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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (8445)	4/5/2004 12:03:37 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 173976

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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (8445)	4/5/2004 12:36:55 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

Beat Bush. Here's one way: When you use many of the techniques that follow, much of your economic activity becomes almost unseen and most importantly unmeasured, so that it no longer helps to validate the system that has disenfranchised so many people. You stop supporting their game and vote against what they stand for at the same time that you help yourself and assist your community. When retail sales numbers go up, as do units shipped, dollar amounts sold, corporate profits, stock prices climb, all these statistics are then parroted by the party in power and its supporters as an example of the success of their policies in spite of the negative effect that they have on real people and the real economy. Some people get very militant about this as a form of overt political protest and with the stated goal of starving the system and using their money spent, or not spent, as a statement of purpose - If they want to use the techniques in our website-more power to them. Here's a resume of their argument as we understand it: "The biggest vulnerability of the Bush Reelection Campaign is the state of the economy, not only as it affects people, but also by the poor numbers reflected in the metrics that are used to measure it. The aspect of the economy that people have the most control over is their own discretionary retail spending. When retail sales numbers climb, the Bush Administration publicizes this fact. When they fall, it helps to discredit Bush. Therefore: any non-essential or discretionary spending helps the Bush reelection effort by raising retail sales numbers. Conversely, postponing or delaying discretionary spending until after the election is a way to drive down the retail sales numbers. Certain kinds of discretionary spending are not reflected in the retail sales numbers, such as buying items for cash in small businesses or garage sales, barter or paying workers in cash." verdant.net