Macy’s CEO to American People: Drop Dead
As a Thanksgiving treat, Terry Lundgren wants to gut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Macy’s is a powerful symbol of Thanksgiving, with its festive parade and freakishly large floats. But Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren is part of a group of greedy, unpatriotic CEOs who would like to seize this moment of American hardship and tear the rug out from under hard-working families. Moms, dads, grandparents, kids—he’d like to take a little something from each of you. Especially if you're poor: he’d really like to get into your purses.
Lundgren and a coalition of other big-time CEOs are lobbying Congress to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits so that they can enjoy tax breaks. Obviously, Lundgren did not take Econ 101, which would have demonstrated to him that reaching into the pockets of people will leave them without enough dollars to buy your products. It’s very simple, Mr. Lundgren. Your job and your stores are supported by the spending power of the American consumer. Robbing that consumer by hacking away at hard-earned retirements and healthcare is not going to help your bottom line.
http://www.alternet.org/economy/macys-ceo-american-people-drop-dead
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and, be certain to BOYCOTT MACY'S!!!! :
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My whole family has shopped at Macy's for yrs, never again!!!
greed of some prominent americans is just disgustingly pathetic. well they can't take it with them which a small consolation. the fact that they must die one day is a large consolation. may they choke on their greedy spittle. 
NDAA, indefinite detention, drone wars, the police state, the public option, prosecuting bankers, extending tax cuts for the rich, corporatizing education, Grand Bargains that cut Medicare and Social Security....You name it!
Either way! 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021128218
Me, I oppose right wing policy and believe in holding politicians' feet to the fire to get THEM to oppose it, no matter if those pushing it are Democrats or Republicans. I guess I'm just one of those vomit-slurping PURISTS!
when your philosophy is:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021128218
[font size=18]EITHER WAY![/font size]
Second, to be blunt, my vote is none of your fucking business. But I will say this: If you were *honest* about reading my posts and taking note of what is in them, you would not dare to ask this ridiculous and insulting question here, on a Democratic message board, because I have made clear repeatedly my view of the lesser of two evils game in which we Americans are deliberately trapped by the one percent in both parties, and the fact that I fully intended to have to hold back my vomit as I capitulated to this game.
The difference between us, as I see it, is not in the voting booth, but in our political behavior. I have posted *consistently* how important it is to hold our purchased politicians' feet to the fire, particularly on issues and values that define the soul of our party, and the abandonment of which will result in unfathomable despair, pain and even death for millions of vulnerable Americans. I don't think I've EVER seen a more ironic and outrageous post here than yours right now in this thread, rhapsodizing about people fighting hard to protect SS benefits, when you yourself spent month after month after month before the election doing your Third Way best to mock such efforts by Democrats and to attack Democrats who recommended doing just that.
And when cuts are passed, you will defend them, of course. Because of that utterly consistent, predictable Third Way philosophy you bring to these boards every day....which really should have been an inspirational bumper sticker for this election:
[font size=18]"EITHER WAY!"[/font size]
There's a word for that!
In fact, that's the biggest mistake the Third Way makes. They make the terrible mistake of assuming that enthusiasm for and loyalty to a party can be decoupled from the actual values, principles, and policies that the party was founded upon and that drew people to it in the first place. They work from a narrow, right-wing point of view that believes people can be baited, bullied and shamed into cheering for, or at least shutting up about, even policies that actively trash those values, as long as those policies come from people with D's after their names. They are shameless in their insistence that "EITHER WAY!" is okay, even when the issue is fundamental safety nets that millions of Americans rely upon in order to avoid destitution, despair, and premature death in old age.
Huffy Third Way denials notwithstanding, principle is based on consistency of actions much more than saying one holds a value. You can only claim to stand for certain values and principles for so long, while actively excusing and shilling for policies that are diametrically opposed to them and attacking those who try to point out the disconnect, before somebody calls out the hypocrisy. That's why the Third Way calls of "EITHER WAY!" don't cut it for long.
I strongly recommend this thread as an excellent reminder of how much people actually DO care: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021865474
I notice you posted there advocating a very nice liberal position that no prominent Democrat is even talking about as a real possibility right now, yet you avoided giving an answer to the question the OP actually asked. I think that's because we all know the Third Way will be cheering the outcome, "EITHER WAY!"
"Your rofl emoticon is childish. I am disappointed."
...I don't really give a shit what you think is "childish." In fact, I'm about to fucking disappoint you again...
"believe in holding politicians' feet to the fire"
How?
"I have made clear repeatedly my view of the lesser of two evils game in which we Americans are deliberately trapped by the one percent in both parties, and the fact that I fully intended to have to hold back my vomit as I capitulated to this game."
How big of you, but how exactly are you holding anyone accountable?
As least I believe in my vote, and am happy as shit that I cast it. I'm thrilled my candidate won, and am confident he'll deliver...you know the "gifts."
What are you getting?
We should put together a list of businesses that treat their workers well and shop there.
is the biggest red herring on the planet, there's no reason to cut it, has nothing to do with the deficit and is a smokescreen to keep the electorate from standing their ground. It's the war machine, stupid. These bastards are promoting austerity so they can continue to rob the rest of the world of resources, retain slave labor and promote wars while we pay for them. In their next breath the claim that the DoD budget be increased and that we can't afford to cut defense funds and a host of other stupid crap to keep us on edge. What we need to do is not buy into the BS and tell them to sit down, STFU, and listen to us because we aren't going to buy anything at their stores and maybe not even watch their stupid parade that is basically homage to the corporatocracy and tells us we should go shopping while they rob us blind on shit that was made in China for nothing. Wake up and stop feeding the beast. They can drop dead, we don;t even need their slave wage jobs, we can form coops and supply ourselves with goods and jobs without them... all we have to do is organize and prioritize, folks. It's not that hard.
There is no need to even consider putting that social safety net anywhere in the conversation. We have already made our sacrifice by fighting their damned wars, working for little and losing our housing and lives for them when they got bailed out, so it's their turn now.
Welcome to DU! Happy Gobbles! 
for the volunteer work you are doing with these folks. It does take a lot of patience, but interacting with other people at least helps them keep their dignity, instead of just sitting or lying there. Not everybody can endure the experience of being around it, because it reminds all of us that it could happen to anybody.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, plethoro! 
I bet he's never seen it. Of course he hasn't.
