The great thing about capitolism....

[smccarter]

Is that I can take my wallet out and give a business money...

Or I can choose not to ... well.... take my wallet out and give that company money.

I'm not compelled to give anyone money. I earn the dollars that are in my wallet. If Papa Johns, or any other company, does something that I find offensive, I can CHOOSE NOT TO GIVE THEM ANY OF MY MONEY.

Now... I like pizza. I'm a fat man. But I can either purchase pizza from someone else, or I can make my own pizza, or... and this would be hard, but... I could go without pizza. But I would if I couldn't find an alternative.

We certainly can't, individually, take a stand against a coal mining company, but we can take a stand against a company like Papa Johns. I realize that most of their shops are owned by franchisees, but they're still representative of the corporate moron.

Anyone calling themselves an American has the power to stop funding idiots like Papa Johns. I for one will never open my wallet in a Papa Johns ever again.

Shame on them.

[LiberalAndProud]

1. I'm just glad I don't own a PJ franchise.

I wonder if we won't be hearing from franchise owners in the coming days, assuming that Schnatter's words end up biting them in the butt. Any business man who allows politics to interfere with business is not likely to succeed in the long run. He's going to alienate 47% of his clientele if he slices his pizza conservatively, and the other 47% if he slices it liberally. It's bad business. They aren't demigods, they're just men with more money than most.

[brewens]

2. I was once a huge Styx fan but I went to see them and they screwed us in 1978.

Over 30 years later and I'm still not over it! I don't have any Styx in my vast collection of classic rock cd's and dvd's. I might pirate some though some day, it'd serve them right!

I didn't even go when I could have gotten in to see Dennis DeYoung less than a mile away from where I live two years ago. Nope! Those guys never get another dime of my money!

When I boycott, I BOYCOTT! I'm with you on the Papa johns!

[left on green only]

4. I still have the original band on LP (mint condition)

I track 'em with perfection using a Shure V15, type IV, with an elliptical stylus @ 1.25 G's. Sounds so sweet!! LOL

[white_wolf]

3. And the horrible thing about capitalism is...

that it gives one man, the owner of Papa John's in this case, the power to dictate the lives of his employees. Sure, you can boycott, but that does not help the people whose hours are cut back or jobs are lost because of one man's greed.

[smccarter]

5. Ah, but you're probably not correct grasshopper...

Papa Johns either goes out of business, or complies with the will of their customers. Money talks... bullshit walks.... Hit them where it hurts the most. If we're not willing to do that, then they've won.

The dumb-ass at Papa Johns doesn't realize that he really can't afford to have that type of opinion. While we can't boycott a coal mining operation, we can certainly boycott a restaurant. Eat at home if you have to, but DON'T eat at Papa Johns!!!!

Unless we're willing to take a stand, nothing will change. I hate it for the workers, but I'll hate it more for them if we don't take the stand. They'll benefit in the long run if we/they take a stand.

Short term is just that... we need to think about a future that extends way beyond lunch time.

[leftstreet]

6. Capitalism is the REASON people can't get healthcare

...in the first place.

A for-profit system guarantees satisfaction for a few and suffering for millions

Fuck capitalism

[smccarter]

7. Hmm...

While I absolutely believe that healthcare should be nationalized, and all Americans deserve the right to equal healthcare services... I believe that capitalism is the only form of economics that makes any sense.

The problem today is that our government, and many others, have allowed corporations to grow so large and so powerful to the point of diminished competition. As an example, what internet service company is going to compete with AT&T?

We Americans have allowed this to happen. Stop purchasing goods and services from corporations. Buy food from local grocery stores instead of Wal-Mart. Buy vegetables from the local farmers market, buy hardware supplies from the local hardware store instead of Home Depot. We've created this monster, it's time to kill it.

Money talks and bullshit walks. If you're not prepared to take a stand against the giant companies that run our government, nothing is going to change.

We... are David.

[ronnie624]

9. If the purpose of an economic system,

is to distribute basic resources, goods and services in an equitable manner, then capitalism fails miserably. If that is not its purpose, then again it fails miserably, because an equitable system is what will be required, in order for human civilization to survive the coming challenges, such as global climate change.

Human economic activity is, by its nature, a thermodynamic system, meaning it converts, utilizes and dissipates matter and energy. As such, it is subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics, and will therefore always function with a net deficit in natural capital, or energy. Capitalist economic theory attempts to convert this inherent deficit of natural capital, into a net surplus or profit, in terms of man made economic capital for society's elites. When a small minority of the human population 'owns' and controls the vast bulk of the world's material and capital resources, it guarantees that there will not be enough left over for everyone else.

The demise of capitalism cannot come soon enough.

[NoOneMan]

8. Capitalism turns a joke "science" like economics into a travesty

Im sorry it makes any sense to you.

[DireStrike]

10. Workers only have one form of power: the strike.

Boycotts rarely accomplish anything.

I am still not buying papa john's ever again, but just because I personally couldn't stand to. I don't expect anything to come of it.

Vote with your dollars? Yeah that's a great idea... I wouldn't agree to a system where my vote is worth less than others'.