Will President Bush Encourage Us To Go Shopping Again?

Famously, in the days after 9/11 and at least once more in December 2006, President Bush went on the record and encouraged Americans to shop.

Has that Presidential mandate encouraged our Economic Crisis?

Probably. History will ultimately figure out the George W. Bush Presidency.

But at a time when the Russians are predicting the U.S. will break up due to economic pressures, shopping is exactly what the Economy desperately needs.

If I was Bush, I'd be preparing these remarks...

"Go to the Mall of America. Go to the Mall of America, America. And do it for America.

We need to have The Black Friday, to end all Black Friday's.

Or at least A Black Friday, to avoid the next Black Monday.

Or if you can't do that, because say, you've been blacked-out since Black Wednesday, at least grab a bite to eat in the food court...

Spending got us into this crisis, and we think it'll get us out.

I hear the new Orange Chicken recipe at Panda Express is extra delicious, and May God Bless America."

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Here is what I want to know: Say Black Friday 2008 IS the windfall/ miracle everyone hopes it will be. . . will it finally become an official National holiday? Maybe we should've set that as a goal--as an incentive.

Can you imagine the monument that would've gone in Washington? Erected in the honor of those Men and Women who wrecked their credit. For good. So that you might have an official day off of work on Black Friday. Unless you're in retail.