Does bus fare count as a "damn dime" spending measure tomorrow?

I know we're all supposed to not spend anything tomorrow. But what about state-run services like public transportation? What about poor people who couldn't get to the store yesterday because they were too busy working two jobs? What if I sent a check to the gas company a week ago and it clears tomorrow?

Questions, questions......

let me know when there is a national strike. that's a gesture with real meaning to it.

It'd be stupid if we ANNOUNCED a general strike ahead of time, wouldn't it?

Stupid, stupid, stupid!

You're absolutely right, Meisje! Nobody's gonna notice. Nobody's gonna care. What doesn't get spent tomorrow was spent today in anticipation of tomorrow. And if someone didn't plan ahead, then they'll just hold off until Friday.

At the end of the week, the merchant's till is just as full and it's no different than if a snow storm kept everyone home for a day. It won't make a lick of difference. (Except to those folks who sit at home and pout and don't spend their "dime" for the day.)

This is a meaningless vanity gesture that's completely hollow and totally ineffective. Those who think that they are accomplishing something or sending a message are fooling themselves.

If they really want to send a message, then their time would be better spent writing a letter to their senator.

I'll be glad when this whole thing is over... it makes us all look STUPID!

Well said.

I think I will buy a house tomorrow.

I have an insurance payment and my gym membership payment that will be auto-drafted. There's nothing I can do about that.

the capitalist machine, particularly red companies. Spending on public transit is a good way to choke the capitalist machine since you are not using a car or gasoline. As for the gas company, that is a utility that you need. If you wanted to act like a blue kind of guy, you should conserve your use of gas but you certainly shouldn't let yourself freeze.

And hey, if it wasn't true, why would it have been emailed?

Since our religious leaders will not speak out against
the war in
Iraq, since our political readers don't have the
moral courage to
oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th,
2005 is "Not One
Damn Dime Day" in America.

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is
happening in our
Name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national
boycott of all
forms of consumer spending. During "Not One Damn Dime
Day" please
don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not
one damn dime
for necessities or for impulse purchases.

Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours. On "Not
One Damn Dime
Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target... Please
don't go to
the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't
buy any fast
food (or any groceries at all for that matter).

For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the
retail economy
down. The object is simple. Remind the people in
power that the war
in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are
responsible for
starting it and that it is their responsibility to
stop it.

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that
they work for
the people of the United States of America, not for
the international
corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the
corporations
and funnel cash into American politics.

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the
troops. Now 1,200
brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000
Iraqis have died.
The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way to come
home. There's
no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or
right wing agenda
to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take
action by doing
nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet
closed.

For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime,
to remind our
religious leaders and our politicians of their moral
responsibility
to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the
people

or so actually participated it would matter, but there's no way enough people will do so.

Plus, of course, if all that happens is the spending is shifted by a day, it won't have any real effect.

Better to find out which companies are blue and which are red and shop accordingly. For starters, no one here should ever be inside a WalMart. Ever.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2975914

It puts our values into action. The original idea is reactionary and makes us little more than caricatures of those we oppose.