If you have a few minutes, go take a look at this article
from the NY Local Daily News about a 34 year old man who was trampled to death at a Long Beach Wall-Mart.

Take a minute to watch the video. Really, watch it. I know it might be hard at first to stomach the first few seconds, knowing the the man receiving chest compressions is dead. But if you sit through a minute or so, you get to the part that is really compelling. There are people laughing. Yes, that's right, people who are standing around watching paramedics desparately trying to save this man's life are laughing. I know people laugh when they're nervous, but the poor guy was a graveyard shift stocker at a Wal-Mart, the most unforgiving, thankless job in the country, and he was trampled to death by people who couldn't wait to shop. You, laughing person, were there at five o'clock in the morning on a day when you might have been spending quality time with your family. I mean, Jdimytai Damour, age 34, probably should have been with his family, but he was working a minimum wage job at five a.m. and he died because consumerism in Long Beach is still so strong a compulsion that people riot at the local Wally-World.

I want to commend you, people of Long Island. I want to honor you for your efforts to counter our struggling economy by throwing human decency and self control to the wind. That's exactly the attitude we need! I can't think of a clearer sign of our commitment to the american way of life, can you? It's exactly that kind of barbarism that we need to re-establish ourselves as the world's supreme superpower. Any nation that is willing to sacrifice the lives and safety of it's own citizens to save twenty dollars on a TV is a nation not to be trifled with. The American people will stop at nothing to buy cheap pants and vacuum cleaners, their thirst for deals shall not be quenched by cheap electronics alone, nor by the blood of the selfless workers who ensure that all americans can truly "save money and live better".

So I say to you, thank you Long Island, for giving those terrorists something to think about next time they consider bombing a shopping mall or a local Dillards. Thank you for reminding us that the fundamentals of our economy are still strong, for showing us that a great deal is worth more than life itself. In this, our darkest hour, you have truly given me back that American Pride that was slipping away like the Dow Jones; now I know that there is truly hope for us as a nation.

And shed not a tear for Jdimytai Damour, but laugh and rejoice, for his death is but a sign that consumer confidence is screaming towards the heavens with wings of credit, on the winds of visa. He is truly a hero among heros, who's name shall go down in history alongside those firefighters who lost their lives on September Eleventh, and all our brave soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. He will always be a reminder to us, the american people, that we can all do our part to fix this mess we're in. All we need is a little crazy and a little hard work and we as citizens can set this country back on the right track. We can do it!

God bless America, and God bless Wal-Mart, and God Bless us together, as a crazy shopping mob.