Do you agree we vote when we buy goods/services; that the dollar is a decision making tool for the government?

Question

In other words, to cast a ballot does not matter as much as buying goods. We place the Republic of the United States on its course daily by our purchases, politically, morally. Every dollar spent is a vote as to what decisons are made int he government at home and abroad.

Answer 1

Exactly.

However, there's a tiny little problem, since we don't really choose where to spend the money. It's the propaganda that directs us where to make the purchasing.

So it's like a never-ending cycle (corporations - advertising - goods sold-and then corporations again - etc...).

Only there's a lot of pollution, resource diminishing, ecosystem destruction involved.  

Answer 2

That would be true except that much of government seems dedicated to ignoring the implications of those "votes".