thing shoppers have left is to enter themselves into wal-mart's hunger games where they literally pawar and buy each other to get one of those forty percent off kitchen appliances with only limited quantities available eternal asterisk for so many advertised deals and thousands of people waiting in line outside and the message given to the young warriors in the hunger games applies to the shoppers readying themselves for the mad dash to the kitchen section may the odds be ever in your favor but of the fifty million americans in poverty in the fifth of the nation living in economic insecurity one of the choice is that they want their kids to have a christmas comparable to the one of their more fortunate classmates. we have black friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for three decades time magazine in one thousand nine hundred sixty six saw a future of rising productivity thanks to machines and computers and thus rising wages for workers they suggested that a leisure society was on the horizon in which americans would be working fewer hours and yet earning la