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  •  What we need is a good and bad list for each type (none / 0)

    IE Wallmart vs target or SearsMart
    Home depo vs lowes etc

    Where can i find such a list?

    by DonkeyKong on Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 11:22:24 AM PDT

    •  Costco is good. (none / 0)

      other than that, i just try to patronize local businesses & avoid chains.

      by gothmom on Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 11:26:11 AM PDT

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      •  data (none / 0)

        http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.asp?order=A

        UPS favors GOP over DEM??
        FED ex bad
        United postal workers good.

        Verizon bad history of being bad
        SBC bad but history of being neutral
        Bell south neutral
        At&T neutral

        Meryl Lynch bad,
        price waterhouse bad
        Earnst & young bad
        Morgan stanly bad

        Amway very bad

        RJR nabisco bad
        Altria bad used to be philip morris

        MBNA bad

        I think we should all pay off our MBNA credit cards as a protest.  It makes us richer and them poorer.

        by DonkeyKong on Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 11:39:42 AM PDT

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        •  Don't get me started on MBNA... (none / 0)

          I took out an MBNA credit card earlier this year and can concur that they are the absolute worst. The hit you with charges for everything you do, and I mean everything. Write a check on the card, $10 fee. Get a cash advance, $7.50 fee. And the interest... my god. I'm paying it down as quickly as I can so I can cut it up, send it back, and never have them darken my wallet again.

          But in the meantime, my boycott vote goes to the fake Australian restaurant chain, Outback Steakhouse.

          "Blooming onion"... I'm from Australia and I've never heard of such a thing. Death to the Outback Steakhouse and all the folksy, fake aussie crap of its ilk (like the Crocodile Hunter)!

          Fool me once, I'll punch you in the fucking head.

          by HollywoodOz on Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 11:51:46 AM PDT

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        •  MBNA (none / 0)

          Odd thing is many liberal groups (e.g. Working Assets) use MBNA for their cards.

          I think Salon.com credit card is an exception.

          Read the PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT Newsletter

          by mole333 on Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 03:09:17 PM PDT

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