Take up a freep-a-thon tagline.
One of your own or something you see someplace that you like.
“Othewise you admit that you believe in Welfare, because someone else is paying for your time here”
Guess I’d better leave then. I know exactly where my money goes and if you want to donate to whatever organization please FEEL FREE!
Well said!!!
Hear, hear!
I’ve been a-dollar-a-day member for years. If there were more of us, we wouldn’t need FReepathons.
Dollar-a-day/Monthly donor here.
What is the lawsuit against FR? I’m here every day but must have missed it. Thanks.
I posted something similar to this on another thread today.
I wish Jim would just charge a minimum annual fee and then run a FReeperthon only if the fees are not enough to sustain.
With hundreds of thousands of posters and lurkers a small annual fee would provide millions and obviate the need for quarterly FReeperthons.
If there is anyone that can't afford a buck or two a month, stop posting and lurking and get another job or two jobs or three jobs.
Does that mean FR is on welfare?
Here’s the thing, people. Count up how many days a month you read Free Republic. For a lot of us, it’s nearly every day. Next, take a gander at the cost of a daily newspaper—$1 in most areas. Finally, remember that if you’re receiving a cable news channel, you’re paying for that too. Even if the content on Free Republic were the same as the daily newspaper, no more, no less, that’s $30 for a month’s worth of news, plus the percentage of your cable bill for the cable news.
But what you read here is more reliable and up to date than anything you can find in either a newspaper or a cable newscast. News appears here from sources that will not be published anywhere else—translations of news stories from foreign newspapers, intel from people (including published authors) that will not appear anywhere else, and expert analysis from our own Freepers—example: the exposure of the Dan Rather/CBS fraud started right here.
$1.00 a day to keep this valuable resource is more than reasonable. It’s vital. I’ve been a dollar a day person for a long while, and it’s worth every last penny of it.
But, I also have to admit, it’s a matter of priorities. In my case, I think FR is more important than the daily newspaper, which I dropped long ago—so I’m really not spending anything extra. Even if I were, I am SO concerned about the future of my country that I feel it’s crucial to keep an eye on what our enemies—external and internal—are up to. This is the only place that does that job well.
C’mon, folks. A dollar a day is easy, it’s inexpensive, and most people will learn a lot more here, than from their lattes or biased newspapers.
‘We all know that every one of us is going to blow ten bucks at McDonalds, Wendys, someplace in the next 24 hours.’
Really? How pray tell do WE KNOW that? My family eats out MAYBE once a year.
“That’s why it’s simply not believable that everyone can’t send at least ten bucks.”
Not believing something does not make that something untrue.
“It’s election season and you’re going to get no better election info and discussion than here on Free Republic. It’s just a fact.”
I agree, that’s why I am here. I don’t watch TV and I don’t trust the newspapers.
“Let’s knock this freep-a-thon out and get fully into the campaign.
BTW, my sense is that the lawsuit against Free Republic should make us MORE determined to protect this treasure that Jim & John have provided us in FR. No one’s said anything, but lawyers cost extra cash. A major equipment crash and burn a while back costs extra cash. This is all to say that there’s a real need.
Finally, there is no other discussion and response software anyplace that even comes close to what the Robinsons have created. And it’s exclusively available to conservatives.”
Good points
“A minimum of 10 bucks, folks.
Othewise you admit that you believe in Welfare, because someone else is paying for your time here.”
Being conservative does not equate to automatically having disposable income. Yes, I have a computer (that my father bought for me about 6 years ago). Yes, I have internet. I have given up television and newspaper in order to afford it. I also homeschool my kids, make my house payment and pay my taxes on a fixed income. We simply cannot cut out anything else from our budget.
I honestly do not get it. Why put your subscribers through this pain every quarter?
The site is large enough to pay expenses through advertising and maybe even put some money in your pocket, capitalism works and this is the only site I visit that does not have it.
Advertising to me was only a pain when I was on dial up and it slowed the page loading, now I barely notice it on any site. A freeperthon is more distracting to me than advertising by a long shot
Better yet charge your subscribers $10 a year and do the advertising, all this freeperthon stuff is just dithering around and wasting time. It’s like you guys feel like making money is a bad thing, all this purity stuff is misguided IMHO - make a buck and may god smile on you
////Pay-site probably would eliminate 90% of the trolls
I’ve been a dollar a day donor and a five dollar a month donor and a non donor. Just depended on what was going on at the time.