12.16.08
Another Voice Agrees: Buy Local Helps YOU
This “Buy Local” Thing « The CitySquares Blog
Local businesses drive our national economy, this is a fact. They’re the oil in the nation’s economic engine. Local business is the best ingredient for any community’s success.
Anyway, to tie it all back together, and where we all seemed to agree last night, is on one simple but very important point – ultimately the consumers need to decide. That is very powerful. It doesn’t matter what political party you belong to, you surely still want the same things for your community, for your children, your family, and for your neighbors – your community. At CitySquares we really believe in this. It’s the mission behind the business. It all begins with the local businesses. Supporting your local and independent businesses is critical for your community’s sustainability.
It has been almost two years since we premiered this blog, talking about SLOBs, small, locally-owned businesses, and the reality that SLOBs are the key to freeing American communities from servitude to LOOACs, large out-of-area corporations.
We’ve already seen large corporations giving their managers huge bonuses, then coming to Washington to beg for handouts. Likewise, we’ve seen the way they play our local governments, getting subsidies paid by SLOBs in the community in order to suck funds out of our communities and send them to their headquarters. The truth is, if we want local jobs, local control, and local benefits, we have to refocus our efforts on building and strengthening local businesses–local farmers, local grocers, local manufacturers, local services, local broadcasters, local Internet service providers–or we face more of these bailouts.
CitySquares is in Massachusetts, actively promoting SLOBs in their own communities, gradually expanding to the whole Northeast and the rest of the country. This video comes from their site.
