I can't speak for anyone else, but I believe that at a bare minimum I should be making donations to FreeRepublic that are roughly equal to the amount of money I no longer spend on newspapers anymore. If everyone else here did the same, there would be no need for quarterly Freepathons at all!
Sort of self ping here to remind me to do that.
“Thanks for the rant/sales pitch, Grampa.”
“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I believe that at a bare minimum I should be making donations to FreeRepublic that are roughly equal to the amount of money I no longer spend on newspapers anymore. If everyone else here did the same, there would be no need for quarterly Freepathons at all!”
I had cancelled my SF Gayrhonicle, Slime and Newsweak before I found Free Republic. After about a year of pledging $5/month, I upped my pledge to the $/Day pledge.
A $/day or $30/month was about what I used to waste on the above liberal fishwrap and mags.
Free Republic is the best source for regional, national and international news. With the daily toons, there is no need for the old liberal and out of date paper pseudo news.
So your suggestion is great. If Freepers donated their monthly savings on their cancelled subscriptions for fishwraps and news mags, there would be no need for Freepathons.