The pressure to buy starts earlier each year or so it seems. At the same time the relativity to the birth of Christ becomes more and more obscure as the years pass. People with credit cards are left with huge debt that takes the next 11 months to pay off.
This nationwide bazaar relies on your obligatory sense of conscience to make you feel guilty if you don’t buy something. You have to be aa arithmetic major to decipher the mathematical formulas attracted to some of these products. Then there are coupons that can further baffle your senses.
I propose a radical change to stem the tide of financial ruin:
1) No one over 12 gets a gift.
2) Expose Santa Claus as a fraud.
3) Everyone over age 12’s gift should be equal to one month’s health insurance premium. This program or something similar to it could restore the financial health of this nation within three years or at least take a big chunk out of it.
If you want to buy something for Christmas, something to commemorate the birth of Christ, then give your priest $150.00 and let him pick someone out in his congregation who is struggling with winter’s utility bills and wears a coat all day in their home… then sleeps in it at night. If you are compelled to buy, then buy that and don’t ask for names.
If you want to celebrate the birth of Christ in a manner that really fits the occasion, then visit with your priest or rabbi… they will know what to do.
Peter Children
Mason City, Iowa
Send your letter to the editor to NorthIowaToday@gmail.com
NOTE: The opinions expressed in letters to the editor are not necessarily those of NorthIowaToday.com.
I finally agree with PC. Never thought it would happen.
It’s gotten to the point where I don’t enjoy Christmas anymore.
2017 will be a much much better year. And those forward also.
Happy New Year everyone on this site!!
More crap from the tinfoil siding saleman who has all the answers. 1) no one over 12 gets a gift. 3) everyones gift over 12 should be. Which is it – a gift or no gift? You kin to Lageos dude or what. Yes
Not everyone is a bible thumping moron. Some of us in the REAL world just want to a little fun once a year .
The birth of Christ, the reason that we celebrate Christmas, is not the only thing that is becoming obscure. Morality, is another thing that’s disappearing. Thank you Mr. Children, I thought that I was the only one that saw the commercial greed.
Jesus was a Jew as were all the apostles except one.
The point being?
Visit your rabbi to find out how to celebrate the birth of Christ? Oy Vey!