Wal-Mart Kicks Off Christmas 85 Days Early

Wal-Mart Vice President of Corporate Affairs Raymond Bracy is listed on the reporting form as the company’s lobbyist. The form shows he also lobbied regarding a variety of tax issues and on legislation regarding Chinese imports and China’s currency.

The filing touches on more than government relations; it also mentions items on Wal-Mart’s shelves. For instance, the company lobbied for the suspension of duties on Christmas tree lamps, whistles and ski equipment. ~~~~~~~~WMW~Note: Is there REALLY that MUCH demand for “whistles”?

A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute refugee claimant outside a Maryland immigration office. 

‘My good man,’ the fairy said, ‘I’ve been told to grant you three wishes, since you just arrived in the United States with your wife and three children.’

The man told the fairy. ‘Well, where I come from we don’t have good teeth, so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them.’

The fairy looked at the man’s almost toothless grin and— PING !—he had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth! 

‘What else?’ asked the fairy, ‘two more to go.’

The refugee claimant now got bolder. ‘I need a big house with a three car garage in Annapolis on the water with eight bedrooms for my family and the rest of my relatives who still live in my country. I want to bring them all over here.. 

PING ! - In the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ in an upscale neighborhood overlooking the bay. 

‘One more wish’, said the fairy, waving her wand. 

‘Yes, one more wish. 

I want to be like an American with American clothes instead of these tore cloths, and a baseball cap instead of this turban. And I want to have white skin like Americans. 

PING ! - The man was transformed, wearing worn out jeans, a Baltimore Orioles T-shirt and a baseball cap. He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon. 

‘What happened to my new teeth?’ he wailed. ‘Where is my new house?’

The fairy said ‘Tough shit, Mac, Now that you are a White American, you have to fend for yourself.’

They want to cut back credit. You cut back consumption. A horrendous Holiday Season might be just what we need to finally get the Capitalist’s attention. Of course, it will probably also push our economy into depression, but, hey, you pays your money and you takes your chances.

The delightful part as far as Wal-Mart is concerned is they have already gotten government largress in the form of the “stimulus package” so there’s nothing left to boost Christmas sales.

If not being able to consume is going to ruin your Christmas, you’re definately part of the problem.

If there has been one uninterrupted trend of the past century, it has been the steady socialization of risk—especially financial risk. ~ Wall Street Journal