JetBlue "rocks" because it gave "10 free tickets" to YearlyKos??? And then "stood up" to Fox? Wtf??? How cheap ARE your punkasses???
Selling out principles to save bucks, while understandable, is hardly the foundation of a better society. But ok, let's say you're REALLY poor. You're strapped for cash. And for the moment couldn't care less about living wages, or "worker rights," or unions, or any of those old fashioned notions. And you really gotta go party in Chicago. Or visit your sick mom. Or show up at that college friend's wedding... Just as I've shopped at Walmart, on slacker road trips in the middle of Redstate Nowhere, when I needed every dollar for gas.
But Walmart doesn't "ROCK!" because I picked up propane for three bucks less than the sporting goods place back on the main drag. What is up with pimping JetBlue because its corporate logo is stamped on YearlyKos???
JetBlue is a skank outfit getting some free PR. A cheapass poster child of the "new" stripped down, greedy, no-frills (for employees or customers, but check out those executive bonuses) corporate America.
What exactly is it that they have done as "corporate citizens" to make this a better country? As in... anything??? (Besides "donating" seats to YearlyKos?) (Which they will presumably write-off on whatever meager taxes they pay, as "expenses.")
JetBlue is one of the icons of heartless American corporatism we're usually railing against around here. And the "netroots need more corporate sponsorship," like it needs a gunshot to the head.
JetBlue doesn't give a shit about you, or democracy, or progressive politics. It exists to take your money, to pay it's employees as little as possible, to give you as little "service" as necessary and still have you pay for it, and to make millions for it's executives and stockholders. JetBlue is about money. Period.
They use their "new efficiencies" as leverage to "beat" the prices of "dinosaur" American companies. You know, the stupid ones still stuck with those silly "old" American values of paying living wages, benefits, and even pension plans.
JetBlue will give you 50 bucks off your ticket until it drives those high wage "legacy" union tolerating suckers out of business. Or, like it has with United, gives other airlines (and ultimately, all other businesses) the cover to cut their own employee wages (and even void their existing pensions) so they can "compete," and sell you "cheap" fares like JetBlue.
And when those "expensive airlines" are driven under, the "cheap" fares you love so much will magically go... poof!
I'm not rich. I love to save money when I can. I have flown on JetBlue. And I have shopped at Walmart. But I'm hardly PROUD of it. I may be a sucker for a bargain sometimes, but my principles are not for sale. Not even for a "free" ticket to a major American city.
To state the pathetically obvious, the corporation known as JetBlue, does not "rock."
When you start using your wallet to "think," or worse yet, measure who "rocks" and who doesn't, a funny thing happens. You morph into that horrible little thing we have a two word expression for in this country. A Republican.