Did you hit the Black Friday sales today?
Americans hit the malls and the big box stores in the tens of millions today. Both malls and big box stores are American innovations. We're world leaders in every aspect of the shopping experience.
Mind you, shopping is taking on a dangerous edge. A woman in California took the pepper spray to her fellow shoppers to get first dibs on an Xbox. In other parts of the country criminals prowled the parking lots to relieve shoppers of their purchases.
That too is an American innovation. Why rob the store? They've got cameras and security guards in there. Just wait till Mrs. Smith walks through the parking lot with that Xbox under her arm, the one she had to tase the other shoppers to get. Then help yourself. American ingenuity at its best!
Time was Americans prided themselves on being innovative in the stuff they built, not in how they got it. Edison, Bell, Henry Ford, the old school entrepreneurs gave America an edge it held for almost a century.
Alas, there's not much made in America anymore. Check the stuff you bought today. Chances are all of it was
made somewhere else.
But we're still number one at buying stuff!
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