After a great meal with good friends, last night I watched the local news. And what was "news?" Cars lined up to enter a shopping mall at 10PM!! <\/p>\n
And INTERVIEWS with shoppers! In their cars – with engines running of course – waiting for fences to open so they could enter the parking lots…<\/p>\n
And I think this also backed traffic up onto roads where people might have been, say, trying to go go home after being with family or friends?<\/p>\n
But family, friends and tradition are not important anymore – what is important is MONEY<\/span> and SHOPPING<\/span>!<\/p>\n So, I thought, why bother anymore with individual holidays? Let's start a new season – one I'm calling: LaborHalloVetThanksXmasNewYear<\/strong><\/p>\n This way the stores have from early September to early January – 4 whole months – to lure you in with sales…and the stores can stay open 24\/7 so as to not miss one single person who wants to spend money. They can have "specials" at 2 AM or 6 AM or on any day of week at any time! Make it dinner time – who needs to eat at home! The food areas of the malls will benefit too…can't forget to spend money at the fast food places can we?<\/p>\n No one will need to feel like they have to spend any time with family – family is such a quaint term anyway. Shoppers can plan to drive around for days on end going from mall to mall and store to store to get those specials.<\/p>\n This will help the economy and surely help poor Exxon make more money. And let's not forget the credit card companies – they will benefit as well.<\/p>\n All of this will create good will throughout the world…won't it?<\/p>\n Happy LaborHalloVetThanksXmasNewYear!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new shopping season – September thru early January! Let’s go for LaborHalloVetThanksXmasNewYear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[1232,1233,522,120,1234],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-laborhallovetthanksxmasnewyear","tag-lines","tag-sales","tag-shopping","tag-spend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}