It might be bigger than "Hands Across America," we might start one group in San Francisco and another in New York City and have them meet in the middle somewhere." He concluded by saying, "I wonder if anybody will be left to watch the darn thing."
