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Merry Christmas? (Part #2) – digital digital pulse oximeter oximeter

<p>It’s Christmas eve and stores are staying open as late as they can in 2009 to try and ward off bankruptcy. Stores started displaying Christmas goods earlier than ever before realizing that the economy wasn’t all that favorable to their needs. Hours were extended to try and squeeze out another dollar from the consumer. Is this Christmas? </p> <p>We have Black Thursday, digital digital pulse oximeter oximeter Monday, and a host of other named days to try and excite the American consumer. And then there comes the "After Christmas Sales". We’ll follow up with inventory January and white sales. And then we begin shuttering many stores across America. Malls and strip shopping centers will have to decide if they’ll make some  concessions  to their tenants to entice them to stay a bit longer.</p> <p>So much for the corporate world!</p> <p>On the individual front there’s the sadness that more couldn’t have been bought, wished-for presents will have to go wanting, and even what was spent will be hard to pay back at exhorbitant interest rate on those plastic cards in the wallet. Unfortunately, this is what Christmas has become in America: spending and debts.</p> <p>It’s no longer good enough to "make or bake" things and give them with love.</p> <p>Even Christ isn’t the "reason for the season" except as a good catch-phrase. Churches will still perform the elaborate dramas and spectacular musical productions and many will satisfy themselves with a once or twice a year visit to their local church or assembly (Easter being the other obligatory visitation date).</p> <p>What is the "spirit" of Christmas anyway or is that no longer something that we address in such a diverse social setting as America? Tomorrow I end with part #3 which is my answer to a "Merry Christmas".</p>

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