Ideas for T-shirts with Messages on the Economy An On-going List

(2009 Jan blog post)

!Preliminary! I plan to update this list of ideas continually.

INTRODUCTION : I had a serious quality-of-life health problem around 2003 to 2006. I have documented that problem in my 'I was a Sugar Guinea Pig' blog post. It was actually becoming a life-threatening problem, but I found the cause and solution in time. In any event, in trying to figure a way that I could get the word out --- better than these blog posts --- I finally realized that I should put my message on T-shirts --- and wear those T-shirts frequently. From getting out the word on health issues (learned the hard way), it was then a natural transition to think of messages for t-shirts in other areas --- energy, environment, economy, government, media. Ideas for t-shirts on the economy came rather naturally during the U.S. (and world) financial "meltdown" of 2008. In particular, the events like Treasury Secretary Paulson's $750-billion bailout scheme --- to buy mortgages, but then flopping over to give money to banks (his old buddies) with no uses specified, SEC Chairman Cox essentially preventing the employees of the SEC from performing their regulatory duties, Bernie Madoff's Ponzi-scheme that relieved investors of about $50-billion of investments made it easy to think of ideas for t-shirt messages. The trick is to make the messages concise and to the point.

START OF T-SHIRT DESIGNS on economic issues : I have ideas for multiple designs on economic issues. I am going to record them here, so that I do not forget them. Thus I will have the ideas for reference --- for touch-up and for seeding more ideas. So here are my economy-oriented T-shirt designs in plain-text form --- perhaps with an image added occasionally. (I have other blog pages for T-shirts on health issues and energy issues --- and a few more categories to come, such as the environment.)

T-SHIRT 1 : Front1 : If the U.S. FINANCIAL SYSTEM were a sport, it would be PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.   VERY FEW RULES ... that are SELDOM ENFORCED. Back1 : S. E. C. = Shotty Enforcement Commission My taxes go for that ?

T-SHIRT 2 : Front2 : Freemarket Capitalism without common-sense, well-enforced rules leads to Financial Chaos.   S.E.C., do the job we are paying you to do ! Back2 : Freemarket Capitalism without common-sense, well-enforced rules is Freedom to Prey.   S.E.C., do the job we are paying you to do !

T-SHIRT 3 : Front1 : CNBC and FixNews and CNN financial philosophy : Freedom to Prey. Watch your wallet, brother. Back1 : Neo-con financial philosophy : Freedom to Prey. It's your money they're after, brother.

Here is the cost, in May 2008, of 24 t-shirts in a simple all-text design, like #1 above. $30.00 for art charges, at $30.00 per hour $40.00 for screen charges, one time fee ($20.00 per side) $24.00 ?for the single color? (would have been more for multi-color) $124.80 for 24 T-shirts, Gildan Adult 6.1 oz 100% ShortSleeve, white, $5.20 each              (14 large, 5 medium, 5 small) $10.94 sales tax ______ $229.74 total ($115.00 was paid in advance ; balance on pick-up) Average price per shirt was $9.57.

I have posted some of my designs for T-shirts (mostly preliminary ; fonts need improvement, for example) --- and for hats and buttons --- at my zazzle.com page.

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