America consumer-secrets of the stone age

(AMERICA AMERICA) Our original setters in the new world had a very simple economy-they bartered or traded for what they couldn't fish, hunt, hew, reap, or forage for on their own. However, as colonial industry developed and producers of many good grew increasingly prosperous, the still- fledgling Americans decided it was high time to eliminate the restrictive trade regulations all together and levies imposed on them by the British Navigation Acts.

However, it took an all out revolution, but they did get their way, with icing on the cake, a new country. They inked the ultimate expression of their ENTREPRENEURIAL aspirations into the very big enchilada, the Declaration of Independence, which 100% states that all citizens are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among there are as you know Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness (Being an America consumer).

And today, big thank to those foresighted Founding Fathers, we Americans can park our $80,000 SUV out in the rain and heat, next to our J/35 sailboat, in front of our 6,500-square-foot, single-family McMansions, a necessity because our three car garages is filled with all the ATV s,,motorcycles, toys, sports gear, and those unwanted Christmas presents, let us face it, downright junk, that U.S. and the foreign manufacturers can produce for the America consumer.

In fact, America consumerism is even responsible for one of the Top 10 U.S. growth industries over the past 20 years, the, in the shadows offsite storage facilities. Us Americans have bought so much off the wall stuff, it just won't even fit in our homes anymore. Talk about a most beautiful and great economic success story.

However, my friends, back to the subject at hand. The very first great hit out of the mighty ball-park for consumers came sandwiched between the first Industrial Revolution and our American independence. Throughout the country's youth, scarcity of resources had been pretty much the norm, but then an unusual situation arose: For the very first time, products came available in unbelievable numbers, with unbelievably low, low prices, to practically everyone.

Then suddenly, we had the situation in which there were more goods than American consumers-meaning merchants had to start pitching their wares to the blue collar working class, not just to the upper crust and the high & mighty. It became totally necessary to create more of a demand-in a deliberate and coordinated way. On an extremely large scale- through MASS-MARKETING TECHNIQUES.

Thus were born my friends, the rather deeply intertwined concepts of MASS CONSUMPTION and consumer capitalism, for the America consumer. Those phrases suggest a very big coercion to a certain degree-if not outright manipulation-of America consumer demand. You could say almost un-American, OK you might say, well, yes-and no. The department stores in the mid-1800,s such as Wanamaker's in old Philadelpia-were the very first to employ marketing techniques and advertising that sought to change American consumer habits.

They wanted the American consumer to stop walking into a store and only thinking needs, and instead start walking into a store, pull the money out of the pocket and thinking wants. My fellow enterprises, you can witness the big success of Wanarmaker's psychological gamble each and every time that you walk into your local geek store and here is your kid points excitedly at the newest generation PlaySation video game console and shouts, Daddy i want that PS3, Haha just try to say no. See my fellow enterprises it WORKED, it is in our blood.