Posted on 08/24/2013 4:24:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Contrary to what you hear from liberals, the biggest flaw conservatives have is being overly tolerant. Really? Seriously? We're "overly tolerant?"
Absolutely.
Conservatives will listen to a Hollywood star trash us as intolerant and then we'll go watch his movie anyway. Musicians will openly support Obama and call us racists; yet we'll still buy their albums. Corporations will bend over backwards to undermine everything we hold dear and then we'll turn right around and buy their products. Conservatives make up 40% of all Americans and if we start letting our values dictate where we spend our money, we can transform America's culture in a hurry. Our money spells the difference between a blockbuster and a flop, a hit single or a bust, and a corporate CEO ending up on the cover of Business Week or looking for a new job. You want to even the playing field in America? Then stop propping up corporations that want to destroy everything you hold dear. When a company does something you don't like, close your wallet until management gets the idea. When your money talks, corporations listen. Here are five easy ones to get you started.
1) Chrysler: It's bad enough that Obama spent billions of dollars of your money to prop up the fat cats at Chrysler, but after the crooked deal was done, United Auto Workers ended up owning 55% of the company. In other words, every time you buy a car from Chrysler, your money is helping to prop up a liberal union that works non-stop to elect as many liberal Democrats as possible. Chrysler isn't a corporation with a liberal union attached; it's a liberal union with a corporation attached to it.
2) Progressive Insurance: Peter Lewis is the Chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies and outside of George Soros, he may be the biggest liberal sugar daddy on the block. This former close friend of Ted Kennedy has poured tens of millions of dollars into the ACLU, America Coming Together, and MoveOn, among other liberal causes. So, why not get your auto insurance from a company that isn’t working to destroy the American way of life?
3) Capital One: Having someone like Alec Baldwin as your spokesman just screams, "We don't want conservative customers." This is the same Alec Baldwin who has said, "Gingrich is a cranky history professor. Romney is better suited for country club president. Obama sees what govt’s priorities should be. Obama...2012" and "Until Limbaugh gets real, weans himself off the big salary and runs for office, he will always be nothing more than a poorly educated, marginally talented buffoon who has developed a real talent for manipulating the G-spot of the neocon consciousness and massaging the hate gland of so many economically displaced white voters in America." Why give money to a company that holds you in such contempt that it would hire a man like this as its spokesman?
4) Starbucks: Do you really need overpriced coffee from a corporation that detests traditional marriage? Not only is Starbucks pro-gay marriage, but when a shareholder complained that boycotts over gay marriage were costing the company money, "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz responded...by telling him that he could, ’sell your shares in Starbucks and buy shares in another company.’” If you're a Christian or just someone who believes in traditional marriage, the CEO of Starbucks is publicly saying he doesn't want your business. Can't you find your coffee somewhere else where you aren't forced to swallow Starbucks’ disdain for you along with your Java?
5) The AARP: Despite the fact that its membership opposed Obamacare because it would destroy our healthcare system, the AARP supported that abomination because it is going to make a killing marketing insurance under the bill. It’s also doing more than any other organization to block entitlement reform, which is making it practically impossible to keep America from sliding into bankruptcy. On top of all that, AARP is a left-wing organization that has backed gun control and Planned Parenthood while fighting against a Balanced Budget Amendment. You might as well just give your money directly to the Democrat Party as to the AARP.
You can add in as much as you like. If it’s heavy, they have to pay extra postage. I have heard of people taping the return envelope to a box with a brick in it. That’s a lot of effort, but it requires very little effort to enclose a wad of extra junk mail.
If you want to repeat this exercise in order to cost them the most money on return postage, be careful not to send back anything with your name on it. If you want them to cease and desist with sending you junk mail, then including your name in a heavy return envelope will get you off their junk mail list much faster than politely asking them to take you off.
Great post. Great advice.
I hope a lot of people read this!
Because of health issues, my activities are severely limited. So watching a ton of TV/movies was the ...logical (ya right) thing to do.
Nope.
I have always had an interest in music and played guitar so I dove headlong into learning about making music. The technical and the creative. I don’t plan on doing anything with it. It’s just personal satisfaction.
I can tell you that in 4 years I have not once lacked for something to occupy my mind or my time. The only dvds I have bought are technical/learning and the net is a massive library of info.
And I would point out that the same applies to any interest from needlepoint to carpentry to gardening to nuclear/quantum physics.
We all have a choice. Pay to drool and enrich liberals in their agenda or choose a different path, do something constructive and be happy.
USAA a good alternative to progressive.
Chubb, Harleysville
There are plenty out there to choose from
Though I forget the company, I remember one ad with a male getting hit in the privates and as he was in pain, his daughter laughed. The mother said “Don't laugh at daddy, that is mommy's job.” She then pointed and laughed. I saw the ad once, I hope people complained to the degree that it was removed from the airwaves.
Fiat and KFC have ads where a woman slaps a man in the face.
I saw a full page ad in the USA Today yesterday about public schools. There were five faces, none of which was a white boy, and the AFL-CIO was a sponsor.
And Ad Council. Where do I start with that bigotry that they produce?
you are makin too much sense...
most here will never leave the republican party
they are tied to it at the hip, regardless of the fact that while the dems are communist, the pubs are socialist..
definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result each time
Whenever I get an AARP letter offering membership, I cut the contents into small pieces and mail them back in their postage paid envelope.
Oh, good idea. I’ve just been disposing of the small pieces in the trash. I’ll adopt your method with the next mailing.
Whenever I do that I also throw in a couple of pennies as a donation, so their processor has to take time to account for it, deposit it, etc.
While reading this article and comments I began to wonder if communists have infiltrated the business schools and corporations? It sounds kind of far out but then, why wouldn’t they—they have infiltrated everything else.
Isn’t it interesting that much of their money gets recycled into the coffers of the Democrat party?
Your answer can literally be found by searching the phrase “Communist goals 1963”
It will answer many questions you may have.
Supporting a boycott is just to hard for many but it is the one thing we can do to hurt our enemies short of war.
The list of companies and organizations that should be hurt that I can honestly do without has to be huge. Soliciting them only hurts us.
What a shame comfort and entertainment take precedence over principle.
You mean Charbuck$?
I’m the same as you on the shopping front.
I do indulge my dip cone habit from time to time.
I have had the same State Farm agent for 24 years... and my parents had his father as theirs for the 17 years prior to that. Even when I moved out of state, and the insurance might be cheaper, I kept my vehicle registered back “home”... partly for the security of having a World Class agent that was always superaccommodating... but my old diesel car no long needs to be inspected in that state anymore.
They support gay marriage... big time. Now you know.
I also own other stocks that are likely run by screamers. Am I likely to dig deep enough to learn all those kinds of details about every company I may have a little share in? No.
One of them is Stryker. Check them out if you want to. Probably support the lieburral agenda big time. I have more important things to worry at this point in my life, like living with a terminal illness. See my tag line.
Fiat is the majority owner now. I would also add that unlike GM the US Treasury no longer owns any shares of Chrysler.
So why did this article pick on Chrysler, cherry picking the facts while avoiding GM?
This is now wrong (and has been wrong for over two year).
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