As someone who just closed a small business (partly) for lack of sufficient business, let me tell you the impact it would have had on me if no one bought anything in my town (including my restaurant) that day: I would not be able to make the money to pay my payroll for the week. It would come out of my pocket.

Not spending money doesn't make any sense to me at all. Why not just spend it MINDFULLY, THOUGHTFULLY, with an eye to the impact that each dollar makes in your town, your community.

Whoever thought of this crack-brained idea has too much time on their hands, and no real idea of how our economy works down here in the trenches.

For the record, George W. Bush and his administration scare the shit out of me.

Dani