Go to eBay. Their site is usually messed up but there sure is a lot of stuff to buy.

Lots of Blue Amberols for sale.

Someone even suggested Meg Whitman for Obama's VP.

And strangely SAD.

History will show that the nation had blood lust.

History can show how good we are if we change things soon.

there are bargains to be had. Much antique furniture is selling for a third of what it cost 30 years ago. Solid homes in my neighborhood can be had for $65,000. And land is dropping too. I've looked at a couple parcels for $1,000 an acre. However, McMansions will be increasingly hard to sell. I expect in a few years, the ones in the country will be filled with hay and mice.

...down, HAH! I think it has become tinkle... on!

So, Bigguns-Where do YOU live?

It's not fancy, but it's fine. A monthly mortgage costs as much as rent.

I just had a dealer offer to give me three Hummers for free if I'd buy one Prius......

Amazing how GWB believes that shopping will save America.

This is a man who hasn't met a company he couldn't bankrupt, pulled the same thing on our country.

1/20/2009 can't come fast enough!

You'd think that in times of crisis, we would all act on instinct to help out- to save or not waste.

Somewhere inside, each of us would just automatically realize the benefits of individual action tward doing the right thing instead of waiting a judgement-impaired corpo clown-tag team like Bush-Cheney-Rove- Yoo-Gonzales-Rummy-Rice etc to tell us what to do or what not to do.

No one I know said" I think I will drive less today because of the multiple crises of idiots' war, Katrina, Cut, snake and bait loansharking and avarice from top to stinking bottom of the Bush malaise". No one said that!

OK, how can a prsident with the lowest crdibility record in US history be suddenly able to convince us to drive down to WalMart and increase our Chinese debt whilst oilobankrupting and foodcrisising ourselves into 2nd rate-nation status?

Are we all just as idiotic as Bush.

From 7,000 kilometers away I knew that my friends in the La/Ala/Tex Gulf area would have the sense to up and split a full week before Katrina's deadly near-landfall at N.O.

I could tell where and when to conserve and stop feeding remote shopping oputlets' coffers BECAQUSE of our perfect storm of idiocy back home, stateside, from top to bloody bottom of the entire mess.

I am not one bit smarter than the next New Orlean of Houstonian.

Why did I not feel satisfaction of knowing the error in the clown party's "Go Shopping and Forget about it!"?

Thge Bamboo salesman should have bought up Opus' Bamboozles-for sale" neverknow when we will hear such rich crap again.

You are correct in principle that individual's should know what to do, but the president has the famous "bully pulpit" to focus everyone's actions and to introduce legal incentives to further motivate.

For example, the president could have been much more specific than "drive less". He could have started a "just say no" style campaign to raise awareness of carpooling, make a connection between patriotism and public transportation, etc.

Furthermore, he could have urged congress to pass stricter environmental law on manufacturers to save oil, provided tax relief or even government sponsorship of alternate energy research, and so forth.

And the time when he could have done this was right after 9/11 when his popularity and public support was at its highest. The public was ready and willing to follow just about any sensible lifestyle change for the cause, and the best he had is "go shopping".

Truly pathetic.

...is a Republican.

Has been mentioned for McCain's running mate, though.

...but am I the only 50+ emotionally stunted giggling?

Some people say that our country is headed toward a recession. The solution is to buy more stuff.

We all want more stuff. We all need more stuff. We all have to have more stuff.

I need more stuff. You need more stuff. Your children need more stuff. Your parents and grandparents need more stuff. Your dog and cat need more stuff.

Our churches and schools need more stuff. Our houses need more stuff.

We need more Wal-Marts so we can all buy more stuff.

The Chinese need to make more stuff so we can buy it.

We need more jobs so we can buy more stuff.

We need higher paying jobs so we can buy more and bigger stuff.

No matter what kind of problem you have ..... physical, emotional or mental, having more stuff will solve it.

Buying stuff is the path to happiness.

Therefore, if we cover the world with stuff, everybody will be happy.

More stuff makes us feel special and important. It makes us feel successful and better than other people. Having stuff makes us more than we really are.

People will respect us if we have more stuff.

Everybody knows that the terrorists hate us because we have more stuff.

I want to see stuff in our houses, in our trash cans, lying beside the road, in our forests, in our lakes and ponds and in our seas and oceans.

Actually, we already have that don’t we? Just ignore that part.

Some people say that buying more stuff is an addiction, an endless journey, a threat to the social structure of our families and society and is destroying our environment.

I say these people are communists and socialists.

After 9/11, while the country was still in shock, President Bush came on television to tell us to go the malls to buy more stuff to fight terrorism.

Buying stuff is what made the US the great country it is today.

Buying stuff is what it means to be an American.

So, buy more stuff and keep America strong.

Ranger “Stuff Is Good” Rick

!Buena suerte, Gary!

Nice touch.

See, you don't have to listen to "the reports". As a result of not being mush brained, my wife and I (in our peak earning years) have no revolving credit debt, one car payment and a mortgage. That's it. Now, with people practically giving stuff away to cover their $30,000+ revolving credit debt, we find bargains everywhere. And we can afford to buy.

It's great living off the fatheads of the land.