A new way to raise wages to $10 an hour as a minimum and lower the price of patented Drugs.

[liberaldemocrat7]

I have devised another new way to raise wages to a minimum wage of $10 an hour in each sector. This does not replace my boycotts of companies to pressure them to get us the progressive legislation. This appears another way that people can also do to pressure companies to do what we want or lose our money.

If you want restaurant workers to make a minimum wage of $10 an hour then pick Wendy's which contributes to the REPUBLIKLAN party and tell your local Wendy's that you will not go to their restaurants until their company pays every worker $10 an hour and then buy elsewhere. Eventually when they lose enough business they will have to pay their workers $10 an hour minimum and the other chains and other single restaurants will have to fall in line or lose workers to Wendy's.

Then do this in as many products sectors as you can. This depends on citizens organizing to pressure companies and not government to pay their workers a minimum of $10 an hour and a agree on a single company in each product sector

This way you don't need to worry about the filibustering Republicans and the vetoing Chimp.


Then citizens can force down the price of exclusive EXPENSIVE patented prescription drug medication with no generic competition by saying to their local Eckerd, CVS, and Walgreens pharmacies lower your prices to the price of generics or we will not go to your pharmacies and we will buy elsewhere at a smaller pharmacy. IF stuck with a particular pharmacy by contract then don't buy your consumer products there but get your medication there.

[Cleita]

1. I think you are right that citizens are going to have to force them to

do the right thing, but free market pressure like you suggest, isn't enough. Somewhere along the line laws have to be passed or the minute you aren't looking they revert back to their previous practices. However, we pressuring our elected officials to pass these laws is essential or they won't do it.

[liberaldemocrat7]

2. I have the plans for pressuring government through their contributors too.

Go here

http://www.dmocrats.org

http://medicare.dmocrats.org

http://wage.dmocrats.org

http://endthewar.dmocrats.org


I do not agree that merely asking your congressman for something will work. If your congressman gets more Republicans telling him or her not to do progressive legislation he or she will not do it, but if GOP contributors get a150 thousand people telling them they will not buy their products until they get congress to raise the minimum wage or repeal medicare part D and replace it with something that will really help the middle class and you get 200 thousand idiot freepers who don't want the progressive legislation, then guess what? The company loses money even though idiot freepers outnumber us compassionate liberals by 50,000. We win by subtraction with companies, but we lose if we go directly to the congressman because the freepers outnumber us in this hypothetical example. With a filibustering Senate and an idiot chimp you need to pressure the GOP contributing companies. You win by indirect pressure economically.

I have the above plans in place for people to participate in but I just formulated a private way to do this too.

[Cleita]

3. Our system is too corrupt for even that.

Cutting off individual donations only makes them more dependent on corporate PAC money. We need real campaign finance reform where the government funds each candidate the same and alike to run their campaigns and there is no influence money involved. Then you will see real change something the corporate fat cats are very fearful of.

[liberaldemocrat7]

4. I'm not talking about donations. I'm talking about cutting off purchases to companies

that give money to the GOP where masses of people call these companies and demand action from their congressional puppets.

I believe pessimism has settled in on you.

Pessimism hasn't settled in on me. I see opportunity to peacefully bolix up this REPUBLIKLAN administration.

[Cleita]

7. Maybe so, but I have seen similar movements collapse because

those very same corporations are holding all the aces in the deck. If you really want to dry them up then we may have to go back to basics. Live off the utility grid, growing our own food and weaving our own clothes, etc. It could be done communally. Lord knows hippies tried it in the sixties with mixed success. The Amish have been doing it successfully for centuries. So maybe it's time to go back to the hippie experiments without the drugs and promiscuous sex.

[blues90]

5. Good ideas but how will anyone pull this off

You would have to get enough people to force wendys to even consider this as more than a joke .

How do you intend to get the support you would need to pull this off ?

[liberaldemocrat7]

6. It begins with one person.

I tell people, you tell people, and those people tell people.

It spreads by word of mouth.

The pessimists and the freepers will attempt to stop us, but the optimists will knock down Goliath.

[blues90]

11. I tried this for years at work

Just to suggest staying away from fast food (Health) and to bring a lunch and to save driving out everyday for lunch using (fuel) and not one considered the idea .

I fear people are just to set in their ways , it's like stopping people from going to wal-mart .

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. In some parts of the country, that would mean

boycotting entire towns. In Boone Co AR, the MAJORITY of people make around $7 an hour. I'm "rich" in that I make $8 an hour.

[liberaldemocrat7]

9. No, you merely boycott Wendy's for the restaurant boycott.

and buy elsewhere. As for getting the word out,

here

http://www.zazzle.com/product/128937937257299208?rf=238083065491105452

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

10. That won't do much good

since I don't go to Wendy's. Anyplace I can go to find out if Quiznos is blue or red? The other restaurants I frequent are locally owned. I like to support my neighbors rather than big chains and franchises.

[liberaldemocrat7]

12. It looks like the people here who reply will not join.

perhaps the progressive lurkers and other members who will join. LOL

I find it amazing how some people will find every excuse to allow companies to fuck them over.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. I didn't say I wouldn't join

I asked for a site where I could possibly find out what restaurants I do frequent are blue, politically.

As for me boycotting Wendy's--I NEVER go there. So how is Wendy's "---ing me over"? In this small town, the restaurants know their regulars. I don't see where a boycott of a restaurant I don't frequent and they know I don't frequent is going to help. If this were a large city, perhaps I could get away with it. But not here.

[liberaldemocrat7]

14. It does not appear enough to silently boycott.

You have to call them and tell them you will not eat there until they pay a $10 minimum wage and that their competition also pays $10 an hour minimum wage. You have to tell them why you won't buy there and get their attention. When you and thousands of other people call their local Wendy's the message will get to corporate headquarters.

You vote in elections don't you? The results get to Washington DC eventually. In this case you vote with a phone call and Wendy's will eventually hear from their franchises.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. But I won't eat at Wendy's

even if they pay their workers $10 an hour. If I call and tell them I will eat there, then I will have to eat there. Ugh.

[gravity]

16. Won't work

First you have to find out what the managers pay their employees, which I bet they won't make public. Then you have to find out what the stores profits are, since if the store isn't making enough profits, then they can't pay their employees well in the first place. The money doesn't grow off of trees.

The problem with the prescription drugs is that the stores aren't the main ones setting the prices, it's the drug companies. A pharmacy pays the drug company for the medicine, and they won't sell it for a loss unless it would attract selling other items for profit. Stores have to make profits if they want to stay in business. Since there is a monopoly on the drug, you have no choice but to buy it from a store who will at least charge a small profit for it.

[WHAT]

17. Minimum wage should be a mandatory $8/hr, at least...

with a guaranteed time and a half after a maximum 40 hour work week.

This could all be done by dividing the clock into eight parts. I think business might be forced to accept something like this.

:)