How to make $23 million in a Single Day!
Right to the Point:
Ron Paul supporters equal 30 million people (based on conservative 10% poll figures and 300 million people in the United States).
Conservative estimated living expenses per person of $35,000 per year.
THAT EQUALS OVER $1 TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR FOR ALL RON PAUL SUPPORTERS (30 Million people times $35,000 per person per year).
Combined spending per day, Ron Paul supporters spend $2.7 BILLION DOLLARS just to live! ($1 Trillion divided by 365 days)
If the business owners for the businesses we frequent will give only 1 PERCENT of our daily speding that will equal $27 MILLION in per DAY! That's MORE than Headquarters is seeking!
How do we actually make this happen in real life with rent/mortgage checks, grocery spending, gas stations, electric companies, utility bills, insurance bills (medical and car), health food spending, clothing needs, cosmetic or personal care needs, cleaning products, banking, and so much more?
1. Ask the businesses you frequent if the owner will give 1% of your spending with them to Ron Paul?
2. Start spending at businesses that support Ron Paul starting with simple things like home cleaning products, vitamin C, multi vitamins and other nutritional supplements, skin care products, etc. @ www.shaklee.net/dailypaul
(see post http://www.dailypaul.com/node/8416 ). Great for Healthy New Year's Resolutions!
3. Visit Liberty Dollar ( http://www.libertydollar.org/ld/spend-liberty-dollars/index.htm ) and seek out businesses that support Ron Paul!
4. Visit Ron Paul Yellow Pages ( www.ronpaulyellowpages.com ) to seek out businesses that support Ron Paul. If you own a business you can Register for Free, TODAY!
5. If you own a business spend some advertising dollars with people like Ron Paul Radio and others!
6. Ask the owner of the company you work for to give the equivalent of 10% of your pay to Ron Paul (may not work but I'm going to try...I work for www.gardenoflife.com in supplements research )
Finally, if you have any reservations about how headquarters may manage your money to win this election (I am one of you), think if it this way:
Ron Paul is the Head of Headquarters. Ron Paul has won in 10 terms as a Congressman. Ron Paul will not spend our money frivolously otherwise we would not recommend him to everyone we know as The President of United States!
VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS FOR RON PAUL!
Headquarters, with Ron Paul at the helm, will not let us down!
$23 Million is Possible! Spread the WORD TO EVERY BUSINESS you frequent and change your daily spending to Ron Paul Businesses!
Yours in Health and Freedom,
Francisco
Addendum:
Because of some great comments (see below) I thought I should do other statistics along with some comments.
George Mason University claims that their are over 200 Million Voters of Eligible Age in 2006 http://elections.gmu.edu/Voter_Turnout_2006.htm
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Statistics the average salaray for the United States is $36,764 in 2002.
Since there are many that are younger than 18 years-old who support Ron Paul I think we could include them in that total number statistic, but it would bring the salary number lower.
In either case Ron Paul supporters seem to make up somewhere between $600 Billion and $1 Trillion in Consumer spending. I these would be more accurate estimates.
Your thoughts are welcome!
You're missing the point...Everyone knows Corporations
Can't Donate, but the Owners of the corporations CAN donate and the people working in the corporations CAN donate.
Yours in Health and Freedom
Yours in Health and Freedom
Enjoy the
$100/bbl oil while you can. By mid-2008, you will, repeat *will*, see it between $140 to $150/bbl, just in time for the political conventions and all of the lies that the politicians will have to tell us about how high oil prices are the result of the inflation monster from the planet Nebulon (because Benochio and the Fed have nothing to do with monetary policy or inflation) or the greedy oil monster from this oil company or that oil company......and a very large group of people will actually believe it.
Illegal
The quality of the math or numbers, or the average salary, none of that matters, because the proposition's fundamental idea is fatally flawed.
It is illegal for corporations to contribute to federal campaigns.
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Tell that to Big Oil
$100+ a Barrel today! Tell that to them and watch as the close-door smoke-filled rooms happen anyway.
Where do you get your stats?
If you think the average american makes $35,000 a yr. Think again! Many people I know live on less than $20,000 a yr. My husband and I, disabled, live on less than $10,000 a yr.
If you look at the stats from reality, many retired and disabled people behind Ron Paul live on between, $10 and $20 thousand a yr.
Also brought up is many of the 300,000 people in the U.S are children under the voting age. Most people who make what you call the average income, don't look at or recognize the poverty in this great country. They have no idea what many of us go through trying to live. It's called existence, pure and simple!
It sounds like the government stats you are quoting, not the real deal.
I live on less than 20K a
I live on less than 20K a year actually.
go gmu patriots
!!!!!
If it were that easy...
then every charity would be swimming in money because tens of millions of people theoretically support their goals. The problem is translating broad support into a specific action of donating.
Here's a (slightly) more realistic path: get 100,000 people to donate the maximum of $2,300 apiece. Sounds impossible - who has that kind of money and isn't already in HIllary's pocket, right? Well, finance and software people for starters. If Paul does well in Iowa/NH, the investment community, esp. the hard-money people, and the libertarian IT community may finally climb on board financially.
Does any charity have that kind of international support RP has?
Hey Valley Forge,
Appreciate the honesty of your comment as well as everyone elses, but my point in writing this is that Ron Paul has more support than any other single organization or business in the world.
The late Harry Browne, 2000 Libertarian Party Candidate, always said that nothing is bigger than the Market Place. No business, no government, period.
What Ron Paul has is a unique joining of people young and old (from age 3 - one family in our Meet-up brings their kids...to age 93 or thereabouts).
I'm not just looking for people who vote in this analysis above. I'm looking for people who spend, which is everyone.
As concerning small business owners, many people I know own a small business and they do not answer to any board or group of investors, making it truly "Their Business". They can do whatever they want, and you can look at Ron Paul Yellow Pages (www.ronpaulyellowpages.com ) to find a list of people that have done just that. Furthermore, there are over 30 million Liberty Dollars in circulation along with businesses that take these dollars. Those businesses are examples of small business owners who want to make a difference.
Try the 6 step action plan where you live. If you don't see results within 1 week then forget about it, but I think you will see immediate results.
Yours in Health and Freedom
I've noticed this statistical flaw in recent posts
You can't assume the whole population can or will vote. The 10% comes from a pool of people who are registered and likely to vote. For example, my four children would be included in the 300 million Americans, but none of them will be voting or donating (however convenient it might be;)
I also read a statistic in Newsweek this week that says that 80% of eligible voters know next to nothing about politics. That means they aren't Ron Paul supporters... they aren't any body's supporters. They definitely won't be donating to a candidate. Granted, this is the kind of illness that Ron Paul has started to cure, but its still the way things are now.
Based on these two facts, the 10% you quote comes from a pool of people much much smaller than 300 million. I don't know what the number would be. Anyone have a guess?
I noticed that radmatty already answered my question
So, there are only 125 million eligible voters in the U.S.
Only half of them, approximately 62 million, are even interested in voting.
So, by those numbers, Ron Paul might have (62,500,000)*(10%) = 625,000 supporters.
Granted, these numbers probably don't mean a thing. A much better way to gauge possible monetary support is to consider the number of people who have already donated to Ron Paul. Start with that and work from there.
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Sorry 10% of 62 million is 6 million not 600 thousand.
Everyone Serve's Somebody
You may think that small business owners who support Ron Paul can simply donate money from business proceeds, but a large number have investors or share ownership in the company with others that may or may not share the primary owners' political views. In that case it would be wrong for them to take money away from those people to support a political campaign that they do not agree with.
It really does boil down to individual action. There is no way around that. Now public support from small business owners is to be encouraged, but it will generally have to be their individual donations from their own pockets coupled with their encouragement of others to do likewise that moves things forward.
You lost me at 10% of 300 million.
The poll numbers are from surveys of registered voters at a minimum, people who actually have enough interest in our political system and are qualified to vote, who comprise a fraction of the population. If Ron Paul presently had 30 million supporters, he would not be at single digits in the polls.
New Hampshire and Ecuador
Your enthusiasm is
Your enthusiasm is contagious, but your stats are fanciful thinking at best. The number of people eligible to vote in the US is around 125 million(M) not 300M. People in the workforce are about 150M. Of those eligible to vote about half will actually vote (about 60M). And the per capita gross domestic product may be $40k (probably inflated government figures anyway) , but that in no way means that ordinary individuals average that much. Many people in the US live on less than $20k/yr. If you are indeed a researcher at garden of life I would find that amazing.
Correct
Approximately 140 million above the table jobs in America, 40 million of those are government. We no doubt have little support amongst those working for the gov. Median income is 33k, but that includes people like Gates and Buffet, as well as gov employees who average 67k, so the number is actually less. Perhaps 25-27k Minus taxation... Radmatty's number of 20K is pretty good.
So what we would need to see is 50,000 supporters drop $460 on a single day. I don't know about you, but that is a week's worth of pay for a great many of us. Our average donation on the last money bomb was around $50, so that would mean we'd need 4.6 million donors. Personally, I dont see that happening (tho it'd be cool) and there is no server/bandwidth available for that pace of transactions.