Do you feel a personal responsibility to spend money to help the economy?

[RB TexLa]

[Mojambo]

1. I feel a personal responsibility to spend money so I can fucking eat.

Screw the economy.

[timeforpeace]

2. Absolutely.

[prolesunited]

3. What money?

I can provide for shelter, electricity, meds and food. That's it and it's a struggle to do that. My shopping sprees are confined to less than $10 at the thrift store and I'm growing as much of my own food as possible. The only reason it's not worse is that I did have money at one time and have goods (like a car) purchased from when I did. If anything breaks, it doesn't get replaced.

[robinlynne]

4. what money? I have less money than I have EVER had before.

[DKRC]

14. +1

You're not alone.

[mwooldri]

16. Mod parent up...

we're in the same boat.

[rucky]

5. Those Voting "No", Please read this:

http://www.the350project.net/supporter_graphics/350_accepts_tou.pdf

http://www.the350project.net/home.html

[RB TexLa]

6. And what if people saved or invested an extra $50 a month. You do know

North Amerians rate of savings are low, not quite an all time low but low.

[rucky]

Banks would have more deposits to leverage.

sorry about flippant remark, but it's not an either/or proposition.

People are going to spend 50 bucks a month. They have to in order to live. The point of the project is that people need to pay more attention to where their money is going after they spend it. Go to Wal-Mart, and most of the money exits the community. Shop at the local mom & pop store instead, and that money stays in local circulation.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Can't save what you don't have. Thanks, AIG.

[Deja Q]

17. Have you ever thought WHY they're low?

Have you read on all the news articles of people losing jobs, or having pay freezes, or pay cuts?

I can't speak for everybody, nor would I lump everybody into one basket, but somehow I don't think you've taken the drop in wages as being a contributing factor...

[robinlynne]

20. way back when that was possible. that savings is what I live on now. For all of us

who are free-lancers or own small businesses, there is hardly any work, income, or money available. It's a question of figuring out how to get enough protein without spending more than 30 a week for food. And no food stamp eligibility because we have savings from when we used to be able to save.

[noamnety]

9. You might be misinterpreting the no's

I answered no.

And the money I do spend I deliberately spend more of at local small businesses. I interpreted the question as one of quantity, not where we spend it. I'd be willing to bet some of the people who would answer "yes" feel obligated to spend it, but think less about where they spend it.

[SeeHopeWin]

7. Yes, I have been BIG TIME!

[hunter]

8. I have a "clunker" car but nobody is giving me cash for it.

If they did I might spend it all on something frivilous like medical debts.

I'm not ever going to buy a new car.

[abumbyanyothername]

11. Actually, I feel like we could do a lot more good

for ourselves (the working, productive classes) by not spending money and offering our skills to each other for free.

[Deja Q]

18. Don't bother. If these skills are like what goes into Linux,

large companies will leech Linux into their own products and save themselves that much effort.

Or, a less cynical answer is this:

"Free" is not a business model. Even the OP would have to acknowledge that.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Since I don't have any money, I can't spend any

So I can't take any credit at all for the economic "recovery" currently being experienced by the top 1% of criminals.

[pscot]

13. absolutely

In fact I was just going out to rob a 7-11 so I could hold up my end. I wouldn't want to disappoint Summers, Geithner and Bernanke when they're all lookin' to me to bail out the banksters.

[Deja Q]

15. Yes. I have done what OUR President has asked:

* education and self-investment
* despite my previous car not qualifying, I bought a new Ford anyway. Good deal, great mileage, damn good quality so far. :thumbsup:
* and some tools not covered by education but used in the field I am going into

That's all I can do right now: Calling his hand; pity everybody equates politics to poker...

I also have my book project to complete; it'd be nice if I get it to market and people actually buy it. I could be "Bill O'Reilly: The Next Generation": Centrist, but more left-leaning. Hey, if Michael Moore and Al Gore can get rich by peddling doom and scare tactics, with BillO mewling about the state of society and media (but being very selective with namedropping), with Rush being the biggest liar in the universe, why should the rest of us be left out from doing the same thing?

[dorkulon]

19. Hell no. nt

[Deja Q]

21. BTW, do you mean America's economy, the global economy, Andromeda's economy?

It'd be nice if you gave just the teeniest bit of context for people to hook into, without having to make guesses...