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In America, the making of ONE more dollar is worshipped by a majority of people. I remember weekends in the late 50's and early 60's, when traffic was light, the only things open were the hardware store (saturday only) and restaurants. If stores were closed nights and weekends, people would spend less money, spend more time with the family, and probably not even need two paychecks to survive. How much of the extra income earned by women with children in a marriage is necessary, and how much is a need to have just one more thing? Most people think they are getting ahead, but in reality they are chasing their tails for nicer clothes and cars.

The two income family is a result of this want for the newest thing. It has driven the price of housing to the heights of absurdity. It has devalued the dollar so that people think nothing of making and spending a $100,000 a year. If one was to take the amount of gold that say, a thousand dollars could buy, and go back to 1900, it would buy nearly exactly the same things as today, only it would cost 1/100th. I know the houses now are nicer and bigger, that is because of the invention of power tools and production lines, but what people flat out NEED is the same price in sweat as it has always been. My point is, a roof over your head still costs the same as a hundred years ago, no matter how long and fast you keep the hamster wheel turning.

We as a people, have been sold a bill of goods, to make retailers and manufacturers that ONE more dollar than they made last year. The result is, children are raised by a system that worships socialism and they come home to an empty house. I for one live in it, play the same game as most of you, but see it as the farce that it is.

Safeway staying open for Christmas, won't be the end of civilization as we know it, that has already happened.