On Friday millions of Americans bum rushed the mall to get their hands on a limited supply of some crap, but in this year’s melee, no one died. According to the AOTL Almanac, when no one dies on Black Friday it means another six months of unemployment above 8.5%.
By all news accounts, Friday’s show of shopaholism was encouraging and I could not agree more. The amount of shopping activity indicates that those people with jobs are shopping enough to make up for the unemployed. It really is the spirit of the season.
The uptick in 2010 Black Friday sales was truly unexpected considering we’ve had economy so shitty the country was anger-y. Man, were they angry. They were so angry that three weeks ago they voted the Democrats out of the House of Representatives. Whatever the Republicans were promising it sure did work, and quick! The new Congress doesn’t even start until January.
Well, whatever made everyone so angry, it’s gone. It’s over. Everyone is happy and shopping. So the next time I feel angry I’ll vote for a teabagger and head to the mall.
God bless Americans.
After appx 50 years of stripping the American education system of its resources, fear and greed based Dixie-crat/Republican ideology once again proves to be the best way to train the masses to focus on instant gratification whilst ignoring the big picture!
ReplyDeleteIt's like when it snowed in Washington last year and some idgit Senators used that as empirical evidence that global warming is not real.
ReplyDeleteThe Big Picture? That's what 52" flatscreen TVs are for.
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