Buyer's Strike for Regime Change

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aakm_9xUOhvE&refer=us Article above is about consumer numbers and contains the implicit argument that this could cost Bush the election. What helps obscure yet assists the bad things Bush & Co is doing to the economy is that people keep blindly consuming, borrowing, buying and going into debt against their own self-interest. Debt is stealing from the future. We have stolen a lot and we may find nothing there when we arrive.

You can't vote against Bush until 2004 but you can use your daily economic actions to great effect. How do we put this into practice? We're only buying food and essentials in local small businesses until the election and when we need something sold in a big-box store, we'll look for it used in a garage sale or on CL . If it's not available now it soon will be.

Spending this way provides cash to people often under/unemployed and strengthens small businesses that are the backbone of the local economy by keeping money circulating here instead of shipped to China or Wall Street. Rather than loading up on 50 lbs.of detergeant at Costco, we'll use up our inventory, then we will buy small, albeit more expensive, quantities at the corner market. We've just paid off the last of our credit card debt. Never again.

We're getting rid of the stuff that we don't actively use by selling it or just giving it away. This helps us by eliminating clutter, gets us cash and provides things to people that may not be able to afford them new. It also helps the environment by reusing things and in the context of politics, cuts into the retail numbers and thus hurts Bush's chances of re-election.

Do these actions hurt Walmart, Costco, Toys R Us, Home Depot and their overseas suppliers? We couldn't care less. Are we hurting their employees? This is a concern but we know that they'll be far better off without Bush, besides, they're already being squeezed to death by the employment practices of the giants as it is.

We encourage all of you that want to help defeat Bush and his handlers to do the same. You'll be saving money, helping your community, your country and your children's future. Republican clones who disagree with this idea feel free to max out your credit cards. <font color=green>Bet there's more of us than there are of you.
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