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Showing Original Post only (View all)I tried the spending boycott thingy, I gave up, it was just too hard. [View all]
Do not underestimate the power and leverage of your consumer dollars. Mobs, gangs and organized crime hate it when their money is messed with.
If they can withhold from us, we can withhold from them. The spending boycott should have started months ago. It needs to continue long into spring.
All it takes is participation.
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100,000 people with ten dollars is much scarier than one person with a million dollars.
Hugin
Friday
#5
It's the constant advertizing that most people are exposed to nonstop.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Friday
#8
I have found that "having everything you need" is not about acquiring the correct pile of stuff
RockRaven
Friday
#9
It's like the anecdote of the author who said "I have what he'll never have -- enough." nt
eppur_se_muova
Friday
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