In what Holiday fantasy world does this happen?
As sure as falling leaves means that cold weather is on the horizion, the holiday season brings forth these little thirty second fantasies on the boob tube. Loved one opens little gift box under the tree to reveal a set of car keys the open the door of the middle class surburbian dream and a big shiny red bow is on top of some new vehicle or another. The implication always is that if you give your love one a car for christmas they'll put out or something but that's not the great fantasy I am talking about.
Do you or anyone you know have the ability to just pop out Christmas eve and put a spiffy new car on the old visa check? Don't think I didn't notice that the ads all clearly show that the mega gifter paid the extra hundred for the gi-normous gift wrapping service at the dealership.
These are cars most of which cost more than my house. This is definately not a trip down to the general store for socks and a stick of horhound candy. Why do these marketing types think we are going to respond positively to their little fantasy of impulse buying items that the average American needs six years just to pay for?
On the one hand we have the government trying to make sure that every American has a TV and high speed internet (still waiting for my high speed internet) to keep the poor content, while on the other hand you have these marketing bozo's reminding us of all the things we can't have making us discontented and even more aware that we are infact poor.
When the revolution comes, I'm going after the marketing industry. Ruin my holiday fantasy will you....
