I have already stopped spending more than $200 a month by cancelling services: some cable, gym, lawn and pest control, home phone services...have been asked every time WHY...and I’ve told them, “Yesterday’s election. We had a chance to go in the right direction, and things went differently. So I am cutting my spending.”
Almost every person I spoke too understood my reasoning, expressed sympathy, and agreed with me.
Same here. My wife just canceled the lady who has cleanes our house for over 10 year (rabid Obama supporter), and I cancel our newspaper (San Jose Mercury News). I also downgraded our Comcast Internet from their Blast service to their basic service, saving a bit more. All told, we cut more than $300 a month on our spending.
It's good that they can see/empathize... but I really have to question the validity of "we had a chance to go in the right direction" claim. Restricting ourselves to the two main parties, Romney was a signal to people for 'status quo', and so was Obama. They're both socialists, both statists, and both liberals. So there was never any intent on the part of the GOP to get things done [that would change things], and indeed Romney was pushed for the primaries. (Remember the rule-changes, the refusal to seat delegates, and the bus circling incidents at the convention? Or the Ron Paul wins in the primaries, due to his supporters successfully rule-lawyering their position that were retroactively invalidated? Or the several states where Romney was declared winner, until the next primary was well underway?)
There was never any intent other than to talk a good game and "be electable", which is why he lost.