Anti-Occupy Wall Street" groups are taking on the protesters of "Occupy Black Friday" with "BUYcott Black Friday."
Liberate Philadelphia/Liberate America, a Tea Party coalition of groups countering the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, are challenging the latest move by Occupy Wall Street protesters to occupy or boycott publicly traded retailers on Black Friday by instead encouraging consumers to shop on Black Friday to help the economy recover.
"At a time when our economy is most fragile and ratings agencies are talking about another downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, it's completely irresponsible for Occupy Wall Street to attempt to bring the U.S. economy to a halt on the busiest shopping day of the year," Liberate organizer and a spokesman for the Tea Party, John Sullivan, stated in a press release.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Tea Party Activists Response to 'Occupy Black Friday' 'BUYcott Black Friday'
Occupy wall street wants you to damage the American economy by boycotting Black Friday. The Te Party has responded with 'BUYcott Black Friday.'
"Occupy wall street [sic] wants you to damage the American economy by boycotting Black Friday."
ReplyDeleteWhat nonsense. As if choosing not to buy products and services as a consumer equals damaging the American economy. As is reported to be the stated goal of "Occupy Black Friday", choosing not to patronize the top 100 publicly traded retailers is no more damaging to the economy than a bunch of people choosing not to shop at Wal Mart (or any other retailer) because they think it's a terrible store with terrible customer service.
Critics of the Occupy movement are going to have to think of something a little less silly than claiming people choosing not to buy retail products is a bad thing.
What OWS idiots like the commenter above don't realize is that boycotting stores like Walmart and the like will hurt the lower-class more than anyone else, since it will be their jobs that will be cut and their prices raised when these stores have to make up the profits by cutting workers and raising their prices. Of course they can be expected to ignore this fact since the OWS people do not come from the lower classes. They are all whiny middle-class college students who drool over their professor's stories of the 60s and want to live their own revolutionary fantasy, at tax payer expense. Maybe someone can make a commie-hippy theme park for them, it would save everyone a lot of money and grief.
ReplyDeleteFor the record: who_is_john_galt didn't explain how a boycott of retailers is any different from choosing not to shop at certain stores simply because you don't like the stores. Under no circumstances is the consumer who says "I'm taking my business elsewhere" responsible for a bad economy or the bad performance of the retailer.
ReplyDeleteIt's the retailers themselves who are responsible for whatever negatives happen to them because of Occupy Black Friday. If they were to improve their services and products, there wouldn't be any for a boycott. Until they do, people are doing the only reasonable thing: not patronizing them.
Furthermore ...
ReplyDelete"What OWS idiots like the commenter above don't realize is that boycotting stores like Walmart and the like will hurt the lower-class more than anyone else, since it will be their jobs that will be cut and their prices raised when these stores have to make up the profits by cutting workers and raising their prices."
It's pretty standard economic knowledge that when demand falls for a product or service (if demand falls because of, say, a boycott or people simply not liking the product or service), then the price falls, not rises. The price falls as an attempt to make the product or service enticing to consumers.
Ahhh Black Friday. The retail human equivalent of Lemmings running off a cliff en masse.
ReplyDeleteoh and before you take offense. I worked that fucking stupidity for 10yrs in a row when I worked retail. I know just how much work and aggravation goes into prepping for it, and I know just how irritating[especially in walmarts] it is to have to clean up after other fucking people. So I speak from experience.
ReplyDeleteI've never shopped on Black Friday, and never will. There's just something about "Annual Greed Stampede" I don't like.
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