Today, the Market Riggers have assaulted your pocketbook again. The CEO's of great capitalist names like J.C. Penney, Saks and Petsmart would not be expected to try to ask the game's referees for preferential advantage, but they have.
The National Retail Federation has petitioned the Obama administration for additional retail holidays which will save the Shoppers $20 billion and cost the Taxpayers $130 per person. This is in the name of "stimulus." If you are a normal taxpayer, knowing that your government is increasing your cost by $130, will you go on a shopping spree or batten down the hatches?
Maybe if people falling ten floors in an elevator won't get hurt if they all jump at the same time right as it hits bottom...
One day, people will know that cigarettes are harmful, alcohol is dangerous and this federal economic "stimulus" is the wrong medicine.
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