The haves are having a good holiday

[liberalcanuck]

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NEW YORK -- This holiday season, Vincent Cassanetti, 60, a wealthy retired business owner, is helping to keep luxury sales booming. The Palm Beach, Fla., resident has spent $50,000 on gifts for his wife and children, including $600 shoes from Jimmy Choo and Chanel, as well as designer handbags, jewelry and clothing. That's up from about $35,000 a year ago.

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But that's less the case for Eileen Brosko, 70, a retiree who has seen her stock portfolio dwindle to a quarter of its value a few years ago.

"At my age, I am not doing too much buying. I don't feel secure," said the Parsippany, N.J., resident. She, her husband and their family exchanged names and are limiting the price of gifts to no more than $50 each. For her grandchildren, she bought tickets to a show at Radio City Music Hall.

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Luxury stores like Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue and small designer boutiques are enjoying robust sales of $8,000 mink ponchos, $1,000 snakeskin handbags, $200 crystal-studded jeans and $25,000 bejeweled bangles as their well-heeled shoppers have benefited from a recovering economy

http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-shop19.html

[Flammable Materials]

1. Remind me again why capitalism is the best system. n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. In order for a single nation to have 5% of the world's population and to

live such as this... to use 40% of the world's natural resources... the many MUST GO WITHOUT. It's simple math. There is this much stuff... and 5% of the people need to have 40% of it in order to "feel comfortable" in their lives. I am sure Jesus would approve.

[ET Awful]

3. Hmm, the Haves and the Have More's . . . the very same people

that the Chimperor calls his base.

[Blue Wally]

5. Somehow, the haves......

add up to 51% which doesn't compute too well much when the rich are getting richer and everyone else is stagnant. Maybe we should get off the divisive "politics of envy" and push for an "Opportunity Society" as the Democratic mantra.

[ET Awful]

6. No, they don't add up to 51%.

51% do not shop at Neimann Marcuss, nor do they constitue Bush's "base."

[Blue Wally]

7. Base must be pretty damn small then.......

If it only includes the Neiman-Marcus crowd. Most of the Neiman-Marcus shoppers here in SoFla are Democrats.

[ET Awful]

8. Perhaps you're a little confused.

You really should re-read the thread, then research what Bush himself has said in the past about haves and have mores.

[Tsiyu]

12. I don't believe the OP names party affiliation

and many of that 49% who voted for * ( Sorry, we won fair and square even if the Repukes stole it fer Jeebus) are poor folk who just hate Wimmin, queeers and Ayrabs.

This is talking about the small percentage of folks who can buy luxury items having a good Christmas. I know a lot of * supporters who haven't even put up trees this year-too poor - so try another angle.

[robbedvoter]

9. The beaut of this joke is that, just like the democratic party - manages

to completely circumbent the have-nots. Middle class, haves, have-moores. (We don't talk about embarrassing subjects in polite society, non?

[ET Awful]

10. What? n/t

[jdots]

4. Let them eat cake ?

No let these greedmiesters eat a turd

[Cleita]

11. The good news is that Wal-Mart is having slow sales this

Christmas season. Poor people are even too poor to shop at Wal-Mart anymore.

[otohara]

13. AKA Bush's Base

it's good to be BB