The banks and Wall Street crashed our economy, caused 15 million lay-offs, and GOT REWARDED FOR IT with billions of our tax dollars. Occupy Wall Street represents the best opportunity we have to right those economic wrongs.
Do you support Occupy Wall Street? Do you think the banks give a flying fig at a rolling doughnut about OWS? Do you want to hurt the banks and make them start paying attention to us? Do you want to help small businesses?
If there was one simple thing you could do to help further the goals of OWS would you do it? I know you don't have any time to devote to it and I know you certainly don''t have any extra money.
What if I told you that this one simple thing takes nearly ZERO time and costs ZERO dollars. Do I have your attention?
There is one simple thing each and every one of us can do, right now, today and every day, to support OWS and give the banks pause. This is very simple and all of us in the community can do it. Four simple steps to hurting the TBTF Banks and helping small businesses. Here's what to do:
1. Go down to your credit union ('cause I know you already took your money out of ChaseCitiWellsBofA) and withdraw 100 dollars.
2. Put the money in your wallet.
3. Pay cash all week long for all your purchases, gas, food, beer (Winter's coming, I recommend a nice Belgian wheat or a deeply malted amber).
4. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's that easy. Make the effort to carry cash and use it for all your purchases. You will hurt the banks and you will help small businesses.
Online? Use Paypal (and keep your eyes open for some of the newer payment systems that are in the works.)
What about my Debit card? you may very well ask. That's not a credit card. Ah, but when you use your debit card to make a purchase it is treated like a credit card and the banks still collect their ~3-4% fee.
But I'm not paying that fee, you may say. Yes, you are. Everything in this country is priced ~5% higher than it needs to be because of credit card fees that businesses have to pay.
Do your bit to help out. This is nearly painless and will have a huge impact if we can recruit enough participants. Pass it along to your friends and neighbors.
Thank you, we now return you to your regularly scheduled life.