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‘Retail therapy’ to cure the blues? The government’s relying on you to spend

I guess I thought people on TV and the Internet were joking when they used the phrase "retail therapy" for those people who go shopping a lot when they're feeling down. Now I find there are studies done on the issue and that the term "retail therapy" really is used.

Boy, all along I thought the word for going out to shop till you drop was just "stupid."

Since a major factor producing the "blues" for many Americans these days is the lame economy, lost jobs, lost investments, lost wages, and other economic downers -- whipping out the credit card to shop or buying more stuff you really don't need and further depleting the check book just doesn't sound right to me.

On the other hand, our nation's leadership seems to see "retail therapy" as a wise move. That's why Congress approved and the president will sign (or has signed already?) that multi-billion dollar economic "stimulus bill." They hope those of us getting our "free money" from the federal government will apply a little retail therapy to the national economy.

Here's my best suggestion for you if and when that check arrives in the mail: Use it to pay off some of those credit card debts, left over holiday debts from Christmas, then go have a nice pizza for the family with what's left.

That's roughly our plan for any retail therapy from the big bail out.
[tags]retail therapy, shopping trips, economic stimulus, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]