TteFAboB
10-17-06, 11:53 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_us/oil_from_chavez
This is a fantastic example. :up: (reading this Skybird?)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.
And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."
Can you tell charity from conscience buying? Charity is when you receive something out of somebody's good will expecting nothing in return. Conscience buying is when you are offered a seducing gift in return for your principles.
When you purchase something you make a vote, just like in an election. You vote on that business model, on that supplier, on that method, on that product. If there are no votes, the company doesn't get 'elected', that is, they run out of business. :)
I don't approve of Johnson & Johnson's new CEO for example, so I don't buy J&J anymore since there is (still) competition, alternatives for me to choose with no loss of quality. This is something every single one of us should do, discriminate companies that is, but if you want to stop buying from J&J too I won't stop you ;) . Instead of being zombie-consumers who walk from mega-shop to mega-shop never searching on the internet to discover if these people are worth of your vote, your money, research them, approve or disapprove them. Monopolists don't get my vote, don't get my money. Nor does globalists, fascists and socialists.
Hugo Chavez is a monopolizer. You all have your opinions on Wal-Mart. Very well, Hugo Chavez has created a state-funded "Wal-Mart" of sorts where the products (one of each, no choosing) are sponsored by Oil revenue. This super-statal chain (can't call it super-market can you?) is a disaster to every other market in the region where it is installed. If you think the Wal-Mart effect with its low prices are drastic, imagine a super-statal chain that doesn't even need to generate revenue like Wal-Mart to survive since it can suck on Oil profits. The prices are that low (and so is the quality of the trash being sold). Of course, this means that if the Oil prices ever plummet, these statal markets will be unable to resupply and entire regions will be left without food, forcing people to travel long distances to get any or fend for themselves.
These Alaskans have put their principles above comfort and said a big fat no to unwanted "charity". Their problem is with whacko-heads lowering international diplomacy to a cheap circus (as if it wasn't already low) and disrespecting the population. I'm with them. :up: Along with this, monopoly is also rejected.
Now, if I weren't on the other side of the coast I'd start mobilizing people to support these Alaskans. The government seems to have failed delivering the heating-oil and they won't take Chavez rethoric, I mean, money. If they were offered a non-Chavez option I'm sure the ones who accepted it this time wouldn't consider it next time. There's a true redneck Church here in Virginia, -censored, too much private info :|\\ -, where your typical southern American bunch congregates every Sunday to donate money to starving kids in Brazil. This is absolutely beautiful and the greatest response to anti-americanism. However, maybe we should take care of the Alaskans for a while?
This is the time to show some charitable spirit and give them some Freedom Oil. :D
Perhaps it is too late by now, but you'll hear from me next Winter. I'm not forgetting the resistance of these brave Eskimos.
And boycott Citgo. :rock: :cool:
This is a fantastic example. :up: (reading this Skybird?)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.
And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."
Can you tell charity from conscience buying? Charity is when you receive something out of somebody's good will expecting nothing in return. Conscience buying is when you are offered a seducing gift in return for your principles.
When you purchase something you make a vote, just like in an election. You vote on that business model, on that supplier, on that method, on that product. If there are no votes, the company doesn't get 'elected', that is, they run out of business. :)
I don't approve of Johnson & Johnson's new CEO for example, so I don't buy J&J anymore since there is (still) competition, alternatives for me to choose with no loss of quality. This is something every single one of us should do, discriminate companies that is, but if you want to stop buying from J&J too I won't stop you ;) . Instead of being zombie-consumers who walk from mega-shop to mega-shop never searching on the internet to discover if these people are worth of your vote, your money, research them, approve or disapprove them. Monopolists don't get my vote, don't get my money. Nor does globalists, fascists and socialists.
Hugo Chavez is a monopolizer. You all have your opinions on Wal-Mart. Very well, Hugo Chavez has created a state-funded "Wal-Mart" of sorts where the products (one of each, no choosing) are sponsored by Oil revenue. This super-statal chain (can't call it super-market can you?) is a disaster to every other market in the region where it is installed. If you think the Wal-Mart effect with its low prices are drastic, imagine a super-statal chain that doesn't even need to generate revenue like Wal-Mart to survive since it can suck on Oil profits. The prices are that low (and so is the quality of the trash being sold). Of course, this means that if the Oil prices ever plummet, these statal markets will be unable to resupply and entire regions will be left without food, forcing people to travel long distances to get any or fend for themselves.
These Alaskans have put their principles above comfort and said a big fat no to unwanted "charity". Their problem is with whacko-heads lowering international diplomacy to a cheap circus (as if it wasn't already low) and disrespecting the population. I'm with them. :up: Along with this, monopoly is also rejected.
Now, if I weren't on the other side of the coast I'd start mobilizing people to support these Alaskans. The government seems to have failed delivering the heating-oil and they won't take Chavez rethoric, I mean, money. If they were offered a non-Chavez option I'm sure the ones who accepted it this time wouldn't consider it next time. There's a true redneck Church here in Virginia, -censored, too much private info :|\\ -, where your typical southern American bunch congregates every Sunday to donate money to starving kids in Brazil. This is absolutely beautiful and the greatest response to anti-americanism. However, maybe we should take care of the Alaskans for a while?
This is the time to show some charitable spirit and give them some Freedom Oil. :D
Perhaps it is too late by now, but you'll hear from me next Winter. I'm not forgetting the resistance of these brave Eskimos.
And boycott Citgo. :rock: :cool: