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To: Road Walker who wrote (579288)	8/3/2010 1:17:56 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1572507

"I don't want to think about "free or fair speech" when I buy a T-Shirt. But it looks like it's come to that." or a Gov motors car. which I won't buy or send my kids to a gov union school

To: Road Walker who wrote (579288)	8/3/2010 1:22:25 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572507

Simply boycotting Target can control their "speech" eventually. Let's all boycott Target, and spread the word. Think they'll get a better "business environment" with (R)'s? How about one with half as many customers? Not only that, it could permanently damage their BRAND, by associating it with the Repugnican Party.

To: Road Walker who wrote (579288)	8/3/2010 1:38:19 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572507

RW, what if every time you bought a T-shirt at Target, you contributed to Obama's campaign? Are you going to buy the GM Volt? Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (579288)	8/3/2010 9:44:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

If I knew that a percentage of all sales would be donated to a cause I disliked, then I might not buy, but I don't think its a good idea to refrain from buying just because the company you buy from (or individual you buy from, or less directly support, say an actor or singer who contributes to a political cause), is one you dislike. Otherwise you shut yourself off from too much. If its beyond dislike, if it was something like the business contributes to Al Qaeda, then I would refrain from giving them any of my business if I knew of the contribution. But as much as I disagree with the Democratic party (and often enough the Republican party), I'm not going to cut myself off from huge sections of the economy and the for-profit culture in order to avoid giving money to people who then choose to give their money to the Dems.