I'm not big on telling other people to boycott stuff. I don't drink Coke products because of what they do in Africa. Unfortunately, I'm sure Pepsi isn't all that better, but it's my main source of caffine as long as I'm working overnights. And I realize that I make some hypocritical consumer choices, but I just try to do better.

But this time I am calling for a boycott - Circuit City. They suck ass! They're firing higher-earning workers to replace them with stupider, lower-earning people. I get it, you can argue that's capitalism. Their only responsiblity is to the stockholders, blah, blah, blah. OK...my argument back is two-fold. First, is it really best fot the company if they replace (hopefully) loyal, relatively knowlegable workers with underpaid dummies? In the long-run, probably not. Second, they have the right to do that and we as consumers have the right to not shop there - which is what I'm saying you should do - NOT shop there.

Look, I'm sick of companies taking things out on their workers. And usually because the corporation isn't making enough profit. Not losing money, but not making enough profit. F-that and their families, too.


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I'm getting some conflicting information and I'm not sure which is the deal...I hear from mainstream media ( ! ) that the stuff going through congress - funding the war in Iraq has a binding timetable for troops to get out. But I heard on Democracy Now that this stuff is non-binding. I'll hold comment to I get the facts, but I do tend to side with DN. If this stuff is non-binding, then these jokers are bigger assholes than I've given them credit for. Stay tuned.

Labels: capitalism, circuit city, greed