Recession? Let’s start a Revolution!

5 comments November 15th, 2008

My wife and I decided to check out one of the biggie retail stores located the Cherry Vale Mall today, Saturday.  Wow, I wondered as we drove into the parking lot around 11:30 a.m.  It was jam packed and I had to park and walk from the northern edge of the lot to get inside.

Now granted, this was a big sale day but I had to fight my way inside past customers loaded with large shopping bags filled with their purchases.  Amazing, I asked one of them…where’s the recession?

As I made my way through the men’s department looking for something made in the U.S.A., all I could find were articles made in China, Viet Nam, India, Indonesia,  Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Bangladesh and Cambodia. That included suits, jackets, shirts and shoes!  Not one article from the U.S.A.  Of course, toys and electronics were all made in China.

Disgusted, we went for a bite to eat in the food court and nary a free table was available and lines were behind every food vendor.  Where’s the recession? I asked another departing patron as I quickly sat down to secure a set for us.

As I left the mall, I thought, what we need is a good old fashioned consumer revolution, demanding that we start getting stuff made here.  If all consumers, like my wife and I, refused to buy this stuff, maybe somebody would get the message.

So do you think any more stimulus will cause our economy to get better?  Well, it will only cause more stuff made somewhere else and make retailers get healthy but I don’t see how it will add many news jobs.  Isn’t this what these stimulus packages are supposed to do?

A good old fashioned revolution may be the only way to create jobs!