A Merry Holiday Shopping Season In 2013?
Earlier this month we touched on recent data from Gallup signaling a less merry holiday shopping seaYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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The only thing America makes any more, is financial instruments with funny money.
Consider an American Xmas as one giant stimulus package for China Inc.
They get our constantly devalued currency, we get a pile of shitty/cheap goods that add little value to our daily lives and if we are lucky have no toxins in them.
Ho Ho Ho!
Why do you keep bringing more snot-nosed babies into this miserable,depressing USA,since it’s all so bad?
Franklin D Roosevelt? Regale us,please.
All you know about JFK’s assassination came from an awful,Oliver Stone movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kHN92Yv48
The private market is free to run whatever sales they want whenever they want. FDR didn’t sign a law stating that they couldn’t discount items to drum up consumerism until -after- Thanksgiving.
I thought government-sponsored holidays weren’t a core function of government. Clearly what’s needed here is to abolish Thanksgiving entirely, that way people can decide for themselves if/when to celebrate whatever holiday of thanks (and take vacation days to do so) and the free market can decide when to hock their cheap junk.
Corporations know best, maybe they should make the holidays so the government doesn’t have to?
I don’t think the pre FDR schedule was all that different. He changed it from the last Thursday of the month to the fourth Thursday.