The Next Money Bomb - 11/ 23 - Buy Nothing Day?

Much prefer Thanksgiving Day exactly as the next best day..."Buy Nothing" day sounds a bit too odd, off-beat, left-field. It is not, of course, but why unnecessarily assume that baggage?

Buy Nothing Day may be a great idea in itself but given the original intent of Thanksgiving Day, why not choose that...it would be very, very difficult to spin Thanksgiving Day negatively.

Great idea! Thanks for sharing!

I would like to suggest that we make 11/26 the next moneybomb day for this reason; according to the Constitution Center web site, "Established on November 26, 1789, the first national "Thanksgiving Day" was originally created by George Washington as a way of "giving thanks" for the Constitution!!". What better day to choose! Let the media try to spin that!!!! Besides most every employer gives a bonus albeit small to their employees on that day. Suppose everyone donates their company's gift back to RP! Just a thought.

DECEMBER 16. A lot of people get paid on the 15th. By then, everyone will be paying attention to the election. Since it comes on a Sunday, and in the same month as Christmas, we should have the bomb start at $25 or $50 and UP. Of course, if people can give more they will, but we don't want to compete too much with Christmas or Tithes. December is a stressful month. Although picking our next President is extremely important, I don't want to try to dictate what people should do with their money. Starting at a smaller amount, we will be able to bring in more donors who may hold on to their money by seeing $100 on the computer screen. Some are cheap, some are actually broke, but we want them all to pitch in. If we can get another 30,000 to give $100 plus an extra 30,000 giving $25 and $50, the amount of money on that day should be his best day ever. Once this happens, the media will be force to shift in Ron's favor because they will want his money when it's time to pay for commercial ads.

1. Coordinate meetup efforts for a sign blitz Thanksgiving week.

2. Ask supporters to wear RP gear while they shop on Black Friday.

Its a pretty simple, yet very effective plan. And its the last time we have before primaries start to reach strangers at that level.

Mississippi Gulfcoast Meetup

notifying meetup group

I definitely will be contributing again on the eve of the Boston Tea Party/commemoration of the Bill of Rights.

Also, I'll probably be donating on Veterans Day. Didn't a group of veterans choose the 11th as a Ron Paul donation day? If so, we shouldn't have to worry so much about the media painting us as anti-veteran.

Regardless, I will not make any financial contributions on the week of Christmas. I'm going to be spending those days travelling, with family, and at church.

I'll still be talking about Ron Paul though!

Three cheers for freedom and the Ron Paul Revolution!

P.S. The browser ad idea sounds awesome! Ron Paul fans spend so much time online, it'd be nothing for us to look at some more advertisements and earn some money for our candidate!

We'll be taking free enterprise where its never gone before!

this sounds like a perfect Christmas shopping spree and that is getting the best present of all for everybody Ron Paul for President !!!!

HO! HO! HO!

The problem with December 16 is that it's too late. The primaries start two weeks later. Dr. Paul needs that money to do what he can in December to get votes in January.

Early in December is the best.

With all of the time each of us spends on the internet, we should be earning money for the campaign. Is there a programmer on here that can create a webpage that displays ads while we broswe the internet. The proceeds of this could be donated to the campaign.

If there are 30,000 using the ads who spend 30 minutes on the web every day, then that would be a few $1,000 per day that could be donated. By the end of the quarter, this would amount to somewhere between $30-$50k.

We could set up an ownership structure that includes 1k-2k supporters. After the money accrues, we can distribute the proceeds for everyone to donate to the campaign in an "on your honor" system.

so I get paid once a month. A money bomb should be a once a month thing in my opinion.

And yes, I know a vote for Ron Paul will be bad for my current occupation...but I'd rather shovel cow dung than vote for Hillary or Rudy. Freedom is priceless after all.

It's perfect: They rallied against unjust tariffs--we rally against unjust tariffs. Plus it just has a ring to it that will get people's attention.

I would vote for the Boston Tea Party. There is already a website created for this date (teaparty07.com), and it would give plenty of time to organize and save up for.

Why not keep Nov. 11 as the date for the next money bomb? Those who can afford to give will and those who cannot will have future money bomb dates. It need not be strictly one date or another.

Before this was brought to my attention, I was all on board for the second money bomb being Veterans Day. But, now that I look at this wrt Bill of Rights Day and Boston Tea Party Day, I strongly believe those are much better dates for the second money bomb. Nov 11 is too close to this one and in the same month. Let's let the media and neocons squirm a bit longer before we light the next fuse.

Set detonation for the next Money Bomb to December 15-16.

- Jeff B.
Ohio & WV ANG
C-130 & C-5 electrician

If you are not OUTRAGED, you're not paying attention!!!

see below, i posted as a response

I would strongly recommend Nov. 27th or Dec. 3rd. These are the days before the next two GOP debates. This would give Dr. Paul more ammunition when he has the stage and a national audience. We can force all the pre-debate media buzz to be centered on Dr. Paul's fundraising.

No matter how much we raise today, we're still at the mercy of the national media to bother to cover it. I'm still skeptical that they'll say much of anything, or else they'll find some way to conveniently dismiss it.

Originally I was very excited about today's money bump, but much less so after the debate that was scheduled for tomorrow was postponed. (I'm very excited again now that the day's here though!)

From a campaign strategy perspective, I'd like to see a date chosen that will amplify the message and make campaigning easier for Dr. Paul and HQ, not just a convenient historical or calendar day. My guess is we can't do much better than a day prior to a national debate.

December 13th;
Could be symbolic for New Hamshire...