Close your Wallet

I'm cheap and I'm going political.  I'm all for the folks down at OWS.  I think we should have done this long before now.  I used to tell people in my church to occupy Wall Street when they would talk to me about protesting at an abortion clinic.  I thought protesting at an abortion clinic was just silly.  If you really want to prevent abortions then you should be in favor of a living wage.  Pay people a decent salary and then they can afford to raise their kids, but businesses cry that they can't afford to pay more.  My answer to that is, if you can't pay people a living wage then there is something wrong with your business model.  It is hard but at the same time it is simple.  The truth is that the people who actually do the work have been getting screwed since Ronald Reagan.  He was wrong about too many things to go into on this one posting. Ask yourself the question are you better off now than you were in 1980 before we elected an actor to the White House.  I'm old enough to remember that the answer is no.
In response to this thirty year war on the people who actually do the work, I say close your wallet.  If they think they can get along without us, I say let them try.   I'm no Luddite.  I like my technology.  I like getting up and writing a blog for instance, but I have had very little money most of my life. Education has given me a host of skills, not least of which is a clear view of what really matters.  The truth is that we can live without a lot of stuff and just not spend any money.  We can pay our taxes, put food on the table, clothes on our backs and live well with very little.  The reality is that we the people have been through this before.  The same nonsense happened during the depression.  I say: Screw the economy until it stops screwing us.  Give us good paying jobs or we won't shop.  Some folks are out buying guns.  That will just create mayhem.  Close your wallet instead and make your own everything.  Make your own entertainment, grow your own food, fix up and decorate your own clothes.  Paint and repair discarded furniture.  We the people are very resourceful and we can just shut them down if we really wanted to. Bring Back the Boycott!