Have you ever used Centrum, Advil, Anbesol, Anacin, Dristan, Primatene, Chap stick, Robitussin, SMA baby formula, Ban, Bufferin, Comtrex, Excedrin, No Doz, Sea Breeze, Nice n Easy, Clairesse, Loving Care, Miss Clairol, Ultress, Enfamil, Gerber foods, or Prosobee … or any product manufactured by SCHERING PLOUGH, RHONE-POLENC RORER, PHARMACIA & UPJOHN, BRISTOL MEYERS SQUIBB, ALZA CORP, JOHNSON and JOHNSON, or KIMBERLY CLARK?
Have you bought Pepsi, 7up, Lipton tea, Mountian Dew, Mug root beer, Slice, Baked Lays, Cheetos, Doritos, Fritos, Funyuns, Rold Gold, Ruffles, Sun chips, Tostitos, Hostess, Bisquick, Betty Crocker, cereals, fruit snacks, Bugles, Pop Secret, Dannon yogurts, bakery products, Jeno’s pizza, QUAKER OATS cereals, Del Monte, RALSTON PURINA foods, Kraft foods, Totinos pizza, Haagen Dazs, BEN & JERRY’s, Pillsbury, Kleenex, Huggies, Cottonelle, Baby Fresh, Viva, Kotex or Scott paper products? Do you use salt?
Have you ever patronized Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Bob Evans, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Long Horn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, Eddie V’s, Yard House, Baja Fresh Mexican Grill, Canyons Burger Co., or La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill?
Is your house framed with wood from Georgia-Pacific? Are there ARMSTRONG flooring tiles or ALCOA aluminum products or WHIRLPOOL appliances in your home? How about Microsoft or HP or Adobe or IBM products? Or Brunswick sports and marine equipment? Or Corning, Nike, Hamilton Beach or Proctor Silex products? Or alcohol including Absolute, Ballantine’s, Beefeater, Chivas Regal, Kahlúa, Malibu, and Royal Salute? Have you ever purchased anything on eBay?
Have you ever watched a production by Buena Vista, Miramax, Touchstone, Capital cities/ ABC, ESPN, Lifetime, Paramount, Showtime, Spelling, MTV, Nickelodeon, USA networks, Comedy Central, Blockbuster … or read a book published by Mcmillan, or Simon and Scheuster or magazines like Bon Appetit, Details, Glamour, GQ, Self, Vanity Fair, and Vogue?
Do you wear Healthtex, Jansport, Lee, Riders, Rustler, Vanity Fair, Wranglers, LEVI STRAUSS, Brittania, Dockers or LIZ CLAIBORNE clothing? Have you been to Disney? Or shopped at Daytons, Hudson’s, Marshall Fields, Mervyn’s, or Target?
Do you have any dealings with AMERCIAN EXPRESS, BANC ONE CORP, CHASE MANHATTAN, CITICORP CITIBANK, J.P. MORGAN, MERRILL LYNCH, METROPOLITAN LIFE, MORGAN STANLEY, NATIONAL CITY CORP, NATIONWIDE INSURANCE, NORTHERN TRUST CORP , NORWEST, PACIFIC MUTUAL, WELLS FARGO, PRIMERICA, or PRUDENTIAL?
Have you ever bought Chevron gas or flown on Jet Blue or Southwest Airlines? Have you ever stayed at a Baymont, Days Inn, Dream Hotels, Hawthorne, Howard Johnson, Knights Inn, Microtel, Night, Ramada, Super 8, Travelodge, TRYP Hotels, Wingate, Wyndham, Four Points, Sheraton, St. Regis, W, Westin, or Marriott Hotels?
If the answer to any of the above is “YES”, are you just a bully in a tony coat that picks on little girls who are trying to raise some money for their club activities because they are an easy target.
Skimming the first sentence, I can tell you that it is not, in my mind, a good reason to drop all standards, to take on, in other words, a value system of relativism just because there’s no way to get around it
The operative word in the topic is Girl. Girl Scouts
Formation of girls is the job at hand. To rationalize their use in this child labor is not a good place to go
Little flowers brings them from 6 to 12 years old. There are lessons, crafts and field trips
We have a local denominational girls group that takes them through HS
Both groups independent of each other collect about $40 per year for supplies and mothers donate the rest as necessary, like$20 per year
The mothers stay for the meetings if they want. There are no secrets and nothing said in formation lessons that is offensive to any decent person
Raising $400 or even $40 per year by necessitating labor from the girls is not reasonable
No girls group needs hundreds of dollars
You’re wasting my time