My Protest to Buy Nothing Day by bogart21 on Blogster

In response to what are perceived as the excesses of Black Friday, anti-consumer activists have created a movement called "Buy Nothing Day," which often involves street theater, agitprop, and chanting as well as a decision not to purchase anything that day. Black Friday is the day after thanks giving and the start of the Christmas Holiday shopping season. On November 23, scores of misguided people will send a message about consumerism by participating in Buy Nothing Day.

Buy Nothing Day likely attracts people of a certain philosophical and political persuasion (read: lefty, pro-worker, anti-corporate, tree hugger, etc, etc, etc); What makes these people misguided is that they think they are doing good for the poor and downtrodden and sticking it to the rich and corporate toadies. The real truth is those disproportionately affected (if persuading the country to stay of the shops was really possible short of a bomb going off.) would be the low-income hourly employees and not the corporations. They want to hurt the big guy but the big guy will just shrug it off and as Christmas approaches they will make it up but it is the little guy they claim to be fighting for who suffer.

The idea that consumption is a bad thing is, perpetuated by idiots. Consumption is inherently good, and buying stuff gives us jobs and makes our economy work. The more stuff you and I buy the more the corporation make and hire people to run their shops and make their products. The richer the corporations get the more they are willing to share some of their wealth in the form of new jobs or promotions and raises for their employees. When corporations loose money it is the worker that gets hurt.

It is a pretty good bet that the people that this would not effect at least not right away are the instigators of this crap. I am talking about the left wing collage professors. In no other industry are there so many people that do not rely on making money to make their living.When you have tenure it does not matter how much money your school makes. You still have a job. Until there are no students to teach. Then you have no purpose. The very students that they preach to are there because their parents make money in the corporate world. The people that follow them (Idiots) probably do not have mortgages to pay or kids to feed.

I went to the mall to day and spent some of my hard earned money. This year was not to get the great deals but to counter protest the Buy Nothing day. At 2:00 in the after noon the mall was packed. And is suspect will be even more packed this weekend and until Christmas. It is nice to know that most of the people in America still have some common sense. Chances are they knew nothing about Buy nothing day anyway. I just happened to run across it on the INTERNET and never heard a word about it on the news.

For the supporters of Buy nothing day. You really did pick the wrong country to get your message to.

2 comments on My Protest to Buy Nothing Day

bumpedoff3 said 9 months ago
In the Great Depression the banks stopped loaning money. Firms could not find finance and had to fire employees. Workers had little money and consumerism failed [demand declined]. When they couldn't pay mortgages, the banks picked up houses for a song. Financiers seized the failed factories.
bogart21 said 9 months ago
There is a big difference between the Great Depression (that was made worse by F.D.R's programs by the way) and destruction of an economy because some misguided fools wanted to make a political point. The only solution to poverty is capitalism. Taking away from the rich and giving to the poor does not create more rich people. Only more poor people! If we left thing up to the anti-rich, only poor people would exist. But I guess to them it is better then have classes. Just one final thought. In our capitalist society it is possible to go from very poor to very rich. It has been done thousands of times. But in a socialist society, you stay were you are told to be and you do not get to decide where that is.