Will shopping save us?

`` The day after Christmas, VISA will report on how much business was done. In years past, they called it "disappointing." They will likely again this year. That's because of the steady decline of our economy thanks to illegal practices initiated by white-collar predatory lenders backed by our biggest banks and hedge funds, as well as the inability of regulators to regulate and a complicit media to blow the whistle, which caused a multi-billion dollar economic crime that is still in progress. ''