Times have changed

Thanksgiving originally was a celebration of the harvest in the fall to be able to survive the winter. It had nothing to do with friends, money, assets, holdings, or sales.
Franklin Roosevelt changed the date to celebrate Thanksgiving in order to give merchants another week for Christmas shopping! It was considered in that day wrong to shop for Christmas until Thanksgiving was done.
Most of us now eat out of the Kroger store or Publix, or Piggly-Wiggly, or any horde of chain restaurants---which are thankful for us.
Since money has replaced farming and barter, we now are usually thankful for enough of it. We show that thanks usually by gorging ourselves and perpetuating the old Roman style.
It is good to spend the money as that helps everyone, even some of the poor. The problem we have now is that the riches no longer dribble-down in sufficient quantity to the very bottom.
Since we are failing in accomplishing that, I assume that the government will soon make an attempt to cause that to happen.