Forum Post: Boycott Holiday Spending - Hurt the 1%
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 18, 2011, 9:39 a.m. EST by 1AngryAmerican
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Good job OWS! However, the 1% are NOT listening! We can all march in the streets until the cows come home, but the 1% and the government they own are not listening and don't care. We need to hit them where it hurts, in the only place the value: right in their bank accounts and stock portfolios.
The holiday season is almost upon us. Black Friday is right around the corner. Many, many corporations garner most of their annual profits through holiday spending. Boycott spending this holiday season! Hit those profit margins and watch them whine! It would bankrupt quite a few corporations. Think what it would do to the stock prices on Wall Street as the 1% watch their value tank! Send the 1% to the poor house!
It's time to remind them that they need us, the 99%, and not the other way around. Before anyone complains it would put more of us 99% out of work, stop and realize the plans of the 1% are for all of us to be out of work and impoverished ANYWAY. The least we can do is take them down with us!
Stay home for the holidays! Vote with your dollars against the corruption that has overtaken our country! Don't transfer more of our wealth into the pockets of the undeserving 1%!
If you do purchase items, think about buying local or fair trade!
Boycott big box America
Who exactly are the so called 1% you guys keep talking about?
yes yes and YES... this movement should be (can be? is??) about changing our habits of existence, what we value, and how we express it.
And yes... the Threat will be... "you are hurting the Economy"... and yes it might hurt. no pain, no gain. we need creative, radical thinking.
This idea has merit, especially if you don't use credit cards, especially bank credit cards (Visa, MC). This will really give a good kick in the butt to those greedy people who work retail jobs.
Jam the RFID towers at every entrance of every mega store....rob them blind.
Rinse and repeat.