My gosh, it’s Thursday again. Where does the time go? At least Thursdays are fairly easy days for me. I would imagine it’s everyone’s favorite weekday, or at least in the top five. Apparently, Thursday are quite good days for bars and taverns, particularly happy hours. People who just can’t quite make it one more day without a little assistance must tend to stop on the way home. It is also a big night for take-out. I would imagine for the same reason.

This year, this week, this Thursday may be an even bigger day out for folks who are trying to do their best to stick it to the big corporation who have been sticking it to the little guy. The economic blackout is to hit April 18-20. No purchases at any big corporate anything, buy local, buy small.

I am a huge proponent of buy local. Which is why I don’t understand these ‘blackouts’ like nobody shopping at Target since January. It makes for nice social media posts. “Store traffic is down again this week!” I don’t suppose anybody is checking to see if there is a corresponding decrease in associate hours. See, as far as the big corporations go, they really don’t care about foot traffic or gross sales, as long as net profit, stock price, and most importantly dividends go up. If they don’t make enough cash to make their dividend payments (and to pay their salaried employees), they simply take that money from the most convenient available bucket, usually the bucket that showers payroll dollars on the hourly employees. Less foot traffic = less sales and stock people. The little guys. So those big boycotts sticking it to the big corporations eventually just get little guys laid off.

 Do I have a solution. I do indeed. Shop local. And boycott local. Do yu really want to make a difference and get someone to reconsider their support for Donny McScrooge and his merry band of Dingy Donny followers. Find a local business, florist, bakery, gift shop, restaurant, bar and tavern, dry cleaner, or what have you (maybe even the stray car dealership), who vociferously supports or supported the current regime and boycott them. They are the people who need to be convinced that if there is ever another election, the nice lady with the economic degree probably knows more about running a country’s economy that a part time golfer and business bankrupter.

Normally this is where I make some clever tie in with this week’s ROAMcare Uplift post. And it is a good one. So good that it doesn’t deserve to share space with such Debbie Downer content. And I can honestly say, I’m not feeling very Abrahamic right now. Read it anyway.