This is why America is doomed:



Allegedly taken at a mall in Boise, Idaho sometime VERY early in the morning, this video demonstrates what is wrong with this country. People rushing and running over one another for . . . what? To buy things, which, if what we understand about the economy is true, they can't really afford in the first place?

How did it get so bad that we worship material possessions and a shopping agenda so much that we devolve into this? While I would love to paint this as all Dubya's fault (after all, we're doing what EXACTLY what he told us to do after 9/11 so that the terrorists wouldn't win), the truth is that this was here long before he took office. It has certainly gotten worse during his tenure; that's for sure. And Americans are less able to buy items produced by companies headed up by people he needed to return to political favors to due to the debt they've gotten themselves into.

Of course, I noted the ultimate irony of all of this to my mom and dad: gentiles celebrate the birthday of a man who lived in abject poverty, who was poor and oppressed by an occupying, genocidal army (which, several decades after his death, ethnically cleansed the land of its inhabitants, paving the way for two thousand years of exile and persecution for his people) by buying expensive items on credit that will eventually drive them into bankruptcy. The birthday of the prototypical impoverished man is celebrated by materialism and consumerism.

Oh, the irony of it all.