bucs90
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All BS and partisanship aside: The OWS and TP could unite, while maintaining understood differences, under a Social Union. Sure, business place and government unions don't work anymore. They cost too much.
So whats a Social Union? Just peer pressure, volunteerism, etc. How? Well, any way. Simple as a web page. But both sides would need to unite and agree on not attacking each other. What would it be like? The Tea Party is right that big government is bad. Bailouts sucked, and put us in huge debt. Taxes are too high. OWS is right that while not impossible, it's harder to be comfortable these days. I, yes me, agree with some OWS folks in that health care and college education is TOO expensive. Debt is almost a way of life now, and thats hurting us. Colleges and hospitals are making huge profits though, because we all agree to it.
So how about encouraging more and more people, of all walks of life, to stop bickering and agree on the peer pressure, volunteerism, boycott idea I have. Facebook could be a spot. Any online place could be. We only need a place to expose those who are harming us.
For example, Bank of America's $5 fee. If all people, and get more inolved, simply agreed to stop using BOA, they'd change or die. But we'd need a shit load of people to do it, AND stop fighting each other and understand we'll disagree on stuff. Thats why we're split.
If enough people got on the same page, and agreed to frequent only businesses that we advocate, and boycott those we don't, thats a start. Ford Motors, for example, refused the bailouts. They advertised on that, and the White House demanded they shut up about it. I'll buy Ford forever, just because they're good cars and they didn't take the easy money. We should all buy Ford. Screw GMC.
Whole Foods CEO didn't like Obamacare. I shop there nonstop. Great products. Great CEO.
Anyway, just a thought. A union of social ideals, where we will disagree, but on certain things we agree. We all wish odrinary folks got paid more. Taxes and government aren't the way to do it. But allowing CEO's and corporations to run free without accountability wont either.
Only if the PEOPLE unite among our differences can we change shit.
I think there is about a 2% chance of people putting their differences aside for this and doing something. Which means....I just wasted 10 minutes typing.
So whats a Social Union? Just peer pressure, volunteerism, etc. How? Well, any way. Simple as a web page. But both sides would need to unite and agree on not attacking each other. What would it be like? The Tea Party is right that big government is bad. Bailouts sucked, and put us in huge debt. Taxes are too high. OWS is right that while not impossible, it's harder to be comfortable these days. I, yes me, agree with some OWS folks in that health care and college education is TOO expensive. Debt is almost a way of life now, and thats hurting us. Colleges and hospitals are making huge profits though, because we all agree to it.
So how about encouraging more and more people, of all walks of life, to stop bickering and agree on the peer pressure, volunteerism, boycott idea I have. Facebook could be a spot. Any online place could be. We only need a place to expose those who are harming us.
For example, Bank of America's $5 fee. If all people, and get more inolved, simply agreed to stop using BOA, they'd change or die. But we'd need a shit load of people to do it, AND stop fighting each other and understand we'll disagree on stuff. Thats why we're split.
If enough people got on the same page, and agreed to frequent only businesses that we advocate, and boycott those we don't, thats a start. Ford Motors, for example, refused the bailouts. They advertised on that, and the White House demanded they shut up about it. I'll buy Ford forever, just because they're good cars and they didn't take the easy money. We should all buy Ford. Screw GMC.
Whole Foods CEO didn't like Obamacare. I shop there nonstop. Great products. Great CEO.
Anyway, just a thought. A union of social ideals, where we will disagree, but on certain things we agree. We all wish odrinary folks got paid more. Taxes and government aren't the way to do it. But allowing CEO's and corporations to run free without accountability wont either.
Only if the PEOPLE unite among our differences can we change shit.
I think there is about a 2% chance of people putting their differences aside for this and doing something. Which means....I just wasted 10 minutes typing.