Annals Of Consumption

RNC chair Steele cracks up, because "the malls are still packed." The facts as to what's being spent in said malls:

Gallup found that last month consumer spending among all Americans reached a 15-month low and is 27 percent lower than last year’s figures.

Additionally, Reuters reported yesterday that vacancies at regional and strip malls are soaring to record highs

[...] CALLER: The malls are just as packed. … You still can’t get a seat in a restaurant.

We've no idea which part of This Great Nation Of Ours™ CALLER is from (We'd like to know, so we can avoid his hotbed of consumption.) but we can tell you that across Los Angeles, from downtown to the very edge of the continent, restaurant proprietors are practically on the sidewalk waving at your car to get you into their establishments.

Let's play the race card here, as Think Progress didn't get around to it. (Someone has to do it. Why is it always left to us, though?) Mr. Steele is certainly not an affirmative action hire, because that would be an insult to all the white guysqualified applicants/candidates who merited the job, per approved Republican ideology. He must, therefore, be a token hire/election. And hasn't exactly seized the opportunity. 

Also: Mandatory reference to former President George W.(orst) Bush advising us all to go out & shop, as usual, after the "horrible tragedy" of who cares when. Will this ever stop? Are you all mere consuming/producing tubes, to squeeze out some crap that's sold back to us to shove in the other end, to produce/extrude more, & then to ... Of course you are. Suckahs!