I just saw the new Wal-Mart commercial with a father driving home from Wal-Mart with their purchases in the back seat. The father is very excited, having saved so much money at Wal-Mart. The son pops a bubble while driving by a used-car lot. The father realizes that he's saved so much money, he can now consider buying his child a car.
This is such a wonderful thing. Hey, you can save this much money by shopping at a store that abuses its employees and has no qualms destroying the world as long as their profits go up, and once you save that money, you can spend it on a crappy American car that will likely cost you loads of money in repairs (the kid is checking out a Pontiac Grand-Am on the shady used-car lot) and help prop up an American car industry that is unwilling to change fuel economy standards and has Congress in their pockets to make sure they don't have to.
It makes me sad that even without TV, I still have to see this stuff. It makes me even more sad to think that that advertisement may actually be effective.
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