The WalMart incident took place here on Long Island near my in-laws.
The recession is, in large part, media made. There are many reasons for this, which I won't get into here, but the media does have a stake in bad news.
This is still a country where the poor have at least one color TV set - God Bless Us!
Here in the U.S.,my beloved country,you cant tune in to any source of information w/out hearing about our recession & crumbling economy.Meanwhile this week a person was trampled to death @ a dept. store.I was not there ,but I serioosly doubt it was for the last bag of flour or rice on the shelf.If I had to guess they were making a bee line to the electronic dept. for the latest chess computer game but who really knows?How does recession & superfluity co-exist?