If you are still contributing to your 401K, you can not bitch about the machine in DC. If you Still hold a large mortgage, or are looking for, for a house that is really too big for you, you can not bitch about DC. If you have credit cards in excess of one weeks pay in debt, you can not bitch about DC. Srill buying at Walmart, KMart, Target and Sears, you can not bitch about DC.
You want this to change, then change it yourself.
CEO's respond to profit loss,, and only profit loss.
I see it in here sometimes, boycott this or that. But we really need a nationwide strike to change this rapidly, to shut the Tea Baggers up, to close down the Reunk rhetoric. And even though I have called for that a number of times, no one is willing to "take the chance" that they too miight lose their jobs.
So everyone keeps feeding the machine and whining. Well I never met a CEO that responded to whining.
Even though BP Piosoned the Gulf of Mexico:
John Phelps, president of Carroll Independent Fuels, which provides gas to 105 BP stations in the Baltimore Washington area and 150 other branded stations, said demand at his BP delivery spots had dropped slightly, but is on the rise. "It has leveled off, the outrage," he said. "We noticed it seemed to be demographically based." Some stations in suburban areas saw sales drop to 15 percent of normal, Phelps said, while stations in metropolitan areas saw almost no change. The low point came about two weeks ago, he said, when sales were down an average of 6 or 7 percent and stations were being vandalized. Average sales have started to rebound slightly.
We still buy from them, amazing, I have not beenin a BP since it started. A WalMart in Years, Sears in a year, or KMart all year too. and have only ever been to Target 2xs. I buy local, support local, including clothing.
So you want this to change, change where you buy, change where you buy, change where you eat, and boycott the rest.
If 100 people at a company went to HR and dropped their 401 K becuase of poor performance, the company would rethink where it has your money. Not just in the favorites" that paid your CEO and CFO to join the fund. And yes that really happens, funds approach companies everyday offering better rates, to the top gys and mediocre rates for the rest of you.
If 3000 people openly declared that they were boycotting Walmart, Walmart would change (histroical data proves that one with the Merry Christmas Boycott) But we need to do this in a United fashion, call all DKOSers to boycott and proclaim it at once. this community is large enough to impact any business.