Reply #37: Gee, I seem to remember MSM telling me on Black Friday [View All]

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that sales were jumping by 4-5% this holiday season! They were showing endless pictures of the crowds of holiday shoppers in the malls. It was the story of the day on Black Friday. You don't suppose they were....LYING to me, do you???? :eyes:

I feel sorry for the little guys who will lose their jobs if the shopping doesn't pick up. But I also believe that hitting the corporate whores in the pocketbook is the most effective way to hurt them. God knows they don't care about anything else BUT money. So screw 'em. Let them experience what many of the rest of us have been feeling since 2000. And maybe a little more job loss in this nation will wake up the sheeple.

I for one intend to maintain my financial boycott of Christmas, red corporations, and my society in general as long as I can. Obviously I still have to get along somehow, but I am making a sincere effort not to buy from bad places, to minimize my purchasing of frivolous consumer goods, and we are NOT doing the Christmas present thing this year (and if we did, we would probably do as others have suggested and buy art or whatnot from locals).