Buycott on Inauguration Day
So there’s some talk on the left side of the net about a boycott of all spending on Inauguration Day. It’s even getting ink.
“I view the inauguration of Bush as a black Thursday for this country,” Livingstone says. “We’ve tried marching in the streets to stop the war, we tried writing letters, we tried initiatives on the Web, but Bush doesn’t listen. It seems to us the only thing Bush and the Republicans will listen to is money.”
This guy urges everyone to avoid spending any money on that day even to the point of brown-bagging it so as to not spend money on lunch.
Several problems are going unrecognized by this lefty looney.
First, gross economic figures are not collected on a day-by-day basis. He would have to get a large group of people to boycott for a week or even two in order to make a big enough blip to show up. These people will be filling up their tanks, going to grocery stores, and shopping on the internet the day before the boycott — just so they don’t get caught short. End result: nobody notices.
Second, Democrats own business too (believe it or not). Any broad boycott would hurt their own. Of course, they have that covered:
If people don’t want to boycott all business, the groups suggest buying from just those that support Democrats.
Which will, of course, completely eliminates even the remotist possibility of the boycott getting noticed in economic terms.
Of course they have that covered too:
The protesters say they’ll measure success not in economic terms, but by whether people know about the boycott and if it sparks future activism.
Which brings up the third point: Republicans are the ones with jobs. You know, the things that result in the distribution of money from a source other than the government? The thing that drives the economy?
So in celebration of Inauguration Day, January 20th, I will be spending my wallet out! I will lunch with my friends, fill up my SUV with gas, make large purchases over the internet, perhaps even dine with my wife.
Show your support for the president and join the Bush Buycott!
Alas, no trackback function so I will do it this way.
I noted the same story, “Moonbat to Lead Anti-Bush Economic Boycott.” I admit the thought of Democrats being hurt because of potential business losses hadn’t occured to me. The rest of my post mirrors your thoughts.
I have seen no references to them camping out on the Mall so that must mean they will be patronizing the “big” Marriott Hotel in D.C. among other “big” places of business.
Livingstone seems to have arrived rather late to the party.
“It seems to us the only thing Bush and the Republicans understand is money.”
We just finished a Presidential election in which the left’s 527 groups outspent those of the GOP by roughly 5 to 1. Perhaps Livingstone was asleep? Not to worry. Mr. Kerry’s performance had that effect on a lot of us, too.
Gee whiz! What a great idea – I need a new recliner for my new apartment – so I guess I’ll purchase it that day. Then, let’s see, on the way to the furniture store I could stop at the grocery and the liquor store and do a little stocking up as well. Then I could peruse the online auctions and maybe purchase a few things for the new digs there.
Let’s be realistic here folks – these people are great big babies, crying because they didn’t get their bottle when they wanted it. Spoiled and infantile, and unswervingly sure of their own entitlement, it is such an ENORMOUS SHOCK to them when they don’t get their own way.
Just think – these are the same people whose earnings are being counted on to keep Social Security afloat. Yoiks!
You are right. A proposed economic boycott will be an utter and complete failure. Amusing side note. I once worked for a state employment office. I got ridiculed for suggesting that we not be allowed to count job placements in govt, jobs as successful closures.,,,,,only jobs in the private sector. They did not see that if the persons salary is coming from all other taxpayers it is a LOSS.
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You deserve to die for your ignorance of all true morals that now lack in this world. Not in this “boycott”, in which you are correct that it would be negligible; but in your ignorant support of such a vile being as Bush; who, by all rights, is pretty much the embodiment of the ignorant, pathetic, american masses.
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