Somebody Needs To Cancel New School Materialistic Christmas - Americans Can't Afford It This Year! - Back To Walnuts And Oranges In The Xmas Stockings
Circuit City files for bankruptcy! Fuck'em! Their shit was always over-priced! Starbucks profits drop 97% - Damn that's a lot of espresso! DHL quits the shipping business in the United States - 9500 jobs gone! AIG still in trouble and still begging for more taxpayer money!
And for all you old heads who remember waiting in long ass layaway lines with your momma at J.J. Newberry, Woolworths, Sears, Kmart, and Target in the 1970s and 1980s - guess what's back - LAYAWAY!
Professor Tracey predicts that the real mess will start on Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving, when traditionally folks start spending for the holiday. There ain't gonna be any wild ass spending if folks are smart. And no spending means big trouble. Lots of businesses are going to be in trouble and a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
Folks need to start belt-tightening and scaling back Christmas plans. How about church on Christmas Eve and the family having a nice meal, then for dessert, eating sweet potato pie and ambrosia, sipping on hot chocolate and a little E&J brandy, while watching The Grinch Who Stole Christmas! All of us need to get back to basics.
