Posted on 01/13/2005 4:44:29 PM PST by PDR
Anti-Bush protest urges Jan. 20 boycott
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- An anti-Bush protest urging no American spend any money on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, is making the rounds on the Internet, USA Today reported Thursday.
Known as "Not One Damn Dime Day," it is a call for a one-day economic boycott in protest of U.S. policy in Iraq and of the estimated $40 million in private funds being spent on Bush's second inaugural.
Like many items floating around the Internet, the provenance of the message is unclear. The Web site notonedamndime.com promotes the boycott but the site's creators, Laura Carmen Arena and Jesse Gordon, said the idea did not originate with them.
Along the same lines, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., in a letter to congressional colleagues, has urged the president to cancel his inaugural celebration and use the money raised for it to give additional pay and equipment to U.S. military personnel serving in Iraq. Weiner, who originally intended to offer his idea as legislation, is not connected to the boycott e-mail.
Thousands of blogs and online forums have posted the e-mail, which began making the rounds in mid-December. Gordon claims his site now gets up to 18,000 hits per day.
Do these fools actually think this "boycott" will really hurt Bush?
This is almost as good as the no gas day, where they just make sure to tank up the day before.
and not spending any money on January 20 is supposed to do what to change the fact Bush has been re-elected? Idiots.
There you go you dumb lefties! Just show everyone how much you don't give a crap about America by trying to kill small business! Pathetic.
Now what you're seeing is the complete bafoonicity of the left.
My gosh these Demonrats are demented. If they don't like the voice of the American electorate, 62 million+ of them by the way, which elected this president fair and square, then get the hell out. My gosh, I don't remember any Republicans forming mass protests or boycotts to protest the election of William Jefferson Felon.
Yawn. 62,000,000 people will be buying and selling to each other and having fun. I guess 57 million will be on suicide watch.
One word, Morons!!!
I'll be spending as much as possible on that day to act as a counterweight to these fools.
That'll hurt all the waiters, waitresses, latte shop workers, and the like who are utterly dependent on the money that liberals (and others) tip them. I guess they truly have no compassion for the low-income wage earner. These people will accomplish NOTHING.
because their welfare state hero, FDR, is on the dime -- that's why.
I intend to spend at least $100 dollars that day even though I don't really need anything.
Nice try by UPI to boost this idiotic cause. which will accomplish exactly nothing.
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