| They are not the rich and super rich, nor the | | | | withdrawal from Iraq. Make it clear that the coming |
| politically powerful running the two-party plutocracy, | | | | federal rebates will not be used for spending. Make it |
| nor the greedy heads of banking and finance | | | | clear that Bush inaction will result in continuation of |
| companies, and certainly not the media moguls and | | | | the boycott. |
| bloviating pundits. | | | | Where is Ralph Nader, the ultimate consumer |
| The most powerful people are US, American | | | | advocate? Why is he not proclaiming the brilliance of |
| consumers that account for over 70 percent of the | | | | a consumer boycott as the winning tactic to force |
| economy. It is exactly now, when the economy is in | | | | effective government assistance to the millions of |
| the toilet, that consumers hold the maximum power. | | | | Americans screwed by the sub-prime mortgage |
| So why are we the people still deluding ourselves | | | | fiasco and about the lose their homes? |
| that the path to a better future rests on electing a | | | | Where is Barack Obama, who supposedly wants to |
| new president? | | | | produce change? Rather than putting all his energy |
| We are suckers, conditioned by decades of clever | | | | into satisfying his egoistic hunt for the presidency, |
| marketing and advertising to believe the lies of | | | | why is he not talking about harnessing consumer |
| politicians, and worst of all to believe that elections | | | | power right now to get political reforms, like .ending |
| and our votes provide us with power. Wrong. Our | | | | trade agreements that are destroying the middle |
| real power can only be manifest through our | | | | class? Why does he not send a clear message to his |
| spending dollars. | | | | million-plus contributors to join a national consumer |
| The overwhelming majority of Americans have been | | | | boycott to obtain immediate concessions from the |
| severely damaged by economic oppression by | | | | Bush administration? |
| government policies that have produced historic | | | | Where are the professors who have published books |
| economic inequality. Yet, despite revolting conditions, | | | | making the case for a second constitutional |
| Americans seem unwilling to revolt by using their | | | | convention as the way to restore American |
| remaining economic power. They have let themselves | | | | democracy? Not one has the courage to say that |
| become economic slaves. | | | | the way to get Congress to obey Article V of the |
| What is amazing and depressing is that there are no | | | | Constitution and convene that the first Article V |
| national leaders from the worlds of politics, religion, | | | | convention is by American consumers threatening to |
| education, media or public interest that are | | | | plunge a dagger into the heart of American business. |
| attempting to harness consumer power at this critical | | | | Now is the time for all the millions of Americans that |
| time. No one is capturing the public's attention by | | | | make up the 81 percent who see the nation on the |
| making it crystal clear that consumers could obtain | | | | wrong track to take action, to think like patriotic |
| any political or economic reform in the public interest | | | | revolutionaries and take the power that now only |
| by joining together to withhold their discretionary | | | | exists with their spending. Sounds simple. All this |
| spending. | | | | strategy needs is leadership. Rather than spending so |
| Where are the anti-Iraq war leaders? Why are they | | | | much time and energy on the media-hyped |
| not shouting about forcing an immediate commitment | | | | presidential campaign, we the people should demand |
| to ending the Iraq war by using the power of a | | | | that someone step forward to inform and mobilize |
| massive consumer boycott that clearly could destroy | | | | consumers to become powerful citizens by using |
| the whole economy? Tell President Bush that | | | | their spending as the ultimate populist political |
| consumers will greatly curb their spending for a | | | | weapon. |
| month to give him time to implement a plan for | | | | |