Boycott the bailout companies!

I’ve always been a big proponent of buying American.

There’s nothing jingoistic about my love of America and its formerly free-enterprise system. It’s just that America and free enterprise are better than the alternatives. They were never perfect and never will be, but every American should recognize this simple fact, or they should move to the country that has a better economic system. We still have that freedom in America – even under Barack Obama and this Congress.

But advocating “buying American” is no longer enough.

Our narrowing choices for American products and services have just been greatly reduced.

There is no longer a reason, for instance, to buy General Motors products out of patriotic sense of duty. I have been a regular buyer of GM products throughout my adult life. That is no longer a viable or attractive option for me – now that GM has managed itself effectively into bankruptcy and taken bailout money coerced from U.S. taxpayers.

I’m not going to be a part of that – any more than I have been forced to be already.

Now we have to be even more discriminating.

We have to look at the banks we use to determine if they are welfare cases.

We have to look at financial investment firms we use to determine if they are welfare cases.

And we have to look at the automakers we have supported to determine if they are welfare cases.

I don’t support welfare of any kind – personal or corporate.

As I say, if we’re going to take America back, our consumer choices have been greatly reduced in just the last six months. But it’s not impossible to be a discerning consumer who wants to support what’s right about America and rebuild what’s left of its free-enterprise system.

Fortunately, there’s someone who has made the job easier. His name is Roger Simmermaker, and he is a regular columnist at WND and the author of a book about “How Americans Can Buy American.” If you’re passionate about this – and you should be – you should check out both the column and the book.

Because, quite frankly, I think it’s time for real Americans to start waging the equivalent of economic warfare on behalf of our country, our citizens, our Constitution and our free-enterprise system.

How do we do that?

By buying from companies who share our values – and one of those values needs to be a commitment to free enterprise, not socialism.

I didn’t want a Yugo. I didn’t want one just because it was a bad car. I didn’t want one because I have no interest in supporting foreign socialism. And I especially don’t want a GM product today – not because they produce bad cars, but because I surely don’t want to support domestic socialism!

So here’s what I am proposing – and, I must say, I haven’t heard anyone else make the suggestion: Boyott any business that accepts a bailout.

If we can’t stop our government from handing out our money to businesses, maybe we can demonstrate the futility of this process by ensuring these companies end up where they should have been all along – in Chapter 11.

I’m not going to become part of the problem – at least not willingly.

I may not be able to stop the government from stealing my money and redistributing it to big banks and companies like some reverse Robin Hood. But I can certainly have a part in ensuring that this process is a demonstrable failure – like socialism always is.