[AlexdeLarge]

Take a ride on the Galt Train !!!
"Starve The Beast" - July 4th, 2009 Denninger

Perhaps its time. There have been a number of people on the forum talking about this, with one of the most recent converts being "iflyjetzzz".

Look, we can rant and rave about market manipulation and government-sponsored games. We can petition the SEC, the FBI and Congress. We can demand that they stop it all we want. But they haven't and likely won't until and unless America gets pissed off enough to force them to act.

So how do we make that happen, yet remain within the law? Its not that hard, and in the intermediate and longer-term it would be incredibly positive for our economy and nation. We go on a consumption strike until and unless our demands are met.

[Narz]

No non-essential purchases of anything are made. Period.

No more than .001% of the population would ever do that at once unless they were forced to. This would make you hated because without giving back to business you (en masse) will crash the economy. A better approach is to spend frugally but within your local economy. The world doesn't need tightwads with gold under their mattress, it needs a healthy flow within communities. Globalization is evil but it's still a necessary evil for 99.999% of people for the time being.

Any blogger who tells you to stop 100% of consumption is necessarily a hypocrite. Absolutists rarely accomplish much, especially in this day & age.

[dinopello]

If people aren't buying food, they had better learn to grow or hunt their own pretty quick. Or, is that what is meant by "Starve the Beast"?

[mattduke]

The most revolutionary act anyone can actually do is to buy gold.

[Narz]

The most revolutionary act anyone can actually do is to buy gold.

Why would someone waste precious money on a useless, incredibly overpriced hunk of rock? To me gold symbolizing the downfall of man - valuing the useless symbol of wealth above the living landscape that sustains wealth.

[Fishman]

Best idea to date. Essential purchases only. Money to non TARP banks, chose one's vehicle as a political statement. Pass it on, scares the bejebers out of the left.

[mos6507]

Best idea to date. Essential purchases only. Money to non TARP banks, chose one's vehicle as a political statement. Pass it on, scares the bejebers out of the left.

It should scare the right as well. How can you sustain a Reaganomics trickle down economy when you aren't spending money?

[dinopello]

Best idea to date. Essential purchases only. Money to non TARP banks, chose one's vehicle as a political statement. Pass it on, scares the bejebers out of the left.

It should scare the right as well. How can you sustain a Reaganomics trickle down economy when you aren't spending money?

It used to be so easy to stereotype the right as the country club types who weren't about to stop buying expensive cigars and new golf clubs and live like a pauper, but now the base of the right is the Todd Palin type. But, is he really going to stop spending his money on snow machines and gas for his snow machines ?