THE PRESIDENT: A recent report on retail sales shows a strong beginning to the holiday shopping season across the country — and I encourage you all to go shopping more.
Press Conference by the President, December 20, 2006
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December 21, 2006
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yeah, I just finished my Xmas shopping—donations to Heifer International, the Carter Center, and a local foodbank. I’ve almost but not quite convinced my family to stop sending me stuff I don’t need. I keep running into friends who are literally falling apart with anxiety over shopping, wrapping, mailing, cooking, decorating…argh.
Happy solstice everyone. Us northerners are tippin’ back toward the sun. Snowdrops will be blooming soon in the Pacific NW.
Posted by: catlady | Dec 21 2006 20:39 utc | 1
That’s it, worry about your debt more than nuking Iran in 2007.
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Dec 21 2006 22:17 utc | 2
Always like to try and look at everything from here through the Summer Solstice as a Season Of Rising Light.
Nowhere to go but up. Naive, I know, but — whaddya gonna do.
Posted by: Austin Cooper | Dec 22 2006 2:59 utc | 3
Old trick – isn’t it:
To promote this, we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them in debt, because we observe when these debts go beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands.
Thomas Jefferson as cited by b real
Greed – in its societal manifestation, that is, adherence to the religion of economic growth, shored up by misty beliefs in technotopia and the abundance of the earth – has become a world-wide value. No society can say No, nobody can back out, the race is on, if you don’t compete you can’t win, can’t keep your head up, can’t survive, will lose what you have.
I realise such ‘limits to growth’ arguments are mechanistic -Victorian!-, reductionist and uncreative. The question is, how to bypass or go beyond them, when even these are not on the table?
I went shopping today. I bought a goose. The goose is making me nervous, as I have to predict the time it will be ready.
And so it goes.
Posted by: Noirette | Dec 23 2006 14:53 utc | 6