Procter & Gamble will not support our troops (Vanity)

[LuLuLuLu]

Cincinnatians know that there was a Support our Troops rally sponsored by local radio station WKRC on Wednesay, March 12 on Fountain Square. Many people also know that Cincinnati is the home of Procter & Gamble, and that the worldwide headquarters is just one block away from Fountain Square.

Although we couldn’t attend, the local media here reports that many grass roots organizations and local businesses were distributing literature outlining items in short supply overseas. P&G manufactures all of the products that follow, many of which could be used by our troops. However, it was stated by a number of callers to WRKC Friday morning that P&G will not support the troops, saying that if they did they would have to support everything.

This is the same company that makes sizable donations to Guatemala, Afghanistan, France, China and Malaysia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, and Japan to name a few. (Source: P&G 2002 Contributions Report, available online at www.pg.com) The worldwide contributions are worthwhile, but supporting our troops and the freedom we enjoy should be paramount.

Obviously, P&G will support everyone but our service personnel.

We have a number of the following products in our house and would like to organize an effort to return the products to P&G with the message that they’ve lost our business forever. Anyone want to join us?

Alldays Always Aussi Balsam Color Bold Bounce Bounty Camay Cascade Charmin Charmin Cheer Clairol Crest Dawn Downy Dreft Dryel Era Eukanuba Febreeze Fixadent Folgers Gain Giorgio Gleem Head & Shoulders Helmut Lang Herbal Essence Herve-Leger Hugo Boss Hydrange Iams Infusion 23 Ivory Ivory Joy Loving Care Luvs Metamusil Millstone Mr. Clean Natural Instincts Nice & Easy Noxema Olay Old Spice Pampers Panteen Pepto Bismal Pert Physique Pringles Puffs Pur Safeguard Scope Secret Sunny Delight Sure Swiffer Tampax Thermalcare Tide Torengos Touch of Sun Vicks Vidal Sasoon Zest

[TC Rider]

Ooops, should have been a < /sarcasm > after the moon comment.

My point was that P&G is probably already selling those items to DoD and it was unrealistic to expect them to give it away.

I suspect our armed forces have everything they need, logistics may sometimes fail to get everything needed into the right hands. Civilians sending goods through APO boxes fullfills a need for a back door supply line.

[ClancyJ]

I wasn't chastising you in the least - just replying to the last post which happened to be you. It was just my rant. Glad to know you don't subscibe to that ages old nonsense.