PAULinSC
01-31-2008, 11:10 AM
I believe we need an economic boycott in this country. Our savings rate is horrible, and getting worse. Part of this Revolution should be to stop the over-spending habits of the American people. The corporations run our government. We need a unified effort to send them a message, a message that will reflect loud and clear in their earnings reports. If we are a nation whose economy is driven by consumption, we need to drive in a new direction.
Through the economy, I believe the consumers (we the people) can control the government. It can't be a small effort though. It must be massive. If we are to take our country back in a non-violent way, this is the only way I see that we can accomplish that.
Calling news stations and sponsors is fine if you want to give them a scare. But they need see that we are a voice too large to be ignored. Right now, we are being ignored. We need to hit the establishment where it hurts, the economy.
We need to show that the cause of this recession isn't because people don't have money to spend, it's because we WON'T spend the money.
These elections are to choose who we want as the father for our country. Our house doesn't need a father. We are grown adults, we can make decisions for ourselves and our children. What we need is a servant.
Too long we have been working for the government, and it's time for the government to once again START WORKING FOR US!
Two prime movers behind the protests to the act were Samuel Adams and James Otis, both of Massachusetts. In August 1764, fifty Boston merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury items, and in both Boston and New York there were movements to increase colonial manufacturing. There were sporadic outbreaks of violence, most notably in Rhode Island.[8] Overall, however, there was not an immediate high level of protest over the Sugar Act either in New England or the rest of the colonies. That would begin in the later part of the next year when the Stamp Act was passed.[9] The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with a further reduced tax of one pence per gallon on all molasses imports, British or foreign. This occurred around the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed.[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act
Through the economy, I believe the consumers (we the people) can control the government. It can't be a small effort though. It must be massive. If we are to take our country back in a non-violent way, this is the only way I see that we can accomplish that.
Calling news stations and sponsors is fine if you want to give them a scare. But they need see that we are a voice too large to be ignored. Right now, we are being ignored. We need to hit the establishment where it hurts, the economy.
We need to show that the cause of this recession isn't because people don't have money to spend, it's because we WON'T spend the money.
These elections are to choose who we want as the father for our country. Our house doesn't need a father. We are grown adults, we can make decisions for ourselves and our children. What we need is a servant.
Too long we have been working for the government, and it's time for the government to once again START WORKING FOR US!
Two prime movers behind the protests to the act were Samuel Adams and James Otis, both of Massachusetts. In August 1764, fifty Boston merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury items, and in both Boston and New York there were movements to increase colonial manufacturing. There were sporadic outbreaks of violence, most notably in Rhode Island.[8] Overall, however, there was not an immediate high level of protest over the Sugar Act either in New England or the rest of the colonies. That would begin in the later part of the next year when the Stamp Act was passed.[9] The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with a further reduced tax of one pence per gallon on all molasses imports, British or foreign. This occurred around the same time that the Stamp Act was repealed.[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act