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According to James Dobson, anyway.
What the living live fuck is WRONG with people like that yammering fool?
What the living live fuck is WRONG with people like that yammering fool?
Jan. 20th, 2005
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Bob decides to participate in "not a dime spent day." Unfortunately, this is the day of the week when Bob goes to his local small business and buys a few luxury items for himself. Maybe it's a couple CD's. Maybe it's a few packs of baseball cards. Maybe it's some DVD's.
Now Bob might just go the day before or the day after instead. In that case, his protest is pointless. He's still spent the money.
Bob might not go at all that week. In that case, he's only hurt the profit margin of the small business. The corporate giants haven't felt anything.
Now what is Bob going to do with that money? He has a few extra bills in his pocket. If he spends them on ANYTHING at all in the future, his protest has been pointless. Even worse, that money he might have spent helping a small business will probably go to the corporate machine he thinks he's protesting against, as a few days down the road he finds himself in a Wal-Mart or Best Buy, and buys something new with that money he didn't spend on Thursday.
So as you see, this protest is as useless as those "don't buy gas" on a certain day campaigns. The corporations know that you'll spend the money the day before or the day after.
So please, find a more constructive way to demonstrate your disapproval of this criminal administration. Don't spend this day taking it out on the small business owners, many of whom (like me) voted for Kerry.
If you must make a protest against corporations, pointless as it may be, may I suggest going out of your way today to find a small business and spend money there? Then make your protest meaningful by constantly supporting that small business, even if it means paying a couple bucks extra for your stuff.
jesterstear)Bob decides to participate in "not a dime spent day." Unfortunately, this is the day of the week when Bob goes to his local small business and buys a few luxury items for himself. Maybe it's a couple CD's. Maybe it's a few packs of baseball cards. Maybe it's some DVD's.
Now Bob might just go the day before or the day after instead. In that case, his protest is pointless. He's still spent the money.
Bob might not go at all that week. In that case, he's only hurt the profit margin of the small business. The corporate giants haven't felt anything.
Now what is Bob going to do with that money? He has a few extra bills in his pocket. If he spends them on ANYTHING at all in the future, his protest has been pointless. Even worse, that money he might have spent helping a small business will probably go to the corporate machine he thinks he's protesting against, as a few days down the road he finds himself in a Wal-Mart or Best Buy, and buys something new with that money he didn't spend on Thursday.
So as you see, this protest is as useless as those "don't buy gas" on a certain day campaigns. The corporations know that you'll spend the money the day before or the day after.
So please, find a more constructive way to demonstrate your disapproval of this criminal administration. Don't spend this day taking it out on the small business owners, many of whom (like me) voted for Kerry.
If you must make a protest against corporations, pointless as it may be, may I suggest going out of your way today to find a small business and spend money there? Then make your protest meaningful by constantly supporting that small business, even if it means paying a couple bucks extra for your stuff.
Doesn't matter. He's still a filthy, lying, two-faced scumbag religious extremist with all the wit, charm and grace of pencil shavings. I hate the man with a passion. He and his policies - or at least the policies his puppetmaster Karl Rove tells him he can have - are the stuff of nightmares. Be damned with him and everything he stands for.
A public service announcement
Jan. 20th, 2005 08:17 pmNever, ever try to defend the Bush junta to me. You might otherwise be a friend, but all that will accomplish is to piss me right the f*ck off.