"Black Friday" a Day of Misplaced Priorities

"Black Friday" a statement of this society's misplaced 'want' over the 'need' all around us.  I submit we as a society should give full respect to our national holidays as they deserve. “Black Friday” and what it stands for is an affront to the importance and meaning of Thanksgiving. The total motivation is money, greed and disrespect of the holidays and those people required to work the ridiculous hours now established. The result is thousands of families are deprived of celebrating Thanksgiving as it was meant to be, because one or more family members are required to spend the day sleeping to prepare and be at the store for their midnight opening to Black Friday. The solution is to close ALL stores on Thanksgiving and Christmas day allowing these thousands of hard working employees the opportunity to enjoy the holidays with their families.

"Black Friday" a statement of this society's misplaced 'want' over the 'need' all around us. This image below is NOT a line outside a retail store to buy more of what we don't need. From Huffingtonpost .com: Homeless Veterans More Likely To Die On Streets Than Other Homeless People, Study Says.

How we treat Veterans DOES make a difference. "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they PERCEIVE the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation."~George Washington.

Keeping in perspective the following, "As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also QUESTION their POLICIES when they SHORTCHANGE veterans and military retirees."~Solomon Ortiz

This leads me into the subject of this "Occupy Wall Street" protest disguised as an alleged movement. They make no pretense in complaining and making demands, yet they provide no ideas for solutions to the problems they claim or organizational leadership to stipulate their actual course of action and a plan to accomplish their demands. To me they are simply disgruntled individuals who gather together creating more of a problem rather than providing any legitimate course of action to a solution.

In answer to some of their facebook postings, I include this particular example of my feelings on the subject.

Do you see this protesters? If you don't offer solutions to the problem then YOU are part of the problem. Get your priorities straight and begin to contribute to society, because nobody owes you anything. Grow up and take full responsibility for your own life for once!

By Jeff Hansen