Cumberland Times-News

November 16, 2009

Remember the unemployment lines when you go shopping

To the Editor:

Here comes Santa Claus? Here comes Corporate America!

Just remember when you line up (stampede) for the surge on Black Friday that the unemployment is around 10 percent and most of the items purchased are made in China. If you buy one electrical appliance, you better buy two because one will break.

Whatever you do, don’t think about those standing in unemployment lines (Corporate America put them there), don’t think about the empty tables that many will sit at this holiday season.

Thank you, Corporate America, for sending jobs overseas. The gall is they still expect those folks who have lost their jobs to buy their products. So when people line up on Black Friday to act like a bunch of idiots, please remember the empty tables.

Terry Weaver

Wardensville, W.Va.