Christmas Comes Early as the Economy Fails

The earlier the Christmas season begins, the worse the economy is. Retailers depend on what is known as “Black Friday” to take their companies out of the red and into the black, financially. Black Friday is officially the day after Thanks Giving, yet that is not the case this year and this does not bode well for the economy.

As early as the second week of October, I saw Halloween decorations being taken down at the local Walmart, to make way for Christmas. Thanks Giving decorations were being skipped entirely as retailers salivated for the Christmas shopping season. Everywhere I have gone the tale remains the same, shopping outlets quick to put their Christmas decorations up and prepare for Black Friday, seven weeks in advance of Thanks Giving.

(Consumer Reports says Christams Bargains are coming early!)

This is a sign of just how bad our economy is here in America. Companies are so desperate that they are skipping holidays and pushing for the Christmas season, in a desperate move to try anything they can to balance their books. Americans are not spending, unemployment has spiked up to the double digits and third-quarter growth was an anemic 2%.

The engine of America's economy is broken. Someone has poured sugar into the gas tank and now we find ourselves grinding to a halt, slowing down, wallowing in a steady economic decline. The winds of change that swept Democrats into power in 2006 and 2008, now appear ready to reverse course and sweep in the Republicans.

(Black Friday may come early but it may not save the retail market.)

With corruption in both political parties sapping strength from the American people, will it matter? Or is America simply done? When people asked Benjamin Franklin about what had been created at the Constitutional Convention, he replied “A republic, if you can keep it.”

We did not keep it, we were not vigilant, our current state of affairs were born of our mistakes as a nation. If America truly is finished, then this generation of voters, will be the last to remember what was, as we come face to face with the new reality of the American Socialist experiment.