Boston Freebie: Free on your Birthday (Best of!)

Boston Freebie: Free on your Birthday (Best of!)
It’s your birthday! We all LOVE birthday gifts, so here is how you can increase the number of them. Celebrate in style at no cost!

· Starbucks - Free Birthday Beverage. All registered Starbucks Card holders get a handcrafted beverage of their choice on their birthday.

· Baskin-Robbins - Birthday Club: Sign up now and you'll get your FREE ice cream email five days before your birthday.

• J.P. Licks - Free sundae: Register your Cow card to receive a free small sundae on your birthday.
• Boloco - A free birthday burrito (happy birthday!): Just head to this page to register your card and “opt-in” (it will take you 2 minutes and 37 seconds). As a VIP member you will get lots of perks including a free birthday burrito!
• Finale Desert - Registered cardholders will receive a birthday dessert ($10.95) on their Sweet Rewards card. Each cardholder will receive a birthday greeting by email inviting them to visit Finale within the next 30 days to receive his/her birthday dessert.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Enjoy FREE admission to the Gardner Museum and/or Gardner After Hours evening events on your birthday -- with just your ID! Those whose birthdays fall on a Monday, when the museum is closed, are invited to join us the Sunday before or Tuesday after. Happy Birthday!
• AVEDA - Join the Birthday Program and get a free customized gift (valued up to $25). After all, it's the most natural way to celebrate your special day.
  For a free gift on your next birthday, simply sign up on the website.
• Fire and Ice - Free dinner on your birthday
  *Must be a member of the Loyalty Program at minimum 3 months prior to receiving this offer.
• Dunkin Donuts - A free medium beverage on your birthday with a DD card.

Also - there are rumors that b.good will give you a free burger (beef, turkey, or veggie burger) or a salad for being a birthday king. You have to sign up online and then go there on your birthday and show your ID.

Know about more perks? Share them with us on the comments.

Occupy Boston- What Would Ben Franklin Say?

As the Occupy Wall Street moves across the nation, it is interesting to view the movement from a true New Englander's perspective. Founding father, Benjamin Franklin accounted for the new found prosperity of the colonies due to the lack of a central bank.

 "That is simple. In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Script. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one."
Benjamin Franklin

In Response, The Bank of England influenced the British parliament to pass the Currency Act of 1764. This act made it illegal for the colonies to print their own money, while forcing them to pay all taxes to Britain in gold or silver. Franklin responded after its affects had taken place,

"In one year, the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed."
Benjamin Franklin

"The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War."
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography 


Now that Wall Street is occupied, now what? What specific issues would you like addressed and what courses of action would u like to be taken? My personal take is that the 99% is tired of corruption, from both Wall Street and government officials that has lead to the disparity of wealth in this country. There is shear systemic failure with conflicts of interest/power; even the notion of allowing corporations to fund government campaigns is suspect. Furthermore, our money supply is controlled by a PRIVATE central bank. Our government borrows from the Federal Reserve and other countries, inefficiently spends cash (due to monopolization), and then has taxpayers pay the interest. You think it's bad now? Our taxes keep being raised just to pay the INTEREST on these loans, how will we ever pay the principle back? Either way, we need an overhaul of the economic/political system.. and that will take time and effort.