Circuit City: "Videotape your holiday wishes and messages of support to the troops, for FREE!"

www.MessageFromAmerica.com ^ | 12/26/2001 | Circuit City

[Angelique]

Or you can REWARD them for this wonderful program by patronizing them, so that they (and others) will do it AGAIN!!! (Ain't free enterprise grand?)

Notably, the first commercial patriots were car dealers. While I do not have to patronize any of these gumptious jerks, I can certainly express my outrage. Making a buck off of innocent victims smacks of the very war we are fighting.

You stated the purpose behind the campaign at Circuit City. Doesn't this remind you of ambulance chasing lawyers? Captialism does not include feeding like a shark frenzy. It has personal responsibility. THAT is the difference between libs and conservatives.

Far more significant would be for us, and those we love to do this on our own. The government is bad enough, but now we rely on some retailer?

"There is no free lunch." And I am certainly not going to have Circuit City give me one. Whoa! I think I am short circuiting at the very thought.

[RonDog]

Apparently, there is a substantial difference between your conception of the way our system of free enterprise should operate - and mine.

This thread may not be the best place to address that difference.

[Angelique]

This thread may not be the best place to address that difference.

What thread would be best? That is ridiculous! I do not want to go to Circuit City to help my fellow man with something better than making a buck. In case you did not notice, our military does not have that snake oil on their faces! Circuit City indeed!

[Snow Bunny]

I posted this at the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Tonkin suggested I put it here too.I sure hope everyone does this is was fun.

Please forgive the bad picture. I wanted FallGuy in it with me so we asked the young man at Circut City if he would take our picture as I promised Ligeia. We went to Circut City today and they had a wall to stand against and the camera all set up. We had 39 seconds to say whatever we wanted....I asked the man doing it...." OK, can I say, we hope you kill Osama." He laughed and said no but he wished we could. tee hee I told the man about Free Republic and the Canteen on here too.He was very interested in both. So here ya go, FallGuy and Snow Bunny supporting the troops. And I am sorry it isn't a better picture, I hope we did not break the camera. LOL

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This is a great idea. Thanks for the flag, Tonkin, Sir!

[RonDog]

FallGuy and Snow Bunny supporting the troops

What a GREAT picture, Snow Bunny and Fall Guy!!!
Thank you for posting it here!

[Snow Bunny]

I hope a lot of FReepers go to Circut City, it didn't take long at all and was fun too.

Thank you RonDog.

[RonDog]

This thread may not be the best place to address that difference.

What thread would be best?

Perhaps:
Pursuit of Liberty: The Moral Basis of Capitalism
Posted on 07/10/2000 08:43:41 PDT by annalex

In their strictly selfish pursuit of profit, Circuit City has been driven to perform such acts of civic goodness as providing this wonderful service for the troops.

It would be difficult to find a more perfect demonstration of the power of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand":

"...Each individual strives to become wealthy "intending only his own gain" but to this end he must exchange what he owns or produces with others who sufficiently value what he has to offer; in this way, by division of labour and a free market, public interest is advanced."

[Angelique]

Sorry, but the true sense of honesty and courage does not have a dollar bill tagged to it. There is a God and HE cannot be bought!

[Ligeia]

Thanks! I know the troops will love getting your message! I plan to go this weekend. Did you wear your santa hats?

[annalex]

Thanks.

I see nothing wrong in donating resources to support our troops, nothing wrong in trying to sell more electronic gadgets, and nothing wrong in doing the two at the same time. In fact, I find both activities highly moral, separately or in concert.

Since Angelique brings up no less authority than God in #69, I'd like to ask her if she can point us to any scripture that forbids combining work and charity.

[RonDog]

Thanks for your support.

I can apreciate that "business" has a poor reputation - perhaps even well-deserved - even here on Free Republic.

I believe that in the absence of fraud and government incompetence, our American free enterprise system is inherently the MOST moral form of economic endeavor possible. I WOULD, however, like to see more CHRISTIAN businessmen - whose integrity goes beyond Adam Smith as an exemplar, but strives towards the example set by Jesus Christ.

See, for instance, "BUSINESS ETHICS AND GOD".

[annalex]

I think, the reason "Christian businessman" elicits blank stares is often the contemporary interpretation of Christianity as somehow antithetical to work for profit, or even work for resale. Have you see a wonderful exchange between (all details from memory) a CEO of a Silicon Valley chip manufacturer T.J. Rogers(?) and a nun who insisted that he hired more women on his corporate board and engage in a slew of politically correct activities. She proceeded to disinvest the pension plan she was in charge of from his profitable and successful company. His response, in a nutshell, was: Rogers had an obligation to run the company the best way he knows how, for her. Her obligation as a decision maker in her investment fund was to invest in profitable companies on behalf of other nuns. Her request was, in effect, to do something to hurt the nuns as they retire. Yet she was full of Christian pathos and he was a money grubbing philistine. It was posted somewhere on FR. Maybe Boris can find it.

[RonDog]

It was posted somewhere on FR. Maybe Boris can find it.

EXCELLENT!!

I think this is it.
Post #21 from Is Corporate America Leading The Way For Left-Wing Social Change?
21 Posted on 08/27/2001 14:24:15 PDT by boris

[American Preservative]

Message from America ping!

[Snow Bunny]

I thought we had a santa hat and I did not find it in the Christmas stuff. So it was just us, but I gave it my best shot. giggle.

[cali5]

Thanks for the ping!

[American Preservative]

A.O.K. : )