Want An Economic Band-aid? Here’s How 5 Ways for you and I to improve Our Economy!!!

[ericadawn16]

Want An Economic Band-aid?
Here’s How
5 Ways for you and I to improve Our Economy!!!

I don't do all of it but we can all do some of it.

# 1 Buy From Small businesses
Supporting your local community redistributes the money and therefore the power into the hands of everyone!

# 2 Buy American Products
Buying American Products keeps American Money in America, and benefits local communities and our federal community! It also allows our country to continue being a powerful force for world good!

# 3 Support Small Technologies
Buy computers and other technologies from small local, and/or online businesses! This supports innovation in our communities and country, and allows for more balanced competition in those fields! Use open source operating systems (ie linux) which is available for FREE, online instead of the hundreds other companies charge for theirs! Use the extra to buy from local companies, and donate a small portion to support the research open source companies do (they work for donations

# 4 Support Local Art
Supporting local artists, musicians, and writers helps to fuel cultural advancement, education, and innovation! This is the spark which creates new fields and NEW JOBS!

# 5 Call your Congress Person or Write Him or Her
Call your congress Person and demand more protection for your personal privacy and freedoms! Tell them you want rights to FREE SPEECH on the internet! Tell them you want more regulations on LARGE CORPORATIONS! Tell them you want more support for local business and EDUCATION! If they don’t fix the problem, elect someone NEW!!!

(Anyone has permission to distribute this material in any legal manner, so long as it is FREE!!! ~Alyss W. Rabbit)

Comments

[brass-cojones.livejournal.com]

The second statement is a little bit wrong and I always worry when people think that way because from a purely economic standpoint it actually HARMS the local economy to only buy American/Canadian made stuff all of the time.

While I prefer to buy as much Canadian or American product as I can (I live in Canada) because I like supporting the North American economy if we all bought only what was made in our own country and damaged the import/export market then other countries would actually STOP buying our products (exports) and the global economy would collapse even further than it has because we would be able to export even less of what we made - our own populations are not enough to sustain us if we loose export markets and we export WAY more than we consume to other countries for sale and distribution. So if we only bought American (or Canadian) we would basically be shooting ourselves in the foot and committing economic suicide.

All of that said, I almost always choose local food (100 mile radius) over imports because we have regulations governing pesticide use and such inside our countries and make a point to buy local authors, artists and artisans as often as I can as well - but I also don't always limit my clothing or electronics purchases to local only because those are the largest import/export markets that are sustaining our economy as well.