Boycotting Black Thursday, Friday, and Every Day til the First of 2013

Your actions are admirable but without the support of many I doubt that anyone will listen. Boycotting is an effective way for the consumer to deal with all types of injustices. But to work, it needs to have the participation of many. Unless this happens it will not change anything. I stopped buying from big business as much as I could a few years ago. I buy locally grown and produced products when I can. But there are some things that just have to be bought at places where I just don't want to do business. I don't think in a few months it will matter anyway. America is dying. Life as we knew it will no longer exist. It has been going this way for quite a few years now and the current idiot-in-charge has taken us to the edge. His intentions are clear - to push us over that edge.

I have never had a credit card, don't want one. Credit is the biggest scam there is to relieve you of your money. I also try real hard to shop local, small non chain stores as much as possible all year long. As I replied elsewhere here, I don't buy gifts at Christmas time, but try to do small favors and give things I've made. Last year, I gave my grandkids a coupon for one full day with me alone to spend time with just them. They really enjoyed it and so did I.

That is the thing that I hate about politics. They promised all kind of goodies during election. When we read back at the fine print, sit down and consider, in actual fact everything is paid out from someone pockets. Definitely not their pockets but yours or mine in the long run. If not, those cost will be passed to our next generation. Boycott and let them know how you feel.

This is nothing new. I guarantee you that all businesses will be doing similar things to avoid paying more for healthcare under Obamacare. Every single time without fail, whenever the democrats try and legislate the business world, increase taxes on businesses and "greedy, evil" corporations, it backfires and the everyday working stiff ends up paying for it. Businesses always, ALWAYS, as in every single time without fail, will pass on increased operating costs to the consumer, including their employees. They will never, ever let it eat into their profit margin, period. This is a basic premise of business. They maintain a healthy profit margin. It will always be that way. I'm sure a lot of the people that are going to be laid off or have their hours cut voted for Obama, never realizing that they would pay for it in the end, but that is what is happening and that's the way it will always happen. People think that they can have the government provide for them and take care of them because that is what the politicians promise, but as usual, they prove that they are as inept as ever at creating the utopia they envision. You can boycott businesses if you want, but you'll have to boycott them all and forever, because the end result will be the same as it is now. The bottom line is, businesses have to do what's best for them and that's not always what's best for their employees. That's life in the real world, not fantasy-land where the politicians live.

This is their statement against Obamacare, but people and the MSM are not listening.

I think you can shop from small family stores that will need the money more than the huge super markets and malls. These people are trying to survive as we all do and it's good to support them even if they are a bit more expensive. About your thoughts, many people have thought this way in my country as well for different reasons but from my experience it needs a lot more than individual acts to give a statement to your government. Maybe if the whole city did the same, then they would listen to you. ( I haven't really followed the politics at US besides the basics so I am not sure what's going on there right now. )