We maim each other for just the right Barbie. We fight each other for Elmo. We race for $300 televisions. And we trample and kill each other for Myley Cyrus. Ah, it's another consumer Christmas the season of joy and giving. We see all this and we just keep on going, keep on buying so that WalMart can stay in the black. So that OUR economy can stay afloat.
While it is a tragedy if our children don't get a Wii or a Barbie or the newest best thing for Christmas ON CHRISTMAS DAY. It is just a bother for us to think about the children who made those toys, and the real tragedy they live everyday. We fought for child labor laws in this country, and we fight for good wages here. 5 day work weeks, and eight hour days. WE know this is not the case in most of the countries that make the things that we buy to keep our economy floating. WE know that in Mexico their economy is so bad that people have to risk their lives and their freedom to come here. But we do nothing to get our government to make OUR business's pay fair wages to workers in places like Mexico so they won't have to come here. We barely pay our workers something they can live on so that they can buy the cheap crap that comes from WalMart.
Do American children really need a Barbie or Guitar Hero to make them happy. Or are they just told they do. We as a nation are bombarded with advertising. We are told what we need to make our lives better and worth living. We are not whole without a brand new car even though the one we have works just fine. So we trample security guards and kill them. A man who probably had his own family. And who won't be bring anything home this year. Merry Christmas everybody.
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We need that latest toy or gadget because that is all that is left for us. Life no longer has any real meaning when you sit at the top of a mound of trash and feel the need to claim it as "yours."
perfect comment Margaret. yes.
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