Playing Politics with Shopping
Playing politics with shopping
I have heard from the politicians from both parties on how our economy is based on consumerism, and that in order to boost the economy, we should be buying. But, their inability to do their job by finding a way to avoid sending us back into a recession, by standing behind "what the Republican Party stands for," makes me very wary of going out to "shop until I drop."
This isn't a game of seeing how far each party can spit, and it is the American people who have lived through this crisis and are going to hold them responsible if we should slide back into the recessive times.
Don't tell us to go out and spend, as we hold our …
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Publication information:
Article title: Playing Politics with Shopping.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL).
Publication date: December 31, 2012.
Page number: 8.
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