Will you also deny them your essence?
Why just limit the protest to November and December? Hell, don’t donate blood at all unless you do it for a close intimate or friend who you know will get the blood directly and immediately.
Conservatives are charitable with what belongs to them. Liberals are charitiable with what belongs to others.
Bad idea.
Really bad idea.
I will gladly donate blood for someone i know, but there are enough free loaders out there that wouldn’t do anything for anybody and that is one thing they can’t steal from me is my blood so i and i only will choose who will get my blood.
Giving blood should not be an act of defiance against the government. Donating blood saves lives. I wish to God I could donate, but I can’t. Be grateful you can and just do it. You can find other ways to protest health care deform.
So...
What do we do until November?
Why don’t we refuse medicare if over 65 and pay our
own health care. Show them we mean business and we
can pay our own way. That would show them. I am
ready if you are.
This is a rediculous idea. It will only harm innocent people and will do nothing to stop the socialist advance.
If you want to make a difference pick a solid conservative candidate running for congress in your district or state this Fall and donate your time or money to their cause.
Bringing commerce to a hault for a day or so would have a quicker effect, I think. I don’t oppose your idea but really could not participate because I cannot give blood because of medication I have to take. I have thought about canceling my medicare and that may be an option because there will come a time when medical treatment will be denied for most of older folks anyhow. So why pay for the insurance when there is no benefit.
Deliberately hurting sick people is a sure-fire recipe for losing the war. Just saying....
Whatever else might be said (and adding that ideas are needed for taking back our country), I think it's an untenable idea.
First, you are asking many conservatives to go against their nature. It's hard to get people to do something that's against their nature and their character. Far easier to get them to do things that are in character.
Secondly, in order for something like this to have the desired effect, it would have to be done en masse. The fact that you have so few takers already shows that not enough people would take up the idea to have the desired effect.
Third, it's a tactic that would allow the opposition to paint conservatives in a negative light.
For all these reasons, I don't think it's a workable idea.
The ballot box has not failed. We need to convince as many people as possible to vote our way. That is one of a very few practical ways to succeed.
Protest is effective only if it convinces politicians they will be impacted at the ballot box. Politicians will not react to a “blood scarcity” protest. They’ll simply spend tax dollars on a blood drive.
Withholding charity doesn’t seem like a good way to convince others they should vote like you (which they clearly should, IMHO).
>> We need to stop donating blood over a specific period of time
Absolutely not.
Morally wrong, politically disastrous.
Not a fan of your idea but a one-day medical strike to oppose health care makes sense to me. Only emergency aid should be rendered for a day. No appointments. No nurses. No “making the rounds”. Simply doctors and hospitals going “on strike” for a day.
Just to give them a little taste of what the future of ObamaCare will be like.
Good idea (although I never donated to begin with). With-hold your blood, with-hold your money, with-hold your brainpower in a socialists economy. Bankrupt the parasites.
We are at war with an enemy within. Witness yesterday’s and recent events.