Published: November 28, 2010 11:46 by francis H. Giles

I am absolutely for buy nothing day.

But why one day? And, moreover, what about do nothing day? Instead of, say, exerting oneself to go on a protest, also costing time and money to get there, almost probably to be freezing cold, etc., to protest against cuts. Protestation can come in many forms. For instance, via go-slow modes of operation at work, in universities, schools, etc. Even by sporadic attendances at such places.

Demo protests can be counter-productive, for instance, perhaps divert money to the nation's treasury yet also cost the treasury money via policing of protests,and tidying up the aftermath litter-shrewn streets, etc. The key factor of almost everything in life is that of money. Therefore, money in itself is on a par, say, of being the equivilent of a nuclear weapon. I do not for one minute advocate anarchy, but, surely, a huge multitude of protesters has to some extent lost the plot as to how to use the "money weapon" to their advantage. As oil is vital to an engine's moving parts, money is to the economic workings of the world's well-being.

So, then, what about go-slow days? No-go days? Do-nothing days?

Published: November 29, 2010 09:57 by Francis H. Giles

Re my posting of "The money weapon".
I meant weapon as in tool.

In respect of my wording not attending school, this was not to suggest school children should not attend school, for their doing so would be wrong and illegal. I merely meant if teachers happened to strike, not that I think strikes are the answer to put the economy right. None of the wording in my posting was not meant to infer doing protesting in any illegal way.

I think protest venues of thousands of protesters is probably a recipe for violence and/or vandalsm, of which I deplore both, hence my suggesting smaller localised protest demos. I also withdraw my inference that go-slows and non-work attendance are something to be considered as protest. Such actions won,t really help the economy.

As per most folk, I hope the world's economy comes good as soon as possible. Even buy-nothing days won't, on reflection, help the economy.