Comments on: Voting With Your Dollar

By: Vanzetti

Vanzetti — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:47:45 +0000

It seems that we’ve reached a point where your dollar is worth more than your vote. Your dollar is your vote. You empower the corporations with your money who in turn become the lobbyists that own our politicians. I guess it sounds a bit ridiculous to boycott a restaurant or a store because you don’t like the political policies of their CEO, but in reality that’s where your true power lies. We live in a capitalist world. In the end you’re nothing more than a consumer.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:02:11 +0000

Baja Sol’s fish tacos are too good to boycott.

Seems like a silly argument to me.

By: Raindog

Raindog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:35:39 +0000

Load up on that free salsa. I’ll be leaving you all frequent “presents” in it.

Enjoy!

By: aliecat

aliecat — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:06:07 +0000

It’s OK, I tend to linger on the brain…

By: noodleman

noodleman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:02:41 +0000

@alicat: Uff-da. My mistake.

Omedetou gozaimasu.

By: aliecat

aliecat — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:51:36 +0000

What? I wasn’t involved in this convo…

By: mnblrmkr

mnblrmkr — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:14:14 +0000

I doubt Democrats are any more prone to calling for boycotts than Republicans. But conservatives seem to be just as likely to call for boycotts as liberals.

Bill Cooper pulled (supposedly. He DID publicly claim he was going to) all TCF advertising form the Strib and City Pages.

Conservatives have boycotted Disney (as kc pointed out) over gay friendly policies. They've also done the same against Ford, Wells Fargo, advertisers on "Will and Grace", etc.

Conservatives have called for a boycott of GM. At the risk of giving it more traffic, here's a site that lists various conservative boycotts.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:05:44 +0000

@aliecat: So, is Disney “liberal?” Or are they among the businesses who see the advantage of being aware of life’s many permutations?

By: kc!

kc! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:21:10 +0000

IIRC there are many conservatives that boycott Disney because they are friendly to Gays.

By: noodleman

noodleman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:17:29 +0000

Let me rephrase I’m sure GM benefited from a belief in both when the company should’ve been paying more attention to “good.”

I’m sure GM benefited from a belief in both when the company should’ve been paying more attention to “better.”