Commercialism

On any given Sunday. Television is a sure sign of one of the biggest problems with this country. Almost every channel has an infomercial selling useless Chinese crap. You can buy just about anything without leaving your arm chair. If the infomercials aren't enough for you, pick a shopping channel. I have basic cable and that gives me 6 to choose from. I love that I pay money to get channels trying to sell me crap I don't need or want.

Seriously though, who buys this crap? Magic creams and powders guaranteed to make you look younger and sexier, only 4 easy payment of 19.99. Well built exercise equipment that promises to take care of those love handles for you. All you have to do is use it 15 minutes a month and make 5 easy credit card payments. Want some really cheap tacky jewelery? Watch HSC, they'll sell you plenty.

Again, who buys this crap? Obviously enough people do or they wouldn't inundate the television with so many commercials. Credit card companies must love these people. The useless crap is broken and long in the nearest land fill before the last payment is even made. We're keeping millions of Chinese employed filling our dumps and closets and attics with junk. I guess that is the new American way though, stay in debt spending money you don't have and crap you don't need and probably will never use anyway. Support corporate share holders, pay taxes to support foreign wars, stay poor so you have to worry about loosing a job you hate. And stay stupid so decent jobs have to be outsourced to third world countries that support education.

I hope that eventually people in this country realize the downward direction we are heading and do something about it, but I doubt it will happen any time soon. We have become a "what about me" society with an apparent since of entitlement. Everyone wants everything but no one wants to work for it or pay for it.