Thanksgiving Day shopping called 'assault' on family life

cna ^ | November 22, 2012 | Kevin J. Jones

[NYer]

I think the stores should be closed on Thanksgiving. They were when I was young, and we were all grateful for it. But that was a better America.

Life was simpler and happier. We were spared the plethora of "must have" electronic devices, from cradle to grave. People talked to each other, be it on the front stoop or over a fence. Today, "txtng" is the preferred mode of communication. Back then, the news was delivered to the tv for half an hour .. today, it is round the clock. Sports were for amusement; now, they have become an excuse to skip church, in some households, especially for the kids.

As for people working on holidays, that was true for the police and hospitals when we were younger. The big difference is that back then, people obeyed the law and parents treated minor injuries at home, instead of running over to the emergency room at the local hospital.

I am grateful for having experienced life in a strong and self-sufficient America.

[octex]

...I do support the workers at Walmart not working TONIGHT!
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Don’t know about your area, but my WalMart is open 24/7 so many employees work at night.

I was at my local WM this morning and their were NO protesters. I heard one of the Managers saying to workers that they had many volunteers who would work today and Friday.

The vast majority of WM workers like their jobs, benefits and profit sharing and want nothing to do with the labor unions, who only want to get more dues to support socialism/communism.

[octex]

I give your posting #16 a thumbs-up! You nailed it.

I once worked for an airline and often worked on holidays. It was no big deal and family made adjustments sometimes.

Same occurred later when I worked for a high-tech defense contractor (TI) and we worked 15 hours a day, 7 days a week for about 6 months. Almost got fired there when I took a day off to be in my little sister’s wedding.

[Alberta's Child]

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York criticized the new phenomenon of Thanksgiving Day shopping in a Nov. 20 essay in the New York Post.

I can't understand why Thanksgiving Day shopping would be so disturbing to this guy, when you consider that Sunday shopping has become commonplace even for many so-called Catholics. I wonder if Cardinal Dolan has made any recent pronouncements about Catholics dishonoring the Lord's Day by shopping for discretionary items?

[Revolting cat!]

for discretionary items?

What are these mysterious "discretionary items"? Pimple cures, tampons, adult diapers, diarrhea remedies, condoms?

[Alberta's Child]

I would normally agree with the sentiment on this thread, but I tend to be skeptical of motives when a Catholic priest launches a protest against working on a civil holiday like Thanksgiving, even while he apparently ignores the same issue on Sundays and Catholic religious holidays.

[Alberta's Child]

How about nearly everything inside the walls of a Best Buy store, for starters?

[trebb]

It’s only an “assault” on those families who are already shredded by the author’s “liberal” ideologies that they have no cohesion.

[ctdonath2]

Bourbon! Now!

[mo]

As far as the plantation overseers in DC are concerned....if you’re not working you’d best be shopping!!!!

[Mrs. Don-o]

He says the same for Sundays and religious holidays. (LINK)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The phrase "social justice" is code for Communism.

Anyone who uses the phrase "social justice" is a crypto-Marxist.

[RnMomof7]

“We have almost completed the evolutionary process of having two classes of workers: those who get holidays off, and can stay with their families, and those who are forced to work, so that those who have holidays off won't have to stay with their families,” Fr. Oubre said.

Really?

Tell that to all the cooks, waitresses, bartenders, toll takers, police, firemen, nurses, xray tecs ,hospital housekeepers, football players.ticket takers and beer salesmen at those games ...truth is much of America was at work during the dinner hour of Thanksgiving ...

[RnMomof7]

Exactly..if people do not shop on Thanksgiving day no one will be open next year..

[dfwgator]

Tell that to all the cooks, waitresses, bartenders, toll takers, police, firemen, nurses, xray tecs ,hospital housekeepers, football players.ticket takers and beer salesmen at those games ...truth is much of America was at work during the dinner hour of Thanksgiving ...

The Jets' players certainly weren't. ;)

[djf]

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, you've either decided that ceding the vocabulary of justice to the Left is the road to rhetorical success, or you're willing to shut out Jack Kemp, Paul Ryan, the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Acton Institute and other Free Enterprise supporters as Marxists.

Or, more likely, you're just being querulous. Too bad the nog doesn't make you merry.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You are perfectly free to not shop or not work on those days.

But you seek to impose your will onto others.

Sounds like fascism to me.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Lol. I haven't the power, nor have I made an attempt to impose my will on anyone. I guess you take expressing an opinion as an imposition?

Try the nog. Really.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You're whining because businesses are open and people are shopping on holy days.

Explain exactly what it is that you want, or do you just like to whine?