Working the FReepathon you hear stories. People out of work, one lost their house and was living with relatives. She sent $3. Dear one, she WAS a "premium member". And she's not the only one.
Yep. Welcome to Obamaville. That is probably part of the Marxist’s plan. Break the economy to the point that we have no voice.
What would you do if you wanted to completely break the free market economy and replace it with something else?
How would you do that?
What is it that one thing that you could do to raise the price of everything and blame it all on the free market economy
and the “rich”?
Simple. Raise the price of energy.
How would you do that?
Increase the regulations on the energy companies regarding producing energy via the EPA or the UN.
What did Obama say about energy prices? “They will necessarily sky rocket”.
When energy prices “necessarily sky rocket” what happens?
The cost of delivering seed for crops and feed for live stock increases.
The cost of delivering the resulting products to grocery stores increases.
The cost of delivering the raw materials to manufactures increases.
The cost of delivering the resulting products to retail increases.
The cost to the consumer increases. The sales taxes are percentages and take a bigger bite out of every-ones budget.
When most of the population needs help who steps in to help?
The slave master, the government is like an abusive parent. The more that we give, the more that we give in.
Replacing our current economic and governmental system is ON PURPOSE and has been in the works for a long time.
Throw all of the use-full idiot so called ruling-class lifelong politicians out on their butts!
TEA Party On!
Believe me, I understand. I struggle to find a few bucks to donate every Freepathon I can. My family's business has been hurt by Obamanomics like you wouldn't believe.
Let me expand a bit on the funding model I mentioned in my last post.
Delphi Forums has (or had) a three tiered membership plan:
A) Basic membership: basic posting privileges, plus visible advertising, and no digital bells and whistles. I think it was $20 a year (might even be every other year).
B) Intermediate membership: basic posting privileges, plus visible ads, with some digital bells and whistles included. I think it was $30 a year.
C) Premium membership: full posting privileges, NO visible ads, all the digital bells and whistles, plus admin level privileges (if assigned by a forum owner). I think it was $50 a year. Naturally, JR would have to figure out what pricing structure works best for FR memberships.
The beauty of this design, is that even a church mouse like me can afford a Basic membership so I can post, but if I can swing just $50, I can enjoy the full benefits of the site for a full year.
The other side of the funding model is, of course, the paid advertising. It's a dual stream income model, with built in incentives for members to donate more. Deserving, but destitute members could still be gifted with community supported memberships.
I didn't mention the lurker level. There's no cost for that, but one can't post.