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Black Friday came and went, but not without some startling revelations about this culture of affluence and false needs we've created for oursleves in the good old USA. People actually camped in lines Thanksgiving, I guess bypassing the family holiday, to be the first in the stores the next day to get the retail values. One can only wonder if they ate turkey in line? Perhaps this is the start of a new tradition: Tailgating Thanksgiving dinner in line to get a bargain the next day. When you observe this dumbing down of our culture and family values, it's easy to see how Bush and the Republican propaganda machine can win elections selling Republican voters policies that harm rather than help them.
Longs Drugs wins the award for the first disposable TV set for a Black Friday bargain. They ran a 5" Curtis brand black and white TV with a radio for $6.99 after a on pack rebate. There is a significant social and economic statement here, that I'm having trouble defining, but a TV set should not cost less than deluxe burger at a fast food joint. Maybe it's because the burger is bio-degradable and the TV set is plastic made of oil, and eventually ends up in some junk pile littering the earth. But on the other end some poor Chinese worker probably made .02 cents making the TV, which bought his family some greens to eat. All part of the global consumer economy.
Most of the really rich Republicans that benefit from Bush's tax cuts made their money selling something. And even if they didn't get their money from some sort of sales, their revenue base flourishes when consumers drive our consumption based economy by buying stuff and lots of stuff such as on Black Friday. So why don't they get it with these tax cuts? It seems like it would dawn on these Republicans that in the short run they are going to get a little richer with the tax cuts, but in the long run they are going to get a whole lot richer if this $80 plus billion in tax cuts found it's way into the pockets of all those not in the top 1% or even 10% of income earners in this country. This $80 billion plus needs to get in the hands of those people standing in line Thanksgiving night waiting to buy and buy on Friday morning, not the super rich who according to Bush are going to drive the economy by trickling down their riches. The recepients of Bush's tax cuts don't stand in line Thanksgiving night to save a couple of bucks.